1 a.m., Snowy February Morning

Amazing and Weird When the pictures were taken, it was nearly pitch dark outside! The shots are in 2 columns below, taken at about 1 this morning.  Those on the left are “autoenhanced” using Irfanview as part of the batch resize operation before uploading to the web.  Those on the right are resized without any [...]

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Ah. Edward Woodward’s Dead

Actor Edward Woodward Dies I’m quite sad about today’s news, because the show Callan formed a key part of my life, in a way, when I was growing up. The dystopian genre owes a lot to the show.  Right from it’s haunting opening title sequence that had instant echoes of Orson Welles’ Third Man, to [...]

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Dangerous EffectiveCleanse – and Scams Too!

PreScript Advice If you think you’ve had your bank ‘cleaned out’ by any of a multitude of ‘life cleanse’ or ‘colon cleanse’ type internet scams, there is only one real remedy… Ask for a charge-back against the company through you credit card company. Your reason, when asked, is that the company has either: Not adhered [...]

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Panasonic Lumix TZ5 at Night

A few test pictures using the “Starry Sky” setting on my Panasonic Lumix TZ5.  The pictures were done using a tripod at the three timer settings  that are inbuilt for that setting; 15s, 30s & 60s.    The sky was quite brightly lit due to some thin mist acting as a reflector for the urban lighting.

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Orion Nebula on a Handheld Pocket Camera

Many moons ago, before Crawling Chaos, I had an interest in astronomy.  In those days, only professionals took photos of stars and it was hard, as you needed plates and plate holders stuck on the back of your telescope, and a dark room to develop pictures.  Telescope needed to be motor driven to track the [...]

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Fuji F30, First Snaps on Repaired Camera

Toddling off tonight with the dog, I had a little play with the thing.  Previously, here and here, I’ve talked about my knackered F30 camera.  I feel that its night vision isn’t the same as the previous one, but there is more lee-way with the settings.  What I mean is I think the ISO3200 is [...]

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