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Planting trees

Wednesday 29th August, 2007 Leave a Comment

My parents bought a 5 acre block of land on the outskirts of Murray Bridge at the end of 1984 and wanted to plant a row of native trees along the northern boundary to provide a wind break, a visual barrier from our neighbours, and a haven for birds and other wildlife. These first two photos were taken … [Read More »]

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Simon circa 1985

Tuesday 28th August, 2007 1 Comment

This is the last of the old school photography class photos I’ll upload for now. Not taken by me, but taken of me. I guess I was about 12 or 13 at the time. I think the photo turned out quite nicely once I spent a few hours removing all the scratches from the scanned … [Read More »]

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Scanning Progress

Monday 27th August, 2007 4 Comments

Pretty much spent the weekend scanning photos. I’ve now completed scanning all of the negatives (that I could find) which pre-date my use of Kodak Picture CDs. This means that I have a digital image (of varying quality) of every photo we’ve taken. There are a few missing photos from early on, which I suspect … [Read More »]

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The Engine of Progress

Monday 27th August, 2007 Leave a Comment

More photos from school photography class. This time of a motorcycle engine – one of the teachers drove this very loud bike (I don’t remember what make it was), you could hear him approaching well before he arrived. I liked this photo – it was visually interesting, although I would have preferred it to be … [Read More »]

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A Matter of Perspective

Sunday 26th August, 2007 Leave a Comment

Another shot from School photography class back in 1986. Again, not fantastic (I was only 13), but it shows an interest and appreciation of the effect of “perspective”, something I was to explore in much more detail during technical drawing classes in later years.

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