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Scanning photos

Saturday 25th August, 2007 Leave a Comment

Spent the day scanning old photo negatives today, and generally sorting through all our photos and getting them organised. Our photo collection so far consists of 16151 photos (yes, that’s over sixteen thousand !) starting from 1985. That’s unique photos too – no duplicates counted there … if you count duplicates (multiple scans at different resolutions or … [Read More »]

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A Wheel within a Wheel

Saturday 25th August, 2007 2 Comments

Keeping with the bicycle theme for now – here is another photo taken back around 1986, again for photography class at school. I quite like the “wheel within a wheel” perspective effect from this shot.

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The Bicycle

Friday 24th August, 2007 1 Comment

Not a particularly good photo – but it’s one of my earliest … taken when I was about 12 or 13, in year 8 at school. This was for a photography class – which was actually quite enjoyable. The photo is of my bike which I rode to school sometimes. Murray Bridge High School was about 5km from our … [Read More »]

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Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED Slide / Film Scanner

Thursday 23rd August, 2007 Leave a Comment

I recently bought a Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED Slide / Film Scanner so I could scan in all my old negatives. Since early 2000 I started getting Kodak PictureCDs burned whenever I got a roll of film developed, but it added a lot of cost to the process, and I was never completely happy with … [Read More »]

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Aeron Chairs

Friday 10th August, 2007 1 Comment

A couple of months back both Leanne and I suffered Catastrophic Chair Failure (CCF) when the chairs we use in our home office failed with a week or two of each other. I had been thinking about a new chair for a while, and Leanne was using a very old and not particularly good quality chair too. … [Read More »]

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