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SuperShaka — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:50:13 +0000

It’s been so hectic the past few weeks that my plan to have the blog structure and style finished by this weekend have slipped considerably.
I have so many balls in the air at the moment that I’m struggling to get anything done in time. Therefore I am declaring the status of the blog as BETA until further notice.
My interest in Lightroom 2.0 was invigorated after taking some nice photos at the recent London trip. This led to the desire of wanting to learn Photoshop again, something I’ve been attempting to do, on and off, for over a year. So I’m trying to read Scott Kelby’s The Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers book again. At the same time, I’m trying to catch up with about 5 back issues of my subscribed Digital Photo magazines. On top of this, I have discovered a couple of fantastic websites offering some really nice Photoshop tutorials, Web Designer Wall and Photoshop Lady, and I constantly find myself spending what little free time I have, browsing the tutorials.
If this wasn’t enough, I am also desperate to learn Cocoa programming so I can start developing for the Mac and iPhone. I already have the Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X book, which is supposed to be one of the best available on the market. I have also just ordered Programming in Objective-C 2.0, which has recently been published and is getting good recommendations.
I have no idea how I’m going to get all this done. I guess it will be a case of do a little at a time instead of trying to do everything in one go. So I am going to try and create a study schedule to cover all these subjects and will do my best to stick to it.

London Baby

SuperShaka — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:52:31 +0000

Last Monday, Ian and I took a train down to London and spent the day sight seeing. We’d always discussed doing this in the past as neither of us had been there for a proper day out. I thought this would also be a great opportunity to use my Nikon D300 DSLR camera.
It turned out to be a cracking day, chilly but dry and quite sunny. We had booked tickets online for the London Eye which was a good decision as the queue was massive and even with tickets we still had quite a long wait. London Eye was fantastic and I managed to get some really nice shots throughout the day.
I had over 450 photos in total and after reviewing them all, I managed to whittle them down to a more manageable 103. I have now processed them in Lightroom and I must say, there are a couple of brilliant photos in there. They can be viewed in my London set on my Flickr page. A slideshow is also available.

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London Baby