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Whew! Just finished the move from the mountains to a little surf shack on Phillip Island. Gotta say, I'm loving have a world class surf beach out the front door and a quiet safety beach about 500m from the back door. Been taking heaps of photos all along the island. Phillip island is famous for penguins, seals, surfing and motoGP. Anyway, stay tuned for more island updates :-)
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I decided that it had been far too long since I had pulled out the ol’ camera and took some shots and splashed around on DA. I walked around this morning with my daughter and took a few experimentals. While editing them on my favorite editing software, the GIMP, I accidentally choose the Threshold option. This gives a very stark black and white image. I was impressed with how the stripes on the shirt contrasted the other elements in the composition.

I decided to use the threshold edit and layer it with an alpha mask and a circular gradiant. This pulled in color and gave me a great color and texture contrast. If all this sounds like goobledy gook and you wouldn’t know your GIMP from a lame Pimp, then check out the GMIP tutorials located on my personal site littleredplanet.com. The second part of this tutorial explains the threshold tool and how to use it.
El hombre grande del cielo by littleredplanet

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Well, since Doodle Week I've been seriously thinking about the multitude of doodles I do at work. I have begun to scan some of them and turn them into proper pieces of d'art (that sounds really fancy!). Here's a sample from my most recent doodle creations:
Catharsis by littleredplanet Brotherhood by littleredplanet

I scan them using Kooka, turn them into scalable vector images with InkScape and lay in the color and effect with the GIMP - These software packages are opensource and free software.

So, I'll throw down the gauntlet ... show me your doodle!

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4 out of 5 Cormorants
Here I go mixing photos and politics. Australia’s new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, held his visionary 2020 summit over the weekend. For you non-aussies, the 2020 summit brought together some of the best and brightest brains from across the country to tackle the long term challenges confronting Australia’s future –challenges which require long-term responses from the nation beyond the usual three year political cycle.

1000 leading Australians met in the nations capital to debate and develop long-term options for the nation across 10 critical areas:

   1. The Productivity Agenda – education, skills, training, science and innovation
   2. The Future of the Australian Economy
   3. Population, sustainability, climate change and water
   4. Future directions for rural industries and rural communities
   5. A long-term national health strategy – including the challenges of preventative health, workforce planning and the ageing population
   6. Strengthening communities, supporting families and social inclusion
   7. Options for the future of indigenous Australia
   8. Towards a creative Australia: the future of the arts, film and design
   9. The future of Australian governance: renewed democracy, a more open government (including the role of the media), the structure of the Federation and the rights and responsibilities of citizens
  10. Australia’s future security and prosperity in a rapidly changing region and world.

The Summit will had the following objectives:

    * To harness the best ideas across the nation
    * To apply those ideas to the 10 core challenges that the Government has identified for Australia – to secure our long-term future through to 2020
    * To provide a forum for free and open public debate in which there are no predetermined right or wrong answers
    * For each of the Summit’s 10 areas to produce following the Summit options for consideration by government
    * For the Government to produce a public response to these options papers by the end of 2008 with a view to shaping the nation’s long-term direction from 2009 and beyond.

There have been those, mostly opposition party supporters, who believed the whole exercise a waste of time and a political showboat of Kevin Rudd. I viewed the summit as a straight forward and transparent way to proactively plan the future of the country as well as generating a synergy of ideas.

Oh, yeah … the photo was taken at Beaumaris Boat Club, Melbourne, Australia over the weekend.

Here's a personal invitation to call around to my personal site little red planet

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Opensource Digital Photo Processing for Novice Photographers or Makin’ good pictures with little experience and money. A beginners tutorial to using the opensource image software, the GIMP.

[http://www.littleredplanet.com/2008/03/25/opensource-digital-photo-processing-for-novice-photographers/]
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On the Island now by littleredplanet, journal

El hombre grande del cielo by littleredplanet, journal

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4 Out of 5 Cormorants Pleased with 2020 Summit by littleredplanet, journal

Makin' good pictures on the cheap by littleredplanet, journal