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On the Island now
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 :-)
El hombre grande del cielo
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 goob
Displaying the Doodle
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:
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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!
4 Out of 5 Cormorants Pleased with 2020 Summit
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
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