:: In a Small Dark Room ::

:: Sunday, November 26, 2006 ::

ITemplate File Toast — Hope I can fix it
Haven't done anything to it, but the template file has been damaged (a chunk of the end is missing). This may have to do with the beta-Blogger shift going on.
I have other urgent things to deal with, but did a quick fix. Hope everything looks OK now.

Sorry.

If you're desperate http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif<ahem>, have a look at an 'emergency backup' photo blog, smalldarkroom.blogspot.com, or my photos on the Flickr site at flickr.com/photos/87756698@N00.

Alternatively, feast on other photos, such as those of Ingeborg Tyssen (tysseneye.net)

Or search out others at Luminous Lint (www.luminous-lint.com), or www.photogravure.com.

:: Mez 12:16 [+] ::
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It isn't summer yet (more than a month to Christmas)
Crisp black gumleaves have floated down onto Sydney's ocean beaches, with dusty ashes and embers.

A Multimedia Newspaper Report
www.smh.com.au/ multimedia/ ringoffire/ index.html

Photos from general people of scenes around the Blue Mountains fires
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871454375.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871453791.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871450834.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871454187.html


Preview
Originally uploaded by Mezza, using fd's flickrtoys.

Pictures from staff photographers
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871450823.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871450828.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 23/ 1163871526028.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 23/ 1163871526026.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 23/ 1163871526030.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 23/ 1163871526082.html


This is the westering sun seen behind Anzac Bridge, which is just down the hill from us.
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871451200.html

Fighting fires
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871451202.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871451500.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871451054.html

:: Mez 23:13 [+] ::
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Kitty v Porn: Another Grain on the Balance Pan
Janet Lafler & Matt Austern have cats they call Randy and Oliver:



(lafstern.org/matt/cats.jpg)

From Matt Austern's Home Page (lafstern.org/matt)

Labels: pix, కాట్స్

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:: Mez 22:33 [+] ::
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coming and going - catblogging ella snoozing ( April 15, 2006)

:: Mez 05:07 [+] ::
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To match with the green apple, here is a quince

I love eating quince raw slice by raw slice—the knife is my favourite quince treatment. All of the quince's unique smell is retained. The sound of the knife going through the flesh is something I enjoy, as is holding the fruit in my hand. It is a wonderful feeling fruit, having a quite human skin.

The mouth-feel of raw quince is wonderful, too, if you like it (and I love it).

On cold days, though, there's nothing to beat baked quince and oatmeal with cream.

from Medlar Comfits, by Anna Tambour.

:: Mez 03:28 [+] ::
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Crest Theatre 20051203 (on Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

It's not really that difficult, although it took me a while to get the hang of it. On automatic settings, you will usually overexpose neon (because the camera reacts to all the darkness around it), and you won't get the rich colors. So now I use shutter speed priority mode. I usually start at ISO 200, 1/80 of a second (which was the setting for this photo), and then re-shoot it once with a faster shutter speed, and once with a slower shutter speed, just to make sure I get one shot that comes out well. — tspauld (Tom Spaulding)

:: Mez 16:56 [+] ::
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Tasmania 2005 (Some photos from my holiday to Tasmania, a Flickr Photoset - work in progress). I'm not sure if I should break this down into smaller sub-sets, such as all the ones taken around Macquarie Harbour and Strahan, all the ones around Hobart and those around Devonport, plus a set of ones taken while travelling between the three main places I stayed; or breaking them down into landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, plants, places, people; or whatever.

I will have to find a different place to store the video clips I also took with the digital camera.

By Sea between Sydney & Tasmania (A Flickr Photoset - work in progress) This will include both the journey down and back, scenes of Sydney and Devonport as well as of the ship itself and sea-scenes from it.

:: Mez 18:37 [+] ::
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Is this what was needed in major-league bulk supply in the banana plantations before Cyclone Larry hit?

From http://www.bananabunker.com

I am making no other comment at all. Whatsoever. Not even about the date.

:: Mez 19:35 [+] ::
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Girl from Ipanema
Originally uploaded by neloqua.

Check out the other bird photos here.. Some really lovely ones.

Labels: flickr, pix

:: Mez 20:20 [+] ::
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composed
Originally uploaded by Vanita.

Vanita, Vanitas, Vanitatas?
How pre-Raphaelite. Considerable gorgeousity, especially in the textures.

:: Mez 19:46 [+] ::
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No. I haven't put any of the photos from my time in Tasmania here yet. I've loaded quite of a few them up to flickr.com, but not by any means the majority yet, or sorted. Here's a link to the set page (www.flickr.com/photos/87756698@N00/sets/1529859)



The first batch was a chunk of nice scenes that would make good desktop backgrounds for computers, but only at 640 x 480 size, I'm a bit thingy about trying to leave some kind of ID on them so if people use them there's an acknowledgement (I do try to put something so that you can find the original &/or the originator of photos here.)

So many other things to do, I haven't had the time & energy to do much sorting, labelling & heavy uploading.

:: Mez 20:39 [+] ::
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qofd - Quizzical Kitten (breakfast)
www.flickr.com/photos/37649656@N00/100492554

Wild Neighbors at Dharma Bums (another type of cat)
newdharmabums.blogspot.com/2006/02/wild-neighbors.html

Nadar - on the beach static.flickr.com/21/98422655_e1a77384ba_b.jpg



This rather remnds me of some of my Ocean Beach photos from the west coast of Tasmania — the dark sand, wide beach, mountains in the distance up the coast beyond the mist of spray above the waves.

Have I posted them here? Must check how many of my Tasmanian photos are up here.

:: Mez 20:17 [+] ::
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The Photography Channel

The Digital Journalist - A Multimedia Magazine for Photojournalism in the Digital Age
Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate Gallery - The Digital Journalist

Angry Monkey Photography

and also one of my favourite amateurs, as seen in the sidebar, from top left pixel, the Daily Dose of Imagery

:: Mez 13:14 [+] ::
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Buddha in the Banyan

wat phra mahathat,
originally uploaded by iamtonyang. (on Flickr)

:: Mez 00:40 [+] ::
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Cleek: Monday Cat Blogging (Monday, January 23, 2006 at cleek.blogspot.com)

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