:: In a Small Dark Room ::

:: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 ::

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

:: Mez 23:47 [+] ::
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Links to my Online Photos
Because of my health problems and other related suckers-up of time, I don't know whether I'll be putting up more links and displays in this image blog, though I'm trying to keep up a few entries in my general blog, Hello Cruel World.

Link to my Flickr Photos
I'm putting most of my photos up on my 'pro' (paid) Flickr site account, Sketches by Mez (www.flickr.com/ photos/ sketchesbymez). There are collections of my scanned historic family photos — a bunch from World War II, including the Japanese surrender in the Philippines, and earlier, right back to the early 1900s — as well as sets from my 2005 trip to Tasmania, visits elsewhere, hospital stays, Pyrmont and my general imaging.

Outside Flickr, there's a couple of Tabblo pages I've experimented with (www.tabblo.com/ studio/ person/ Mez). This site gives a way of creating a picture layout and display, rather than Flickr and many of the other online galleries, which are like slotting your images into an existing plain 'album'. You can use the Tabblo layouts to publish a paper book (also possible with Blurb, and in different ways, Lulu [e.g., my blog books], and CafePress [blogbook vol 1]), ≈ other users create image displays designed for online, or at least screen-based, viewing.

There's also my 'hub blog' here on Blogger, Sketches by Mez, which is just a place to collect together links to my other blogs, image displays and other online presence.

Labels: books, flickr, links, self-publishing, tabblo

:: Mez 09:40 [+] ::
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Testing HTML text colour samples
Purple/Indigo/Violet colours for text & such in templates


Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 443266
Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — C3C3E5
Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — F1F0FF
Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 8C489F
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Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 692DAC
Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 9D538E
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Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 484452
Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — F8F2DA
Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — C7AFBD
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Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 4C50A9
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Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — AF4FA2


Taken from sample colour schemes at www.colorcombos.com

And from elsewhere

Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 4B0082
Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 8A2BE2
Sample TEXT for colour comparison XXX — 6600FF

Now trying the non 'font' declaration version of changing colours, using whatever this editor does to change text colour.

(Note: I checked the HTML codes and they're hideous! But it is possible to extract the RGB values for the different text colours in the sentence above.)

Labels: colours, HTML, references, resources, web రెసౌర్చెస్

:: Mez 15:19 [+] ::
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Down by the River

Exultations & Difficulties
exultationsanddifficulties.blogspot.com
Martin Stannard's Blog-Zine
Saturday, April 23, 2005
River Photos, Paterson, New Jersey USA (January 2005)

These photos were taken … on a day when the city was shrouded in a deep winter fog. The river seemed to disappear ... The trees reflected on the mirror surface of the water … and the colors were so subdued that the effect is almost black and white.

Images and Text © Mark Hillringhouse, 2005

Labels: nature, pix

:: Mez 14:37 [+] ::
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A Friday Cat-blog Illustrated Interlude
RECHARGEABLE CAT � Lolcats %u2018n%u2019 Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger?: "RECHARGEABLE�CAT"

Labels: cats, humour, pix

:: Mez 03:11 [+] ::
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Smoky Moon
Raph’s Website — The smoke does help some things (26 October, 2007)




Full-size 1280 x 780 pixels

"this is the moon over Rancho Bernardo tonight. You can see where there is an absence of lights right below the hills; that is where the fire came through."

Labels: city, nature, pix, skies

:: Mez 13:51 [+] ::
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Shadows of Motion – Ocean Beach

Shielded with smoke, bedazzled by mirrors
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

Labels: Australia, beach, pix, sand, Tasmania

:: Mez 23:00 [+] ::
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Catalina Flying Boat & Man

Catalina Flying Boat Fam3_14-5-flyboat-man
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

Old-style flying boat plane (PBY Catalina) that can also land on solid ground with the wheels. I think it's Ron standing by it. There is a framed photo (which I think another family member has) showing his father standing by a similar aeroplane.

For many years there was a Flying Boat Base at Rose Bay in Sydney Harbour, and my childhood home was under the flightpath of the large Catalinas coming in to land. We were some floors up in a block of flats, and at night sometimes they were so low I could see the people behind the lighted windows in the passenger cabin. My memory is they flew to Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands.

The base closed down a few decades back, but has since reopened for much smaller planes. They run a more local service, e.g. to the Hawkesbury River, and probably joy flights around the Sydney area. I saw a similar small plane in Strahan, Tasmania (see TAS_4212).

Labels: aeroplanes, airplanes, black and white, history, monochrome, pix

:: Mez 12:06 [+] ::
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om …

omega.jpg
Originally uploaded by Doctor Swan.

'omega' by Doctor Swan

A simple purity of vision

Labels: pix

:: Mez 01:15 [+] ::
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Tabblo: Manila after the Rain
Link to www.tabblo.com Manila after the Rain: A Tabblo
Manila at the end of World War II — Photos taken by an Australian sailor

Flickr link
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

Testing this as another way to use my images. In this case, displaying wartime family photos in an album page style like the one around at the time they were taken.

Labels: history, pix, tabblo, war

:: Mez 20:33 [+] ::
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Tabblo Test — In the Depths of the City
Link to www.tabblo.com — In the Depths of the City: A Tabblo


In the Depths of the City: A Tabblo Test (Flickr version)
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

"By night, and under cloudy skies, still I strive to see what joy in perceptions may happen yet to pass across my ken."


Testing this as another way to use &/or display my images

Labels: city, pix, tabblo

:: Mez 02:03 [+] ::
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New Year's Eve Fireworks in Sydney
Video taken from my rooftop here near St Vincent's hospital.
Google Video version

Midnight fireworks over Sydney harbour for New Year's Eve (2006/2007). Rather dark & blurry, I'm afraid, but I like the atmosphere. Seen from the roof of a block of units in Surry Hills, close to the party scene around Oxford Street and Taylor Square, and with lots of other blocks of flats around, nearly all with parties of people on their balconies. Taken with a Canon A80 (original size 320 x 240).

YouTube Version

Labels: Australia, celebrations, city, fireworks, Sydney, videos

:: Mez 17:37 [+] ::
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Party Night in Town: New Years Eve 2007 (IMG_5503)

Party Night in Town: New Years Eve 2007 (IMG_5503)
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

Labels: city, pix

:: Mez 11:20 [+] ::
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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

:: Mez 22:05 [+] ::
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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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