The walk to work in August London (Taken with Instagram at Conway Hall)
The internet is awash with beautiful images of late. After watching 2 of my favourite programmes back-to-back (The West Wing and Gilmore Girls) with concurrent episodes mentioning Iceland, it was fitting that when this image later popped into my inbox I share it ASAP.
This is a sunset at Reykjavik (never been able to spell the Icelandic capital without using spellcheck). See the full gallery of Nikhil Mehta’s astoundingly beautiful images here.
Now if only I could complete the circle by requisitioning some tickets to see Björk at Bestival this summer…
Yet another reason why I like Twitter so much is that I get to follow some very classy and artistic individuals. I thoroughly recommend Ben Collins’ blog and website. Mostly, I recommend his stunning landscape photos. My favourite section is Ben’s take on coastal landscapes. He comes up with some of his photographic ideas through taking part in awesome adventures, including last year’s Chilean Andes expedition. Take a look.
I was lucky enough to visit Angkor Wat 4 years ago and it was every bit as amazing (and in places, steep) as I had imagined. However, as you can see, my shaky hand and awed gaping never really did the place justice.
However, the majestic temples and whimsical twilight are captured beautifully by David Henderson (Flickr name: Violinconcertono3). It seems that getting up at 5am and hanging around for the right light really is worth it.
Click on my photo above to see how it’s really done…
My friend Darren Hemmings has just bought himself a Raynox 250 macro lens for his camera. The image quality of the results is astounding. Highly recommended.
Top Tip: Deleting photos from a Mac
I have had my Mac for 3 years, and I am barely scratching the surface of what it can do. It is all fine and well wanting an Ipad, but if you’re not really technically inclined (I don’t mean savvy, I know what I’m doing, but some days I just don’t care enough to find out more) it isn’t worth the money.
It dawned on me today that for every photo of a lovely sunset or a pretty flower I take, there are at least 20 photos which are out of focus and frankly so bad that my 1 year old nephew could do a more convincing job. These photos are taking up precious space on my laptop and need to be deleted. But as I looked for the delete option in my iphoto menu, I discovered that there is no such command. Cue: mass hysterical panic.
I+only+know+how+to+click+my+mouse+on+a+menu+what+do+I+do+now?
So, I did what I always do in times of great stressful need, I trawled the net.
And lo and behold I found a really easy way to do it, courtesy of pinds.com :
If you’re looking at a photo inside an album, tap the delete key to remove the photo from the album (this won’t delete the actual photo). If, however, you’re viewing the photo in the iphoto Library, and you tap the delete key, it is deleted.
Easy as pie, which Macs are designed to be. Maybe I should have more faith in logic next time. P.S. The photo above is one of my better ones (perhaps…)
