At last, a DSLR. I found the Canon refurb store on eBay around 2005 and waited for an EOS 300D to show up. It was what I could afford at the time and I used existing glass. I was back in the world of through the lens and enjoying the benefits of selecting my...
Taking a peek at my photographic journey. I've always retained an interest in photography, yet there have been times when I've ebbed and flowed. Sometimes we allow life to get in the way of our interests and I certainly fell in to a dormant period. I've decided to revisit elements of my photographic journey,...
That nod to the past got me thinking. What was my first big Bond memory? So much gets written about Bond movies when the next instalment hits the screens and given that, I’m not even going to start to review or analyse Skyfall. A fellow Union Jack News blogger, Rupert Potter, captured his love...
It’s been a long time since I last posted anything here and some of that has been to do with the fact that I became frustrated by the WordPress theme I was using. Although I liked the design, the theme had limitations. I couldn’t change the sidebar to take advantage of the power...
Where to start? As I’d previously mentioned I’ve adopted WordPress as my platform of choice for this blog and today the founding developer of this open source application, Matt Mullenweg , gave the conference key note. Okay, I don’t mind admitting that I knew nothing about Matt other than his WordPress and Akismet achievements...
Come the afternoon, come more sessions. Although I’m fairly well read in some areas, wiki’s are still an area that, if not a black art, are still unfamiliar. What better way to start to plug the gap than by checking out wiki101 with Stewart Mader. This was a really useful session as it opened...
One great thing about being in BC is the easy access to events that would really bypass sleepy Kent back in the UK. Today was my introduction to Northern Voice, a 2 day blogging/social media event, held out at UBC. If I’m honest, the journey took as long as it would have taken to...
