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Welcome to my new look website

Pete — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:34:40 +0000

You may be noticing the new look to the site. It’s the reason there hasn’t been much activity on the blog of late as I’ve been busy working on the update.

The new look is all thanks to the upgrade to version 3 of ProPhotoBlogs wordpress template software. I was a beta tester for the template and as usual the support has been awesome and Jared has worked so hard on this new improved version. Any photographers out there looking for a wordpress template would do well to take a look. Some great new features were added. Flash galleries that I can now use in my posts, and also in my Portfolio pages to show off my work. Also they added the cool sliding tabs that you see on the left of the page. There are two sliders, one showing my last 5 Twitter tweets, and a second one linking to the Stewardson Photography Facebook fan page so feel free to follow me or become a fan!

Thruxton from a while ago…

Pete — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:49:03 +0000

Just noticed this blog post in the drafts and no idea why it wasn’t posted. It’s from back in April but better late than never

An insight into the Presidents days.

Pete — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:25:14 +0000

Just had to post a link to this site.

It’s the Official Whitehouse Photostream on flikr. There’s some great photography on there so go check it out.

Transform

Pete — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:32:16 +0000

This is the first time I’ve tried embedding a video in a post so I hope it works.

I found this great short film – Transform – by photographer Zack Arias by pure fluke the other day. In it Zack talks about some of his struggle with his photography. I’m sure every photographer watching this can relate to it, I certainly can at this time of year when I’m not shooting much.

The first 1:30 of the video is quite light hearted, and then boom, the real film starts.

The full sized version is here if you want to check it out on Zacks site. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did…

Curry & Wii night

Pete — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:14:39 +0000

Friday night was Curry and Wii night for the APO Committee and after the cold snow of the week it was great to be warm and having fun with friends. Our hosts, Jane & Ed, must have bought out every sweet shop in the town as there wasn’t a bowl in the house not full of nibbles.

I took my D700 and an SB800 to have a play with some wireless flash. These were all taken with the flash sat under the TV to add to the light coming from it. I think they worked out pretty well

Lining up ready for a pitch…

And finally my wife, the chairperson of the Orchestra, getting a strike at bowling. Much to the dismay of the conductor… Hehe

Cool stop motion video on youtube

Pete — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:18:48 +0000

OK I wouldn’t normally bother posting links to youtube but I just got sent this link and it’s really cool and I just had to. It’s some great stop motion so check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

Jaquoda gig, Dej Vu Reading last night

Pete — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:34:02 +0000

A work colleague is in a band called Jaquoda ( follow the link for their facebook fan page ) and were playing last night at Deja Vu in Reading, so I went along to show some support. The guys were rocking out big time, and they sounded great. I had my camera with me as always so took a few shots. Considering how dark the place was they came out pretty well

Apple updates Macbook Pro 17″

Pete — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:55:00 +0000

So Apple finally got around to updating the Macbook Pro 17″. No surprises that they updated the machine, they were bound to eventually, but the big news around the net seems to be the lack of a removable battery. Personally I’m not sure what all the fuss is about on that. I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve removed the battery from mine. For me the huge news is finally an anti-glare screen, oh and a core upgrade allowing 2.9Ghz processor with 8GB of RAM

It remains to be seen what the anti-glare screen is really like, but hopefully it wont have that awful shine all the new Apple laptops have had until now. Seems like they finally listened to the Pros that sit in front of them all day.

The only disappointment is probably the lack of a BluRay writer in there. That would be great for backing up all the shots taken at a wedding. Those RAW files take up loads of room…

Anyway check out the link for all the info on the Apple site.

MacBook Pro 17″

Ordered this years Christmas cards

Pete — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:45:03 +0000

A week ago I got an email from www.loxleycolour.comÂ offering card printing. So this year I figured why not go custom and use a couple of my own photos on our Christmas cards

Believe it or not these photos were actually taken in May this year! It only lasted a short while but it’s about the most snow we’ve had all year.Â

This Robin didn’t hang around long, just long enough to get this one clear shot.

This swan was nesting on a small island. Shot from the other side of the water through the trees.

Mini-Notebooks HP2133

Pete — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:22:18 +0000

I noticed the local PCWorld was open again today so popped in for a nosey. The place has been shut for weeks so figured I’d see what they’d done.Â UnfortunatelyÂ it looks like PCWorld will now be even less useful than it was before. The new layout means they can’t hold anywhere near the amount of stock they had before. Anyway while browsing I noticed a whole section devoted to the netbooks, mini-notbooks etc that seem so popular at the minute. Most didn’t impress me very much but one stood out was the HP2133. This machine looks cool. OK it’s the most expensive one at Â£350 but itÂ definitelyÂ looked and felt the best out of the 8 or so on display.Â

Check out the specs hereÂ http://h40059.www4.hp.com/hp2133/

Now why can’t Apple make one just like this?