Steamers Beach, Jarvis Bay NSW.

World Photography Day is fast approaching! On August 19 thousands of photographers around the world will celebrate their passion for photography and it’s positive effects on the world.

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These photos were taken with the very impressive Canon EF 70-200mm lens on a recent trip to Murrumbidgee River.

I’m not sure what this is. We found it on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin.

Here are a few photos from a trip out to Captains flat mine. Unfortunately for us, they’ve started demolishing a lot of the old structures, so the place isn’t as interesting as it was a few years ago.

I’m not sure why this dam’s water is green, it didn’t look like algae up close. Edit: This could be a tailings pond, which is toxic waste left over from the process of separating minerals and rock. I’m glad I didn’t go near it.

If you’re addicted to reddit.com like me, you’ll understand my frustration with all those Ron Paul links. Especially if you don’t live in the US, and don’t really know who the guy is.

If anyone is interested, I’ve written a small Greasemonkey script which hides all reddit links that include the text “Ron Paul”.

To install, download the Greasemonkey file and drag it onto your firefox window.

ronpaul.user.js

Why aren’t there any cool IDE’s like CODA available for windows?

So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, running queries in Terminal, using a CSS editor, and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we realized. ““And much cooler.”

It would be great if occasionally some cool apps were released for windows.

If you’re like me, you’ll often first judge a website or application based on it’s name, so it’s important that your name is easily recognizable.

In more than one industry, the market leader is the company which has the most memorable name, rather than the best product.

Have you noticed that a lot of market leaders don’t have names which relate to their market at all? When you want to buy a book, you go to amazon.com rather than books.com, to search the web you would go to google.com, not search.com. I’m sure there are many more examples you can think of.

If you want your name to be recognizable I suggest sticking to these rules:

• Keep it short, 2-4 syllables is perfect.
• Make sure it’s easy to spell, and avoid using words that are spelt differently in other countries.
• Domain names like del.icio.us and ma.gnolia aren’t easy to remember, so I would avoid using them.
• Make sure it rolls off your tongue easily; e.g. flock, digg, yahoo and adobe.

If you’re having a hard time thinking of a name for your new website, have a look at the different types of company names.

Ever since Crimson Editor’s source code was released, I’ve been thinking more about what features would make this fine editor even better. I dont have the experience with C++ to make these changes myself, so hopefully they’ll find their way into the first release of Emerald, the open source text editor based on Crimson.

My Crimson Editor wish list:

1. Auto complete
2. Code folding
3. PHP function signatures
4. Tab reordering

I wanted to do another painting in Photoshop to practice light and perspective. The whole painting took around 2 hours. I took screenshots along the way to document it’s progress…

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Continued…

Outlines and vanishing point.

Quick colouring.

More colouring.

More colouring.

Making the hallway dark.

Adding the light from the door.

Cleaning it up a bit.

Added a figure in the foreground.

Figure hightlighting.

Final image.