Darkroom

Links to my Online Photos

2009-01-10T18:50:00.000-08:00

Because of my health problems and other related time-users, 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 entries in my general blog, Another Dark Little Corne r.

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 pa ges 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, which is like just 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 [my blog books], and CafePress [blogbook vol 1]), ≈ others 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 online presence.

Down by the River

2008-02-29T19:45:00.000-08:00

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

Moon over burnt-out Southern California

2007-10-26T20:43:00.000-07:00

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."

Testing Schmapplet entry

2007-10-07T19:32:00.000-07:00

Shadows of Motion – Ocean Beach

2007-05-17T21:52:00.000-07:00

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

Catalina Flying Boat Fam3_14-5-flyboat-man

2007-05-10T19:04:00.001-07:00

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

Om ...

2007-04-08T08:13:00.001-07:00

omega.jpg
Originally uploaded by Doctor Swan.

omega by Doctor Swan

A simple purity of vision

Manila After the Rain — another 'Tabblo'

2007-02-07T23:32:00.000-08:00

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

Manila After the Rain
Manila at the end of World War II — Photos taken by an Australian sailor

In the Depths of the City: A Tabblo Test

2007-01-15T02:02:00.000-08:00

In the Depths of the City: A Tabblo Test (Flickr link)
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

New Year's Eve Fireworks in Sydney

2007-01-13T22:37:00.000-08:00

New Year's Eve Fireworks in Sydney seen from a rooftop here in Surry Hills, close to Oxford Street and Taylor Square, and with lots of other — mostly higher — blocks of flats around, nearly all with parties of people on their balconies.

A Feast of Photos

2006-12-12T05:10:00.000-08:00

To perhaps cheer you up more than the distressing bushfires, feast on other photos, such as those of immigrant Aussie Ingeborg Tyssen (tysseneye.net)

Or search out others' at Luminous Lint (www.luminous-lint.com), or www.photogravure.com

It isn't summer yet (more than a month to Christmas)

2006-11-23T04:12:00.000-08:00

Catblogging v Porn: Another Grain on the Balance Pan

2006-11-21T03:08:00.000-08:00

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) See my post in July, 2005 for a question about this.

Profile photo

2006-06-29T05:48:00.000-07:00

My online profile image, kept outside, has somehow had its URL changed, and I'm trying to make sure it's on the Blogger site so that won't happen again.

Raindrop_Fountain-Roselands

2006-04-27T15:19:00.000-07:00

Raindrop_Fountain-Roselands, originally uploaded by Mezza.

Australia's (& "the Southern Hemisphere's") first "shopping - community centre" - Roselands - opened on October 11th, 1965.
Its centrepiece and symbol was the Raindrop Fountain: 15 miles of clear nylon thread suspended from the ceiling, with drops of water constantly trickling down into a pool.
It was removed in a remodelling project in 1988. A new, quite different fountain was recently installed.

See Suburban Icons: A Celebration of the Everyday, by Steve Bedwell (ABC Books, 1992) for more, and Source E in [PDF]

catblogging

2006-04-19T12:18:00.000-07:00

coming and going - catblogging ella snoozing ( April 15, 2006)

To match with the green apple (11/10/2005); a quince

2006-04-19T10:32:00.000-07:00

from Medlar Comfits, by Anna Tambour:

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.

Neon Lights at Crest Theatre

2006-04-18T23:55:00.000-07:00

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)

Tasmanian Trip 2005 (story so far)

2006-04-18T01:39:00.000-07:00

Tasmania 2005 (Some photos from my holiday to Tasmania, a Flickr Photoset - work in progress).
I'm not sure if I should break this down into smaller sub-sets, such as all the ones taken around Macquarie Harbour and Strahan, all the ones around Hobart and those around Devonport, plus a set of ones taken while travelling between the three main places I stayed; or breaking them down into landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, plants, places, people; or whatever.

I will have to find a different place to store the video clips I also took with the digital camera.

By Sea between Sydney & Tasmania (A Flickr Photoset - work in progress) This will include both the journey down and back, scenes of Sydney and Devonport as well as of the ship itself and sea-scenes from it.

2006-03-31T18:35:00.000-08:00

this what was needed in major-league bulk supply in the banana plantations before Cyclone Larry hit?

From http://www.bananabunker.com

I am making no other comment at all. Whatsoever. Not even about the date.

composed (Vanita, Vanitas, Vanititas?)

2006-03-14T00:44:00.000-08:00

composed, originally uploaded by Vanita.

How pre-Raphaelite. Considerable gorgeousity, especially in the textures.

Not Tasmania

2006-02-17T02:05:00.000-08:00

qofd - Quizzical Kitten (breakfast)
www.flickr.com/photos/37649656@N00/100492554

Wild Neighbors at Dharma Bums (another type of cat)
newdharmabums.blogspot.com/2006/02/wild-neighbors.html

Nadar - on the beach static.flickr.com/21/98422655_e1a77384ba_b.jpg
This rather remnds me of some of my Ocean Beach photos from the west coast of Tasmania — the dark sand, wide beach, mountains in the distance up the coast beyond the mist of spray above the waves.

Have I posted them here? <CHECKS>

No. I haven't put any of the photos from my time in Tasmania here yet. I've loaded quite of a few them up to flickr.com, but not by any means the majority yet, or sorted. Here's a link to the set page (www.flickr.com/photos/87756698@N00/sets/1529859)

The first batch was a chunk of nice scenes that would make good desktop backgrounds for computers, but only at 640 x 480 size, I'm a bit thingy about trying to leave some kind of ID on them so if people use them there's an acknowledgement (I do try to put something so that you can find the original &/or the originator of photos here.)

So many other things to do, I haven't had the time & energy to do much sorting, labelling & heavy uploading.

Some Online Photography sites

2006-01-30T18:16:00.000-08:00

The Photography Channel

The Digital Journalist - A Multimedia Magazine for Photojournalism in the Digital Age
From The Digital Journalist: Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate Gallery

Angry Monkey Photography

and also one of my favourite amateurs (see sidebar), from top left pixel, the Daily Dose of Imagery

2006-01-25T07:55:00.000-08:00

Cleek: Monday Cat Blogging (Monday, January 23, 2006 at cleek.blogspot.com)

Floraporn: Green Girl

2005-11-10T02:20:00.000-08:00

Green Girl
Originally uploaded by singingpixel.

From the "floraporn" group at flickr.com

There's some rather nice pix in there.

Hiatus

2005-09-27T22:24:00.000-07:00

Due to much clamour & wails of despair & loss from the thronging crowds of my distressed blogfans, <ahem>, I am just dropping this note in to say that this hiatus is just one of those gaps that strike blogdom. I have every intention of continuing -- there is even some material I've been collecting in my blogpile for entries. "Life" tends to get in the way sometimes (& sleep & all that other stuff).

Cuteness Collective

2005-07-28T01:54:00.000-07:00

Yahoo's Kitten Pictures search result.
If you add up all the cat pictures, or maybe all the cute kittens and puppies and dogs and cats (other mammals?), would there be more pornography or them?

FlickrZen

2005-07-27T09:49:00.000-07:00

flickrzen.blogspot.com - a collection of someone's favourite images from flickr

Catseyes

2005-07-24T08:32:00.000-07:00

Catseyes - r1630202053, originally uploaded by Mezza.

Date: 20050713 from Yahoo News Photos - Siamese Cat at Jordan Zoo REUTERS/Ali Jarekji
This has just caught the glorious blue of Siamese cats' eyes and the lovely velvety texture & colour of its fur - r1630202053

Another caged cat

Caged Eyes

The resigned gentleness of the leopard I saw in the cage was in sharp contrast to the fires of napalm, yet its orange fur and basic nature called it a great predator. One of the most disturbing stories I have read is With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson, about a race of androids that imprison humanity in a cocoon of safety and idleness. All the captive generations descended from the one leopard father have been resting with folded forepaws for too many years, their world stolen from them by human curiosity.

shroud

2005-06-03T23:27:00.000-07:00

shroud
Originally uploaded by Vanita.

Buried my mother on Friday, 3rd June, 2005.

Abusing Amazon images; Some quite odd online things

2005-05-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

Abusing Amazon images
aaugh.com/imageabuse.html

Ethical Considerations
Abusing Amazon images for decorative art on your own web pages makes use of Amazon's processor and bandwidth. While Amazon is generally good about letting people use their systems for interesting projects, it should be remembered that they make access available in order to ultimately sell more stuff.

My recommendation for those who want to use Amazon's services without being a total leech is to either save a copy of the resultant image and host it directly, or be sure to include a link to the Amazon sales page for the product depicted.

Ummmm ... : www.jewmilk.com/tarzanrubberband.htm or, for something completely different www.dazereader.com/24000824.htm (both possibly offensive to many people).

Chill-out city :) - probably better with sound & faster connexion
drinkingwithbob.blogspot.com/

Cat on the Edge by frombrosis on Flickr

2005-05-22T09:59:00.000-07:00

cat on the edge, originally uploaded by frombrosis.

direct link to Flickr Photo Sharing
This classic tabby reminds me of my own late beloved one. Seh could get a mean look on too - reminding you that she was Ancient Royalty, from the line of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Not to be messed with.
Perspective does strange things to the mind here. Not bad ones, though.

2005-05-22T09:34:00.000-07:00

Windswept Tree, La Perouse

fern

2005-05-22T09:23:00.000-07:00

fern, originally uploaded by Doctor Swan.

I'm following the seasons here. The ice and snow in winter was amazingly beautiful, and spring is looking good too

Infamous Opera House Iraq incident

2005-05-18T23:29:00.000-07:00

Mez

Inconstant Blogger

2005-03-31T00:17:00.000-08:00

Sorry, haven't been able to get into writing anything much except relating to the elbow-deep drifts of forms & legal documents that needed to be fixed up by this week or a large chunk of the house of cards laughingly known as my life will lose its insubstantial grip on reality, or at least a working facsimile of same.

Some forms still demand a typewriter. I was able to unearth my old Spanish manual (not Manuel) one. With working ribbon. Ha! Bureaucracy foiled again.

lacrimae rerum

2005-01-05T07:59:00.000-08:00

lacrimae rerum, originally uploaded by Doctor Swan.

Maybe it's just the title that's giving me chills about this photo. My mind is making up a sinister story about how the shoes got there and what happened to their owners. Reminders of the Final Solution.

Voting billboard at Taylor Square, Sydney

2005-01-05T00:49:00.000-08:00

bboard, originally uploaded by tlaloc.

A photo by Someone Else. I liked the message.

Flickr

2005-01-05T00:08:00.000-08:00

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

Testing HTML text colour samples

2004-12-09T19:20:00.000-08:00

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.)