Monthly Archives: October 2009

Experiments in HDR Photography

25th
Oct. × ’09
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Over the past few weeks I’ve mentioned the idea of HDR photography, which stands for High Dynamic Range photography. Here’s my first try, with an image I took this evening from my hotel balcony in Kusadasi, Turkey. The basic idea is that you lock your camera on a tripod, and take three photos in a [...]

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Photos from my Turkey, Albania & Croatia trip

23rd
Oct. × ’09
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I was a away for two weeks this month, on this trip: The trip mixed business and leisure, but even the business was quite fun. First up, I spent a week at the Sundance Nature Park for the Turkish Juggling Festival. I posted loads of photos on my blog, and daily diary too, but I [...]

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Luke B’s Guide to Creating a Diabolo Routine

19th
Oct. × ’09
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Over at the diabolo.ca forum someone posted a video of diabolo act that I posted here a few weeks ago. After adding a bit about the history of the routine, Marky J asked a good question: My show is isn’t really choreographed that tightly and the tricks I attempt normally depend on the crowd, conditions, [...]

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Sunset

13th
Oct. × ’09
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I watched a fantastic sunset tonight in Kusadasi. I didn’t have my DSLR camera with me though, so used my iPhone to snap this shot: I should have known to carry my proper camera with me to dinner though, because last time I was here in Kusadasi the sunset was equally impressive. Here is a [...]

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Yanartas (Mount Chimaera)

12th
Oct. × ’09
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Sunday was the last official day of the Turkish juggling convention, even though there are still dozens of people hanging out here on Monday. People made lots of plans to do workshops and other events, but of course most people slept in, then couldn’t be bothered to to anything. I was one of those people. [...]

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