Darkest Before Dawn

Experiments in Hight Contrast B&W

Kev — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:52:05 +0000

Experiments in Hight Contrast B&W, a set on Flickr.

Photos from a few weeks ago taken with my new Panasonic Lumix set to High Contrast B&W.

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Sky over Glasgow after the Strathclyde Uni Fire

Kev — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:15:07 +0000

The photo on the left was taken on a distant landscape mode and the one on the right on a setting for sunsets.

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Moon through branches

Kev — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:09:42 +0000

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In the fog

Kev — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:43:02 +0000

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Sunset

Kev — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:18:14 +0000

Sunset, a photo by Darkest Before Dawn on Flickr.

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Dawn

Kev — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:36:45 +0000

Dawn, a photo by Darkest Before Dawn on Flickr.

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Highland Cattle Calf

Kev — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:51:32 +0000

Highland Cattle Calf, a photo by Darkest Before Dawn on Flickr.

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Bang! Where did the day go…

Kev — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:21:54 +0000

There I was sorting out some blog bits and all of a sudden it was midnight, must have been having fun.

As part of my new year drive to sort stuff out and to stop paying for stuff I don’t use I finally decommissioned my virtual server hosting, which will save me around £15 a month. My db4dawn blog has with wordpress.com for a while and I may at some point upgrade it to a pro package. I already have a pro package for the blog I plan to use for my professional writing stuff kjrickis.com and as part of my move away from self hosting I have set up a blog for my film production identity Persuasive Penguin, no link as there is no content and I haven’t made a film yet. My programming web sites now point to a Drupal Gardens site.

I will be using this blog mainly for funny bits, photos, rants etc. If you are looking for political insight or in fact any insight at all I doubt this will be the place.

Anyway I’d better head as I really would like to get up early fro a walk tomorrow morning.

By for now,
Kev

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Happy New Year

Kev — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:09:24 +0000

Well I might as well start off the new year with the same good intentions that I do every year and that is to make regular blog posts. A quick look at the archive on the right will show that I do’t usually succeed, but never mind.

Okay lets kick off the new year with a poll.

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Exam

Kev — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:07:46 +0000

Today was the exam for my latest Open University course and it went well. I did have a bit of a panic when I realised that I don’t own a working watch. The only watch that I could find in the centre of Glasgow on a Friday morning before 9:30am, when Watt Brothers opens, didn’t have a working battery but I was offered it for £5 instead of £7.99. The hall where the exam took place did have a clock but it was at the back, never the less I did manage to pace myself well.

There seemed to be a number of people missing judging from the unused desks, don’t know if this is common.

I am trying my best to forget the questions so that I don’t obsess about my answers so I will not list them here.

I didn’t take my phone to the exam and this turned into a bit of a technological ‘cold turkey’ experiment. After an initial feeling of panic when I came out of the exam and couldn’t check or send messages I relaxed and quite liked the feeling of being detached.

For lunch I grabbed a chilli bowl in Bar Ten opposite the Lighthouse on Mitchell Lane, the chilli was nice but tame for me and it reminded me that I must make one of my chillies soon.

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