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Having been banned from Facebook for the umpteenth time I found some extra time in my busy retired life. So I picked up painting again. And in a special way too. I decided to try my hand at something different
Gubbio boasts to have the biggest Christmas tree in the WORLD ! Well, duh….. it is a tree made out of 500 lights, posted on the hill behind the old town. Still, it is a very nice sight when descending
My friend Jo Stein from Germany has released his 6th edition of Herbstschnitt, the on-line photo magazine with a theme. This time the theme was ‘facing’ and there are a lot of very interesting ideas on how to visualize
‘This’ being our awesome mountain world. And it IS dying, melting, eroding, being polluted, being filled with ski lifts and snowboard ramps, parkings and ski run restaurants. But the again, who can stop ‘progress’ ? We’re now at 40
For some time now I have been looking to get me a video camera so I can store our wonderful rides for future generations to see. Cough. Alright, for ME to re-enjoy then, once I am too old and
If you’re like me you have too much data strewn all over your computer systems, and not nearly enough backups. If you’re like me in terms of (lack of) discipline to backup as well, you have a further problem. I
Yesterday I was working with Arno of FSDeveloper.com fame, and he showed me Gimp, the free program he uses for painting his FSX models. Since I got another question about painting today, I thought to do a quick search and
I finally managed to finish the first of a row of articles dealing with my/our flying in the States last October/November. The first in the range is the story about our flight through the Misty Fjords, near Ketchikan, Alaska. This
Mossie was the nickname for the British WW2 Mosquito fighter bomber. Mosquitoes is what we’re having in abundance on Aruba. Exceptionally many, we’re told. Caused by continuous tropical rain…… also exceptionally much. We’re told. Swell, just our luck, eh? Haven’t
If you’re ‘into’ aviation then you don’t want to miss THIS SERIES of wonderful photos of an Edwards Air Force Base Open Day, shot by Bernard Zee. Bernard even added sound bits to some of his photos and you can
After an uneventful drive of yet another 1100 km’s, we’re back home again. Of course the PC would not start when I plugged it in, just like the previous times when I transported it. taking the motherboard battery out and
No, I am not half done with my new ‘Steps’ (see posts further down), but during repair of all my websites after the recent Russian hack attack, some other things popped up too. And you know I get bored
I just bought me a new camera. After much researching and pondering, scratching my head and searching my conscience, I ultimately decided to buy yet another Nikon. This time a more professional one than my current D70. I opted for
…. for a while, leaving again in 3 weeks. Lots of ‘stuff’ happened between now and the last post (and most of it was mentioned on Facebook already). To summarize; had several mishaps with trailer, motorcycle, back….. new car has
Something I wanted to do a long time ago already….. get those 40.000 digital images out on the streets! So I opened an account on Fine Art America a while ago, and today started adding some thrilling (I think) pictures
First thing to change had to be my old Silver Cloud Publishing web site. It was the first ever WordPress site I made and I hadn’t changed it from its default orange ‘theme’ since I made it. There wasn’t
Bear with me now, this is testing the Smugmug video embedding code……. Now, can we see this thing full screen in HD!!?? We SHOULD ! YAY! That worked. Now, if I can get the thumbnail to show as
Do you remember the British comedy series Dad’s Army, with Captain Meanwaring, Sergeant Wilson, Corporal Jones, private Walker and all those other characters? The Home Guard group is re-enacted every year during the Goodwood Revival at the Goodwood Estate and
Yesterday I found a new photo site, called Woophy. (World of Photography). Founded by some Dutch guys, too. The idea is to fill the site with photos from (amateur) photographers and cover the world! When you go to the front
The ‘rest’ of the bunch of dark-ish photos is HERE on FACEBOOK. )if that works for you). These were taken with my old Minolta Dimage 7, under bad atmospheric circumstances (British rain), rather late in the afternoon. But
In the ‘series’ of ‘what I look at on the Internet’ here’s a web site I particularly like. It is called 1x.com and shows beautiful photos by a large number of photographers. Click here to see. And now, ladies and