Darkspore on March 31st, 2007

After reading the feature on taking macro images in Practical Photography, I was inspired to try my hand at it. No doubt some people will think that macro photography is a much tougher endeavour and should best be left to a time when I am more proficient at digital photography. Well, as they say too [...]

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Darkspore on March 30th, 2007

Katherine McPhee, the beautiful girl on American Idol, is quite a success. It is only to be expected due to the many factors that contributes to her overall success – good looks, fresh face, youth, outgoing character (at least on TV), great voice. My friend Wilfrid, who’s probably having his butt frozen off on Mount [...]

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Darkspore on March 28th, 2007

My recently-purchased Canon Powershot G7 is a little wonder and I have been more than impressed with its capabilities during my New Zealand trip. The thing now is to learn more about digital photography and get my skills up to par, which is the tough part. If anything, one of the gripes about the G7 [...]

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Darkspore on March 26th, 2007

I remember reaching home last night and lying on my bed without washing up, brushing my teeth nor changing my clothes, while my wife was watching this Ugly Betty series on TV. I had not intended to sleep all the way through to the morning but when I first woke up, everytime was quiet and [...]

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Darkspore on March 25th, 2007

I was happily contented in my sublime world of Supreme Commander earlier this morning (which, I suspect, was a false sense of security because I was only halfway in the second campaign mission of the UEF), but my world was soon tossed into violent turmoil at the end of the day. You will see why [...]

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Darkspore on March 22nd, 2007

It has been kind of a slow day for me. Somehow I could not seem to get my work done properly, and my mind kept wandering off to do other non-essential stuff (like uploading my holiday photos to the gallery… which are here, btw). I think I’m pretty much still in my holiday mood. In [...]

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Darkspore on March 20th, 2007

I woke up to bright sunlight shining through the thin curtains of the hotel room, thinking that we must have overslept. It looked like 10am or so to me in my half-awakened state. It did not help that Fabian was sitting up across the room in his bed and told me, “It’s 10 already”. A [...]

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