Someone kindly pointed out to me that there is no consistency what-so-ever in my blog entries regarding Red Hat. Based on some random factor I can call it “Red Hat”, “RedHat”, “Redhat”, “redhat”, or even “red hat”. This might be taken as disrespect to the company, therefor I took some time and corrected all occurances to be in the correct form – “Red Hat”. I will also try to stick to the correct form in the future.
Month: March 2004
Catching up on photography and image composition
Spent some time reading about photography and image composition theory. Each and every site I’ve been at mentions the “Rule of Thirds“. I am getting tired of it already. :) There were, though, few other interesting things to read. Essay on Image Composition gave me few ideas, as did this page. There are few tips at Wild Things Photography, but nothing in-depth. Same thingshere, but in different words.
I’ve also came across an Apogee Photo Magazine which has a somewhat extensive collection of articles and columns on the subject of photography in general and composition in particular. Particularly interesting I’ve found articles by Michael Fulks (“Gestalt Theory and Photographic Composition“, “Composition… A Primer on Positive and Negative space.” parts 1 and 2, and “Does your left brain know what your right brain is doing?“). “First class photography” series by Willis T. Bird are also useful. It’s not that trivial to navigate through the site and archives and there is no sensible search facilities, so I’ll add links here for the future reference. Lessons: 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 4, 3, 2.
And just to wrap it all up, here are a couple of sites about color theory.
Site update
Testing was going so good that I’ve decided not to wait any longer and released the updated part of the site. It has been transfered to Nucleus CMS, which has a nice blog-type interface.
There are still few glitches here and there, but to be on the safe side, please let me know of any misbehavior you notice.
Thank you.
Progress with new blog
OK, as you can see there were few changes around here. I’ve imported most of my Tips and Answers into separate categories of this blog. A bunch of old blog entries have been updated with subjects and pictures. A lot of movie reviews got their poster thumbnails and were moved to an appropriate category.
I’ve also mostly figured out how the layout thingy works, so it shouldn’t take more then a day or two to find something appropriate. There is a whole heap of plugins to try out, but I will leave that for some time in the future. I’ve got the stuff I need, anyway. :)
This new blog is still running in test mode, but today’s progress makes me think that I will release it for general public within a couple of days. My biggest glory is that finally most of the data on my site is in the database, which means I will not have to write any stinky parser no more. The last bit to transfer is the wishlist. :)
Oh, and by the way, I’ve even got the first comment. Hazard as usual is the sneakiest visitor ever! :)
Where can I find more information about Agia Napa, Cyprus?
“www agianapa”
“agianapa”
“agia-napa”
Well, Agia Napa is one of those few cities in Cyprus, which lives only during summer time when it’s full of tourists. There is nothing much in there except a waterpark, carts, hotels/motels, discos, bars and pubs. It is well known for it’s night life and sandy beaches. You ended up here most probably because your search engine found few pictures of me and my friends in Agia Napa’s waterpark, which is very not bad, I must say. That’s about all I can tell you about Agia Napa. Now you’ll have to hit ‘Back’ button and go to that search engine results again. :)