This is one of 5 new photos I’ve added to my APAD prokect over on Flickr.
Click on the picture to take you there or on the “APAD 2010 Project” badge on the left panel to go to the project page.
Cheers and enjoy!
This is one of the six new photos added to my APAD 2010 project … enjoy!
This shot was my first “real” experience with off-camera lighting, which in this case was a torchlight with tissue paper (diffuser) wrapped around the front and held in one hand from the side, while my other hand hit the timed shutter. All this while lying flat on my tummy on the floor of my flat with all the lights off. Maybe not the most glamourous of setups or execution but, well, it was something like midnight so nobody saw me doing it and it was a bit of fun!
To top it off, the photo was voted second place in the monthly photo competition for Jan ‘10 (theme: figurines) held by Singapore’s Sony Alpha club, of which I am a member, so that’s nice 
The challenge this week is “Texture”.
This shot was taken at Sembawang beach (Singapore) and is of my wife, Shanthi, and eldest son, Keith laying about in the sun! I chose this shot for the scene and the feeling of a lazy, sunny afternoon (though it was not at all a lazy afternoon!). Keith’s camera awareness is well-and-truly on display here.
The texture of the grass comes out pretty well, I think, though I am not sure if I’ve overdfone it with the lens flare added in. I wanted a blown-out bit at the top but couldn’t quite get what I wanted right, and this was the best I could muster up on short notice.
This is my first entry to iheartfaces’ weekly photo challenge, which has also motivated me to dust off this blog site and get back posting. The challenge theme this week is “Best Face Photo”. So here we go… Read the rest of this entry »
(Expanded a bit and added burr photos) 
Hooray, I am back to enjoying great espresso from my own kitchen, having suffered my espresso heartaches and microfoam blues for long enough! The nice folk at Spinelli took my wounded espresso machine (Silvia) in and gave her a new steam pipe, while also installing a new steam valve and wand and steam knob (all from the new V3 Silvia, see pic to the right).
My grinder (Rocky) also got a new set of teeth, so he is humming along nicely now after recalibrating for the new burrs. I went through 3/4 of a pack of beans calibrating the new teeth! I held on to the old burr set, for interest sake, and this is what they looks like:
The new steaming kit is super powerful. It is a commercial-grade steam wand, fully articulating, and it delivers a lot of steam. It took me a few goes to get control of it, after wiping out a few pitchers of milk on the early attempts! But now I have gotten a hang of it and the good thing is that it cuts steaming time down substantially.
Anyway, so all is well in the espresso corner in my kitchen. Alert the media!
How the gods of espresso must be laughing at my misfortune and folly! Over the course of maybe 18 months i had forged a most satisfying relationship with my espresso machine (Rancilio Silvia) I had learned many lessons and had begun to understand this particularly finnicky and quirky espresso machine (the reviews were quite correct about this!). Then the wheels fell off.
A write-up on my brother, Nick Ruane, from the Dominion Post mewspaper in Wellington, NZ.
Determined to break barriers | Stuff.co.nz
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“One of the most epic photos of lightning you will ever see” (as tweeted by Mark Prince).
’nuff said, eh. Wow
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Source: http://rolandvb.topcities.com/Weather/image4.htm
Yeah I have a strange penchant for anything to do with fonts and typesets. The link below is to a really nice blog site called Blog.SpoonGraphics and a post there by the blogger (a designer chap by the name of Chris Spooner) which gives his list of “25 classic fonts that will last a whole design career”. A useful and beautiful post, in my humble opinion.
(from the source) “Eric Gill, Adrian Frutiger and Max Miedinger are names we associate with the classic typefaces designers use on a daily basis. Their font creations are timeless designs that look right at home no matter what century we’re in. This collection of 25 classic fonts is a round up of the best and most popular fonts every designer should own. You can be sure that they will last your whole design career.”
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