Photographer in Perth, Western Australia
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently upgraded one of my computers. It is based on AMD’s AM4 platform, which means that any CPU (Central Processing Unit) from the AM4 range is physically compatible with the CPU socket on the computer’s motherboard (the main internal component). The first AM4 CPUs were released in… Continue reading Final upgrades for the AM4 platform
Over the last six years, I have been using a Microsoft Windows 10-based computer as a secondary machine for my work. In terms of hardware, it uses AMD’s AM4 platform, and it is a custom-built machine that I assembled from parts. One of the remarkable things about this platform is that AMD has supported several… Continue reading Fixing access to Thunderbird user data after upgrading Microsoft Windows
While I have used the Apple Macintosh platform for photographic work for many years, I will very likely be moving to the Microsoft Windows platform in the future. To me, MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was the pinnacle of MacOS versions; a refinement and optimisation on MacOS 10.5 that was touted as having ‘zero new features’… Continue reading Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
It is not often that I take photographs of roses, and I think they can be quite a challenge to shoot well—particularly where the petals are a richly vibrant red. Without some care in adjusting exposure, the red highlights can be blown out (over-saturated to the point that the image loses visual detail), even if… Continue reading Roses
Puget Systems is a specialty computer system-building company based in Seattle in the United States of America. It specialises in building microcomputer workstations for various applications, including photography and other artistic and scientific pursuits, but has also (unsurprisingly) developed a reputation as a key source of system configuration expertise. If you are interested in learning… Continue reading Puget Systems
I was saddened to hear of the death yesterday (9 September 2024) of James Earl Jones, probably best known across the world as the voice of Darth Vader, the looming, ominous antagonist of the original trilogy of Star Wars movies from the 1970s and 1980s. Apart from the resonance and authority evident from his distinctive… Continue reading Death of James Earl Jones
While walking in Bateman a few days ago, I spotted a park with pleasant rows of red-flowered coral trees, and decided that I must revisit it in the next few days. This afternoon, probably a couple of hours before sunset, I made it back. The light was not as golden as I had hoped it… Continue reading Crimson flowers in winter
The weekend just gone by was a sad one for Perth: on Saturday (24 August 2024), we saw the closing of Nine Japanese Bistro—originally, and for most of its life, Nine Fine Food. For those unfamiliar with it, Nine Fine Food was an exquisite, award-winning Japanese restaurant at 227 Bulwer Street, just north of the… Continue reading Farewell to Nine Fine Food
The time is now here for customers of iiNet (and other TPG Telecom group entities) to either start paying for e-mail services from the Messaging Company or find alternative e-mail service providers. Ray Shaw at CyberShack wrote about this divestment of e-mail services and a useful guide to setting up your own e-mail domain in… Continue reading E-mail services
After a bit of research and a touch of experimentation, I have enabled ImageMagick with custom image settings on this website. This should result in better image quality for you, the visitor, at a negligible cost to display speed. Default WordPress image settings will typically lean towards file size optimisation, making for smaller image file… Continue reading ImageMagick