Last night I should probably have been working on my tutorial for tomorrow's London Perl Workshop but instead I was uploading photos of New Zealand to Flickr.
So now there are sets from Christchurch and Fox Glacier as well as a more general set of photos of the South Island. There's also a South Island collection which contains all of those sets.
There are a few more South Island photos to be cleaned up and uploaded, and then next week I'll start work on the North Island shots.
Those of you who were reading my blog back in July will remember a number of posts about me buying a digital SLR camera which I was going to take away on holiday with me. You may be wondering why you haven't seen any photos.
The truth is that I made a fundamental mistake with the camera. I didn't check my equipment before using it. And that led to a couple of nasty problems.
I still don't know what to do about the second problem. I have a couple of hundred photos that I just can't read. Any software I use claims that they aren't JPEGs. I'm sure there's a tool somewhere that will fix this. I'll keep looking.
The first problem, however, can be fixed. This weekend I made friends with The Gimp's Clone Tool which seems to be a great way to remove unsightly blemishes from photos.
It's a manual process though. And I have about eight hundred photos to fix. So they'll be appearing over the next few weeks. As a taster I've uploaded some of the photos I took in Singapore as we passed through on our way to New Zealand.
Slowly getting the holiday photos organised. Here are two more sets for your amusement - photos from Cahal Pech in Belize and La Paz Waterfall Gardens in Costa Rica.
MOO is a new company set up by a number of well-known faces from the UK new media scene. Their plan is apparently to create real-world products based on stuff that you find on the web.
If that sounds a bit abstract, here's a good example. The only things they are selling currently are MiniCards. These are rather lovely looking sets of business cards with photos from Flickr printed on them. You can get a set of 100 (with all different photos!) for only $20. And if you're a Flickr Pro subscriber (and who isn't these days?) then you can get a free sample set of 10 cards. I've ordered my set. I'll let you know when they arrive.
Well, I've actually been back for a couple of days, but I had better things to do with my time than write blog entries.
The Lake District was wonderful. It was the first time I had been there. This was a great time of year to go - the weather was good (well, certainly better than I expected) and there were very few tourists around.
There's a set of photos over on Flickr.
Slowly organising all of my old photos on Flickr. I've just created a photo set for a crisps walk we did in November 2002 around the highwalks of the City of London.
Must be time for another crisps walk. I suspect I volunteered to organise one...
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