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New Colours: Rosé Pine
Tuesday 7th of February 2023
A while back I simplified the colour palette for the blog, to just ‘light’, ‘dark’ and ‘night-sight’. The first two were basic monochrome schemes that, while functional, were not especially nice . For the past month or so I’ve been using a colour scheme for my text editor called Rosé Pine , a soothing, pastel look that I find surprisingly relaxing to look at. While there’s something to be said f…
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More on themes
Friday 28th of October 2022
In my previous post I mentioned how I’d added the ability for the user to choose themes to Velum. In its original guise, this was a select box with an auto-generated list of themes, each one derived from a CSS file in the directory. It was quite a powerful system, in that each CSS file had complete control over the look of the page, but it had a big downside: it was a maintenance nightmare whe…
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Blog notes: themes etc.
Tuesday 18th of October 2022
A week or so ago I added the ability to switch themes to Velum, so you’re not stuck with the default light-background one (now called Topo ). Since then I’ve been tweaking and fiddling, making sure each theme looks good at any reasonable screen size. Give them a try! There’s also been quite a bit of under-the-hood work to allow for this functionality, as well as various readability and quality im…
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Winter sunrise at the beach
Tuesday 19th of December 2017
I sleep too much, and poorly. I suspect the second thing is a result of the first, so I’ve resolved to try getting up earlier, since going to bed later isn’t really an option as it would disturb my wife and baby daughter too much. contrails across the dawn sky And so! Up before dawn, although since it’s winter that’s not saying much; the sun doesn’t rise until about half past 8. Still, it’s nice t…
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Gorleston, winter shiny
Saturday 2nd of December 2017
Since Emily was born, Zoe and I naturally haven’t had the opportunity to get out much – newborns require almost constant attention! Still, she’s 8 weeks old now, and Zoe’s more confident about breast-feeding in public, so we’ve been able to have short trips into Lowestoft and, today, Gorleston, without too much drama. The forecast yesterday threatened rain but fortunately it was one of those glori…
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More Norwich wandering
Saturday 15th of July 2017
Took these a while back when Zoe’s parents came to visit, and we had a walk around Norwich. For a change, I brought the 18-55 along instead of the usual 23/2 or 35/1.4. It worked out… ok, I guess? The convenience was nice, and if I don’t go pixel peeping, the sharpness is fine too. The bokeh was… not really a factor on this day, but I know for sure it can get weird at times. Still, there was o…
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Oulton Broad in winter
Sunday 29th of January 2017
It happened again: nice shiny morning, then overcast by the time I get to my destination. It even rained this time, just to rub it in. So, here’s some kinda dull pictures taken around Oulton Broad today. Lenses 60, 35/1.4 and 14, as usual. No 18 – 55 this time. life ring holder blue hose reel and rusty metal plate seagulls on a jetty dinghy park life ring around a pole stack of flotation barrels WOB…
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Norwich, winter sun
Saturday 19th of November 2016
Autumn is almost over, with the temperatures heading well into full on winter territory – today was a mere 2 ° C, partly due to the clear bright sky. What it lacks in colour, winter makes up for in great light that lasts all day. Took the 18 – 55 out for a spin again today, and again it disappointed me. I had an idea that it was the image stabilisation that was causing the lack of sharpness, but t…
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OCOLOY Week 46
Tuesday 16th of February 2016
Bit of a departure this week, as for one thing this post is late, but I have a good reason: I got married! Even though it was a low-key thing, it was still a bit stressful getting things prepared, so not much time for picture-taking. The other departure is colour. Most of these pictures were taken in Beccles and although the monochrome versions are ok, I still feel like the colour is necessary wit…
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OCOLOY Week 28
Tuesday 22nd of September 2015
Gosh what a rainy week! About five of the days it rained all the while there was sunlight, leaving me few opportunities for picture-taking. reflection in blue plastic reflection in blue plastic bikes lined up outside Costa bikes lined up outside Costa insect-looking leaf insect-looking leaf tram tracks to fence tram tracks to fence chainlink fence closeup chainlink fence closeup heavy cl…
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OCOLOY Week 27
Tuesday 15th of September 2015
Quite a local week, this one, as I didn’t really have time to stray far from the house during the day, and the weather was often quite a disincentive to venture further out anyway. Still, there were moments of light, although few enough that I had to use some of the photos I took the previous week to make up the numbers (which allowed by The Rules!). Regarding the last picture: yes, that’s our hou…
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OCOLOY Week 24
Sunday 23rd of August 2015
I’m wavering. Black and white, or colour? I can’t settle on one, I like both. I think it’s the weather – shiny days make me want to capture in colour, and the weather represented by this week’s pictures is certainly sunny (and for walking around Ipswich, sometimes uncomfortably so). Although I did a bit of shooting during the week, none of it resulted in much of interest, so all of these pictures …
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OCOLOY Week 21
Sunday 7th of June 2015
Last week I reverted to monochrome, mostly to see how it would feel. I liked it well enough, but, for now at least, I like shooting in colour more. It fits better with my general mood, and with what I think of when I think ‘summer’ (even if some of the pictures aren’t particularly ‘summery’). I think also I want to try exploring more of the ‘wide-angle’ side of the 50mm-e field of view – to try …
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OCOLOY Week 15
Thursday 30th of April 2015
It’s been another one of those super busy weeks with very little time or energy for photography, sadly. I did go on a nice bike ride, and Zoe and I went to visit a Roman Castle , but perhaps due to the relative novelty (still) of shooting in colour, a lot of the pictures turned out pretty similar. six six ride ride wall cloud 1 wall cloud 1 wall cloud 2 wall cloud 2 yellow field yellow …
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OCOLOY Week 14
Wednesday 22nd of April 2015
I think the colour experiment is going ok so far. I still feel good about it, although using my Capture One preset with contrasty images is proving a little challenging, and there’s no shortage of those with the weather we’ve been having here lately. It’s been interesting trying to see things in terms of more than just tones – trying to find nicely contrasting and harmonising colours, and using th…
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