I was going to rant. I was going to rave. I was going to find a voodoo doll of my printer -- or maybe of Photoshop -- and stick pins in it. Because after I had spent a decent amount of time cleaning up a scan and getting it just so on the monitor, when I came to commit to print, the blasted imag...

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Interior of a corridor in the Summer Palace, Beijing

I tried a long and meaningful post about getting straight from flickr to here. But I was being too clever, and the words vanished into the aether. So I'm trying again, with a bunch of garbage words, just to see what's what.

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A man wearing a turban and djelaba leaning against and arched doorway and seen in silhouette Finally finding time to tag, label, metalabel, geo-reference and all that the pictures I took over Easter. Making that task a whole lot easier is a new little application I found called [Geotagger]http://craig.stanton.net.nz/software/Geotagger.html. It does one thing -- adding latitude and longit...

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A line of columns alongside a path in the gardens of the Villa Lante Wonderful expedition yesterday to the Villa Lante, “the consummate example of the best period in the history of garden design: the Mannerist phase of the Italian renaissance”. A very fine garden it is too, made even more enjoyable by a glorious autumn day with just a hint of chill in the air.

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After yesterday's unpleasant little moan about the difficulties of geotagging, cyberspace has made everything more or less right again. First off, Jeffrey Early, author of GPSPhotoLinker, took the time to deal with my queries and suggest strongly that I complain to iView. I will, but now that th...

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