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About Guthlac

An artist, historian and middle aged man who'se aim in life is to try and enjoy as much of it as he can

Learning to live with my ‘big’ iMac

Well it is almost a week now since I took the plunge and moved to the iMac. Overall it has not been as problematic as it could have been. I am still coming to terms with the problem of scale with the large screen. I have spent some time working ou… Continue reading

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Another image from the Archieve

This one is just from last year – Dunstanburgh Castle. I really miss using Photoshop which should be arriving next week. I originally thought that Lightroom would be enough but having used Lightroom for photograph development it really is limited … Continue reading

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Soundtrack

Day two of the olympics and so much for vegging in front of the TV. This morning I am reliving the wonders of the opening ceremony by listening to the sound track again. And then I’m off for a walk in the country which combines exercise (Olympics)… Continue reading

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Oh I love Google Chrome

I know this is something that should never be uttered by anyone using an iMac but Google Chrome is just a better browse than Safari. I thought this when I was using a Windows environment and having had a couple of days of using Safari I realise I … Continue reading

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Digital Guitar

Im really not sure what to say about this one – but I was just getting into digital photography at the time and the effects avaialble and I guess I went a little overboard.On second thoughts I quite like this. Simon Marchiniwww.simonmarchini.co.uk Continue reading

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Messing about with geo tagging

One of the joys of moving to a new OS is that I can buy the latest software for the new machine. One of the new pieces is Adobe Lightroom 4 and its very addictive, well at least to me, Geo Tagging ability. Again this is an image from the past whic… Continue reading

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Gloucester Catherdral

Another blast from the past – this one I think is around 10 years old – a captured it with one of my all time favourite cameras the Sony DSC F717. A really ground braking camera. Continue reading

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Another one from the archives

Im really not sure whether I have published this before – it comes from when I was trying make ‘stock’ photographs. Continue reading

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Concorde – from way back

Oh they don’t make them like this anymore! Concorde paid a visit to East Midlands Airport, I think circa 1986, for the grand opening of a local theme park. Needless to say that the theme park didn’t survive but the aircraft was something. Continue reading

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Going through some of my old stuff

One of the pleasures, and pitfalls, of building a new computer filing systems is that you come across interesting images that you have completely forgotten about. This is a case in point. There are probably no prize to be awarded for this image bu… Continue reading

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