God I love this photo! =P

Flowers Dad gave Mom Originally uploaded by Glitter Girl NZ Uploaded @ 19 Jul ’08, 1.28pm NZST PST Awesome photo taken by one of my friends. She said to me “i suck at photo taking”, and I find this on her flickr shortly after!!! Proves herself wrong quite well I think. =]

Colour Correction

So I’ve been doing some stuff with retouching and colour correction of photos lately, and predominantly in the area of portraits, getting skin colour correct. As a result, I thought I’d put up a before and after of one of the basic pics I have done some really simple correction on. This photos was taken…

And so it begins

And so the return to blogging begins. A little more advanced than my main site but I couldn’t be bothered building the functionality in yet. =P Eventually I’ll scrap wordpress and make my own, or just skin wordpress to match. Time will tell. So check back from time to time and I may just have…

Auckland

Space Bar – 27/07/2008 Originally uploaded by hoppers99 Auckland rocks! Thursday afternoon off work, getting ready for road trip and potentially epic weekend in Auckland. Friday morning last minute packing then off to pick up my mate, then hit the road for 6+ hours in the car. Made it to where we were staying around…

Birthdays suck!

Post birthday celebrations last night. Dinner with friends and then out on the town. A little worse for wear today but could have been worse. Got me a shiny new phone for my birthday. Nokia N95. It’s my new toy, with lots of bells and whistles. Even a 5 mega-pixel camera. Good stereo speakers too,…

08/06/2008

Just finishing a week’s holiday. It’s been nice to have a break from work, and made nicer by having a friend visit from down south. It was however a real bummer that it was only a week; would have been great to have longer time off/together, but such is life I guess. After a pick…