Turn off Facebook’s Auto-Playing Videos

It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s a step in the right direction. Lifehacker recently posted a way to turn these off, but at the moment Facebook only really allows you to do it on the desktop. We can turn it off for Android and iOS devices, but only if they’re using GPRS/3G/4G (ie, not WiFi),…

LPS Annual Projected Image Competition 2014

So we recently held Lancaster Photographic Society‘s Annual Projected Image Competition, judged by Tillman Kleinhans. Congratulations to Ruth and Allan for getting colour and mono Image of the Year, respectively. My images are shown at 8:18, 15:46, 24:20 and 29:14, and linked below the video.

It’s getting to be that time of year again

After 5 or 6 months of almost non-stop rain, we’ve finally started to see some breaks in the clouds the last couple of weeks and had one or two days of rather lovely sunshine. That means it’s time to get out of the studio and back on location! Throughout the year, even when I’m not…

Work Hard or Work Smart?

This post is the consequence of a conversation I had yesterday evening with my sister, chatting to her about the upcoming South Lakes Interclub Photography Competition, and how the whole thing works. But it is also kind of the point I was attempting to make on my previous post about fixing things in Photoshop that you…

Moving Linux to Smaller SD Cards

SD cards are pretty cheap these days, but that doesn’t mean we should let our smaller ones go to waste, especially when a system doesn’t fully utilise the space of a larger one that could be more useful elsewhere. So, what can we do?

I’ve been quiet this month…

January was awesome, a super busy month, but I also had a lot to talk about, and a lot that I could talk about, and enough time to talk about it. February’s been even busier, but most of what I’d love to show off, I can’t talk about (damn those NDAs and that whole “privacy”…

Eye-Fi on Linux Part 2

When the Eye-Fi works so well with the iPad, why would I want to seemingly make life more complicated for myself by adding more hardware into the mix? Well, transferring to a Linux based machine like the CubieTruck offers me some advantages over the iPad. Some of them I alluded to in my previous post…