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Originally uploaded by Mark Stanley

Here’s a picture of the kids I took last year. I was trawling through photos yesterday looking for something to get my Lightroom teeth around since I haven’t taken anything lately. Came across this one which struck me for two reasons: 1) the relative serenity of two otherwise pretty active kids and 2) the shorts which seem so alien now in this cold wintery snowy weather. Anyway, here it is – my latest little photo upload. From now on I’m making a conscious decision to move away from the ‘vignette look’, which has become part of my comfort zone, and to push my bounderies again. It’s a new year – it’ll be interesting to see what I’ve achieved with my photography by the time it’s out.

Normally you would find my photography on flickr, or thanks to the magic web-monkeys I have beavering away 24/7, under the photography section of my website. However today I launched my first online photography exhibition on NewChemicalHistory.com – the dedicated exhibition space for photographers and artists. Check out my exhibition, but also spend some time looking at some of other amazing work on NewChemicalHistory.com. Enjoy!

Robin
Originally uploaded by Mark Stanley

I chased this little fella around for about 15mins with the cumbersome Canon 70-200mm f/2.8. Finally got this shot which I’m pretty happy with. Taken in Belvedere House & Gardens in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Ireland using the aforementioned lens on a Canon 400d (Digital Rebel Xti). Basic contrast and saturation processing in Adobe Lightroom 2.0 for Mac.

State Magazine recently published their list of The 50 Top Albums of 2008. It’s a genuinely nice magazine – both in it’s content and it’s design and layout. But for some odd reason, their website only lists the top 25 of this list. Maybe they were too lazy to type the full 50, but I’m [...]

my cars ass Originally uploaded by Mark Stanley While it’s certainly no supercar, I love the design and shape of my Audi A4. I’ve always wanted one, and it’s probably my favourite car in its class – the mid-sized family mobile class I only wished it handled as well as a 3-series. Audi should really [...]

Something I’ve been thinking about for a while, but something I’ve also be procrastinating on also (one of my favourite pastimes), is to create a Lotto Results Feed for my Lotto Syndicate and for anyone else who cares. So here it finally is. Add this to your iGoogle, Google Reader, mobile phone, or whatever other [...]