Archive for December, 2009

It’s Snowing Again…

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Snow

It’s started snowing again here and I decided to try out another light painting idea.
This is taken with my Pentax K20D on garden table with 3 inches of snow on.
The K20D is weather sealed which makes it ideal camera and I used my lens hood as the camera sinks in quite a bit into the snow :-)
Thanks Pentax as I’d never dare do this with my old Nikon D40x.

Build your own NAS box (Part 1)

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

If you are like me, you will have alot of music, films and documents that you use alot but they are on one computer, bits a pieces on multiple computers. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a central area for your files so you could play your music and films on the Xbox or PS3, access your files from your laptop and download bittorrent files without your main pc. A NAS box is your answer.

What is a NAS box?
In simple terms a NAS box is a computer that acts like a hard drive connected to your network. NAS (Network Attached Storage) lets you share your documents, music, videos with any computer or device in your home.

This is my guide on how to build a NAS box using an opensource project called FreeNAS.
FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD which is a very secure and free operating system.

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It’s snowing!

Friday, December 18th, 2009

It is the final day of work before christmas. (I work in a school)
Woke up and peered out of the window to find 8 inches of snow.
Unable to get to work, I decided to quickly pop out and take some pictures.

Snow on Christmas Trees (Landscape)

This is the first of them and hopefully I will be putting more on soon.
Don’t forget to check out my Flickr page

DPS Assignment: Technology

Monday, December 14th, 2009

DPS - Technology

This week DPS Assignment is all about technology. As I am still experimenting and enjoying ‘Light Painting’ I have decided to take a picture of my Dell laptop on my bed and draw a ‘www’ in the air. I chose the Internet because I feel it has been the biggest technological invention so far.

As I have said in earlier posts. I recommend anyone thats into photography to try out Light Painting as its really fun and something different.

Let us know what you think of the picture by either going to Flickr or adding a comment here.