Photographer in Perth, Western Australia
A few days ago, Australian Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri won his third race in a row, at the Miami Grand Prix. Although not a Formula 1 historian by any means, I was hard pressed to think of the last time any Australian driver won three consecutive Formula 1 races. Only two notable Australian Formula… Continue reading Oscar Piastri wins three races in a row
At yesterday’s Saudi Arabian Formula 1 (F1) Grand Prix race, young Melburnian Oscar Piastri became the first Australian driver in 15 years to lead the F1 drivers’ championship standings. The last time this happened, apparently, was late in 2010 when Mark Webber held the lead in that year’s drivers’ championship standings. (And it happens that… Continue reading Oscar Piastri leads the Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship
In a recent session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and the first African elected as President of the IOC. I had not come across Mrs. Coventry before, but what immediately struck me is that when you look at her photograph, you can clearly see that she… Continue reading A new African president
It was ten years ago that I started this photography weblog with a welcome post. What a lot has happened since then! Remarkably, my photographic equipment and process remains essentially the same as a decade ago; I am still shooting with my Nikon D70S and Nikon D700, and I think the only lens I have… Continue reading Ten years of blogging
The first part of my career was in academia, where I undertook postgraduate research in cognitive psychology for many years at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and worked in various research positions at UWA and Curtin University. Before that, I was part of the first generation of school students to start using microcomputers (at… Continue reading Keychron C3 Pro keyboard
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently upgraded one of my computers. It is based on AMD’s AM4 platform, which means that any CPU (Central Processing Unit) from the AM4 range is physically compatible with the CPU socket on the computer’s motherboard (the main internal component). The first AM4 CPUs were released in… Continue reading Final upgrades for the AM4 platform
Over the last six years, I have been using a Microsoft Windows 10-based computer as a secondary machine for my work. In terms of hardware, it uses AMD’s AM4 platform, and it is a custom-built machine that I assembled from parts. One of the remarkable things about this platform is that AMD has supported several… Continue reading Fixing access to Thunderbird user data after upgrading Microsoft Windows
While I have used the Apple Macintosh platform for photographic work for many years, I will very likely be moving to the Microsoft Windows platform in the future. To me, MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was the pinnacle of MacOS versions; a refinement and optimisation on MacOS 10.5 that was touted as having ‘zero new features’… Continue reading Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
It is not often that I take photographs of roses, and I think they can be quite a challenge to shoot well—particularly where the petals are a richly vibrant red. Without some care in adjusting exposure, the red highlights can be blown out (over-saturated to the point that the image loses visual detail), even if… Continue reading Roses
Puget Systems is a specialty computer system-building company based in Seattle in the United States of America. It specialises in building microcomputer workstations for various applications, including photography and other artistic and scientific pursuits, but has also (unsurprisingly) developed a reputation as a key source of system configuration expertise. If you are interested in learning… Continue reading Puget Systems