Recent content by cuthbert

Yep. ^^^ That said, some people (especially if English isn't their first language) might really mean something else - they might mean that you need to have some contrast in your image for it be successful. Generally speaking, I'd agree that is mostly true - it doesn't have to be literal crank...

Thank you! And although my colour grading does add a bit of green into the shadows, the led lights did also have a rather curious colour cast. That's what a love about this challenge, it wasn't for needing to take that pic, I would have probably just pottered around the house, shame it was so...

Week 13 - The Night Sky Where the day ends by Sparkling Pictures, on Flickr

Thank you everyone! Week 13 - The Night Sky Where the day ends by Sparkling Pictures, on Flickr

I had a play with this at the photo show, I did think about how I’d manage with the controls and lack of viewfinder in the real world. I kinda think it will be good for stuff that doesn’t move much, but anything dynamic, I do wonder if the user interface is just too slow to use. It’s a nice...

lol yeah, it would have been a damn sight easier after late May bank holiday!!

Last to go by Sparkling Pictures, on Flickr

I think the mistake Apple made with iPad is to put laptop chips in them, which sets the expectation that you can use it like a laptop, when really you can’t. I’m happy with iPad existing as its own separate category- I think putting a keyboard on an iPad is a bit like putting a touchscreen on a...

Indeed - mismanagement of time is a thread that runs through a lot of my work - when I read David Cassidy’s supposed last words were “so much wasted time”, they really stuck with me - the older you get, the more real they become and how you must be very selective with the things you spend time on.

That’s a good point - this image represents the banality of our daily life: time, our most precious commodity wasted on the mundane

Week 12 - Daily Life 1.57pm by Sparkling Pictures, on Flickr

Week 12: Daily Life 1.57pm by Sparkling Pictures, on Flickr

Thank you everyone! I think what I liked the most about that location is there was actually no water in sight lol!

Yesterday’s Light by Sparkling Pictures, on Flickr

My take on it is once you start climbing on moral high horses, not only is it exhausting, but if you apply this particular idea to any business or product which doesn’t have sufficient purity, it will either prevent you from doing or having anything at all, or make you a hypocrite by not being...