Mediafiend returns
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peck72An unexpected gap in posting but thats what happens when you try to run a marriage, job and a real life all in tandem ;)
Pics are now up from the Romanian section of our recent holday over at my Webshots galleries. More will go up soon(ish) now that I have the pics from the film cameras. I'm going to seperate the pics into Budapest and Romania galleries cause they really feel as though they were different holidays.
Overall, I'm quite happy with the quality of the pictures I've taken (although I think I've learn't my lesson in using the lcd screen to tee up shots, most of them having come out slightly wonky.In future I'll stick to the viewfinder, imperfect thing that it is at least it's straight). My general principal for pictures is to take as many as humanly possible and then if about 10% of them are good then I've done well. I once had a photography teacher who said that 1 really good picture on a roll is a success, I think that he was overstating the point somewhat but the idea has kind of stuck with me not to be disapointed if everything I click at doesn't come out perfect. That being said, I am very critical of my photo taking abilities and would say I've only ever taken a handfull of really, really good pictures in the last 8 or 9 years of actually trying to take very good pictures.
I've managed to catch up on a bit of cinema going in the last week with trips to see both 'Star Wars III' and 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. Brief reviews (and spoilers) behind the cut.
Finally Lucas gets it right! (well, at least mostly and in my eye's at any rate) Aside from a few wobbles, such as lucas still not being able to write good personal dialogue (that being different from the big and portentious dialogue he does quite well) and Anakin's fall to the dark side not quite hanging together, it does do a lot of what he said it would. Just made the mistake of reading an e-mail diatribe against SW3 (caution - contains crudity) in the middle of a review of it and have had the legs knocked from under my opinions. Hmm, well I'm probably going to see it again with my dad so I'll try again after that.Overall though, I enjoyed it. I'm enough of a sad fan to get excited by lots of little tips to the original trilogy and having details dropped in like it was Palpatines master who created Anakin by manipulating the force before Palpatine killed him (least that was the way I heard it). And of course the fact that Artoo doesn't have his memory wiped and so knows everything, explains why he is so insistant on finding Kenobi in Episode IV.
Hitchhikers is a very different beast to SW. The opposite end of the sci-fi spectrum really. I enjoyed this film a lot just as the gentle (if bizarre) comedy its supposed to be. I've only really ever seen the tv series so I can't argue with the purists who say it should be heard on radio to really get it but then Adams did so many different versions of his own idea that I really think each one is a creation unto itself. The film has a number of great moments (everything turning woolen thanks to the infinite improbability drive is brilliant) and a number of little tips to the other variants (like the tv Marvin being in the queue on the Vogon planet and using Simon Jones (the radio and tv Arthur Dent) as the voice of Magrathea) that make the fans smile, well they made me smile anyway ;) The only downside for me though was Zooey Deschanel's wooden performance during the first half of the film. She loosened up by the end but the start was a bit dissapointing to me. Hopefully there will be sequels to this film and it did set itself up for more of them, I just hope it won't take this long for the second one to get made. One hint though, make sure not to blink during the last infinite improbability drive sequence or you'll miss a brief cameo by the man himself, Douglas Adams (or at least I'm fairly sure its Douglas Adams, Anna couldnt confirm it for me as she had blinked). Oh and a second hint, it's worth staying for the credits.
Well I had hoped to add a bit about The Doctor Who 2 parter 'The Empty Child' (other than say it's excellent) but time has run away on me and I need to do something today other than sit at the computer.
Pics are now up from the Romanian section of our recent holday over at my Webshots galleries. More will go up soon(ish) now that I have the pics from the film cameras. I'm going to seperate the pics into Budapest and Romania galleries cause they really feel as though they were different holidays.
Overall, I'm quite happy with the quality of the pictures I've taken (although I think I've learn't my lesson in using the lcd screen to tee up shots, most of them having come out slightly wonky.In future I'll stick to the viewfinder, imperfect thing that it is at least it's straight). My general principal for pictures is to take as many as humanly possible and then if about 10% of them are good then I've done well. I once had a photography teacher who said that 1 really good picture on a roll is a success, I think that he was overstating the point somewhat but the idea has kind of stuck with me not to be disapointed if everything I click at doesn't come out perfect. That being said, I am very critical of my photo taking abilities and would say I've only ever taken a handfull of really, really good pictures in the last 8 or 9 years of actually trying to take very good pictures.
I've managed to catch up on a bit of cinema going in the last week with trips to see both 'Star Wars III' and 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. Brief reviews (and spoilers) behind the cut.
Finally Lucas gets it right! (well, at least mostly and in my eye's at any rate) Aside from a few wobbles, such as lucas still not being able to write good personal dialogue (that being different from the big and portentious dialogue he does quite well) and Anakin's fall to the dark side not quite hanging together, it does do a lot of what he said it would. Just made the mistake of reading an e-mail diatribe against SW3 (caution - contains crudity) in the middle of a review of it and have had the legs knocked from under my opinions. Hmm, well I'm probably going to see it again with my dad so I'll try again after that.Overall though, I enjoyed it. I'm enough of a sad fan to get excited by lots of little tips to the original trilogy and having details dropped in like it was Palpatines master who created Anakin by manipulating the force before Palpatine killed him (least that was the way I heard it). And of course the fact that Artoo doesn't have his memory wiped and so knows everything, explains why he is so insistant on finding Kenobi in Episode IV.
Hitchhikers is a very different beast to SW. The opposite end of the sci-fi spectrum really. I enjoyed this film a lot just as the gentle (if bizarre) comedy its supposed to be. I've only really ever seen the tv series so I can't argue with the purists who say it should be heard on radio to really get it but then Adams did so many different versions of his own idea that I really think each one is a creation unto itself. The film has a number of great moments (everything turning woolen thanks to the infinite improbability drive is brilliant) and a number of little tips to the other variants (like the tv Marvin being in the queue on the Vogon planet and using Simon Jones (the radio and tv Arthur Dent) as the voice of Magrathea) that make the fans smile, well they made me smile anyway ;) The only downside for me though was Zooey Deschanel's wooden performance during the first half of the film. She loosened up by the end but the start was a bit dissapointing to me. Hopefully there will be sequels to this film and it did set itself up for more of them, I just hope it won't take this long for the second one to get made. One hint though, make sure not to blink during the last infinite improbability drive sequence or you'll miss a brief cameo by the man himself, Douglas Adams (or at least I'm fairly sure its Douglas Adams, Anna couldnt confirm it for me as she had blinked). Oh and a second hint, it's worth staying for the credits.
Well I had hoped to add a bit about The Doctor Who 2 parter 'The Empty Child' (other than say it's excellent) but time has run away on me and I need to do something today other than sit at the computer.
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Re: hmmmmm
Date: 2005-06-16 11:14 am (UTC)Not had a problem with pop-ups on Webshots but then I tend to look at it logged in so thats probably why. There is a guest book but that makes it a awkward to comment on individual pics. I'll have a look at flickr, it may be worth paying if it is a better service.
Happy reading ;)