Spooks!

My new favorite TV show is actually British! I haven't taken much to British TV so this is a first. It's a show about MI5 agents (spies) and it's aired on BBC (another first, I don't normally watch anything on BBC except the occassional documentary). So I was hoping it'd be on BBC America so I could recommend you all start watching it immediately. But it's not.

Spooks

Keep a look out for it in case BBC America ever pick it up because it's really, really good.

On another note, I was unable to upload the videos from Jamaica since some of them were too long (not blaming James, I prefer them to short clips). So I'm just going to burn them to DVDs for anyone who wants them.

JAMAICA!

So for anyone reading thing who was not in Jamaica, here is a TON of photos:

Robin's Jamaica Photos
Ange's Jamaica Photos
Mom's Jamaica Photos
Robin's Jamaica Wedding Photos

I'm working on the videos now!

Switching galleries AGAIN

So with Picasa, the display quality was poor. With Flickr, they limited free accounts to 200 images! I'm willing to pay Flickr for my pro images but for personal/family images, I wanted something free with no restrictions (or reasonable restrictions). I MAY have finally found this with photoshop.com! Check it out here.

New HD Mini Camcorder

Finally, I've got up the test video I did at Edinburgh Castle with our new HD camcorder:

Playing with HDR

I've always been against very surreal looking HDRs (High Dynamic Range) because I think they're just eye candy and people drawn in by the surrealness, it doesn't necessarily make it a good photograph.

But some HDR's are still fairly natural looking. So I decided to have a play around with them myself. I think the one from Edinburgh (first one) is more realistic but it's actually harder to get a realistic looking HDR than it is a surreal one - at least with this software it is. I can see how easy it is to go a bit crazy with them like some people do.





Steve suggested I get one of them printed on canvas. I don't know what sparked that idea but I'm considering it.