Photo Featured on NEPA Poster

July 4, 2008 | Filed Under General, Jamaica, Outdoor | 2 Comments 

A photo I took earlier this yea of a Zenaida Dove foraging in Emancipation Park has been featured on a National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) bird shooting season poster. It was kinda cool when I was contacted through Flickr and asked if my photo could be used and to think when I first took the shot I had no idea what kinda bird it was, but my recent interest in birds has taught me a lot and is already paying off. Below is the section of the poster which features my photo and further below is the original.

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Click here to view the entire flyer


The Original Zenaida Dove Picture



I’m back home in Jamaica

June 30, 2008 | Filed Under Fauna, General, Outdoor, vacation | 1 Comment 

After four onder weeks in the US I am happy to be back home. For 2 of the four weeks I was away I was without the proper use of my camera because I had misplaced the charger and so the batteries were dead. In the later half of the trip though I managed to get a replacement charger at a popular electronics store and I have started to update my flickr account with 2-4 pictures per day and will continue to do so for many weeks to come. Check there regularly for pictures and I will be posting some of my more favourite ones here as well. Here are a few below:


Empire State Building Second Da in New York


US Capitol Building in Washington DC


Air Jamaica on the Runway in New York


Flamingo in the National Zoo Washington DC



Going to America

May 30, 2008 | Filed Under General, Personal | 1 Comment 

Last month I posted about my plans for a trip overseas. Almost everything has now been decided and I will be leaving for New York on Monday (June 2nd) and returning on Saturday (June 28th). This trip was being planned for a long time and through various ups and downs it’s finally going through. Things are not as good as I want it to be (for one I have very little…or should I say…no money) but although a bit nervous I am looking forward to the experience and meeting a few family members for the first time and seeing others I have not seen for a long while.

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I am still not certain how a steady connection will work out or if I’ll have the time to spend my usual 10 hours a day in front a computer working or idling on the internet. It will be interesting to see how I manage without my addiction. Right now I am miserable on my last day a work for a while and making notes for a long weekend doing last minute preparations.

Bringing Anime and Japanese with me :P

I’ll be “borrowing” my sister’s laptop though and I have already started to load it up with anime to watch, my cam will be my best friend from the minute I leave my home at 5am Monday morning and also I am carrying all my Japanese study material. See you soon New York…..I hope you guys can manage without me for a few weeks…you can right? Don’t worry too much I’ll post as long as I can find the time to.



Check out Gaming Blog Infidel101.com

May 18, 2008 | Filed Under General, Personal | Leave a Comment 

It’s been three months since I launched my photography blog with the aim to learn about and improve the quality of my photographs taken as well as have a spot to document my shots hopefully as they improve. Its been going mostly well so far apart from a little problem with my camera.

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My latest and final personal blog with be a blog focused entirely video games and that is where I will talk about the games I enjoy (or don’t enjoy) playing, games I am anticipating, games I loved in the, general commentary and news from the industry and more. I have posted about video games on Jamaipanese.com in the past but I want to stay focused on Japan, Jamaica, technology, Japanese study, sports and such topics here but I will be posting about any imported games I play or any games heavily influenced by Japanese culture.

Will be focusing now on applying what I have learned in all my years of blogging and website designing to promote these 3 personal blogs plus some professional projects I have online already but will eventually introduce here. Check out Infidel Gamer! It’s still a little rough around the edges but please feel free to leave a your comments and suggestions.



Covered the 2008 JMA / JEA Trade Expo

May 7, 2008 | Filed Under Events and Happenings, General, Jamaica | Leave a Comment 

I was at the 2008 JMA / JEA Trade Expo over the weekend taking pictures of all the booths and happenings for a website I am involved with called Jamaicapage.com. It was the first time I ever took so many pictures that my battery ran dry which reminds me that I need to grab a spare. I uploaded a of the shots to my flickr account and my favourite shot of the day is posted below.



Do you love me?…buy me this car!

April 29, 2008 | Filed Under Events and Happenings, General, Outdoor, motor vehicles | 6 Comments 

I saw this sexy work of European engineering art at the Liguanea Fine Art and Photography Festival that I attended over the weekend.

 

It was a great festival and I strolled around looking at the various booths, snapping pictures and meeting and greeting accomplished and upcoming artists. I fell in love with the Audi TT Roadster on display at the show though. I want it!…but being able to have it will take lots of work so I now have one of these pictures as my desktop wallpaper for…inspiration.



Learning about birds through Photography

April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Fauna, General, Jamaica, Outdoor | 6 Comments 

The latest thing photography has opened my eyes to is birds. There are all kinds of birds in Jamaica of all shapes and sizes but since taking up photography I have really learned to appreciate them and learn their proper names and characteristics. At first all I thought about them was that they would make interesting photographs but after many days of photographing pelicans and seagulls in the Kingston harbour and snapping shots of various birds in emancipation park I have come to appreciate them, especially after being attacked my a vicious Greater Antillean Grackle who didn’t want his photo taken and heard a Northern Mockingbird mimic the sounds of a car alarm.


Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Grackle that attacked me

Looking forward to taking more photographs of birds in Jamaica. I will be planning a few trips as soon as the finances allow me to but right now birds ate one of my favourite things to take pictures of.


This shot of a Northern Hummingbird is one of my favourites



Bought a Book about Digital Photography

April 19, 2008 | Filed Under General, Photography Tips | Leave a Comment 

My days of digital photography ignorance will soon be over. Already cleared one of the first hurdles in understanding photography properly! More info and a book review as soon as I finished reading it.

digital photography book-scott-kelby

 



The Importance of Learning about Photography Properly

April 15, 2008 | Filed Under General, Personal | 3 Comments 

I consider myself a photography enthusiast but my knowledge of photography itself is very limited. In the last few weeks I have taken it upon myself to learn more about this new activity I now call a hobby. I used an analogy while talking to a friend that I felt that a complete racing newbie who bought an entry level sports car and then felt like it was that easy to be among the big stars in racing. Substitute the racing referring for photography and the racecar for a camera and you now understand the way I have been feeling.

I barely know much about the advanced features of my semi-pro point and shoot camera, I still don’t fully understand the terms aperture, shutter speed and ISO  among others and apart from a few buck-up shots here and there I have yet to take some very excellent photographs. This is all changing though and I have been taking steps to correct my ignorance.

Steps Include:

A few of these steps have already been put in motion and my readers (if I have any besides a few friends) can expect me to post updates on my progress here on my photoblog. Thank you for reading.



Vertical Line across My Pictures - Sony DSC H9

April 2, 2008 | Filed Under Cameras and Equipment, General | 7 Comments 

For the last few weeks I have had a problem with my camera, whats the problem you ask? - a nasty looking virtical line across pictures taken at night or with a dark background. I first noticed the problem in late February when I attended and snapped some shots at the 2008 Reggae film Festival and again the same night when there was a beautiful lunar eclipse.


see that ugly line to the lower right of the picture?

I am not to sure what caused or is causing the line but I hate it it! Daytime pictures or pictures with sufficient lighting aren’t affected by this feint (but ugly) line and I have learnt the hard way how fragile photography equipment can be. I am in two minds whether to send back the camera to Sony as it is still under warranty, I have printed up the necessary service documents through their website and all that is needed now is for me to send it off to them, but I am weighting the costs plus time without my camera plus what if the decide it’s not a manufacturers problem. All that has been on my mind lately so I just thought I blurt it out here. Whether I decide to send it or not I am bound to blog about it here.


The line is seen more clearly in this photo.



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