Wildlife, wild places, photography - plus Wild Scenes Hong Kong store
Wildlife, wild places, photography - plus Wild Scenes Hong Kong store
Articles on creativity including photography with Olympus and OM Digital cameras and lenses, and creating websites.
In June 2024, thanks to Dickson Wong, I was invited to join a boat tour to photograph seabirds, sponsored by OM System. Luckily for me, this gave me a chance to test the M.Zuiko 150–400mm F4.5 TC 1.25x IS PRO zoom lens. [This is a micro four thirds…
I’ve posted galleries with some AI images from elsewhere, especially Facebook – too often masquerading as real photos, and perhaps too often fooling many people. A problem that is set to get way, way worse. Here, some AI images made according to simple text instructions from me. Fun…
Lately, my Facebook feed has included multiple Facebook Reels mini videos with way too generously proportioned women, evidently made by AI according to wild and wacky male fantasies. Just some folks having fun creating and sharing them, presumably; maybe a bummer for actual women hoping to get shared…
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of superficially nice and pleasant Facebook pages that are stuffed with AI images that might seem to be photos of beautiful scenes and wildlife, but are actually bogus. I’m far from the only person to notice such things. Facebook overrun with AI…
Now, I know there are proper uses for the word “cum”, and it can appear classy in text, as you might appear smart by dropping magna cum laudae into a sentence (I just looked it up, and find it means “with great praise”); and it’s strictly correct to…
Here’s a scam email I’ve just received, as a few times before: If this seems rather weird and dodgy, that’s because it is; there are several online articles about this, such as Beware this domain name scam originating from China.
While I have a page on this site featuring some of the fake Facebook accounts that have sent me friend requests – several of them quite absurd, it’s also interesting to delve a little into information on fake accounts. Here, a few snippets of info culled from various…
Over the past few months, I’ve received a succession of friend requests from Facebook accounts that are clearly fake. Often, they are accounts with photos of fairly young, attractive Chinese women – perhaps as I live in Hong Kong. Also a very few from outrageously buxom women, even…
And now, it’s time for some spam; just posting some of the crap I and many others receive day after day after day. Themes include astonishingly easy money, hot babes seeking random guys, bogus health claims, and fear-mongering. Yeah, no use to anyone really, unless someone finds this…
From time to time, I receive offers from people I’ve no connection with, offering to write articles for my websites. While this might seem a real fine service – with no monies required – these are really about having links in the articles. And no, these cannot be…
I only run small websites, yet still get spam emails from people offering to boost search engine results and business; just generic efforts with no insights re my actual sites. A very recent one here, for instance; notice it’s from “Tina”; my emphases added here. So, this is…
As a freelance photographer, I’ve long been interested in ideas for selling photos – perhaps as prints, or on other items. Traditionally, this might have meant having to create and stock many potential products, such as prints, or even mugs, t-shirts and more: this of course could mean…
While a website page can look simple as you view it, there might be a lot going on behind the scenes, especially using a content management system like WordPress: if you’ve reached this article, you’ve likely had a peek behind the scenes, like checking page source: Yikes! All…
Especially if you are looking for compact kit, which you can use with little need for a tripod, the Olympus OM1 and 300mm PRO f4 in the OM System – now from OM Digital Solutions, as Olympus camera division was rebranded after being bought by Japan Industrial Partners…
I had a couple of WordPress sites I wanted to move to https from http; found the process was not so simple as just one click, via Site Health.
After often struggling with Drupal, I found many things are a relative breeze with WordPress.
Notes on a transition from Drupal 7 to Wordpress, using the FG Drupal to WordPress plugin, which proved easier than expected for me as a non-developer, albeit with hiccoughs.
The trails take you through rugged hills and forested valleys, along coastlines, past reservoirs and waterfalls, temples and ageing villages.
Enchanting Hong Kong - which I wrote and photographed - reveals the many facets of this kaleidoscopic destination.
The explosive growth of digital photography has surprised not only laymen, but also some people involved in its development.
Olympus Dramatic Tone art filter can give outstanding results.
The Olympus E-P3 is highly impressive; here are tips on using it.
When I first posted this, I was using the original Olympus 75-300mm micro four thirds lens – chiefly for wildlife, especially birds. I was using the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75-300mm f4.8-6.7 micro four thirds lens with my E-PL1, E-P3 and EM1 [original], chiefly for photographing wildlife, especially…
The Olympus PEN E-PL1 is excellent for entering micro four thirds system.
"Super-zoom" digital cameras like the P-100 have lenses that can zoom from wide-angle to telephoto.
An overview of the micro-four thirds mirrorless camera system. I chose micro four thirds partly after learning of it through interest in video: I saw Panasonic had a professional micro four thirds camera coming out, the AF100 (also known as AF105). Reading about micro four thirds, I found…
Though Sanyo Xacti HD2000 results look good in Quicktime, the files are not readily edited in Final Cut Express. It is, however, possible to edit using Final Cut Express – by first converting files, or doing rough edit with iMovie. Trouble in Final Cut Express When I tried Sanyo…
Using Mac, Integrity does a grand job as dead link checker.
How to get great photos with point-and-shoot compacts - including digital cameras and smartphones
How I moved from Joomla to Drupal 6.
How to make good or even outstanding images.
Forums and comments: they can become magnets for spammers, but you can fight back.
Info on using a script to ban bad bots.
Notes from my early experiences in using Drupal. Update September 2022: after becoming one of Drupal’s abandonedusers, I’ve moved from Drupal to WordPress. Phew!!! Just posted this to drupal usability forum [1 Dec 08: adding some edits based on further experience, lest others stop by and read this]:…
Info on Now Broadband TV, a service from pccw in Hong Kong.
Brief advice on ensuring web pages rank well in search engines.
Mambo section of DocMartin and a related site that also runs Mambo were recently hacked. Main thing seems to be that some code (javascript) was inserted into template used to create each page – and this can apparently lead to people running Windows (unprotected) maybe inadvertently downloading a…
Focus control is about knowing where your text is, and where it's going, at every place