Apple Store Photo Walk - Exploring the Grassmarket

I had a fun time this morning taking a guided tour around the Grassmarket in Edinburgh with members of the Apple Team and other iPhone / iPad photographers. The apple team members were very helpful in explaining how to use the Camera Application and brought along some hardware from the store to try out!

Although what the Apple Team members were explaining was prior knowledge to me, it was good to meet new people and to help them with some of the functions of their applications and photography techniques.

Interestingly the majority of the people were older (OAP's), this took me a little by surprise, but it was great to see an older generation really get to grips with this technology. It was surprising as I have never seen a lot of people (of an older generation) use this technology so adeptly.

The afternoon was taken over by a client meeting signing off a website, which will be part of the portfolio when this site relaunches in March. The site is Tenth Floor Photography, go visit it and leave some nice comments on his first blog post! :-)

For now I'll leave you with some of the shots from earlier today in the Grassmarket and surrounding area.!

Project work

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'Starting' to finish a couple of projects that I have been working on. Getting started was slow process but I can finally see the progress coming together.  

Over the next two weeks I should have one new website up and running and another 'over-hauled' allowing my own consulting page to go live on this website, which will also be re-branded. 

It has been over a year now since my good friends at Florence and George launched. Watching their business come together has provided inspiration and ideas of what individuals, small businesses and clubs require from a web designer/coder. My plan is to provide a more personal feel with clients in a 'Jerry Maguire' kind of way.

It has been my experience that many people are intimidated by the internet and talking to designers when they have not had much exposure to this technology. It is my hope to provide a 'safe place' where they can talk over their ideas and to feel that they can ask any question no matter how simple or complicated. 

Sabbatical over? Or is doing what you love not really a job? 

 

Go Pro Drone

GoPro - Karma

A bit of a scary recall from GoPro, their drone (UAV) has been recalled due to power failure when flying. All 2500 sold so far are being recalled. Am starting wonder whether any company is doing product testing before they release their products. Samsung's recent phone issue (exploding batteries in their flagship phone) has now been backed up by their recent washing machine problems, don't worry, only 34 models were recalled due to the lid flying off.

How hard can it be to test products? Full story here from PetaPixel.

Baking unicorns

I spent a morning taking a little video of a Unicorn cake getting baked last week for Instagram. Like most things in life what should have been fairly quick ended up taking a lot longer than I estimated. I forgot to use the rule of Pi, "however long you think a task will take to do, multiply it by Pi". 

It was the first time I have used time lapse on the iPhone so it was a little experimental, but it was fun, and there was cake at the end of it. Tasty, tasty cake. I also make a guest appearance in some of the scenes ;-) 

The cake was made by Clare from Florence and George. I edited the video together and composed the music on the video as I ran into copyright issues when I tried to use Hyuna's Bubble Pop song (remember that rule of Pi?). Anyway, see the video below or on my Instagram page.

For tasty cake or proper afternoon tea see Florence and George.

 

Inner Geologist

My inner geologist can't get enough of this: Brunton Axis Pocket Transit. Featuring a dual-axis, hollow hinge for intuitive, efficient, accurate measurements of planes, lines, bearing and vertical angles. Strike and dip, trend and plunge all measured with one configuration. It's the sexiest piece of geological equipment since the geological hammer!

All for the low, low price of $799.99 (plus tax where applicable).