Manx surfing photos on the BBC

My friend Kenzie featured in a BBC article on surfing in the Isle of Man today. The main article photo and eight of the fourteen in the gallery were taken by me, shame the credits are relegated to the alt attribute!

I’ve not got a decent gallery online yet, mainly because I’m not happy with any of the Flickr plugins for WordPress I’ve tried so far, can anyone recommend anything? Maybe it’s time to have a play with Lightroom’s Web Galleries…

12 handy photographic rules

12 useful facts, formulas, and photographic rules. Some of them are less relevant these days, what with digital usurping film so thoroughly, but they’re useful to know none the less.

Eyes wide shut

In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold. The results are fascinating! (Via BoingBoing.)

Beautiful aeroplane bellies

Jeffrey Milstein: Plane Spotter Extraordinaire

Get a Grip

This video for the song “Grip” by the band zZz, produced by Xelor & Goeroe media, was recorded in one take with professional trampoline gymnasts replicating typical video effects. It’s very clever and with any luck might make them famous as OK Go.

Sign of the (New York) Times

Oh my, that’s some nice signage on the New York Times building.

Isle of Man featured on OpenStreetMap

The Isle of Man recently featured in the “map of the week” at OpenStreetMap.

Thanks to the the Department for Local Government & the Environment and some hard work by Nick Black and Dan Karran, amongst others, we’ve got a fairly complete open street map. Great!

It still needs a bit of work, if any locals would like to help?

I lent Ade my ForeRunner

I lent my Garmin ForeRunner 305 to Ade over at howies for his sub-23 minute cycling challenge. Here’s how he’s getting on with it so far. He’s managed to convince Trek to lend him their Lance Armstrong replica time trial bike, how amazing is that? Good luck, Ade!

Best uses of Flash

The official Google Webmasters’ blog has a good article on the best uses of Flash, covering the search considerations designers should think about when building a Flash-heavy site.

Detailed article on Lightroom’s new sharpening & noise reduction

Martin Evening, author of the seminal Adobe Photoshop for Photographers, has an incredibly detailed article on Lightroom’s new (v1.1) sharpening and noise reduction features. This is an update for his latest book, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers.