Category Archives: Photography

I have a huge and growing collection of photos thanks to my interest in photography and my Fujifilm 2800z so earlier today I decided to display them in the background of my desktop..
Changing the background in X used to be simple. Just run wmsetbg with the filename of the image and it worked. Not so in Red Hat 8/Gnome 2.
I first searched on freshmeat and found chbg which is supposed to be.. well, I’m not sure. It’s damn confusing and I could only get it to display images in a window. (I suspect this has something to do with Gnome 2 and/or Nautilaus)
I then stumbled across chbg-gnome2 which is a very simple Perl script that uses the Gnome 2 gconf database to set the background. I copied (or symlinked) a few images into a directory, added a crontab entry for chbg-gnome2 pointing at that directory and now my background changes every 2 minutes! It’s The Unix Way of doing things I suppose.

The Best Photography Articles on Web – some of the best anyway.

Eric Jeschke has updated his GIMP tutorials. Updated the ND filter tutorial, and added a tutorial to simulate film grain.

Walking the streets in the rain: the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, viewing flood damage in Millmount Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, in the early hours of yesterday morning. (Irish Times)
No doubt this photo will get dragged up again and again when the Taoiseach is in hot water!
Irish Times Article – Anti-flooding measures may cost ‘hundreds of millions’

Photoblogs.org – The Photoblog Resource Photoblogs.org is a resource designed to help people find high-quality photoblogs. (via Underway in Ireland)

Near Cat-astrophy – one very lucky cat!

photoSIG: Before and After photos.

Using the technique described below for joining two images.

I went out and took 2 photos:

To create the following larger photo.

icable distortion where the two photos meet, I wasn’t very careful editing as this is more a proof of concept for myself than anything else.

The original xcf format photo is also available for download. (Warning, it’s over 900K!)