Harry's Blog

Today I've launched a new little venture. Some of my photographs are now available for purchase via a Photobox Pro page.

You can buy regular 6"x4" prints for a few pence or more elaborate gifts such as mouse mats, mugs, large canvas prints and the like.

I've launched my print shop with just one set of photos today, but more will be added over the coming weeks.

One practical upshot of this new gallery is that I'm going to retire the gallery currently hosted here at harryneary.com but many of those images will be transferred over to the Photobox Pro page in due time.

Take a look you'll find my print shop at photoboxgallery.com/harryneary.

By the way, if you see something you like over on my Flickr page do let me know and I'll add it to the print shop.

Today I've launched a new little venture. Some of my photographs are now available for purchase via a Photobox Pro page.

You can buy regular 6"x4" prints for a few pence or more elaborate gifts such as mouse mats, mugs, large canvas prints and the like.

I've launched my print shop with just one set of photos today, but more will be added over the coming weeks.

One practical upshot of this new gallery is that I'm going to retire the gallery currently hosted here at harryneary.com but many of those images will be transferred over to the Photobox Pro page in due time.

Take a look you'll find my print shop at photoboxgallery.com/harryneary.

By the way, if you see something you like over on my Flickr page do let me know and I'll add it to the print shop.

There are signs that the "That's Not My..." baby touchy-feely book series has run its course. It looks like the authors are running out of ideas.

The evidence being the following extract from the next planned edition.

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I had a chance to pop over to Westbay this evening to catch the sunset. I took something like 100 shots in the brief time I was there and I think these were the best.

All shots were taken with a Canon EOS 50D DSLR camera and Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 lens.

Now here's a subject you see on every photography forum. Should you record your DSLR images as RAW of JPEG files?

Photographers unlucky enough to Google the subject and end up with Ken Rockwell's nonsense will probably tell you JPEG every time, if they are fans of oversaturated cartoons.

But the truth is this. Whenever you take a picture with your DSLR the result is a RAW file. Think of this as your negative.

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I wonder if it's down to feeling somehow inferior to those photographers using film, but I've seen quite a few digital photographers recently describe their camera's memory cards as "digital film".

It is nothing of the sodding kind. It is a memory card for storing data.

Calling it "digital film" makes you sound like a wanker.

So stop it.

Looks like our obscure village in Dorset will be on Google Streetview before too long. And given I was just stood at the window pointing my camera at the car I may end up online too.

It is most gratifying that your fraud prevention service is so on the ball. Your efforts in ensuring that I'm not ripped off are commendable, though your efforts to ensure I am unable to ever actually use my own money are not.

If someone wants to pay several thousands pounds off my credit card, just go ahead an let them. Honestly I really don't mind this kind of unauthorised access.

What I do mind is that any time I spend more than £5 you block access to online banking then phone me up to ask me if it was fraud.

A loaf of bread and a few croissants from the shop 100 yards from my house is most likely not fraud, okay? Neither is paying off a credit card held in my name which you actually supply. A transaction for which I have already jumped through several security hoops to complete.

Your credit card division isn't that anal. It let me buy a plasma TV last week - which if they'd any sense or taste it shouldn't have. But when I tried to pay off the same credit card you blocked the transaction, froze my account then eventually phoned me up to ask me about it.

It's lovely you care so much. But please. I'm a grown up now, let me use my bank card a bit without getting so jumpy.

Thankyou.

One of the most amazing things about having toddlers is watching their language skills develop. It's especially entertaining when you have twins because of course they eventually start to talk to each other.

That way when one of them learns a new word, the other can learn it from them pretty quickly. The downside is that they tend to reinforce each other's mistakes. Quite often one of the twins has nailed a word first time, only for repetition with their sibling to pull the word further and further away from the original.

For us the most entertaining aspect of two year old twins learning to talk right now is the compound nouns that they come up with. The children are creating their own words to describe the world around them based on their own experiences.

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Regulards will know I've been changing the look of the site over the last few days.

This current theme is one I rather like.

But what do you think. Do you like this look for the site or did you prefer the previous one.

The reason I like this design is that it allows me to add interesting content down at the bottom of the site.

Let's keep this fairly anonymous. There's no need to name names. Let's just say that someone I know, no not me honest, recently had an altercation with a badger.

I say altercation. What I mean is that she. Or he, or it, let's not blame anyone. She, ran over a badger. Ran over or hit so hard with the car it disintegrated. Whatever. The damn thing ran out in front of the car in the middle of the night on a country lane, so what are you to do?

She, or he, or it, braked hard to avoid killing the damn thing. But it had flung itself at the car with little care or thought. Perhaps the badger was suicidal. We shall never know. The following day all that remained was gallons of blood everywhere on the road but no Badger. Maybe it survived long enough to drag itself back to its badger children to say goodbye.

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I've about to upgrade to the new version of the blog software. So if I never see you again, it's been nice knowing you.

Update: Well that seemed to go okay didn't it?

You can usually rely on Rowan Williams to come up with something bonkers if news is quiet and he's excelled himself now. He says that God isn't going to stop us destroying the planet and ourselves.

God is going to do nothing.

So er...that about wraps it up for God then?

Can the last one out turn the light off please.