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Australian Interstate Photographic Competition

Posted on August 16, 2020 by geoff


I got a great surprise today to hear that I had won the Roy Berryman trophy for the Best Image of the Exhibition 2020 with my Image in Image 2 photo. It also got the Herbert Medallion for best monochrome.

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Photographic successes in the Australian Digital Photography Awards

Posted on July 21, 2020 by geoff


I managed a silver medal among my successes at ADPA2020.

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Download photos from Google Album.

Posted on February 15, 2020 by geoff

A brief tutorial on downloading images from google galleries. Continue reading →

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Worldwide wildfire map

Posted on December 9, 2019 by geoff

I was browsing the web and came across this interesting map, showing the distribution of bushfires/wildfires worldwide. It seems clear to me that there will soon be few areas of rainforest left in the equatorial region. When I was doing … Continue reading →

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Photographic successes

Posted on January 30, 2019 by geoff

I am now an AAPS qualified photographer!

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Fixing the IP of an ethernet printer on a Sagecom F@ST™ 3864AC Router

Posted on July 24, 2017 by geoff

I discovered that rebooting the F@ST™ 3864AC router supplied by Optus with my NBN transition stopped my wired ethernet printer working because the printer’s IP had changed. To prevent having to reconfigure the printer’s IP port at each reboot I … Continue reading →

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Europe 2016

Posted on August 8, 2016 by geoff

I’ve just returned from a 2-month trip to Europe: Spain, Tangier, Portugal, Andorra, France and the UK. Details in Blog form with photo gallery links at http://europe2016.austvic.com.

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Prevent Windows changing drive letter for a USB drive

Posted on March 6, 2016 by geoff

A common problem with Windows is that when you plug in a USB drive it may acquire a new drive letter. Usually this is no problem, but if you use the drive with a program that wants the data to be on the same drive each time it is inserted, you need to force Windows to use the same drive letter. Doing so is not hard. Here I will illustrate using Windows 7. Continue reading →

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Word Tips: Formatting numbers in numbered lists

Posted on January 11, 2016 by geoff

One of my pet irritations is making a numbered list and discovering that the numbers seem to arbitrarily change font. eg 1. This is point 1 2. this is point 2 3. this is point 3 Easy Solution: …

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Public understanding of science in the US

Posted on December 5, 2015 by geoff

I came across some data from the National Science Foundation in the US. They surveyed ~2000 members of the public in 2012 (but there is also data going back to the 1980s)  with some simple questions assessing basic science knowledge. … Continue reading →

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