Parks, Knights, and Slackers! Argh!

So yeah, it’s been a while. Not as long as my other breaks, but hey, it was a break nonetheless. And just when I’d promised to pick back up as well. Shameful. I guess it takes a lot of will and hard effort to keep these sort of things going, eh?

Anyway, today I thought I might as well update you guys on what’s been going on.

My head’s been a absolute trash can, it really has. My thoughts have been scattered all over the place, my concentration hasn’t lasted for one minute, and I have no idea why. It’s getting better now though, I’m happy to say, so maybe I’ll be back into my normal routine by tomorrow.

I can only hope.

This week however, has (event-wise) been very…well…uneventful. My trip to West Park, however, was the best part of the week. I donned my blue and white check shirt, blue jeans, black trainers, and managed to get up there in the scorching weather. Not my best plan, but once I start…I don’t want to look like a fool and turn back. Unless in private. So, I got down there and went snap happy! It was a refreshing experience, seeing as I hadn’t had the opportunity to do such a thing for quite a while, so I was happy. Eventually it got too much though. I mean, I’m used to 10 degrees or less…not 30 and rising. SO of course I bailed out and went home.

When I got there, I decided to finish off editing my friend Laura’s photos from her ‘Fruit Salad’ photoshoot which she did with Sadia promoting her fasion design. It was a challenge, going for the same overall look, but making sure the tone and white balance presented the greatest clarity, I’ll tell you that now. But, of course, I did it. I am Alex, the Lightroom veteran, after all.

And that brings me to today. This morning I trolled through Sadia’s photos from her trip to France and made my changes on Lightroom, before sending them back, and got on with the day. Skip ahead a few hours, and you’d find me upgrading from Lightroom 3 to…you guessed it! 4! Not only that, but I made the leap from Photoshop and Illustrator CS5.5 to…6! It was worth it, I’ll have you know, so all you graphic designers and photographers out there better scrape your pennies together! It was the most excited I’d felt all day.

Until George came online, that is. Of course, we played Spiral Knights. Of course, I died like 10 times. Of course, George rubbed my face in it. And of course, I had to leave early, by demand of my mother. It’s pretty much the routine we have, so I won’t go into much detail, suffice to say that George is was more powered up than me…which leads me to believe he’s been playing some extortionate hours…

Anyway, I’m off for now, seeing as it’s like 10:59pm here. I would upload some photos from West Park, too, but my internet has ben slow as of late (don’t worry, BT Infinity comes 12th June). To look at them, just look in the sidebar and check my Flickr!

Chao!

Bloggers United!

Evening guys, I thought I’d just take the time to acknowledge two of my fellow bloggers that I actually know personally and are quite close with.

The first is, of course, our very own Sadia Deen! She made a rather unexpected comeback on her blog in January, and I hope you’ll check out, like, follow, and do whatever you need to do on her blog at My thoughts… My views…. My life…<3. She’ll also be helping out over here too as an admin, so I won’t be the sole owner of this blog.

If you weren’t surprised enough already, she also has a Flickr account! That’s right, fellow photographers, she is also one of us! Armed with a Nikon Coolpix P500, she takes some mean shots, but would also like some constructive criticism to help her on her way. So, to check out some of those ‘mean’ shots, and maybe post a comment or two, you can go right ahead to her photo stream at Flickr: Sadiaelenaa’s Photostream. I have to say… I’m mighty impressed myself!

Over in the right corner, is my buddy in poetry (though I write none myself), Brynmawr. You may remember me mentioning him a while back in a post that dealt with his ‘Poem Revolution’. Well, he was talking to me on Twitter a while back on how he was going to start up a blog, and keep it updated with his poems and the like. It took him a while to get the whole thing together, but that’s understandable with Uni and all. However, on the 29th February 2012 (that’s right, he can’t have a blog birthday for the next four years), The Real Minipoet was brought onto the WordPress servers of the world. Seeing as he is quite a busy guy though, and sometimes can only post the body of poems, I was made his humble editor shortly after, making sure that what was meant to come out, did come out. In the correct english.

If you want to check that out, then simply head on over to TheRealMinipoet, and look around. Remember to subscribe though, as the poems may not be as consistent as the posts are over here.

So, those are my two pals and their endeavors, but what about over here, eh?

I sadly realize that I haven’t been posting much variety lately, with only the routinely Photo Of The Day, and Newsspot coming through. Now I’m not complaining, and I know you guys enjoy those posts, so I’m not cutting them off or anything. All I’m going to be doing is cutting the Mail, Article, and Post off, and be putting more original titles. Sure, I’ll maybe slip in one or two, but the problem is that the title doesn’t really give anything away, which can have one of two effects on readers who see it. They can either become disinterested, and not look, or they can be intrigued, and see what it’s about. I have a feeling the latter are the minority, so I’ll be changing that up a little bit. Also, I’ll be bringing the Tweets and quotes back, as I’ve really slacked on those two aspects. Now, it’s a little hard to do the Newsspot, Photo Of The Day, Tweet Of The Day, and Quote Of The Day all… in one day. As a compromise, and hopefully as a better system, I won’t be posting all on the same day, but rather two of the four a day. Which two get posted depends on what I find on the web, and what catches my interest. That means that if I find a Tweet I really have to share, and an article, they’ll be what goes up fort that day, and vice versa for the other two. This gives more time for people to like, comment, and view a post before it gets updated or replaced with another in it’s ‘series’ so to speak. In a nutshell, this should give a few more views for me, and more time for you guys to make sense of whatever Klingon I’ve posted.

Anyway, coming to the end of my post, weekends are off. That obviously means no posts on Saturdays or Sundays, as standard. If I do post on a Sunday (Saturdays are 100% off), then it’ll be something good. The rest period gives me a break from typing, and you guys a break from checking your emails or RSS feeds.

On a closing note, I’d ask all you guys to keep spreading the link to this site, and if you’ve got any recommendations, comment below and I’ll do my best to make your requests a reality!

亞歷克斯的！

Photo Of The Day – 不厭亭 芒舞車流

不厭亭 芒舞車流 a photo by 霞客 丁 on Flickr.

Well, it’s that time again! Todays’ photo has been one i’ve been focused on a while, and it comes from one of my five favorite photographers. In fact, it’s the same photographer from yesterday! This photo has been my wallpaper for everything I own for quite a while, and it still amazes me every time I look at it. It’s not just the light streams either, since the daytime version was just as good, but I think it’s more the colors of the night, and how the clouds just seem to be rolling over the hill. All I can say is that this photo deserves a medal. Totally.

Moving on to my day. Wait, no evening post? Nope, this is way to short to be an individual post, so I thought I’d just put it down here where people could see. My day’s been inexplicably dry today, and I didn’t want to bore you guys with a separate post about three lines long. The highlight of my day was actually talking to my beloved Sadia just five minutes ago, and I have to say, we really need to work on our goodbyes, because our ones at the moment really aren’t cutting it…don’t worry, she knows this already Anyway, that’s really all that’s gone on. Not much has gone on that I feel the need to tell, so I’ll just leave it at that for now. I’ll be posting a quote and hopefully a tweet tomorrow, just for a change up, since I realize that I’ve been posting far too little these days, and I’m feeling pretty ashamed for doing so. I guess I’ll be seeing y’all tomorrow then!

亞歷克斯出！

Photo Of The Day – Cành Mai Trong Nắng Xuân

Cành mai trong nắng xuân a photo by Mademoiselle Gem. on Flickr.

The photo of the day by Mademoiselle Gem from Flickr. Words really fail to describe this, and since this picture definitely speaks over a thousand of them, I’m not even going to attempt to do so. All I can say is that it’s definitely going in my favorites! I hope you readers enjoy studying this picture as much as I do. I’m also sorry for the heavy influx of posts recently. I’m doing this because I won’t be able to post for the rest of the day, and at least nine-tenths of tomorrow, so I’m just building up something that you can do whilst I’m gone. I do have an evening (or morning, if I wait till Sunday) post ready for Saturday, and I’ll be slowly developing it on my iPod throughout today and tomorrow. The last posts today will be a Tweet, and Quote, if I’m lucky.

The Evening Post – Issue 14

To all those who actually read this,

How’s your day been? Nice? Good, good. Mine’s been alright too, actually, so that’s something we have in common. You know when I said before that I was hoping that there wouldn’t be another day in 2012 where it dragged on as long as the last one did? Well, I’m afraid to say that life broke it’s promise. My day was as dry and long as anything. It did spruce up towards the evening though, when I had a nice conversation (spanning a good few hours) with Sadia, and also managed to get some games on my iPod to work again. To be honest, I was unsure of what to post really, since I don’t want to just become a re-posting service for photos and news articles. I like how you guys are enjoying them, but if I just re-post, then it’s not really ‘my’ blog then, is it? The problem is that life’s not going anywhere fast. The most exciting things I did today (besides talking to Sadia) were getting the new iBooks 2 and iTunes U apps, and re-tweeting some #IfTheyShutDownTwitter foolishness. Now, I’m going to cut this post short at this time, so I big you all farewe-

Oh, that’s my cue…

Ciao!