Moving your life? The whole idea of packing for a year abroad is daunting: where do you start? How do you overcome personal baggage allowance restrictions when three pairs of your favourite underpants won't last a year? What is involved in sending baggage unaccompanied? How do you minimize the chances of things going wrong? Allow us to share our experience.
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Contrails. Do they ruin photos or enhance them? White Edge in the Peak District is close to the flight path for Manchester, so it's usual to see these scratches in the Blue (it's not usual to see the Blue, but don't get me started on English weather). I'm not sure that they're pretty, and there are environmental implications, but they do set me wondering. Wondering about where the people on board have been. Wondering where they are going. Wondering how many weeks until my next holiday... In this image I think the contrails add interest and declare "open skies" in response to the open landscape below.
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Since we have just three weeks left in the UK before embarking on Project Koru it would seem apt to share an image from a favourite local location. Curbar Edge is in the Peak District National Park and literally minutes from our home in Chesterfield. On a good day the view is glorious; you can just make out the fountain at Chatsworth House in this image. In wet and windy weather Curbar Edge is a wild place that makes you feel alive. We've seen the landscape purified by snow, and blushing with the purple of flowering heather. Once, on a clear night years ago, we lay on our backs on the ancient seabed (you can still see the ripples in the stone) and admired at the stars away from the lights of civilization. A special place where you can walk, talk, and think.
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I've got three and a half thousand photos in iPhoto now, despite being a little behind in my RAW conversions. That's a lot of photos to enjoy, and my wife and I do just that whenever the screen saver kicks in on our computers. Some of them are, in my humble opinion, worth sharing. While I have no pretension to anything resembling a professional photographer, I consider myself an enthusiastic amateur on the lookout to improve my technique. And so I present a new feature on bioneural.net—IOTW (Image of the Week-ish). I get to brush off the digital dust and share images I enjoy, and you get to critique my effort.
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Our secret's out. As we write this—looking out the window at a bleak English sky as the drizzle washes away the dregs of yesterday's snowfall—it's easy to get excited about travelling abroad. One thing about holidays is that the experience of change is refreshing, albeit all too brief: you spend the first half of a two-week interlude winding down, and the second half winding up again! We'd like to introduce Project Koru—a change on a much grander scale than our usual breaks afford.
Why do Adobe products cost more to download than buy off the shelf in Europe? Why do they cost way more than they do in the US? Do US upgrades work with UK products? Why doesn't Adobe respond to Customer Support e-mails? Good questions: now here for the answers...
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