A couple of months ago I started a Youtube channel with my good friend Bruno. We call it the Bruno and Locky channel 🙂 We both work at Ninja Kiwi, a New Zealand based mobile games company, and our focus is on creating video content around the Ninja Kiwi game Bloons TD Battles (TD stands […]
Read More →Learning Ruby on Rails with Unicasts
As some of you may know, I’m the lead developer at Ninja Kiwi – a large children’s games website that gets more than 2 million visitors per week. 3 years ago we rebuilt the site with a programming language called Ruby, and a framework called Rails – known simply as Ruby on Rails. When my talented co-developer […]
Read More →Adobe Support is Terrible
In my line of work I do a lot of graphic design and use all of Adobe’s products. I’m a big fan, generally, but recently had a horrible Adobe support experience. I subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud service – which costs around $50 per month to access all applications. Well, I thought it was all […]
Read More →Beginners Guide to Website Marketing with Social Media
Last night I was having dinner with a group of friends who are all at different stages of setting up a website. One friend has a website for his production design business, I built it for him. Another friend’s daughter has been blogging about fashion on Tumblr, which is a service that lets anyone setup […]
Read More →It’s the little things in life that make it great
Lastnight I had the pleasure of babysitting my two best friend’s kids. They are such wonderful boys. This afternoon I received a picture that Elliot, the youngest of the three, created for me. Made my day 🙂
Read More →Salad for Breakfast
I’ve started a rigorous gym schedule with my buddy, Chris. We’re calling it “boot camp”. I’ll be at working out twice per day, and eating a lean, mean diet for the next 30 days. I’ll post some updates along the way. Stay tuned. For now, here’s today’s breakfast:
Read More →Spicy Piri Piri Burger in Portugal
I shot this photograph just moments after I created two perfect burgers in the Algarve region of Portugal. I used my beloved Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 II to achieve the shallow depth of field. I think my friend enjoying her burger in the background creates a wonderfully delicious mood in this image.
Read More →Beautiful HDR Sunset Lighting Up Clouds in Pera, Portugal
I took this picture in Pera, in Portugal’s Algarve region. It is an HDR image, combining 3 different exposures.
Read More →Barragem do Fratel – Portugal – Detail of the Dam in HDR
I shot this picture of the Barragem do Fratel, a fantastic dam in Portugal in March, 2012. The image is an HDR, or High Dynamic Range, which means multiple exposures were taken, light to dark, and then combined to give a more full tonal range.
Read More →Sunset – Perth, Australia [Photo] – Shot with Samsung Galaxy s2
My brother, Alexis, recently sent me this picture of the Sunset in Perth, taken with his new Samsung Galaxy S2! I must say I’m quite impressed with the image quality generated by this smart-phone.
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