June 20, 2010

I’ve redesigned the main page at cutflat.net using fancypants html 5 and jQuery. It’s got

• A fullscreen background image scaled to the window size
• Larger pictures in the collections
• New pictures in collections
• More collections – all the coffee photos form a new collection, for example
• Keyboard shortcuts in the gallery viewer (use left, right, and escape to navigate inside a collection)
• A pop-up thumbnail menu underneath each collection gallery

Take a gander and if you have any comments or suggestions, let me know; I’d love to hear them.

May 18, 2010

These photos were taken from a plane at cruising altitude over Western and South Australia. The scene is blurry because the window was grubby, as they always are. I like the tilt-shift-like effect it’s had on these pictures; I feel like it adds to the surreal feeling that the desert always gives me, even from 10km up. I’ve post-processed the images more than usual to try to clean up the haze that’s inevitable in pictures from that height.

I wonder whether anyone was driving along that little bit of that long dusty road that day?

December 1, 2009

While I was overseas I drank a lot of coffee. I drink a fair bit of coffee here in Australia, but man alive, Italians know how to pour a good espresso, and I thought it would simply be rude not to sample roughly as much as possible while there. After a few days I decided I would try to take a picture of each one, because in fact coffees are extremely photogenic – the different table textures and cups, and sugar packets and saucers, make each one interesting. I’ve ended up with a set of photos that I’m quite pleased with.

These coffees are from Italy, Switzerland, Croatia, and France. The Italian ones are the really short, delicious ones. Swiss coffees are, for the most part, what we would call a long black here – and as much as I hate to confirm a cliched stereotype, the quality of the coffee really does decrease the moment you cross the border from Italy. The take-away coffee is from France, where you can buy a reasonable espresso on a train.

If you’re interested, you can see these photos in higher resolution in this set on flickr.