Hey! Been a while... would you like a look at some of my recent photographic stuff? I've recently discovered the tiltshift effect. The collection below holds my examples of the technique. The photos themselves span a time from early 2008 to now, except for the Africa trip in 2001.



And guess what! You can do the same with your photos - get yourself over to www.tiltshiftmaker.com and get playing!… Continue

So I went to Rangitoto on the weekend. I thought I'd be meeting some friends there, but I never saw any of them. Oh well. I was free to putter around with my camera and alternately cover ground at an alarming pace as I wanted to walk around a good part of the island's perimeter and also get up to the summit and back down again before the last boat out. And all this in five hours. Reckon I walked about four of them, with brief pauses for Tiny Teddies and a tin of spaghetti.

Anyway, I'll let the… Continue

250g butter, melted; 1 cup sugar; 1 egg; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 2 cups flour; mix dough and divide into 2 bowls; add a quarter cup of drinking chocolate powder to one, and a quarter cup of flour to the other; knead. I added a handful of choc chips to the dark dough and a half handful of chocolate hail to the light dough. Lay out, roll and chill, then slice and bake at 200°C for about 10 minutes, watching carefully. Have fun!
Note: In the video, I made a double quantity of this… Continue