Monthly Archives: July 2010

Fox!

6

Wait for fox, show the chicken, throw the chicken toward it, wipe hands, point camera and start clicking hopefully. These are untouched. Top image was the first piece of chicken, second and third are sequential.

No fox

Reply

Every night the foxes visit and night has become late afternoon. They will sit or lie at the end of the garden awaiting their grub. Of those that visit none are tame, all keep their distance but because there are 4 (at least) and a finite amount of food one of them is always checking early. Anyway, he appeared and I went to get the long lens on the camera and as you’d expect he didn’t hang around for me. Ended up in the broken greenhouse with the long lens hoping he’d come back so I could get a shot of him looking at the house. Never been sure of what the telephoto / macro thing was all about for the lens I had so I played, took a stack of pictures and – I think – worked it out.

fir cones
I was only happy with one though. A couple of the others could be improved with some image manipulation but I can’t be bothered and I’d not like the result anyway. So this one is untouched (apart from resizing to 550px) and yes, that was the image I was hoping for and I quite like it.

I’m hoping for the fox later….

Pain pain go away

1

My hand and fingers do not hurt because I have been more careful using them and wearing the wrist brace nightly. I get no pains in my arm which is good. The height of the chair I have altered and lifting the monitors so they are at eye level has also helped. So everything should be good. Hmm. I took so much care elsewhere that the muscles at the back of my shoulder are crying in pain now. 800mg of ibuprofen makes them shut up for a while. So again I looked at what I am obviously doing wrong.

I use a full Apple keyboard. On the right there are the arrow keys (which I use) and the number pad (which I do not). Now, the wacom sits to the right, butted up to the keyboard. So I have to leave the keys and my arm must go through some 90 degrees passing over the arrow keys, passing over the numbers just to use the touchpad. Now that can’t be good. Doesn’t matter where I put the kb that 90 degrees stays. And I realised I had moved the kb left a bit. So just to type my left hand is traveling further even though I think the touchpad is closer. And that’s why I think I’ve swapped one set of pain for a new set. It really hurts too.

So off to Amazon and I’ve ordered a wireless kb that has no numbers or arrow section. I will be able to have that directly in front of me and movement to the touchpad should be in the order of 45 degrees. Having next week away will let the shoulder rest (bar luggage moving and wheelchair pushing) and when I get back I’ll start again with hopefully no discomfort.