Posted by: mrpurpleduck | June 26, 2009

A Bad Feather Day

A Bad Feather Day

I really like this one, it’s now my forth most Interesting photo on Flickr.

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | June 17, 2009

Alert Otter!

Alert Otter

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | May 29, 2009

A New Arrival

Duckling's Holding April's Hand

Our Duckling has decided to join us in the big wide world, so far it’s been a lot of fun.

I’m afraid we are planning on keeping most pictures of her restirted to only Friends and Family on Flickr. If you are one of our friends or family and have an Flickr/Yahoo account please do feel free to add both of us (my wife’s account is mrs_purpleduck) as a contact and let us know off Flickr that you would like access to the other photos.

Photo Geek stuff: Photo taken with Canon 100mm Macro lens with on-axis (below lens) off camera flash.

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | May 17, 2009

Sea Eagle

Sea Eagle (1)

Taken on a recent trip to Edinburgh Zoo, I hear they are getting some wolfs again. So another trip will be required very soon.

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | April 20, 2009

Emperor Penguin’s New Clothes

Emperor Penguin's New Clothes

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | April 19, 2009

Rainbow Lorikeet

Rainbow Lorikeet

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | April 13, 2009

Musselburgh Sunrise

Musselburgh Sunrise

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | April 11, 2009

Fisherrow Harbour Star Trails

Fisherrow Harbour Star Trails

I took my first Star Trails this evening, not too bad for my first attempt. There’s other photos of Fisherrow Harbour and Musselburgh at night in this set on Flickr.

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | March 29, 2009

CCNA Security

For the about the last 2 years my Cisco certifications have been mostly on hold, for a number of reasons (namely a study break, doing a ITIL certification, work and then DIY). However last week I passed the Cisco IINS (640-553) exam, this means that I can add CCNA Security to my list of Cisco certifications.

This is quite a new certification, as it was only released last year. The subject matter of the course is very similar to that of ISCW and SND. This should be a great help for me as my next Cisco exam should be ISCW, as I really would like to finally add CCNP to my growing list of certifications.

Posted by: mrpurpleduck | March 29, 2009

DIY Camera customisation

In last weeks Amateur Photographer (14th March 2009) there was a article on DIY flash customisation. There was instructions on how to build a simple flash grid; however the really hard part was finding black straws. After a quick trip to Ikea, I had some straws which were only half black.

This is the test photo, there’s an version taken without the flash grid the jump.

Mask with DIY Flash Grid

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