James Stephens

Here are some photographs from the beautiful village of St. Ives on the north coast of Cornwall.
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A couple of days ago I was out walking with a friend in the English South Downs and took a shot of sunlight filtering through clouds onto a distant landscape. At the time rays of sunshine were visible but when I opened the image in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) they seemed to have disappeared. This post details how a couple of simple adjustments were made to the image to bring it back to life.
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Where and how to see the eclipse. An interactive Google map, observing tips, books, travel tips, Blog, photography tips, photographs and videos.

All you need to know about the March 29 Solar Eclipse!
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Canon announced the EOS 30D a few days ago at PMA 2006, this years Photo Marketing Association convention.
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Here are some photographs I took while spending a day in Brighton with friends.

Brighton is actually Britain’s most popular seaside town and despite it being a cold winter’s day with a strong easterly wind, there were still plenty of people about.
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Fldiff is a useful and simple to use graphical differencing program that supports file, directory, CVS, and Subversion diff viewing.
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Here are some photographs looking down on Belfast City and the surrounding area from the surrounding hills.

After a sizeable Ulster Fry in Bewley’s coffee shop I took a walk up Cavehill and surrounding area. Cavehill looks down on the whole of Belfast City and on a clear day from McCarts Fort at the top of the hill you can see a long way north up the Antrim coast and south towards the Mourne mountains.

View of Cavehill from Carnmoney Hill
Canon 5D with 24-105 f/4L IS lens @ ISO 100
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This post details how to add a custom header in Mimedefang. It’s purpose here is to tag email from which attachments are removed, making it easier for spamassassin to identify and operate on such messages.
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Genesis is a Wordpress theme that has the following features:
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Mozilla Thunderbird possesses excellent junk mail controls which through Bayesian analysis of your email and careful training are capable of learning which messages are ham and which messages are spam.
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This post describes a simple and effective technique for producing an image with higher dynamic range from two differently exposed images using Adobe Photoshop CS2. It is amenable to use with jpeg images so you don’t have to shoot in RAW to use it.
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This post describes how to perform in-place editing of a file using Perl.
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Here are some things I have been doing over the past few weeks to boost and monitor traffic to this site.
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The default behaviour of Mozilla/Firefox is to open Postscript files within the browser. This post details how to change that behaviour so that they open in a separate application window.
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I found this interesting article by Scott Kelby (editor of “Photoshop User” magazine) which is, believe it or not, published on the Microsoft website …
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