deviantART: by:Dienices http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Dienices&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Dienices en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:29:01 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Update http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/24344368/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/24344368/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:12:09 PDT
Just a month from my final exams at uni now - fouth year has been crazy. Lots of work to be done but also lots of kayaking to cram in before leaving and that hasn't left a lot of time for photos. My mountaineering levels are down this year as well so far so there have been less of the sweeping landscapes and impressive lighting effects above the scottish highlands that I'm mostly recognised for.
When I have had time to get the camera out I've therefore been looking more at detail texture and composition; I'll try to get up the shots I like in the next wee while.

D

]]> ~Dienices Winter Time http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/22367574/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/22367574/ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:59:42 PST Recently I've been trying to think much more about composition than I have been until now - trying to get past my mind's eye which sees in the viewfinder what I want to see rather than every little detail.
So, to everyone who cares to read this and have a look at the pics I'll be putting up in the next few days - PLEASE BE RUTHLESSLY CRITICAL. If there is the sligthest detail of a photo that you don't like, or it just didn't grab your attention enough, please just give it a comment and say - that is the only way I can do better next time.
Good things to comment on; colour, lighting, composition (anything distracting, not interesting, too weird for you or not weird enough for you etc), and perhaps most importantly does it have that magic feel about it?

Cheers
D

:-)

]]> ~Dienices Hmm...remarkable http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/21752207/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/21752207/ Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:11:45 PST That was rather unexpected.
Anyway, the weekend trip was largely perfect - winter has arrived early in the northwest and there was a thick layer of powder snow lying even in the floor of the Glens. The sun was shining, with no clouds whatsoever on saturday and only enough to light the sky magically on the sunday. Snowy mountains, frozen rivers, clear sunlight and nothing to do but take pictures - the results of this weekend should be up quite soon.

Dave

]]> ~Dienices Arbitrary Title http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/21093495/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/21093495/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:20:00 PDT Oh, yes, dissertation time too. Yay. Why am I doing a project on lasers when I haven't studied them since first year?

]]> ~Dienices August Pics http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/20250359/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/20250359/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:00:45 PDT
Dave

]]> ~Dienices I need to take pictures! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/19823554/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/19823554/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:48:58 PDT
Been very busy over the last month - work is kayaking and climbing, play is kayaking and climbing - can't really complain there. Except that it left me with 0 time to take pictures thorughout the whole of July! No shortage of great sights and great evenings and mornings, just too tired and too far from the camera on too many occasions!
So, over the next couple of months I have planned.... well, lots more kayaking and climbing actually. BUT I will try to take some cool pics too. BUT you probably won't get to see them until September when I get back to St Andrews and can hook my computer up to the internet again.

Til then,

chao

]]> ~Dienices Summertime http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/19366203/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/19366203/ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:37:58 PDT Rapid synopsis: I'm working as an outdoor instructor at the moment - all the usual stuff; climbing, archery, kayaking. I'm getting as much white water kayaking done as I can and I've registered to do my mountain leader award.

Photography-wise, there's not a lot happening just now - I have too much else going on. One good thing that occured was that I got a really nice set of prints made as a portfolio and got a chance to show it to Ian Cameron (who is one of my particular photographic idols, his website is called transientlight if you're interested). The good result was that he really liked my stuff, and gave me a lot of really good advice about how to pick and choose which photos I choose to print or put online. I don;t have any photo trips up north scheduled just now, so it may be a while before I get any new stuff up.

Out of interest, I'm toying with the idea of buying a Sigma DP1 and a cheap waterproof digital if I can find one. The reason I don't put up many pictures of kayaking or climbing or whatever is that I tend to have my hands full of ice axes or paddle shafts when I'm being bold and daring, so it's a bit uinfeasible to get out the old "Terry" Nikon and "lil' shaky" my tripod.

We'll see :-D

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:-)

]]> ~Dienices Back Again http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/17794365/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/17794365/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:35:32 PDT
So, I just got back from Steall again which marks the end of a full week in the highlands. I'm totally knackered, my kit needs cleaning, I've been sleeping on a cold floor for days and I've washed and changed my clothes once in the past week. Even so, all I want to do now is upload my pics and trot off to an open bothy on Skye. Sadly that won't happen just now as my Spring Break is about to end and I have truly appalling amounts of physics to do over the next couple of months. However, I promise I will take every oppurtunity to try and get that perfect shot.

Sorting through all these pics is gonna take a while, but they'll all be uploaded as soon as I'm done.

]]> ~Dienices North! North! North! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/17741763/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/17741763/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:33:22 PDT So, anyway, I got back from all that yesterday, and in a burst of inspired plan I'm going off to Steall and Nevis again in a few hours.

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]]> ~Dienices AWESOME Weekend! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16945068/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16945068/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:56:25 PST
]]> ~Dienices Where did winter go? http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16848926/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16848926/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:40:26 PST

Anyay, aside from being able to walk around in st andrews with just a t-shirt rather than my customary base layer, jumper and belay jacket, the high pressure areas are creating absolutely perfect evenings for photography - more like a summer eve on the med. Hope it lasts - i quite like the pictures I'm getting!

]]> ~Dienices Snow at last! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16685114/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16685114/ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:00:35 PST
]]> ~Dienices Yay! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16515509/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16515509/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:11:04 PST
hah! as if I didn't know....pics will be coming soon methinks :-)

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]]> ~Dienices Etive Pics http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16105957/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/16105957/ Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:19:59 PST I'll be putting the pics up here soon, but to give a sense of them all being taken in one day I'll be giving them times or numbers for titles, rather than thinking up something along my usual pretentious and irritating lines.

]]> ~Dienices Welcome to my page! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/15252597/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/15252597/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:11:21 PDT Faves and Comments
If you like my pics well enough to add any to your favs, then thankyou in advance - I probably won't come and say thanks on your page becuase I don't have time very often I'm afraid. The same goes for any comments - I will try to send you a reply and check out your own gallery if I have time.

People Worth a look

I'm doing a special feature of one photographer at the mo - I just found this guy's pictures by chance and by my reckoning he is one the absolute best on dA. Don't miss out.

Sergey1984:


Here is the link to his gallery [link]

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Dull Self Interest:

I will have to make a special effort to get out and take some pics - I don't have a lot of time available to photography just now unfortunately - it's all work work work and then CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB! or PAAAAAAAADLE! Hmm, maybe I'll just order that waterproof cam now...


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]]> ~Dienices Welcome to my Page! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/15159869/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/15159869/ Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:32:31 PDT Faves and Comments
If you like my pics well enough to add any to your favs, then thankyou in advance - I probably won't come and say thanks on your page becuase I don't have time very often I'm afraid. The same goes for any comments - I will try to send you a reply and check out your own gallery if I have time.

People worth a look

Here are some pics by some of my favourite photographers and artists of other disciplines here on dA. They are hugely talented and I wish I was a quarter as good.




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Dull self interest:

Life is going pretty well right now. Probably not doing as much work as I should toward my degree in physics, but I'm having far too much fun frankly. Wish I was taking more pics but most of my hobbies (Climbing, Kayaking, Swing Dancing particularly) offer limited oppurtunities for photography while they're actually taking place. The number of pics I've missed because I need to use both hands for holding myself onto any particular cliff face is remarkable. A slim waterproof camera is a likely investment in the near future I thik. Student loans are good for something eh?


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]]> ~Dienices Welcome to my page! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/15139826/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/15139826/ Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:38:14 PDT
Dave

]]> ~Dienices Subscribed http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/15138353/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/15138353/ Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:17:21 PDT

decided I might as well buy a subscription - this is just a token journal update to test out the CSS stuff

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]]> ~Dienices I'm back! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/14449856/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/14449856/ Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:05:01 PDT

]]> ~Dienices Life Rox! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/13634778/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/13634778/ Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:32:33 PDT Basically I'm working as an outdoor instructor from the end of may to the start of september in the scottish highlands, so internet access is a rare thing. So, I'll just say thanks for stopping by and please take a gander at my gallery :-)

]]> ~Dienices Life Rox! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/13634777/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/13634777/ Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:32:32 PDT Basically I'm working as an outdoor instructor from the end of may to the start of september in the scottish highlands, so internet access is a rare thing. So, I'll just say thanks for stopping by and please take a gander at my gallery :-)

]]> ~Dienices Life Rox! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/13634775/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/13634775/ Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:32:15 PDT Basically I'm working as an outdoor instructor from the end of may to the start of september in the scottish highlands, so internet access is a rare thing. So, I'll just say thanks for stopping by and please take a gander at my gallery :-)

]]> ~Dienices Hmmm http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/12944583/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/12944583/ Sun, 13 May 2007 17:23:14 PDT
I nearly drowned in a kayak :-(
I went mountaineering the that weekend :-)
I came back and uploaded pics :-)
I got a chest infection :-(
I went to hospital and got antiobiotics :-/
I got better after a while :-)
I went back to uni :-)
I ate all my easter chocolate in a day :-O
I partied and went to various dances <:-D
I worked like an automaton to finish my physics coursework X-P
I turned twenty and was pleasantly surprised when an unexpected party turned up to celebrate :-)
I sat by a beach bonfire at 1am singing American Pie with a drunken canadian :-)
I went for a run on a rainy night :-)
I played Kayak polo for the first time and decided I like it :-)
I developed a like for solo climbing :-O
I cheered when Malta gave us 12 points in the eurovision song contest :-D
I got hugged by a girl I didn't know :-)
I downloaded Stevie Wonder music and chilled out :-)
I learned some new moves for the charleston :-)
I got sick of my exams before I've even had the first one :-)

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]]> ~Dienices Never, ever again! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11608435/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11608435/ Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:29:43 PST
There were moments when I wondered if I would actually make it off the mounatin -
I was standing in an extremely steep gully losing the feeling in my hands and feet, hanging onto the rope attached to my climbing partner, from who I'd had no signals for twenty minutes, and was out of sight. Couldn't see the ground or the summit due to the cloud and rain - the snow was turning to slush right under my feet and big lumps of ice kept dropping past me. Retreat was unfeasible as I was on the low end of a fifty metre rope with James close to the summit, with a couple hundred metres of drop beneath and behid me - we had to finish and try to walk off. The wind was about sixty, gusting seventy on the slope, and was coming straight from my back.

Hurricane force winds, melting snow, drizzle and rain, spindrift and literally very painful hail that forced us to drop and hang on to the ground with our axes to protect our eyes and not get blown away. - one near fall that happened when I was above James and going for the summit, which left me hanging pretty much from a single insecure axe hold - had to get the other axe in and drag myself up by the arms.

So, not a good day, but not necessarily bad now that I'm on the other side. An experience, certainly.

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]]> ~Dienices YAY!!! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11471542/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11471542/ Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:31:11 PST Times are good again :-)

]]> ~Dienices Gah!!!! http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11337605/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11337605/ Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:24:45 PST Also, lets not forget the faulty fire alarm in the flat above mine which means that the building gets evacuated every few hours or so.
Hmm....let's see what else? Oh, well, I just missed out on getting a Canon EOS 3000V for about 60 quid yesterday, which would have been nice.
So apart from all that, I'm trying to avoid spending loads of money on something frivolous (difficult due to the recent arrival of my student loan), and trying not to think about all the places that I can't afford to travel to this summer.

:-/

]]> ~Dienices Deviation Resubmission http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11297754/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11297754/ Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:03:16 PST
Cheers!

:-)

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]]> ~Dienices Bored http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11230869/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11230869/ Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:33:29 PST
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]]> ~Dienices The Weather Guy http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11002228/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/11002228/ Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:18:21 PST
"Tornados are not uncommon in Britain."

Well, personally, I haven't noticed very many around, maybe it's a london thing...

]]> ~Dienices meh http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/10926846/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/10926846/ Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:53:00 PST

Anyway, I have a couple that are ok.

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]]> ~Dienices Are people seeing my full gallery? http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/10735980/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/10735980/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:00:33 PST
]]> ~Dienices Expect a big upload http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/10721279/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/10721279/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:18:50 PST First off cheers for giving my pics a glance, if you happen to enjoy them then you might wish to know that I've got about 25 more ready to go soon - all of the usual sunsets, water shots, ducks etc and a few slightly more creative pics I hope you'll enjoy.

Coming soon...

Ice Post
Beyond the Light
Focus
Victor Emanuel Victor
Glass Abstractus
Multisplash
Juniper Wave
Sun Ring
Water Glow
Shadow Comb
Splash Photography
Sun Sword
Bedtime Swimmers
Curlover
Munro Glow
Kilted Tomfoolery
Hard Grit
Cobble Glow
Autumn

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]]> ~Dienices Devious Journal Entry http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/10644200/ http://Dienices.deviantart.com/journal/10644200/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:33:23 PST
Hmm, need to get more people to see these if I'm ever going to consider selling any pictures - if people helped to spread word about my page I would be eternally grateful. Seriously, I'd buy people kegs.

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