http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:tulanez&section=today deviantART RSS for by:tulanez en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:32:12 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/26797318/ http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/26797318/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:56:03 PDT
Hopefully my long period of inactivity at deviantArt has not been regarded as turning my back on deviantArt. Apparently my life has been going down a path where, except during holidays, there is very little opportunity to spend time with the camera or to browse the internet. With a busy job, married life and a handful of hobbies and juggling with time, the new reality is that the camera is not getting as much attention as it used to.

After having been through hectic periods, my wife and I returned from a well deserved holiday to China and Hong Kong where we met with friends and managed to see some amazing scenery. Once I'm done with uploading the first pics, I'll start working myself through the hundreds of deviations and activity messages that are in my inbox.

How has your summer been so far?

All the best,

J.



]]> *tulanez http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/20275300/ http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/20275300/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:03:39 PDT
I'm glad that I can say that I'm really pleased with the new camera. And the heavy 100-400 mm L lens is worth carrying around, but does attract lots of attention, which can be a bit unsettling at times. At some point during our holiday I had to reluctantly admit that some of the pain in my back could be related to the heavy load that I have been carrying with around in my single strap bag: a Canon 40D, a 10-22 mm lens, a 24-85 mm lens, a 100-400 mm lens and a tripod. The holidays are over and the pain in the back has gone... and a new lesson learned.

The weather on this island has been absolutely sh*ite on most of the days where I have the time for photography. This means that, save for the occasional sunny day that coincides with leisure time, I see no other way than to keep uploading holiday pics...

I hope that you have had a great summer.



]]> *tulanez http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/18980607/ http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/18980607/ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:48:41 PDT
It has not gone unnoticed by some of you that my activity and presence on dA have sunken to an all time low over the last 4 months. I had not even realised that my subscription expired. I am pleased to say that I have been away for some very good reasons.

During these four months I was mainly busy with preparing for our wedding, which took place on 30 May. Living in London and getting married in Amsterdam is quite a organisational challenge. Many things can be arranged by telephone and internet, but for many other things our physical presence was required, which involved flying in regularly during weekends. We then experienced how much time goes into details. We had clearly thought too lightly about this. Well, in the end the wedding went very well, she kept her word, I'm now married to the love of my life and we had an unforgettable day.

We also moved to a new apartment just a couple of weeks before the wedding (which caused stress levels to peak!!), which was the fifth time that we moved apartment since April 2006. We're really happy at our new place and adore the extra space, which allows for inviting people to our place for a diner or to spend the weekend.

Finally, the third change that is worth mentioning is that I have purchased a new I very much enjoyed my Canon EOS 350D for the last 2 years, which was my first SLR. It has given me lots and has been an important step in development of my photography skills. After having used it for a year or two, I felt that it was time for upgrading. It was based user reviews and press reviews that I have chosen the Canon 40D over the 5D. For it's money, the 40D is a better camera than the 5D and has a better sensor. I have not had the opportunity to take the camera out on a shooting session, but first impressions are very good. I'm looking much forward to my first outdoor shooting session with the 40D.

As summer '08 unfolds, it is already much better than summer '07 ever got. If it stays like this, it means more opportunity to go out shooting.

I am now uploading some of the pictures I took in Scotland recently. I hope the photos will speak for themselves. Please allow me some time to go through the hundreds of deviations and journals...

That's it for now.

Wishing you a great summer,


Tulanez

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]]> *tulanez http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/14943619/ http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/14943619/ Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:06:40 PDT
Summer is more or less over now. I hope your summer was sunnier than mine this year. I eventually took off to Colombia for two weeks and got that touch of summer that I had been craving for. Fortunately there were plenty opportunities for taking pictures. Tonight I'll upload the first bunch. Please be patient for more.

I'm afraid that I will not have much opportunity until early next year to go out to shoot pictures. The last quarter of the year is traditionally hectic for me and working days will become longer and longer as 2007 rallies to its end. That does not mean that I will not be uploading new pictures, but it will be far less than during the first nine months of this year. Yes, i will be on DA during those months and will be following the work of people I watch.

My activity on DA has been poor lately and I'm aware of it. I've been bad at commenting on your work lately, but the fact THAT I watch you on DA is because I like your work!

All the best,

TdlC

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]]> *tulanez http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/13327356/ http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/13327356/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:19:04 PDT . I have been playing around a bit with CSS to kill the time today (I'm grounded by flu...). Not a lot to entertain you, but just a random collection of things I stumbled upon of which I reckoned would be worth sharing with you.

For those of you who are into architecture, you may find the following websites of interest:

(1) Great Buildings Online a database of historical and modern architecture, indexed by architect, name of a building or place. As a source it is far from complete, but definitely interesting to do a search.

(2) Skyscrapernews.com a U.K and Ireland's tall building database and news source. Curious what a 1,500m tall building looks like?


Work by other Deviants that caught my eye:

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Shameless self-promotion:

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Wishing you a great summer,


TdlC

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*tulanez http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/12886732/ http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/12886732/ Tue, 08 May 2007 10:40:52 PDT
I've been shooting in RAW lately, which I have decided to use as default image format going forward. The quality is truly overwhelming (compared to JPEG), which significantly adds to post-processing.

It's good to see that the deviants I watch at dA have been very productive when I was off-line. I'm now going to take my time to go through all their deviations.

]]> *tulanez http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/12364091/ http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/12364091/ Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:52:31 PDT
The days are getting longer and there have been a couple of sunny days here. I see flowers hatching everywhere and tiny green buds emerging from dark skinny branches. I'm looking much forward to go out shooting pics for an entire day again and trying out my new lenses.

My dA subscription expires in a couple of days. I haven't decided on renewal although I have been considering it for some time now. Ever since I joined dA i have been experiencing awfully poor response times during surfing on dA and with the introduction of the new interface all annoyances doubled. Ditching PC and joining the Mac family was the best hardware decision in years, but the dA woes remained unfortunately. But, despite all the annoyances, dA is dA and part of me already knows that at some point I will renew my subscription. And I sure will be lamenting about those annoyances again in 12 months. To be continued....

]]> *tulanez http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/11326350/ http://tulanez.deviantart.com/journal/11326350/ Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:22:59 PST
The year 2006 took an unexpected turn for me in April, causing the year to end up completely different than counted for. The biggest change for me was exchanging Amsterdam for London. Temperatures in London during spring and summer were unprecendentedly high and I reckon I could not have picked a better season to make the move. My 2006 has definately been the year of changes.

I have not been very active at DA lately, which is mostly due to long days at work during the last couple of months of the year and traveling. I'm partway through my backlog of nearly 450 deviations (of which more than 200 are of one person...). To make a good start this year, I'll be uploading a couple of deviations tonight.

We spent New Year's eve in Sydney this year and have fallen in love with the country and its people. Even the security personnel at Sydney airport was very friendly and relaxed, which crossed my mind again when we arrived at Heathrow Airport where we were somewhat underwhelmed by the treatment we were given during the usual security pleasures.

Cheers,


Tulanez

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