It was 1989 when Jim, Mary and the dog
Dalepoured some concrete. I was doing some building demolition and found these at a Dandenong Ranges House. Jim was Walter James Bishop. Mary was his wife. Dog is <unknown>
Making a neighbourhood street map from Google Maps
For a community-building project, I needed to create an A3 sized street map of my neighbourhood.So I screen captured several Google Map pages at the required resolution. Leaving me with…
ImageMagicK throwing a “convert: Invalid SOS parameters for sequential JPEG” warning
C:\Pictures>"magick convert -border 3024x! old.jpg new.jpg convert: Invalid SOS parameters for sequential JPEG ‘old.jpg’ @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/398. In this case, caused by a bug with how a Samsung phone writes jpeg…
How to avoid photo cropping by adding a border
So in Notes on ImageMagick’s –border option, I mentioned that I had photos that don’t fit on 6x4 photo paper.Here’s an example which I uploaded to the photo printing website:The…
Notes on ImageMagick’s –border option
I have photos whose aspect ration are not 1.5, which means they will be cropped when I use 6:4 photography paper.The important thing to remember is that ImageMagick will keep…
A quick way to get the dimensions for a bunch of digital photo images.
This SourceFile ImageSize adipiscing.jpg 2400x2400 dolor.jpg 1920x2400 sit.jpg 1602x2400 ipsum.jpg 1731x2400 consectetuer.jpg 1602x2400 Lorem.jpg 1602x2400 Maecenas.jpg 2400x720 elit.jpg 2400x613 in other words. ExifTool will do that for you: exiftool -csv…
Stamping a photo with a watermark
So I wanted to stamp a large number of photos with a watermark, so I could share printed copies with people.ie.I did it by using FastStone Image Viewer “Tools\Batch Convert…
S.E.C. Substation–as seen in Frankston
Wikipedia: State Electricity Commission of Victoria
Space Invaders Art
Spied this Space Invaders artwork on the way into work the other day. (cnr Rothsay Lane and Flinders Lane, Melbourne) There is a walking tour you can do.
Same place, 9 years later.
Top end of Collins Street Melbourne, 2005 and 2014