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Google Wave

I’ve been Google waving a lot this last week – talking with customers, staff and other friends. Its a pretty cool system.

If you have had an invite and cant figure the thing out these resources may help. If you are on teh wave find me by adding jethroconsultants@gmail.com.

• Complete Guide to Google Wave
• Google Wave Cheat Sheet

Photography How To’s and other tools bookmarked to read this week:

• White Seamless – Studio How To
• 13 High speed Photography images
• Big Huge Labs Mosaic Maker – hers is the mosaic i created from my latest project, 365 days of Bokeh.

David du Chemin has some cheap eBooks for sale including:

I love saying that – and I love riding it. My Gary Fisher Fat Possum (aptly named Mans Best Friend) successfully carried me through today's challenge – 13kms of very steep technical riding through a national park. With mixtures of very fast downhill and lots of big long jumps, to tight technical hair raising switch back descent of a cliff – dropping vertically 400 metres in about 5 minutes straight, to technical singletrail with lots of boulders, fallen logs, roots and twists and turns including several creek crossings and loose rocks, this track was a beauty. We elected to do the downhill direction and have a support vehicle drop us off  and collect us at the bottom. Very wise choice for even the downhill had us exhausted from the constant steering changes and technical riding skills required.

The boys managed to tape my phone camera to my chest (thanks be to duct tape!) and I got these two short videos of the steep descent section. I missed the first third of the descent due to technical difficulties (bumped the off button!). I rode with Michael and Peter and Kitty was the support driver today.

I don’t know why I seem to write massive link posts lately – maybe because i have been very busy with my three major priorities, family, work and photography. However this is a priority as well, so I need to allocate some time to write soon. In the mean time I am going to clear my browser of the tabs that are open there.

Here goes – and have a great weekend. Oh – and this photo was my favourite of the week. I took it in low light, no flash using the 70-200 2.8 IS L Lens.

Exposure 1/128, Aperture f2.8, focal length 170mm, ISO 2000

Photography Links

• A Beginner’s Guide to Flickr by Elizabeth Halford – I love flickr also – an awesome tool
• Helping Your Client Prepare for Their Shoot – Dress to Match the Sofa? by Elizabeth Halford
• 5 Tips for Photographing Children – some great tips here
• 3 Affordable E-books to Improve Your Photography by Darren Rowse – thinking of getting these
• How to Capture Motion Blur in Photography by Darren Rowse - learning this technique is going to be fun
• Jasmine Star – an awesome wedding photography blog
• I love this photo gypsy meets gangster
• Jakob Aungiers – this is an amazing portfolio