Digital cameras today are being made with more and more megapixels and the general feeling is that more means better – and more expensive. Megapixels and resolution is a tricky subject and quite difficult to absorb for the average camera user. As a rough rule of thumb more megapixels means greater detail or resolution which [...]

Today I thought I would mention another great add-on that is of interest to lovers of images in any shape or form. PicLens is a web browser plugin made by Cooliris that provides interactive full-screen slideshows of online images. The plugin is available for Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer. At present, the software is compatible [...]

Due to the time of the year and the heavy rain this year, the forests here are full of mushrooms/toadstools/svamp and this has brought out the mushroom pickers. There is a lot of forest here and even with a large proportion of the population out picking mushrooms the chances of seeing anyone else are slim. [...]