The Midnight Isle is where I post articles on visual artistry - primarily photography and image manipulation, but you can also expect to see more on 2d and 3d graphics in the future.
For other avenues of my creativity, please visit Sorcerer's Isle, where you will find writings on a variety of other subjects.
The team behind the StackOverflow Q&A programming site have created a place for people to propose new Q&A sites to be created - once enough people have voted in favour of a proposal, the site gets created.
Although it has plenty of flaws (which I'm happy to point out), the Stack Exchange platform is still a good way of getting quick and comprehensive answers to questions, and it's much better than many of the forums out there.
So, there are two of these proposals which I am following, and if you are into either photography or 3d graphics you should definitely consider checking out these links, and following the proposals too:
These sites will only be created when enough people have followed/committed to them, so please spread these links to anyone else who might be interested.
In the comments for a recent Stack Overflow blog article, Chris asked:
Can somebody photoshop the top 7 SO users by reputation (Jon Skeet's face onto Superman) onto that comic, just to make me chuckle!
Which sounded like fun, so I went ahead and did it.
Was a fairly quick job, so there's some rough bits, but I hope you like it, Chris.
A few times recently I've seen pictures that are nice, but that could be made even nicer with just a few simple tweaks, and I really wanted to point out what could be done but didn't want to appear rude or unappreciative of the photos.
So it got me thinking, maybe I could do a series of tutorials on quick and easy ways to improve images. People would submit the photos that they would want to see worked on, and I would demonstrate a few simple steps that can be done to make a better picture.
And I've decided that I'll go ahead and do it. :)
Whether you know the name or not, there's a good chance you have seen Eileen Donan at some point - it is often described as the most romantic and most photographed castle in Scotland. The vast majority of pictures you see tend to be similar to this:
So, of course, when I visit it I am immediately looking for ways to be original; to take a picture that doesn't simply not look like the one above, but that goes completely against what people expect to see.