tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052506442520771502011-11-27T15:27:49.651-08:00This is my personal blog. All the views, images, text found here are mine alone and do not represent the views or opinions of anyone else.Pedro G. Diashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04029765308607011740noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105250644252077150.post-90224363170025172752009-07-16T11:02:00.000-07:002009-07-16T11:07:51.795-07:00What to do when you're at home feeling sorry for yerself because the back is aking and you're sore from lying in bed for 2 days in a row?<br /><br />Pull out yer macro lens, attach it to your favoured Nikon DSLR and tippytoe out into your garden and see what lies hidden in the microverse of small things blown up out of proportion.<br /><br />You'll never guess what I use this for!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rhzkwfwI/AAAAAAAAAJM/2Gjr4OFn8VU/s1600-h/DSC_3178_extr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rhzkwfwI/AAAAAAAAAJM/2Gjr4OFn8VU/s320/DSC_3178_extr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359120310118416130" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My bicycle's back tyre. Looks like I'm slacking!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rhlaZghI/AAAAAAAAAJE/nMs68VVYCmU/s1600-h/DSC_3165_extr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rhlaZghI/AAAAAAAAAJE/nMs68VVYCmU/s320/DSC_3165_extr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359120306316870162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Small bit of my new porch<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rhbd8hbI/AAAAAAAAAI8/oEyg_yn6TO8/s1600-h/DSC_3161_extr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rhbd8hbI/AAAAAAAAAI8/oEyg_yn6TO8/s320/DSC_3161_extr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359120303647393202" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />An age-old copper spear for grounding my electricity. Can you spot the insect?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rhIsS7wI/AAAAAAAAAI0/Av0N4K-RVzE/s1600-h/DSC_3152_extr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rhIsS7wI/AAAAAAAAAI0/Av0N4K-RVzE/s320/DSC_3152_extr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359120298607308546" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />One of Bergfrid's roses, now in full blossom<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rg3UBMsI/AAAAAAAAAIs/LhvinnHimbQ/s1600-h/DSC_3140_extr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/Sl9rg3UBMsI/AAAAAAAAAIs/LhvinnHimbQ/s320/DSC_3140_extr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359120293942080194" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/105250644252077150-9022436317002517275?l=digitaldias.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pedro G. Diashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04029765308607011740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105250644252077150.post-82167643671644100652009-05-21T00:16:00.000-07:002009-05-21T00:53:14.604-07:00<div align="left"> <strong>R<span style="font-size:130%;">ocked and moved!</span></strong><br />After a company trip to London, where a visit to the Musical "<a href="http://www.wewillrockyou.co.uk/">We will rock you</a>" at the <a href="http://www.dominiontheatre.co.uk/">Dominion Theatre</a> was included, I instantly became a<a href="http://www.queenonline.com/"> Queen</a>-fan reborn. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">The joy of recognizing phrases of text embedded into the dialogues as well as the masterful performance all neatly embedded into an unexpected, but awesome plot with advanced stage effects. Even if you're not a big Queen fan, I would dare to say that you're going to love this piece, and I would dare to say that it is a good enough reason to spend a week-end in London. When I came home, I instantly logged on to Amazon and ordered the albums that I didn't have: <em>Innuendo</em> and <em>Made in heaven. </em>As far as male rock artists go, nobody comes near to what Freddy was (and still is).</div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/ShUEIxddglI/AAAAAAAAAHk/O3xReGgnFjc/s1600-h/_DSC2764.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338177482079961682" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 211px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/ShUEIxddglI/AAAAAAAAAHk/O3xReGgnFjc/s320/_DSC2764.JPG" border="0" /></a>Too early for punk!</span></strong></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/ShUD6oAvC6I/AAAAAAAAAHc/aekPIULTsCs/s1600-h/_DSC2764.JPG"></a>As I've been to London more times than I care to admit, I was happy to learn of <a href="http://www.camdenlock.net/">Camden Market</a> and went there with a friend that shares my passion for photography. I suspect that we were too early for the famous punk and goth styled peeps that roam those areas of London, only a few were up and walking about</div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><br />But there were still tons of cool things to look at, masterful plates made by oriental chefs, guitar players along the streets, marching bands making the well-known oompah noise as well as bag-pipe players, jugglers, stilt-walkers (pic) and of course, a million T-shirts for sale.<br /></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">All in all, I really enjoyed London this time! </div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Images </strong></span></div><div align="left">These are a few of the images that I took from the London trip</div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338180531004704498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/ShUG6PlxBvI/AAAAAAAAAHs/PFpBtuUPUhM/s320/_DSC2755.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">Band player in Camden Market<br /></p><p align="left"><br /><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338181524340017858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 239px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/ShUH0EDXCsI/AAAAAAAAAH0/LO8xFMNjL9U/s320/holy.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="left">Soap Bubble in a moment of divinity<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/105250644252077150-8216764367164410065?l=digitaldias.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pedro G. Diashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04029765308607011740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105250644252077150.post-58430908435904908542008-09-10T23:09:00.001-07:002008-09-10T23:25:19.733-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_407KsfCPFMg/SMi2MjmD_eI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jjv1xC9vuI0/s1600-h/image-upload-202-793673.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_407KsfCPFMg/SMi2MjmD_eI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jjv1xC9vuI0/s320/image-upload-202-793673.jpg" /></a><br /><span>From a company trip to Nice in France earlier this year. I was just testing how to blog directly from my cellphone - if you can read this, then it would seem to be working nicely!<br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/105250644252077150-5843090843590490854?l=digitaldias.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pedro G. Diashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04029765308607011740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105250644252077150.post-45999954769059256212008-09-10T22:56:00.000-07:002008-09-10T22:56:28.875-07:00<div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/SMizDNz5B7I/AAAAAAAAAEI/H-_VBCSF6Ao/s1600-h/_DSC0474%5B1%5D.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/SMizDNz5B7I/AAAAAAAAAEI/H-_VBCSF6Ao/s320/_DSC0474%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div>This little fella was shot during the last sunny days of the summer of 2008.. From here on out, there will be lots and lots of rain, snow, ice, and darkness. (Yay, aren't we the big optimist today!)<div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/105250644252077150-4599995476905925621?l=digitaldias.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pedro G. Diashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04029765308607011740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105250644252077150.post-49611004142737300802008-09-10T22:53:00.000-07:002008-09-10T22:53:38.586-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/SMiyYRLqBUI/AAAAAAAAAEA/M9MvjHJMV6w/s1600-h/_DSC0837.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i_dcVN3-jU4/SMiyYRLqBUI/AAAAAAAAAEA/M9MvjHJMV6w/s320/_DSC0837.jpg" border="0" /></a> Shooting others may result in myself getting shot aswell!<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/105250644252077150-4961100414273730080?l=digitaldias.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pedro G. 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