Green Tomato Ketchup

October 18th, 2009

Makes approx 1.5l (maybe a bit less if you reduce it more)

Ingredients

  • 1.8Kg Green Tomatoes
  • 2 Apples
  • 2 Medium Onions
  • 250g Sugar
  • 1.5 tsp Pickling Spice
  • 1 large Red Chilli (stalk removed)
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • 350ml White Wine Vinegar

Method

  1. Peel and roughly chop onion & apple (remove core)
  2. Stick everything in food processor until finely chopped
  3. Bring to boil and simmer for 1 – 1.5 hours
  4. Food process again
  5. Pass through sieve
  6. Reduce to desired consistency
  7. Bottle into sterilised bottles
  8. Enjoy!

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Doncaster Moorings

May 5th, 2009

Got back after night out in Doncaster and decided to take some pictures.

Lots of rubbish (possibly due to the amount of beer consumed while out) but this one appears to have come out alright.

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Cat Photos

April 28th, 2009

Cat’s make great subjects :)

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Blackberry Pale Ale

April 28th, 2009

Looks like I’m going to have to try making this :)

Make: Online : Blackberry pale ale

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Holy Trials Biking Batman

April 26th, 2009

Bit late with blogging this but hey :)

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cat-in-a-box

April 25th, 2009

Photo Manipulation

March 15th, 2009

Erik Johansson produces some stunning work. Well worth a look.

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Snake has a name

March 2nd, 2009

Skittles

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Snake

March 1st, 2009

Early Birthday Present :)

My Snake

He seems to be setting in well. He had an hour or 2 in his hide and has since been exploring his new surroundings.

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HDR Experiment

February 25th, 2009

After my last blog post I decided tonight to have a quick bash at creating a HDR photo of where we are currently moored (better 1/2 lives on a boat)

Didn’t finish work till 22:30 so got back to boaty and, after some food, went outside to take some photos.

As this was purely an experiment I didn’t spend too much time getting the composition ‘just right’ or playing around too much with the exposure. Just fired off 6 shots, increasing the shutter speed every time (I really should have been knocking down the f-stop but what they hell).

Anyhoo, back on boaty I fired up qtpfsgui and loaded the images in. Once done, accepting the defaults, I entered the tone map dialogue to create the LDR output. Now there are 6 or 7 different algorithms to choose from and I ended up picking the mantiuk one.

Here is the result:

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Looks ok, although not amazing.

So off to google to find some tutorials. There are quite a few around but this one caught my eye: HDR tutorial: how to create HDR photos with free Qtpfsgui and GIMP

This tutorial recommends using 2 different algorithms and combining the output using Victoria Quays - Attempt 2

Colours are a bit more vivid in that shot. Still some experimentation to be done but qtpfsgui definitely shows some potential. I just wish the software had a better name ;)

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