I'm tagged @ Lamot, Mechelen, Belgium

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I've been tagged (It was bound to happen)

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So let's play that tag game, too many things you don't wanna know :

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1. I'm 41 years old.

2. I work for the Belgian national gas company as a computer programmer.

I've been programming for 18 years now, currently developing in C#.

 

3. I love cooking and people say I'm very good at it.

 

Love Italian and Thai cuisine the most.

My style of cooking could be describe as very spicey, not in the sense of hot but

with plenty of herbs, packed with flavour.

I never follow a recipe, only read it, put it away and just give it a personal twist.

 

I cook dinner almost every evening.

 

4. I have 2 vertebrae discs which are too flat giving me backpains every single day.

Some days are worse than others, I don't take painkillers for it (yet).

 

5. I'm addicted to music, love all kinds of music, but not all music, I think most commercial music is crap.

 

Some of the styles I love:

 

° psychedelic

° space rock

° rock

° psychedelic rock

° jazz ( the slow kind )

° blues ( the very rudimentary Mississipi Delta kind )

° Electronic.

° Classical music ( instrumental only ).

° Lounge

° Dub

° Industrial Metal (like Tool)

 

Most people don't understand my music choice, because they stick to one category only.

 

6. I love walking but sometimes my one of my knees blocks and I can barely walk.

The problem goes away by given the knee enough rest.

 

7. I used to be a very shy boy when I was young.

 

8. I've been wearing glasses since the age of 7.

 

9. I've practised shotokan karate for 8 years but had to stop because of 4, the problem

with the knee could be a consequence of this as well.

I had a brown belt and only needed to succeed in 2 more exams for a black belt.

 

10. I started drawing at the age of 17 and although I never had any art lessons was good

at it from the start.

I do some oilpainting as well.

I make cut outs in MDF.

I make logos for companies.

I have my own company and website for all my artistic stuff : www.erroba.be.

 

11. I was a good skier 27 years ago ;) Never did it since.

 

12. I bought my first digital camera in june 2007 just before my second marriage.

 

13. Started really serious taking snaps (no not Schnapps ) when I discovered HDR in december 2007.

 

14. Joined flickr on january the 22th 2008.

 

16. I've just sold my first two images.

It's about time ;)

I've just been published with 6 photos in our local 'Mechelen Infogids 2009-2010'

a local bi-annual info guide of Mechelen city which is freely distributed to all

homes in Mechelen and surrounding communities.

I hope this will boost my sales a bit ;)

 

17. I think 16 points is way too few to actually tell much about one self.

Sorry, I'll make it a bit more funny.

 

18. I regularly suffer from sinus infections, I had an operation to straigthen the

inside of my nose in order to get rid of the reoccuring problem, it only gave

me improvement for the first two years.

 

The post operation days were a bit traumatic :

 

° Felt like suffocating when falling as sleep : The body has the natural reflex of breathing through the nose, but that was all closed with bandages...

° Sometimes you'll have to sneeze, you get medicine to avoid this, but they don't seem to be 100% full prove, guess what happens next... I'll spare you the details, please !

° It's only good for one thing, you loose 5 kilos in 5 days ! Can't be healthy.

Everything taste the same : like nothing at all ! I have this theory

about people that will eat almost anything, they sure don't taste much ... ROFL.

° Fifth day the bandages come off, guess what happens, I'll spare you the details again, please !

° First time you wipe your nose when you're back home, guess what happens, a plastic support frame comes out of your nose and it looks way too big to fit back in ! Sorry for those details, so please don't ask me about the previous ones, LOL !

 

19. I have a sleeping disorder. Catch about 3 to 4 hours of sleep every night.

Guess what? I'm a bit weary from time to time.

Sometimes I catch some good sleep and wake up like a different person.

 

20. I'm a zombie in the morning due to 19 and despite of this I think my morning

photoshoots have been the most productive ones.

 

21. I love a good glass of wine or a single malt wishky.

Stopped drinking wine in the evening since it is most likely the cause of 19.

 

22. I don't care if you're white, black, yellow, red or blue, gay or lesbian,

religious or not (*)

 

(*) Everything is ok with me as long as you don't cause any harm,

which can be very debateable...

 

23. I like a good discussion which is based on descent sane arguments.

 

24. I'm over emotional and can shed a tear real quick.

Really troublesome sometimes.

 

25. I am way to honest ;)

Also see 41.

 

26. 19 is caused by my overactive brain, can't make it stop to think.

Giving me plenty of difficult tasks is the key, I'll have them done

in no time and I actually sleep at night.

Can only work under pressure, only photography and art I do in a very

relaxed way, hell I need more !-)

 

27. I am a day-dreamer.

 

28. I have a short attention span due to 27 and 26.

 

29. I have a permenant ear damage due to too loud music in concerts nowadays.

I always have custom made earplugs with me to ensure this will not get worse.

I have a constant peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep noise in my left ear which will never stop.

 

30. I am not afraid of what comes after my death, since I'm quite sure that will be nothing and at last I will no longer hear that peeeeeeeeeep noise again and have a good amount of 'sleep' ;)

Feels like heaven already !

 

31. I love absurd humor.

 

32. I love a good movie, a good book, Sci-fi and fantasy, art & science.

Don't watch much TV, only documentaries and an occasional exception, I rarther

process a photo, masturbate, spend some time on flickr.

 

° note 1 : Masturbation doesn't make you blind, my eyes improved after the age of 7

and no I wasn't masturbating before that age, ROFL and no I didn't start at 7

° note 2 : when the word 'flickr' is pronounced in Dutch is means gay guy, yes read it loud and clear: H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L so be aware dear flickr friends ( pun intended ) next time you give your business card to a man wearing a pink shirt, ROFL.

Note : I'm not gay.

° note to myself : You can not be that honest !

 

33. Who is reading this shit, should fave my shot, ROFL !

I want my number 1 (Cries like a baby ;) )

 

34.I can be sarcastic from time to time.

 

35. There are a few things I hate about myself : If I get real angry I can shout real hard,

sorry I can't help it. I can be very stubborn.

 

36. I have a very good visual memory but a lousy one in every other respect.

Due to this, I can't usual remember what I was angry about in the first place ;)

 

Memory is mainly built up during sleep, give me complex tasks and I get better while

doing them, because my memory gets better too.

 

I've written programs that write programs for me, because the complex tasks get boring too, so the next thing I'll do is invent hard stuff for myself. Remember that all

my tools speed up my work and I have plenty of time.

 

You can hire me ;)

 

37. I believe in Zeus, Apollo, Ra, Thor, Baäl, Allah, God, Vaneshu...

No seriously, I believe in one God less than you do, so I'm an Atheist.

I'm sure I've already lost a few contacts, comments and faves because of that,

some people have already blocked me because of this, I can only say one thing 'How religious of you !-)'

There I lost some more perhaps.

 

40. I think we still live in the middle ages.

 

In a civilized world there is no place for :

 

° War

° Poverty

° Racism

° Sexism

° Corruption

° Child abuse

° Animal abuse

° Borders

° Organized religions

° Royalty

° Insurrance which is over expensive (also see my next point).

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In a civilized world we would try to strive towards a single language.

 

All these things create groups, separation, friction, us and them, etc

 

People must play games and don't watch so much TV: it makes you sick.

 

41. Note for my insurrance : I'm a pathetical liar !

 

42. Is the answer to life and everything.

 

° For the people who read binary that's 101010, true false true false true false.

° For all other people, there are 10 people who can read binary :

Those who can and those who can't.

 

I'm 41 !

 

Go to 42.

 

Disclaimer

 

The above may be all untrue.

 

Dish of the day

 

Lamb chops with oven roasted apples with Marrocan herbs, lemon and honey, served with rösti.

If you wish to have a full recipe, only thing I need is a comment from you asking it ;)

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About

 

This is the original version of the image with which I made my Aquaphobia image.

I upload this now, since Lamot is interested in buying the shot, something is moving here...

 

The shot

 

Standard 3 exposure HDR [-2,0,+2EV] at f/14 using the Sigma 10-20mm lens, on a tripod.

 

Photoshop.

 

° A small rotation and a crop.

° Shadows and highlights.

° Changed the hue of the clouds - which looked over blue - by using a hue/saturation/value adjustment layer and the luminosity

mask as a base for this layers' mask.

 

You

 

All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.

 

Music

 

Tool - Schism (I know the pieces fit) [CD:lateralus]

 

Done