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.
If you haven't already read Project:Photon - Part I, you should go do so now, as it will give you an introduction and overview into what I am doing here.
In Part II, I'm simply getting everything together, connecting it up, and making sure most things work. This article is essentially just photos, so if you can't see pictures I'm afraid it wont be too exciting. NOTE: This isn't actually the 'build' stage yet - that wont happen before January; I'm too busy at the moment.
Project:Photon is an attempt to build a small and silent device to fulfill two main requirements. The first is for a reliable high-capacity storage device for my photographs and other valuable data, with integrated backup routines to help protect against unintended deletions. The second is for a personal web development server, which will be used for testing websites and hosting personal web applications on my home network.
Whilst it is possible to buy commercial products which allow you to attach hard-drives via a network, and also have an integrated web server, none of the NAS devices on offer managed to work in precisely the way I want. So I figured I'd make my own.
Last weekend I went to my first airshow in ages, at Lydd in Kent, and took lots of photos of the various flying machines there.
This entry is essentially just an excuse to show of some of the photos I took.
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.