Swordie Bloggie

These are the photos taken from the luncheon room of The Pacific Sutera.

View of the marina.

One of the boat is on its way entering the marina.

The flyfish, u can ride on it by lying on your tummy…
3 riders can hop on it at once… if u scared, u can take the middle part 🙂
while this boat drag it on the sea…. cool yea…

Garden… on the left are the rooms and on the right are the garden & playground.

Do you have photographs taken with megapixels digital camera? I’m sure you do, because digital cameras are compact and reasonably priced nowadays. The pixels are getting higher and higher where even the most compact and cheapest digicam can have resolutions of 5 megapixel or more.

Each photograph will require as much as 1.5MB or more storage space. Of course with the higher pixels and resolutions, the photographs details and colors will be more brilliant. And the large size is not a problem today since storage card are cheap and large in capacity. You can have 1GB storage card and 4GB are getting common. And if you need more space, there are 8GB or 16GB. In fact 32GB are already in the market right now.

The only problem with large size photographs is when we need to transfer it to another medium. The most frustrating will be when we need to email or publish it on the web.

If you don’t have photo editing software, the only option you have is using the PaintBrush which comes with the Windows. You can reduce the size of the photographs to about 20% for instant and save it to another file. You can reduce your 1.5MB photographs to roughly about 50KB, but all subject to your original photographs. This method is not bad, I have been using this trick for sometimes and when I’m on a machine which doesn’t have any photographs tools.

But that trick requires you to do some typing and clicks. Microsoft actually has a tool called Image Resizer. It is available since June 20, 2005 and you can download it for FREE at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx and the manual at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx.

The tool is very small, only 521KB and once installed, it will integrate with your file explorer. Using Image Resizer is as easy as right clicking on your photographs file from file explorer and chooses the size you like to have from the popup window. Your photographs will be resized and save on another file. For example, if you resize your image001.jpg file, it will be copied to image001 (small).jpg automatically after it being resized. Just make sure you don’t tick on “Resize the original pictures (don’t create copies)”.

So, go a head… give it a try if you don’t have any photograph editor to resize your super huge photos 🙂

My photography is getting better I guess. I’m using the Canon PowerShot S3 IS set to manual mode. The two pictures are my trial on doing detail shot. Focus on the subject and blurred the background.

Flower on the table at Tuaran Beach Resort… the flower looks so fresh and real.

Papaya branch leave with water droppings during rainy day behind my garage… the water bubbles looks so real, right? 🙂 Can you see my reflexion on the water bubbles?

Someone got stucked on soft side of the road…
 

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swimming pool.

life guard stuff…

volley ball…

the only non-natural play things for the kids on the garden.

the feng shui fountain.

walkway from the seaside…

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They still doing some renovation on the resort… They have been doing it since last year, even during our workshop last year.

Between the main hall (left) and the rooms.

Three bald coconut tree.

Cupid on the right side of the main hall entrance…

… on the left side.

bicycles…

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Four of us arrived first… so we were given apple juice and cakes 🙂

Nasi Goreng

Fried Noodle

Sandwich

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7 of us went to Tuaran Beach Resort to have a look at the site for our workshop at the end of this year. We also had our workshop here last year. I drove my car accompanied by Darius. Two of our coleague arrived a head of us.

 
Tuaran Beach Resort welcoming file

The Arch…

closer.

Opposite view from the arch.

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Took this a few minutes ago outside my home. The moon is covered with some cloud. It looks beautiful… don’t u think so 🙂

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I took this photo outside my office. It is the nursery house… where they kept the flowers, plants, etc using my Casio Exilim EX-S500.

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