光聚影集第十六集 ─ 2018上半年〝打雀〞回顧

真是大話怕計數。見雀便拍，不計在公園鳥籠內和外地拍的，只計算拍到的香港野鳥，結果也是拍了不少。〝秀〞一下。

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光遊影集第五十二集 ─ 參團歐洲遊車河

九月中參加了屋邨組織協辦的歐洲旅行團，真是一波三析。首先是改期；第二是出發遇上颱風「山竹」，要延後一日起程；第三是回程直航取消了，改經第三地。由於日程縮短了，行程變得很廹，每天都在坐車跑景點，全程可謂乏善可陳，猶幸還有些可觀的地方。

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奧地利

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Digital arts 4 - Panda Xiang Xiang of Ueno Park

At first, I wanted to follow Nicu's How-to Draw a hackergotchi (or just people heads) with Inkscape to draw my own face. But, the method used in the tutorial was too tedious and laborious and so I failed.  So I looked for my own way to do it and would try with a simpler photo. I found a photo of the panda calf Xiang Xiang of the Ueno Park of Tokyo. I used the Bezier curves tool instead of the calligraphic tool to do the job and found that it is easier. The vector graphics of the panda was then exported to Gimp and applied different filters to have different styles.

The followings are the outcomes of the attempt.

Digital arts 3 - Pacman baddies 2

Continue to play with my baddies with different features of Inkscape, such as fill with pattern and pattern along path. Learn also how to install new fonts in Ubuntu.

These are results of my playing.

Digital arts 2 - Pacman baddies

Followed instructions on the page Pac-Man baddies with Inkscape, some baddies similar to were made. The following were put on with these baddies.

Digital arts 1 - First attempt

As arts is concerned,  I am a layman with no essential knowledge and skills. I got interested in digital arts because I found lots of filters in GIMP which I use to retouch photos. They can be used to produce lots of effects on photos and graphics. I found it interesting, so I set up a platform to play with digital arts and hope that it would become one of my hobbies besides hiking and photography. Hereafter in this page are works of my first attempt.