I have been wanting a wide angle lens for my 400d for quite a while now, problem is that they are not that cheap.  In Australia they retail at around $760 in the shops so it is quite an investment to make.  If you choose to go for a canon model then add a few hundred extra to that price. As I am going home to Northern Ireland in the very near future for a holiday I decided that now is the best time to get one.

The deciding factor was when I checked out the price in the US.  The Australian dollar is very strong against the US at the moment and makes it ideal to import. A strong dollar and the fact that the US has it a lot cheaper than here, $260 cheaper to be exact made this an easy option to make. Within a few days of placing an order in the US my Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 HSM DC arrived and I must say I am really impressed.

I have been using my Mac now for quite a while and I have used one at various times throughout my computer beginnings. One thing really irks me though and that is moving the focus on buttons on dialog screens with the keyboard.

On Windows its simple and intuitive to do simply press tab and you can cycle through the buttons.  On a Mac its needlessly complicated on what is generally a vastly more intuitive operating system than Windows. It gets even worse if you own one of the new aluminium keyboards as you have to add the fn function key into the equation.

I have been thinking lately of creating a photoblog, well not really a full blog but more of an experiment.  There are a few reasons for these thoughts creeping into my head, the first one being; I enjoy building websites so I want to build another one. Although I do this all day at work, there is nothing more satisfying than being able to create something that is specifically for you and also being able to use the latest technologies on it.

I have been meaning to write a post for a while about definition lists but have just not got round to it. Instead of covering just definition lists though, I thought I would make it a little more specific and talk about a very good use for them, styling forms.

It was not that long ago that I hadn’t even heard of a definition list, now this is one of the most versatile tools in the tool box that I use daily.  Definition lists are good for a variety of uses, including Faq’s, forms, images with descriptions or replacing unordered lists for drop down menus to name but a few.