Posted on August 13th, 2006 by Tucker
Only 1 week has passed and already I have made changes to the Tucker Photography Site. I’ve added a new banner to the page, not that I didn’t like the old one but I feel this one more suits my style. I’ve also added links to several new pages, one to the home page from the top of every page making navigation easier, secondly I have added a contacts page so that people can email me with questions or requests to use my work. There’s a new link on all the pages to this blog, as well as a link to my flickr account and finally a links page has been added for me to link other good photography sites, rollerblading sites and whatever else I see fit. The site is still subject to a few changes but I’m much happier with the new layout.
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Posted on August 6th, 2006 by Tucker
I’ve had a passion for photography for 7 years now ever since I got my first Digital camera aged 15 with its 1.2 Mega pixels. Since I finished University I’ve had the opportunity to focus on my photography as a full time hobby. Upon moving back to Yorkshire I’ve hooked up with a few old friends which has made for some fantastic photoshoots the Poter Brothers and there amazing skills on motorbikes and Michael France and the rest of the skaters over this side of the country have made my hobby much more enjoyable. The new forund pleasure in my photography has reflected both on the quantity and the quality of my work and as a result I have just recently had a photograph published in Unity Magazine August 2006 Edition (an Internation Rollerblading Magazine). see picture below to view the photo in context.
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Posted on August 6th, 2006 by Tucker
I’ve wanted a website for my photography for years and throughout this time I have toyed with many free photo galleries, I’ve made my own html sites on free hosted sites and with ridiculously long url addresses. Finally I bagged myself a domain name www.benscamera.com and began work on putting together a few photo sets so that I could make up a portfolio. In the mean Time I used the domain name I had registered to host the World Wide Productions Skating Community Site and this blog the T-Blog. Now I have spent the weekend working on a new layout for the main page www.benscamera.com after only 20 hours of hard labour the site is now finished for release with over 110 pictures to kick off with I plann on adding more next weekend and then as and when I take them. This site will now be where you can find all my latestfinished work with some spoilers probably making it on here along with images that are good but don’t quite make the cut for the main site. Click the image below to go to the site or any of the 2 links in this paragraph.
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Posted on August 1st, 2006 by Tucker
Discuss: ‘Stalemate brought about by deterrence is not real peace.’
An essay By Ben Tucker B.A. Honours Politics and International Relations Lancaster University
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Posted on July 29th, 2006 by Tucker
3 Guys + 2 Bikes + 1 Camera =
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Posted on July 20th, 2006 by Tucker
The baby bunnies are almost reaching the crucial 4 week point at which most baby rabbits begin to really start weaning from their milk onto food as their main dietary substance. Most websites and books tend to agree that between 4-6 weeks is a very difficult time for baby rabbits which are not raised by their mother, because they are not able to eat cecotrope (I think that’s how its spelt) which their mothers produce giving them good bacteria . This helps to build up their immune system so that they can handle weaning onto stable foods easier. Now we have supplemented out cute little rabbits with a couple of replacements which help to do the same job (Colostrum and KMR mentioned in a previous post) so we are hopeful that the 4 babies will adapt to eating solid food ok and we pray that ours are not unfortunate as many other litters are.
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Posted on July 14th, 2006 by Tucker
Update: Anyone looking for the transformers theme tune check here for my new post
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Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Tucker
Today has been a great day for the bunnies so far, after seeing their feeding drop quite a lot yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to find that the babies first went through a 25ml bottle sucking it dry then i filled up another bottle (since one of the babies hadn’t even been fed by this point) and they continued to have another 10ml of feed. On top of this 2 of the Babies Bunny’s B and F both had some dandelion leaf today. We’re still not sure if this will be digestible by them but It was one of the things suggested for weaning and they seem to be quite interested in nibbling on it. The leaves are taking quite a bit of crewing for the babies and they often have to eat for about 40 seconds before they can break a piece off into their mouths but still anything is better than nothing just be patient.
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Posted on July 11th, 2006 by Tucker
Today has been quite an odd day for the bunnies, After a really good feed last yesterday afternoon I wasn’t surprised to find that the rabbits weren’t very hungry at 2am when I tried again to give them some milk between them they managed about 10ml and I let them settle down to go to sleep. When I first fed them this morning I expect that they would be quite hungry and have a lot of milk to I prepared about 30ml of milk for them only to find that there was just under 20ml left after they were all done with the bottle. This was quite odd I though 2 feedings of about 10ml when they had been having almost that each the past few days. Anyways I have proceeded to keep trying them with milk every couple of hours and every now and again one of them will really take to the teat and get its fill.
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Posted on July 10th, 2006 by Tucker
This is a simple tutorial on the basics of using and changing brush backs or brush sets in Adobe Photoshop. Aimed at beginners, this tutorial is probably common knowledge to many Photoshop users but I feel so many people are missing out on the true power and potential of the paint brush tool in Photoshop.
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Posted on July 10th, 2006 by Tucker
Oh My God Bunny F Was hungry, I just got through feeding them and they were all quite happy to received at least a couple of ml but Bunny F who had previously seemed to struggle with the transition between the pipette and the new Lactol teated bottle (not rejecting but finding it harder than the others to feed from) got the idea of the teat and the technique down quite well murdering about 7ml which finished off the 20ml bottle I had prepared for them (slightly smaller amount that usual but I thought they wouldn’t have been very hungry).
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Posted on July 10th, 2006 by Tucker
Its 1am and the bunnies are exploring! I don’t know what to do with them. They were fed only an hour and a half ago and 3 out of the 4 had a decent serving, surely they cant want more milk already?? Maybe they are not cosy enough anymore. As you might have read on yesterdays update I had been on the mothers old cage and taken more of the fur she had pulled out (almost all what was left) and made the bunnies a new nest, Needless to say they absolutely loved it and seemed to sleep so well after feedings in it but only 1 day later the nest was soaked with pee from the bunnies and the nest ruined. I’m not sure what the suggested course of action is when babies pee in the nest but we have tried to clean up what wet hay we could and replace with new hay. This has obviously reduced the amount of mother fur in the nest.
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Posted on July 9th, 2006 by Tucker
Time for an update, and I’m sure you’ll all be glad to hear that the baby rabbits are coming along great. as you could probably see by the pictures I took and posted yesterday the bunnies have grown quite a lot in the 8 days we have had them and they have all now go used to opening their eye’s and are becoming very active and strong. We have continued to feed them on baby milk, however we have switch to cow and gate brand now, since it claims to be closer to mother milk than the rest (this could be completely wrong and might make no difference but the babies seem to enjoy it). They are now taking upto 6/7 ml a feed now which is a huge improvement since the first week and they are seeming to be progressing quite normally according to most websites which say they should be drinking about 22-27ml a day by week 2-3.
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Posted on July 8th, 2006 by Tucker
Thought I would Make This a Picture Blog Entry and then post an update on the bunnies progress over the last 2 days later tonight so here is 21 Picture of the 4 remaining orphan Bunny Rabbits:
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Posted on July 8th, 2006 by Tucker
Ok so some pictures from a photo shoot I did made it into the Rollernews.com Blog 
. An article was posted about my photographs by David Durrenberger aka Koubis who posts in the Rollernews blog, the url to the main page was given to me by my good friend Grif just pointing out that the images had made it onto the front page. Needless to say I was complimented that David had really liked my photo’s enough to post them on the Rollernews site, He found them in my gallery on flickr so i was completely unawear he was going to make an article about them. Its always a nice surprise to see when your work is appreciated and since the article was posted the some of the images have had over 600 views in only a few days if you want to read the article about my pictures on rollernews.com click here To see the full Photo Set on Flickr click here or view them in the rest of the post (click the images to enlarge them).
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