Established in April 2000, the following is a showcase of photography and articles created by Andrew Nemeth, Blue Mountains Australia.
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The site is constantly being revised and updated with new and repaired links. The following is a summary of some of the more notable changes in the last few months:
Synopsis: A detailed analysis of statute and common law as it applies to candid (or "street") photography in NSW. Topics include Anti-Voyeurism Laws, Privacy Rights, Commercial Use, Defamation, Copyright, Beach and Child photography etc. The main emphasis is on Australian law as it applies in NSW, but there is also extensive coverage of Federal legislation, along with an overview of international trends.
Synopsis: A (hopefully) light-hearted rebuttal of criticisms my Sydney Unposed project has attracted over the years. Topics include B&W versus Colour; Voyeurism versus Engagement; Photographing Strangers; To crop or not; Shooting from the hip; Worrying about The Light etc.
Interviewed by ABC Radio'sMorning Show to discuss legal issues surrounding public photography
Designed and wrote a 24,000 line PHP5/ SOAP/ XHTML web-application for a travel software company in Ultimo Sydney
My Photo Rights article is studied by the Ellenbrook Christian College (Perth) for their HSC Applied Information Technology course, also by the James Cook UniversitySchool of Creative Arts Digital Imaging course
The bookend to a programming career: in December the release of my free online Court Interest Calculator
2006
Photograph and author interior and exterior VRs of the General Motors Holden Captiva SUV
Wrote and photo-illustrated a couple of articles published in US Mactech Magazine
1994-6
Employed as a Macintosh C++ Applications Developer at Jam Software, Leichhardt Sydney
1993
Relocate to Warrimoo in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney
1992-4
Self-taught C++ object-oriented programming • Design, code and sell Pre Judgment Interest Rate calculator Mac and PC application
1992
My own Annus Horribilis: April → Rae Street Heartbreak; July → resign my job as a first-year solicitor at Blake Dawson Waldron; By December → eight close friends depart to pursue careers interstate and overseas
1991-2
ex-Eastern Bloc tour (Moscow, Budapest, Szombathely, Bucharest, Warsaw, Krakow, Brno) plus revisit Hungarian relatives
Started taking photos and skipping HSC General Studies classes to experiment in school darkroom
1960s & 1970s
1977-89
After school (and university) employment in a large number of part-time jobs: Friday evening milk-run (best job ever! brilliant sunsets!); HSC tutoring; A/V installation technician; clothing store sales assistant; pharmacy delivery boy; even a stint at Blakehurst Nursery throwing rotten plants onto a dung heap (!)
1978-80
School, local and representative rugby union (as prop-forward)
Second trip to Hungary, again by ship (the Guglielmo Marconi). This time circumnavigate the globe via the Panama Canal and S.Africa — during European summer
1970
Travel to Europe by ship (the Galileo Galilei), via South Africa and then Hungary by train from Genova. Meet relatives for the first time — during European winter
Unless noted otherwise, everything on this site is the work of Andrew Nemeth, Blue Mountains Australia. This includes all photography, text, sound, and web programming.
For more detailed tutorials and articles, see the PanoTools Wiki.
HTML5, CSS3, jQuery
No apologies here. From Dec 2010 until Jan 2011 I rewrote the site to clean out a decade of "cruft" and make the code as streamlined and future-proof as possible.
Consequently the site works well with modern browsers (Webkit, Mozilla or iOS), but no doubt there are issues with every version of MSIE. Frankly I don't care anymore → get a real browser.
Okay I'll admit it, I am a recovering C++ propeller-head. Thing is, I have found OOP has just as many advantages for website development as it did for apps: code reuse; encapsulation; inheritance; not polluting the global name-space; implementation hiding. Also by using OOP I can easily move code around or completely rewrite its "private" parts, without Breaking The Entire Bloody World.
On-again, Off-again MySQL
For a while the site was database-free, then for a couple of years it used MySQL, now it is back to being 100% database-clear.
Most of the snafus came from having to ration the DB server with hundreds of other web-site developers, mostly newbies, who typically rely on free DB scripts riddled with bugs, or which generate thousands of DB queries instead of just one or two via SQL table-joins. And of course they always open persistent DB connections for each query, resulting in too many connection errors for the rest of us.
In April 2007 I finally had enough and scrapped the site's MySQL back-end. Since then it has run off XML data files, which are parsed at runtime via PHP SimpleXML classes.
In April 2013 I started using SQLite for my “The Boomer Legacy” project and finally got the best of both worlds: simplified SQL database functionality without the shared-server minefield.
Why "4020"?
Initially it had something to do with seeing beyond the ordinary (ie. 40:20 vision), although pragmatically 4020 was much easier to spell over the telephone to Keyboard Challenged Suits than n-e-m-e-n-g.
