Digital Essence

22/03/2022

You may not be aware that as well as working with a lot of local businesses, we also work for the US Government albeit as a sub, sub contractor.

This week, the Director of the US Government Publishing Office, the department that prints all of the US statutes, US Code etc produced by Congress on Capitol Hill issued this press release about the project and how, over time, it will be replacing printed material.

Small cog in a very much bigger cog!

Director Hugh Halpern said the agency wants to bring more efficient documentation software to Capitol Hill and other public agencies.

22/09/2021

That’s the issue resolved and all services are back up.

Apologies for the outage. Think it’s the first one we’ve had in a couple of years.

22/09/2021

We are aware of issues with our upstream data centre provider which is causing issues with our services.

We apologise and will keep you updated as soon as we have an update.

12/08/2021

It's only thanks to the understanding of my family and customers that I can just drop everything and rush out the door to help others in need.

Today was a particularly busy one with 3 back to back callouts, all at Glentress.

I wish the casualties a speedy recovery and I'll be in the office all day tomorrow! Promise.

❌❌ Callouts 41, 42 and 43 of 2021 (All today)❌❌

Today saw a hat-trick of callouts in a rare super busy day for our volunteer responders.

Incident 41 kicked off at 11:50 with reports of a young lad with a leg injury in the Spooky Wood area of Glentress following a fall from a mountain bike. Our Cas was evacuated to a waiting ambulance and handed over to the Scottish Ambulance Service.

Just after the handover, our team members were approached by a member of the public who appeared to have been suffering a broken collar bone following a mountain bike fall. This became incident 42 of the year and we administered first aid and pain relief until the ambulance arrived.

Incident 43 came through from Police Scotland at 15:10 stating another mountain biker had taken a fall and suffered a serious ankle injury (again at Glentress). Team members located the casualty and, following a short stretcher carry, evacuated her to our Land Rover for onward transfer to a Scottish Ambulance Service vehicle. Incident concluded just after 17:00

Our best wishes go to all of todays casualties and hope you're back on your bikes soon!

All our team members are volunteers who operate at a professional level to assist the statutory emergency services. Only through the understanding of our family, friends and work colleagues (who are left to fill the gaps when we suddenly mobilise to an incident) are we able to continue to do what we do.

29/04/2021

Another website launched, this time for O’Neill Terrain Services, a Woodland & Countryside Management service in and around Falkirk.

Andy O'Neill is an environmentally conscious contractor who has a proven track record in Woodland & Countryside Management and if you've ridden some of the trails in Kinneil Bike Park or Callender Estate, you've already enjoyed his handy work.

14/04/2021

Macro photography. Using my Meike extension tubes as a cheap alternative to buying a macro lens. Fiddly but works.

17/03/2021

My second hand made product video, another lockdown lounge special, this time of some Jimmy Choo aftershave.

It's on YouTube, please give it a thumbs up and perhaps subscribe to the channel as it all helps. That way you'll be automatically notified when the next "masterpiece" drops. 😀

Spec advert for Jimmy Choo.It's still lockdown in Scotland although we are slowly emerging so for the time being, another stay at home, filmed in the lounge,...

18/02/2021

More fun with product photography!

Slow motion video of a smoothie in front of a blue screen (it's like a green screen but, you guessed it, blue!) and then edited in Premiere Pro to produce this spec advert for innocent smoothie's.

All filmed on the kitchen table.

If you're thinking of spicing up your product photography for your website or social media then give us a call.

The green screen arrived today so I grabbed what I could from the fridge that wasn't either beer or a half eaten chicken and started filming.I used the blue ...

05/02/2021

Product photography. Got to love it but it takes ages to get it set up right and what better way to practice than with my favourite drink, Whisky, yay! Actually it was cold tea, boo.

I used our kitchen table, an old sample floor tile as the background, a plant sprayer to coat the glass with water, a candle in a birch wrapped glass, the poker chips were coins were from a board game, then added some coffee grounds scattered about for some subtle texture and that's my wife's mouse mat in the foreground.

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01/02/2021

Well that's me sorted this year.

If only I'd known buying a Valentine's present was so easy before.

19/01/2021

Apologies if every email I send for the next couple of days has dreadful spelling. I've just bought a new keyboard after trying to make do for months andthe layout is different & they've moved all the keys.

I've already put the PC to sleep twice by hitting "that button". Why does it take so long to get used to this?

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