Me

Hi, I’m Rupert Maspero. I am a technology enthusiast and an outed Mac lover. I am spread all over the web but this is my home. Here are a few places you can find me Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, last.fm, Google+ and Youtube; usually my username is rmaspero. Feel free to contact me or add me as a friend all over the net. You can contact me through my email me[at]rmaspero[dot]com .

Home On The Web

rmaspero.com is my home on the web. This is my personal blog where I write about my interests, if you have not guessed they are mainly technology, photograph, Apple and design. This blog is hosted on Siteground (a great host), powered by WordPress and designed by me.

Appetite for Apples

I actually have a T-Shirt that says that on it. My main area of interest lies in the technology realm, particularly in Apple. I’m a little obsessed with Apple’s products, the attention to detail, the cutting edge design and their usability.

Over the past few years I’ve accumulated a little stack of Apple products. They are a MacBook Pro 2.4GHz 4GB RAM and a 500GB drive

• 1st Gen iPod mini
• 16GB iPod Touch
• Apple Universal iPod Dock
• Apple Wireless Keyboard
• iPod Socks (x2 sets)
• iWork (multiple versions)
• Aperture (multiple versions)
• Millions of iTunes gift cards
• iPhone 4 (Vodafone 32GB)
• Black Bumper Case

Photography

I have really been taking photography seriously since 2004-2005 and it now quite a passion of mine. I think I have improved, some of my more recent  images can be found on my photography page. Unlike most people my ages I did actually start out doing photography in a dark room, an experience that I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend to anyone. In late 2005 i got my first DSLR a Nikon D50 and I have been experimenting since then in my free time. Gear wise I have a…

• Nikon D50
• Nikon D7000
• Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5 – 5.6G
• Nikon 50mm f/1.8
• Opteka fisheye adapter
• Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5 – 5.6G VRII
• UV lens filter
• Polarizer
• Velbon CX540 Tripod
• Nikon Ml-L3 Remote Trigger
• Hundreds of SD Cards
• Cannon D10
• Cokin P series filter holder

I do most of my editing now days in Apples Aperture. I use Photomatix’s Aperture plugin to do HDR’s, Phototshop for pixel pushing operations and TiltShiftFocus for a tilt shift effect.

Design and Web Design

Design is a growing passion of mine, I have always been interested at how thing look and feel of things, and at school I was given the chance to take that further by doing a GCSE in Graphic Products, and an A-level in Design Technology.

I am a very creative guy and love the make things, and I found a way of putting that together with my love of web design. I am not fantastic at it but I know HTML and CSS, Javascript and Some PHP. I can make WordPress themes from scratch, in fact I made the theme your looking at now. I have had many opportunities to develop these skills by working on projects such as logos for a link school in Uganda and the charity’s it is associated with, advertising for a fashion show and geotechnical firms website.