Established in April 2000, the following is a showcase ofphotography andarticles created byAndrew 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:
Ischaemic Adventures of the Heartessay
(2010–2024) ≈ 560 images
An on-going satirical photo-essay about everyone's favourite generation
(Feb 2024) • 96 images
Winter in The Swiss Confederation: Zurich, Bern & Geneva, with side-trips to Lucerne, Montreux, Piz-Gloria & Zermatt
(1998–2008) • 112 images
My candid-people street photography project about Sydney and its outlying suburbs
(1991—1992) • 78 images
Photographs and commentary from the twilight of Communism
(Apr & May 2010) • 42 images
Photographs and commentary from a visit to New Zealand's South Island
(2004–2009) • 20 scenes
Interactive VR panoramas taken throughout the Blue Mountains, 70-120km west of Sydney
(1998–2006) • 18 scenes
A sample of 360° panoramas with sound, taken mostly around Sydney, mostly for commercial projects & clients
(1980–1993) • 37 images
Samples of my early photographic work, done either during high school or university
Sydney Unposedproject 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 Lightetc.
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| 2020 | January—September: Teach HSC and Preliminary Physics, plus Stages 4 & 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2019 | All year: Teach HSC and Preliminary Physics, plus Stages 4 & 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2018 | All year: Teach HSC and Preliminary Physics, plus Stages 4 & 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2017 | January—September: Teach HSC and Preliminary Physics, plus Stages 4 & 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2016 | All year: Teach HSC Physics and Chemistry along with Preliminary Physics, plus Stage 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2015 | All year: Teach HSC Chemistry and Preliminary Physics, plus Stages 4 & 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2014 | All year: Teach HSC and Preliminary Chemistry, plus Stages 4 & 5 Science at PSHS |
| 2013 | All year: Teach HSC Physics and Chemistry, plus Stage 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2012 | All year: Teach Preliminary Physics and Chemistry, plus Stages 4 & 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2011 | All year: Teach Stages 4 & 5 Science at PSHS
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| 2010 | All year: 24× weeks temp-teaching Stages 4 & 5 Science plus 10× weeks Preliminary Physics atPenrith High School
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| 2009 | All year: temporary Stages 4 & 5 Science Teacher atPenrith High School
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| 1996-00 | Alongside nemeng.com projects, intermittent contract HTML, Java and PERL coding forAquent Partners |
| 1996 | Left full-time employment to startnemeng.comsole-trader business, specialising incommissioned virtual reality photography + programming, along with contract CGI programming |
| 1995-6 | Wrote and photo-illustrated a couple of articles published in USMactech Magazine |
| 1994-6 | Employed as a Macintosh C++ Applications Developer atJam 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 sellPre Judgment Interest Rate calculatorMac and PC application |
| 1992 | My ownAnnus Horribilis: April → Rae Street Heartbreak; July → resign my job as a first-year solicitor atBlake 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 |
| 1988-91 | Graduate Law degree (LLB) from theUniversity of New South Wales |
| 1986-88 | First (and last) novel —Hidden Variables— 250k words, unpublished |
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| 1986-7 | Employed as an Organic Chemist at Surfactant Services, Leichhardt Sydney |
| 1985 | Short-listed for the film-director's course at theAustralian Film, Television and Radio school (top 50 of 400 applicants, but missed the final cut of 25) |
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| 1982-6 | Honours degree in Industrial Chemistry (BSc Hons),University of New South Wales |
| 1980 | Started taking photos and skipping HSC General Studies classes to experiment in school darkroom |
| 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 (!) |
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| 1978-80 | School, local and representative rugby union (as prop-forward) |
| 1977 | Father dies at home, two days after family returns from aSouth Pacific cruise |
| 1976-81 | Sydney Technical High School Bexley North |
| 1975 | Moved toSt Georges Pde, Hurstville |
| 1974 | Second trip to Hungary, again by ship (theGuglielmo Marconi). This time circumnavigate the globe via the Panama Canal and S.Africa — during European summer |
| 1970 | Travel to Europe by ship (theGalileo Galilei), via South Africa and then Hungary by train from Genova. Meet relatives for the first time — during European winter |
| 1969-75 | Seven years of being bullied atCarlton South Primary School |
| 1969 | Diagnosed with 50% right-eye vision loss due toamblyopia |
| 1964 | Born inKogarah to expatriate Hungarian parents Karoly and Klara. Only child, no other relatives in Australia |
During thenemeng
years (1996–2007), I worked on various projects for the following clients:
See theThirty Favourites
article elsewhere on this site.
Unless noted otherwise, everything on this site is the work ofAndrew Nemeth, Blue Mountains Australia. This includes all photography, text, sound, and web programming.
Therefore everything on this site is and remains the sole copyright of© Andrew Nemeth Australia 2024. You are obviously permitted to view this material online, but no other use or reproduction is allowed without the author's prior written consent. There is no implied license to do anything with this material other than look at it.
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For a concise introduction, seeHow to Do Panoramas
by Hans Nyberg.
For more detailed tutorials and articles, see thePanoTools Wiki.

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.
Yep.
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.
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 intoo 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 usingSQLite for my “The Boomer Legacy” project and finally got the best of both worlds: simplified SQL database functionality without the shared-server minefield.
Initially it had something to do withseeing beyond the ordinary
(ie. 40:20 vision), although pragmatically4020
was much easier to spell over the telephone to Keyboard Challenged Suits thann-e-m-e-n-g
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Years later I discovered that4020
was also the name of a (now defunct)US Bluegrass Band along with apopular 1960s tractor (!)
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