Alarmed and alert
Posted in fun, photographs on Jan 5th, 2008
At the Chinese Gardens in Sydney.
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Happy New Year
Posted in miscellaneous, photographs on Jan 4th, 2008
I’m getting a lot of pleasure from growing some veges this summer. The beautiful subtle colours in these red cos lettuces are amazing. The camera only captures some of them.
Roadside teddies at Bungendore
Posted in canberra, photographs on Jul 29th, 2007
Just out of Canberra on the Kings Highway to the coast, especially on the part between Queanbeyan and Bungendore, there are lots of teddies and other soft toys nailed and tied to trees. Often they are quite high up, and some of them have been there for some years. Its easy to drive along and […]
Dreaming of turquoise and beaches
Posted in photographs on Jun 25th, 2007
It turns out my ankle has a fractured bone, so I now have a cast on it for the next six weeks. I hope it will mean more blogging and maybe revamping my website, but much of the time at the moment I’m just feeling like reading and watching DVDs, and doing crosswords and sudokus.
I’m […]
Southern rights
Posted in photographs, street art, visual art on May 31st, 2007
A cool mural on the side of the Middleton pub in South Australia. These Southern Right whales used to be hunted nearby at Victor Harbor, just out to sea from the place we often stay at at Christmas time. They are endangered, but have been coming back in recent years. I’ve seen humpback whales […]
Rambling
Posted in books, photographs on May 19th, 2007
Not sure why I thought of this photo this morning. It was taken about 18 months ago at Middleton in South Australia, and I love the washed out summer look with the orange and blue.
I had the pleasure of having lunch with fellow Canberra blogger Ampersand Duck a couple of days ago. I really enjoyed […]
Mammatus clouds
Posted in canberra, environment, photographs on Feb 20th, 2007
We have had some amazing clouds over Canberra recently. These mammatus clouds rolled over our place last Saturday evening at sunset.
Now don’t you worry about that
Posted in make, mask, photographs, photography, politics, portfolio on Feb 16th, 2007
An action shot of Joh Bjelke-Peterson welcoming guests to the launch of the Campaign - Federal Elections exhibition at Old Parliament House yesterday! Here is a slightly clearer one of him with Malcolm Fraser. Old Parliament House had a collection of the photographic masks of politicians, but I was asked to make the cartoon Joh […]
Guerilla Bay
Posted in photographs on Feb 14th, 2007
These are are some of the beautiful spotted gum trees where we sometimes stay at Guerilla Bay.
Cool photos of Beck
Posted in music, photographs, puppetry, puppets on Sep 30th, 2006
(photo credit: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid)
Laughing Squid is one of my long time favourite blogs; I enjoy the mix of tech and visual arts, and Scott Beale’s photos. Today Scott has the best photos of Beck’s puppets I’ve seen yet, taken at Yahoo! Hack Day.