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What I did in my Holidays

We went to Iceland.
I drove 3700 kilometres and saw; fjords, waterfalls, sheep, mountains, beaches, sheep, turf-covered houses, big four-wheel drives, ducks, sheep, skuas, fulmars, sheep, horses, sheep, volcanoes, waterfalls, sheep, waterfalls, sheep, sheep, and swans. And puffins.
We met many charming people who wanted to tell us about Iceland and wanted to know about Australia. It [...]

An Email Survey

I have been conducting a survey of all the email that comes to my private email address. As a result, I have reached the conclusion that:
97% of the world’s manufacturing economy consists of Viagra and fake watches.
82% of the world’s money is locked up in forgotten bank accounts owned by dead people.
99.9% of the women [...]

My Home Town

Take a look at Melbourne from the air. And have a bit of a wander about.
Melbourne from the Air
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2009 – The Last Word

I am writing this during the afternoon of December 31st. 2009 is drawing to a close and I am not sorry to see it go.
As this blog is mostly about photography, that’s what I will concentrate on. There have been some highs this past year. The chance to spend 2 weeks in Venice, to be [...]

Back to Square One…

Well, not really square one, but back to where everything should be. A number of photographic issues arose out of and following our recent move. Not everything was caused by the move, but I decided it was time to sort everything out and get back to a known standard.
So, the camera and lenses have had [...]

Unintentional Flashing

As I have previously mentioned, we have just moved into a new house. When we did the initial condition inspection, we noticed a few things that weren’t on the condition report. I thought I would be clever and photograph the defects so I could email them to the renting agent.
As the folks who have been [...]

Normal Services Will Be Resumed Shortly

The move has been completed and we are sort of functional.
After many calls to my ISP support, I have a working Internet connection at last.
Normal services will be resumed shortly.
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On the Move

Over the next week or so, we will be moving house. This might take a little while. I also have to get a new internet connection at the new address.
Normal services will be resumed shortly.
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What a Bargain!

We made the mistake of buying a “bargain” from a winery that was closing down.
Would anyone like eleven bottles of brown wine?
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The Moon via iPhone

Chase Jarvis has just posted a fabulous photo of the moon and brief description over at his blog.
For those of you who haven’t wandered off to take a look; it is a neat photo, taken through a telescope using an iPhone (whatever that is).
The photo is sharpish and clear with quite a good amount of [...]