With the amazing array of smart-phones on the market, it's no surprise to find websites that focus on enabling programmers to build and design apps for Android smart-phones. Whilst the Android operating system is still considered the world's best-selling Smartphone platform, it makes me very glad I have chosen a SAMSUNG Galaxy S for my first smart-phone ever... Continue Reading →
Inspired to Write (Again)
Thanks to Google+, I've returned to reading articles. For the last few years I have spent too much time staring at the screen waiting for responses. Now I am taking the time to read the work of those people I have called 'mentors' in areas of the online world that fascinate me most. This will... Continue Reading →
Surviving Option-Paralysis Syndrome
I've found a title for the syndrome I have been experiencing for the past 18 months - Option Paralysis. Whilst you might think it's a sugar-coat for 'indecisiveness', I'm not the first to mention this issue. I first read about this syndrome in Stephen Fry's twitter-feed: Stephen Fry The bewildering variety of sartorial advice I'm... Continue Reading →
Photographs at Rocks Reserve, Balaklava
I always take opportunities when presented to photograph the grand landscape of Australia. So when I discovered our weekend included a visit to a land-formation I'd not seen ever before, I made sure I was fully packed for every style of photograph. A few kilometres West of Balaclava, South Australia is the Rocks Reserves, an... Continue Reading →
My Best Self Portraits
I take self portraits wherever and whenever I can: There's more, but these are my favorites.
Why I Don’t Drive and Probably Never Will
When I was about eight-years-old, I got hit by a car coming around a bus. I stupidly jumped off at a bus-stop, ran to the back of the bus, turned and ran across the road behind the bus. The two previous days I had made it across successfully and ran into the front-yard of my... Continue Reading →
How to Make Money from a Liquidation
Most Australians would know by now that BORDERS are in liquidation. As an avid book reader, I am dismayed by this, yet am thankful we have other great book suppliers in Adelaide. (Dymocks and Angus&Robertson to name a few!) Despite knowing about the liquidation a few months ago, it wasn't until tonight that I actually... Continue Reading →
Photographer vs Smoker
Intriguingly, from where this photo was taken, nobody cares. Yet I am standing on in the middle of a road. To the right is the Adelaide General Post Office and behind me is public area on the corner Victoria Square. Adelaide people will know it. But from the ground beneath that green glass building, security... Continue Reading →
Enjoying the SBS Eurovision
Well, yeah, we had the #SBSEurovision finals on SBS-TV tonight. I can't say much more than what I have tweeted over the last few hours. The asterix '#' at the end of each links to my original tweet. ~ Aaaargh, ears bleeding, please make that Finnish kid finish! # ~ The Denmark song sounds vaguely... Continue Reading →
Breaking and Replacing a Lens
I put my Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II and Canon 580EXII flash-gun upon my Canon 50D , and the whole config atop my Manfrotto Tripod . At that moment, it all made sense, and a photograph of interest was planned. Then I stepped away momentarily. That was my downfall. Surprisingly I saw it fall in... Continue Reading →
Five Different Views of the Adelaide CBD
Way back in March of this year I went for a slow walk around the Adelaide CBD, all alone. This might seem odd to some people, but our inner city is only 1mile squared and mostly a ghost town around the edges. Aha, you can walk down lanes and alleys without anyone bothering you -... Continue Reading →
Rotunda on Elder Park
On a regular basis I take long photo-walks alone in the Adelaide CBD. These often involve a walk around Elder Park and onto the Rotunda. Here are two of the photographs I shot in mid 2010.
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