Carts and Rafts

Momentous Moments

I've actually been pretty lax with taking photos and my grand experiment with the Practika recently resulted in a lot of overexposed photos. But I've fixed that now and I'm hoping to try again this weekend.

In the meantime here are some shots that I kind of classify as 'in the moment' shots as cheesy as it sounds. I've got a fondness for phone camera pics because they can capture moments that might not have the patience for a normal camera. It's easy to whip out your phone and take a shot of there here and now without thinking about the subject or composition very much.

View from my bed. I've got this pretty rubbish old school stereo that my parents gave me for Christmas a few years back, I keep it for sentimental reasons and because it has a tape player and I feel like that could come in handy.

This guy is one of my favourite humans. He's pretty amazing. So is she.

This picture is either self-explanatory or inexplicable.

Cairns airport. All I remember about Cairns is it being very hot and humid and being very very tired while I was there.

I truly pine for summer. With all my heart.

View from the top of a Ferris Wheel at dusk.

One of my favourite things about living in a big city is that people are pretty sure (and are usually right) that they can get away with being pretty dumb/crazy/silly in the main street.

:D

I hadn't even realised I had this photo until today and I can't even remember where I took it. It's pretty nice though!

Blurry camera handiwork.

Standoff.

Early Pentax Shots

HEY! I don't really know why I'm uploading these. They are a couple of shots I took with the very first roll of film I put in the Pentax. I might just be feeling guilty that there is a full roll of film in my new Practika that I haven't taken yet. There isn't much daylight these days ok? I'm busy! No, YOU'RE not an excuse!

So here are a couple of pics from my traipsing around the city late last year:

State Library: Now I never use this library. I've been in it maybe twice in my whole life. But I do adore it. Mostly for the outside. Back when I was trying to get over my depressive Sunday's phase I would walk into the city every Sunday, get myself some delicious Japanese takeaway for lunch and eat it sitting on the lawn here and generally read a snippet of whatever story I was into at the time. I still do this occassionally, but it feels like I don't need to as much anymore. NICE STORY. Look at the birdies! Ok moving on...

This is one of those reasonably famous alleyways in Melbourne. It's between the Forum Theatre and Movida and it's mostly familiar to me from dashing through it in the rain heading towards Flinders St. It's absolutely full of awesome street art, and I took a few more photos of the stuff down there but none of them worked out as well as this photo I think. Every time I look at this photo, I have the intense desire to leap that fence and run up the stairs. I just like how they are all zig-zag. YEAH! WOO! Zig Zag!

And that's all she wrote!