Humans I know.

Hey y'all! What's up? I broke my finger. It was not a good time, I didn't have a good time when it happened but we won basketball so that makes it all ok I guess? Poor finger. I also took some photos and stuff. WITH A BROKEN FINGER. That's impressive. Be impressed.

These are photos of some people that I know and even a couple of people that I am related to. They all happen to be boys for some reason... I have no explanation for this? I know a lot of boys? um...?

Here's a guy! He's a guy I know!

Here is another guy! I know this guy too! He looks like my Dad but he isn't. I know this because this guy has a Scottish accent. My Dad does not, this is an important distinction.

I know this guy too! I've known him since he was born. He's a cool guy. He's been a cool guy since he was born.

This guy is my bro. In pretty much all senses of the word. He's a cool guy.

This guy is one of the most influential humans in my life. He's a pretty cool guy too. :)


Till next time! Photos are going badly at the moment... I do not know why. I hope to change this very soon and to make them go very well. This would be a good time. PEACE LATER

oh... hey...

I haven't posted for a whole month! Woo! Check me out! Exactly one month since my last post, I'm the best! :D

The truth is I've been having a pretty disasterous time with the film cameras and I ended up thinking I had shot a whole roll of film in lovely Newcastle a few weeks back when the truth was that I hadn't wound the film on properly. Argh! And then I proceeded to roll the entire roll back into the cannister. sigh/lolz.

SO here are some photos from the phone to tide people (mainly myself and my own sense of guilty abandonment in relation to this blog) over.

Photo times:

On Saturday morning a friend dragged me out of bed at a ridiculous hour to go and get breakfast and then traipse around the city in the pouring rain and icy winds to buy bike shorts. I was very belligerent and resentful (much to his amusement) until we found this CAVE OF WARMTH down by the Yarra. There I happily took my shoes off, drank tea and took a photo of a seagull. ^_^

I also creepily took a photo of this dude reading his book and drinking his tea. Mainly because I'd be wondering earlier as we dashed around the rainy streets how many tourist photos I would have been in incidentally, not even noticing that the person was photographing the scene and I wanted to try this out. So the answer for this particular guy in that case is: at least 1. Thanks, guy!

Possibly took this photo excited that it was a 42 and therefore the answer to life the universe and everything but it's not. So.... yeah. Yep.

Old school signs of happy radio times that we found at work and then risked electrocution to try and see if they worked. I enjoy how 'handmade' a lot of things are at my work. I enjoy, and am afraid of at the same time.

NEXT TIME: look I don't know to be honest. If Melbourne doesn't stop being winter, I'm gonna throw a very enthusiastic tantrum and move to some sort of place that actually appreciates the structure of the seasons. This is unrelated to my photography but I'm just really annoyed about it.

Thank you for your time.

The Digital Camera Is My Friend (part 1)

The Digital Camera Is My Friend.

We take photos in the dark.

And then we edit them in photoshop later on when we are sleepy and trying to force ourselves to stay awake till midnight.


The Digital Camera and I take photos in Sepia -tone.

We hope that this will make the photos more interesting and beautiful.

We think this might be 'artistic'. :-/

The Digital Camera hates the flash.

It only likes natural light and street lights.

I like squinting at the photos I take in the dark and wondering if I'll be able to change the contrast later on.
This photo is blurry for no particular reason at all.

This is the Digital Camera's fault.


I've been attempting to take the Digital Camera around with me everywhere to capture images much like the ones above of random things that capture my eye whilst I'm wandering about. [The above is a shell of where a building was recently destroyed, it's spooky and wonderful]. Unfortunately it's not working as well as I would like. And I'm becoming more hesitant to take photos with my phone as it grows increasingly slow and cumbersome and I find myself running out of enthusiasm for the different camera apps available.

GUESS WE ALL KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS:

stay tuned for a very ill thought-out ebay purchase of a new camera, coming soon....

:D

Glassminute attempts to take photos of the moon

Fails.

Hung up on politics.

So I've been busy recently frantically refreshing the ABC News website to check if my country has formed a government yet. So far no luck. :-/ I was going to make this post about the election as I took my digital cam down and took some photos on the day (voting day) but I feel like if we talk about it anymore I will expire from pure exasperation. So instead lets look at BLACK AND WHITE NIGHTTIME SHOTS. Alright! Yeah!

Trying to work with the digital camera instead of against it but I still dislike it. I dunno, maybe I need a new one. If you are reading this and happen to be ridiculously wealthy and unable to decide what to do with your wads of cashmoney perhaps you should consider buying me a new digital camera! (or y'know donating it to charity... probably a better idea really)

ONWARDS:

Tea. I have actually been drinking a ridiculous amount of green tea recently to try and kick my coffee habit. I have been told/read that it's very healthy for you etc. :-/ Yeah... look at the little white cups, aren't they nice!

Tin of randomness! It's on the ground, there for you cigarette butts! Or for your coffee cups if you are feeling belligerent which most people in Melbourne often are. Yay home! :-/

This, I actually like, though I kind of wish it had a bit more of a flash of light somewhere in it. NOT BAD THOUGH. Digital camera and I still fighting. Developments (lol photography joke) to come.

Here's a couple of bonus old Pentax shots basically because I pine for warm weather when I'll be able to sit happily outside in gardens again.


Ladder! As seen in "Angel Headed Hipster/Drunk with ladder" photo. It's a nice ladder despite being ridiculously unstable and slightly dangerous. But then again, all the best things are.

Dog, plastic chicken, blurriness etc.

I can't even talk about the Praktica at the moment. :-/ Another disaster. I think I may have figured out some way of getting some usable prints out of it. PLEASE LET IT BE SO. I am looking forward to the day I start one of these posts with PRAKTICA TAKES PHOTOS. What a fine day it will be, what a sense of real, tangible achievement I will have. Ok I gotta sleep now. Take care, interwebs.

Music

You know when you forget about something and then you remember it and you're like HEY THAT WAS A THING THAT I DID. No, I don't either. It worries me.

Today I was looking at the photos on my phone to show someone something and it turns out I took a load of photos while I was drunk at a gig the other night! I'm astonished at my productivity whilst inebriated and impressed at my inability to remember this the next day. I'm also kind of embarassed. ANYWAYS...

Here's some hipster hipstamatic prints from the iPhones:

Digital Love

Hi Friends, how is it going? That's cool, I don't actually care. It's the last day of the week and we had a new Moon in Leo this week so you know EVERYTHING IS ALL GOOD.

Last night while destroying my study in order to make it a functional room in the future and to give me more room for impromptu dance parties, I came across the connecting cord for my digital camera. HOORAY!

This cord has been missing for almost 12 months now and I had mistakenly thought that my old housemate had lost it. BUT IT WAS ME! I lost it! Dear me, you are a douchebag. Dear ex-housemate, you are completely blameless.

ONWARDS TO PHOTOS!

These photos are Japan photos cos that was the last time I used this camera. Envisage this: Me tiny digital camera, film camera and iPhone camera at the ready to capture every shot three times. I WAS LONELY, OK? (oh and this is a picture of barrels of Sake)

This was taken on a freezing cold night in Kyoto when I got lost but everything was so pretty I didn't really care. Also I'd been drinking Sake with the crazy Japanese/American guy. What a cool dude.

BOAT! This was on Miyajima Island. I think this river does actually fill when the tide is high. People don't just put boats on the ground and tie them to railings just for the hell of it. Or maybe they do, I choose not to judge.

I can't remember where this is? Somewhere very touristy that I could probably look up the name of very quickly. But you know what, navigating away from this screen right now would break up the flow of my brain and I wouldn't want to interrupt my creative process and actually I just don't care enough to be bothered going to google and typing in the beginnings of what I think this place is called and I probably couldn't spell it and I really want to go make a cup of tea so I'm just not going to. err.. what?

I don't usually like pictures I take on my digital camera, I've been frustratingly unable to figure out how to use it to take interesting photos. I've found that being able to delete things immediately generally leads to me deleting things immediately in a fit of pique if the picture isn't all I've envisioned in my head. But I like this photo. I like it a lot. There may be hope for you yet, young digital camera.

Double Post! It's sooo beautiful! WOAH.

OH YEAH! SUPRISE DOUBLE POST! Bet you didn't see that coming, internets! Surprised you all!

Actually I just had a whole bunch of photos of street art that didn't really go with my post about cars and moss. Street art is one of my great loves, along with lemsip and dancing around my bedroom with my headphones on to Swedish Synthpop.

This is some fading pasted art that is near my place of work, in a few days it will probably be all gone, especially with todays rain. SUCH IS ART ON THE STREET. It's hard knock life.

On Sunday, while I was wandering about in a cold-induced, lemsip-soothed brain haze I came across a whole bunch of street artists repainting an alley in Melbs. Brain said to me: ok lady, see that camera around your neck, see that stuff going on there? Perhaps you should do something about these two seemingly unrelated events.

OK! I take a photo of the ladies! I was slightly concerned at all times that these peeps were gonna turn around and kick my ass for taking their photo. I don't actually know why, I don't think of street artists as particularly threatening people.

If you look at this old school Boombox closely you will see it has an iPod plugged into it. This made me very happy. Like this-------> :D

I've always wished I could draw/paint. Only so I too, could paint green vampire ladies in purple dresses on walls of Melbourne's alleyways. (also: boobs)

They had torn down all the old posters that had adorned the walls of the alley for probably quite some time. They were quite satisfying to walk over, and I wanted to walk over them a few more times but I thought people might think I was a bit odd..... possibly like you do now. '

And that's all she wrote! Tune in next week for another Praktica related disaster. "The Camera That Does Not Take Photos: part 3"

Making a blog post!

I've been having some loltastic disasters with cameras recently firstly by taking a lovely roll of what obviously would have been the most beautiful photos of all time with the new Praktica and then of course opening the back without winding the film, ruining the whole lot. Hooray! :-/

So I pulled out the old trusty Pentax again and took some photos of things. I do have plans to use the Praktica again, if it wants me to... which it doesn't seem to right now. WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME, PRAKTICA? WHY? *SOBS ON THE INTERNETS*

Er, yeah, so photos!

On my lovely street there are a couple of lovely abandoned old cars. I decided to photograph them. Good for me.

They are covered in moss. It's gross/awesome. Things that are gross and awesome at the same time are very rare. You should appreciate this.

There are two of them, parked ridiculously close to one another. Cobwebs on the steering wheel... remind me baby, of you! (no they don't, I don't even drive, I also don't know you)

Rust on the windshield! She's cries on every... you know what I might stop that now. I've already ruined the rest of my day by putting that song in my head. No need to ruin yours too, move along.

I feel like these are the sorts of cars that I would be happy driving. I probably need to learn to appreciate and look after nice things. Nice things, that don't grow lichen on them.

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.