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.