August 2009
14 posts
We buried my grandmother a few weeks ago. She was ninety-four when she died at home with family around her, peacefully.
Since then, I have been thinking about the funeral; it was a personal affair—her coffin laid open in the lounge-room, her great-grandchildren playing by its side, her great-great-granddaughter overseeing the proceedings whilst being passed from cousin to cousin—and...
Rust Belt →
A beautiful gallery from David Zaitz, Rust Belt 2009—via Fresh Signals.
iPhone therefore iam (Blurb) →
An iPhone-generated artifact:
I hate to carry my DSLR in everyday life but hate to miss the moments in time that can be stolen with my iPhone camera.
— iPhone there iam, via fionapage
Lightning City (Daily Dose of Imagery) →
Spectacular images from Toronto
We had a massive lightning storm in Toronto last night. I set my camera to do 15 second exposures at 17 seconds intervals for three hours and from 660 shots more than 60 of them had lightning in them.
—Daily Dose of Imagery, via Fresh Signals
Small sparks
My digital SLR died, with near perfect timing, during breakfast on the second day of my honeymoon. It buzzed and clicked, focusing and firing the shutter, but it refused to save to memory any of the images I managed to capture.
Needless to say, I used many colourful words to describe my feelings at that time.
Having just incurred the expense of a wedding, and everything that comes with...
July 2009
20 posts
