My friends over at Shuttercal.com are having a contest all through January. The winners recieve a XShot2.0. The XShot is a nifty little gadget that allows you take take photos of yourself from a nice distance. It’s a small telescoping device that puts your camera a good ways in front of ya so that you [...]
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In case you ever wondered, here the result of forgetting you have your slr on timer mode. I snapped a shot of Willow on the trampoline only to have the shutter fire several seconds later. November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The goal is to write 50,000 words by the end of November. That means an average of around 1700 words a night! So, all through October I’m using Evernote.com to organise my thought, ideas, plots and chapters. I’m shooting to have 30 decent chapter ideas ready to go [...] A couple days ago I curiously watched as one of my fellow tweeters, Benjaminsolah, seemed a little on edge “@NaNoWriMo Ahhh, can’t wait!” and was clearly excited “Waiting for @NaNoWriMo relaunch still”, ” Jumping up and down like crazy” and ” Want! http://bit.ly/59y80 #nanowrimo. ” I followed the link see what all the commotion was about. I think I [...] We were called back home because of a serious bushfire threat. All the way home on the drive from the city, a large smoke plume was visible. Luckily the plume indicated the fire was headed south, the opposite direction from our home. At last, we made it home and sat on the ridge watching the fire burn [...] The warnings came a week in advance. Saturday Feb 7, 2009 would be the hottest day ever recorded in Victoria, dry wild winds would rage and fires would blister the landscape. At 2pm on Saturday, the thermometer outside my home nestled in the forested mountains overlooking Melbourne registered 115 degrees (46.4 C). Winds whipped the window [...] Recently my niece sent my daughter Flat Stanley for a project at her school. Flat Stanley spent a few weeks with our family traveling around Australia. I came across the original version of the I’ve Been Everywhere song and thought It’d be great to include it in Flat Stanley’s adventures because of the strange sounding [...] “The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all. I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in [...] |
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