Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Do you remember Polaroids? You’d take a photo and the machine would spit out a square print with a white border. The image would develop from blank through to sepia and then finally full colour as you watched. Polaroids still exist but they are now very specialist. The film, which was always expensive, is now [...]
Instead of working on the blog post I intended to write today, I have spent the past few hours messing around with my new copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I’m trying to get a grip on my photo file management because I have been using iPhoto and I find that everything is scattered across random [...]
This is a guest post from Kristin Luna, a San Francisco-based travel writer who regularly contributes to Frommer’s guides, a number of US magazines and newspapers, and her award-winning blog Camels & Chocolate. The concept of language is an odd one. You can have nearly everything in common with another person — age, education, similar [...]
I have been wanting to eat at the Spirit House for years. It is a Thai restaurant in Yandina, near Noosa on the Queensland Sunshine Coast, and everyone says it is amazing. To reach the dining hall, you take a winding path through a lush rainforest garden and past a pond. There are Buddha statues [...]
One of the hallmarks of great theatre – or any art – is how strong an impression it makes. A good play will be enjoyable to watch but a great play is more than just an evening’s entertainment. The difference is not always clear during the actual performance but if my mind keeps dwelling on [...]
I’ve been playing around with tonal range in black and white for my photography course. We get the morning sun now that our windows are fixed – and that makes for some nice silhouettes on the glossy white cupboard doors. I had fun taking these photos! This is day five of NaBloPoMo. I will be posting [...]
Chic, cosmopolitan and with a relaxed, happy-go-lucky vibe, San Francisco has much to offer visitors, as Caitlin Fitzsimmons discovers. When gold fever struck in 1849, San Francisco was transformed from provincial shanty town to thriving multicultural city. As much an idea as a place, it has seduced fortune seekers ever since – from the wide-eyed [...]
The idea of a ghost town has always enthralled me. There’s something about the emptiness and the weird relationship with time that fires my imagination. You don’t get the usual modernisation and general change that comes with the forward progress of time but it’s not quite like travelling back in time because of the decay [...]
Krakow, Poland; 2008 One of the best things about living in London from 2004 to 2009 was that it gave us the ability to visit other countries for the weekend. We did Paris and Bruges on the train and other cities by plane, usually on one of the budget airlines. We visited Krakow, Poland in [...]
Some Saturday mornings, I leave the babies at home with my husband and I head out to Eveleigh Farmers’ Market at Carriageworks in Redfern. It is hard to buy organic food in Sydney and going to a growers’ market is one of the few ways to do it. I will usually have breakfast there and [...]
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