Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
I guess this is a bit of an in-joke for writers but I found this picture in my archives and it tickled my funny bone all over again so I thought I’d share it. I snapped the photo in a bookshelf in London in 2005 but I don’t remember which one. Do you see what’s [...]
When I lived in London, I went to see Kevin Spacey perform at the Old Vic Theatre every chance I got. The theatre is not in the West End, but on the south side of the river near Waterloo Station. It dominates its corner block on the intersection of Waterloo Road and The Cut because [...]
I read about the new Australian Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet in the Qantas in-flight magazine some months ago. The article was about the collaboration between renowned choreographer Graeme Murphy and fashion designer Akira Isogawa, who did the costumes. I have wanted to see a Murphy ballet since his famous production of Swan Lake [...]
My mother lives on the north coast of New South Wales so we don’t see her quite as much as we would like. At least we see more of her than we would if we were living in London or San Francisco! Mum came and stayed with us last week. The twins weren’t too sure [...]
It took a lot of effort to get to Canberra for the weekend but it was worth the trip. We stayed with my husband’s aunt and the babies got to hang out in her gorgeous backyard, which had ripe, red berries in the strawberry patch and gorgeous white peonies in the flower beds and fresh [...]
Now that the babies are nine months old and becoming more sociable and independent, I am able to turn my mind to my freelance journalism career once again. I have negotiated with my husband so that I can have some time mid week to work and if things work out, we may end up hiring [...]
For most of my Camera Craft II course at the Australian Centre for Photography, we studied the rules of photography – exposure, tonal range, colour theory, composition, and so on. For one of my previous assignments, I played with shadow profiles in black-and-white photography. But in the final week, our assignment was to break the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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