Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have decided to merge Roaming Tales with my personal blog. You will notice a new category called The Niltiac Files that contains all my imported personal blog posts dating back to 2004. I’m still sorting out the sub-categories and tags to assist with navigation through the archive and over time I will also work [...]
Day 29 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: None. Exercise: None. Other achievements: I organized the house post-garage sale in preparation for the landlady coming this afternoon to sign a lease with the new tenants. I sold the bathroom scales and some chairs. I went to the hospital for my ultrasound and obstetrician appointments and [...]
Day 19 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: I haven’t written for a few days. I might still get a chance this afternoon but it’s been pretty busy! Exercise: I swam 20 freestyle laps at the pool this morning (15-20 minutes). It was the first time in over a week. It felt really great! I [...]
Day 15 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: No progress today. This wasn’t procrastination, I was just really busy all day. Exercise: I had hoped to go for a swim but didn’t get time. Other achievements: I wrote three blog posts for Passports with Purpose, the travel blogging fundraiser I’m involved with. This year we [...]
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