Silhouettes and shadows in the morning sun

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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 [...]

Rhyolite, a ghost town in Nevada

Rhyolite, a ghost town in Nevada

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 [...]

Books in Krakow

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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 [...]

David Austin roses at Carriageworks

Jug of David Austin roses

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 [...]

Snake tracks at Mesquite Flat Dunes

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We left San Francisco in the evening and arrived in Death Valley at dawn. It was a thrill to be in the desert after the night’s journey – and a relief to be able to stretch my legs. (The seats on the Green Tortoise bus convert to beds but I was still feeling pretty crunchy). [...]

How travel prepared me for motherhood

Bathing Poppy by the fire

There have been a lot of firsts in the lives of my twin babies this week. They have now moved to their own bedroom, having finally outgrown the bassinets beside our bed. I’ve been putting them in their own cots for day sleeps for a week now to get them used to the idea but [...]

Travel makes it personal: Water wheels and democracy protests in Hama, Syria

Hama lake and water wheel

Earlier today I passed a small but passionate protest in Sydney’s Martin Place. There were a few men in the group but most of the protesters were women, wearing the modest garb and head coverings that marked them out as Muslim. Waving the Syrian flag, their voices rang loud and clear and their accents were [...]

Macarons in Sydney – Adriano Zumbo and Baroque

Assorted macarons from Baroque

Sometimes I fantasise that my husband and I will move to Hobart in Tasmania and open a macaron shop. I’m sure this will never happen. Even if I could get my husband on board with moving to Hobart, the truth is that I have never made a macaron in my life. And while macarons seem [...]

A zeppelin flight over San Francisco

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Airship Ventures is giving away a flight for two aboard its zeppelin Eureka, as part of its sponsorship with Passports with Purpose. For your chance to win, buy a $10 raffle ticket at passportswithpurpose.com/donate before midnight (US West Coast time) on December 13. The funds will be used to construct a village in India for [...]

Photo Friday: Stand-up paddling in San Diego

San Diego stand-up kayaking

San Diego, California; January 2010 Before I saw these paddlers in San Diego, I thought stand-up was a comedy genre not a sport. I’ve since learned that stand-up kayaking is all the rage in paddling circles. Apparently the sport started in Hawaii and is favoured by anglers because of the better manouevrability when casting a [...]

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