Lull

Well, dear readers, I trust you all had a wonderful Christmas 🙂 Its that little lull in the proceedings, that odd time of the year now between Christmas and New Year when nothing much happens.  Some people are at work, a lot of shops are shut on the Public Holidays that are in lieu of the Christmas weekend, but most people are kinda just…

Brrrr, its a bit chilly

Yes, it’s cold, I might even have to put some jeans on. All of you in the Northern Hemisphere, up to your necks in white global warming, are probably thinking: “Ha, yeah right, you’re in Perth, I’ve watched some cricket (ok, it’s pretty unlikely that any Americans would say the last bit as cricket is as foreign to them as baseball is to the…

fuzzy logic

I’ve been watching England steam roller Australia in the second Test of the Ashes series at Adelaide.  What a pleasure that is after last time over here and all the over confident jibes from the Aussies over the years. I’m not getting ahead of myself though, there’s plenty of cricket to play yet and things could easily turn around, but I’m sensing strength, patience…

Spring Clean

Its been a few weeks since we gave the house a good clean and time can wait no more. Its on Spring Cleaning. All the windows open, dusters at the ready, new bag in the vacuum, bleach and sprays locked and loaded. *aaaaaaiiiiiiitchooooo* Damn, there’s always a downside. Dust.  Meh! Be back tomorrow once all the chores are done!

More kite surfing

Yes, you might well be bored shitless of these posts by now, but I have more kite photos. It was blowing a hoolie yesterday so I popped down to Safety Bay (which I am told is one of the best freestyle kite surfing spots in the world) to see who was out.  It was high tide this time, so no toe nipping crabs.  And…

and there was more..

More Kitesurfing action from Safety Bay, Rockingham. Standing in the middle of the lagoon might be good for photos, but is also way too good for toe nipping crabs!

By ‘ek, it’s ‘ot (and more kite surfing)

It’s warming up nicely for the summer. 38 degrees today, which is starting to get to the level of heat you want to avoid. So I just had to stay in and watch the cricket instead. (c’mon England!!!) Its a hard life – the cold beers are purely medicinal. I did get up early today and mow the lawn before it got too hot…

learning to fly

I went to Shoalwater Beach the other weekend to see the kitesurfers in action as the wind was blowing and I thought I might get a few shots with the wide angle lens. Stupidly, I was wearing jeans, so I couldn’t get as close to the water as I would have liked – must remember to take shorts next time. Anyway, as usual, the…

Sydney

So, I got sent to Sydney. I wonder, is that a bit like being sent to an Australian version of Coventry? – (which by the way, if you’re not familiar with the expression – being ‘sent to Coventry is an ‘old’ English expression which means to be sent somewhere bad). All good fun you may think, I get to large it up on company…

Tuesdays on the beach

As luck would have it, I have to run big’un around on a Tuesday, so it means I get almost an hour of photography in before I have to collect her again. At the moment, that hour happens to be the golden hour just before sunset, which is awesome for photos. Last week, I took the old jetty shots and was pretty happy, so…