Charlie's WorldHolidays, part 1 – Perth to England
Posted on August 21, 2011
So, after a full days work, I hastily packed up and went to the airport to catch the midnight flight, the first leg of my journey, to Hong Kong.
Sadly, Cathay Pacific’s maintenance crews in Hong Kong had forgotten to file some paperwork, so we sat for 2 hours whilst the captain sent several rockets to obtain this before we could depart. 2 hours late was not good, seeing as I only had 2 hours between flights in HK. Read More
Day trippin’
Posted on August 13, 2011
When I first started work, I spent my time behind computers, ferreting about with wires and cables and generally fixing them. Then I was allowed to program them, losing myself in lines and lines of code and logic. This sometimes meant I didn’t see daylight, especially when it came to building the semi-supercomputing style systems, sometimes ending up almost inside them before they were ready to run my carefully crafted code.
Nowadays, I spend my working life in front of a computer, designing the systems that some other poor bugger has to ferret around building whilst some other poor bugger has to code from my designs.
I know, I’m almost drunk with power.
Drive out to the country
Posted on August 6, 2011
Yes, it’s another of those weekend photo posts!
Jay and I decided to go on another little drive out to a place we haven’t been before. Well, to be 100% accurate, its somewhere I’ve not been before – Jay has been to most places having lived here for 20+ years, but me being Johnny Foreigner, I haven’t really been to many places outside of Perth.
Photo Sunday
Posted on July 31, 2011
It’s been a shocker, weather wise, over the last three of four days. A massive winter storm system has swept in off the Indian Ocean unleashing torrential rain and howling gales (upto 130kmh winds) that have relentlessly battered the Perth coast, with Rockingham copping some of the worst of it.
The bad weather means I’ve not been able to get out to get any air or take any photos.
good food and wine show
Posted on July 16, 2011
This week The Good Food and Wine show has come to Perth.
Yes, I know. Culture. In Perth. I can hardly believe it either.
Jay got us tickets to go so we could wander around from 10 to 12 before general admission started. More time for us and the food to get better acquainted before the crowds arrive 🙂
two went on an adventure
Posted on July 10, 2011
It was one of those weekends coming up where the girls were round at their father’s, the weather looked ok and we were looking for things to do.
Usually (as past posts have clearly shown), we’ll wander out for coffee and end up having either breakfast or lunch and then spend the rest of the weekend sleeping off all the calories.
Well, not this time
Mangles Bay
Posted on June 26, 2011
I had a few spare hours yesterday as Jay was writing, so I packed up the camera and headed out to take some shots. I initially wanted to go to one of the jetties in Rockingham and get some more long exposure shots, but I’ve kinda done that to death for the moment already.
So I wandered over to Mangles Bay, where the boats are moored with the aim to get some boaty/long exposure/moving sky style photos
search terms
Posted on June 25, 2011
I was just about to start writing my weekly blog (I know, it’s come to that, such is the lack of free time I have due to my work) when I thought I’d look at the wordpress dashboard and my stats section
You know, to see how many lovely people actually tune in (there’s quite a few of you actually – hello *waves*) – plus I’m a narcissist, when I saw ‘search engine terms’
experiments with motion
Posted on June 21, 2011
When the light is low and delicious it becomes malleable, flexible. A static photograph renders what was there, sometimes better than others, but often not the feeling of being there.
But play with the light, with the camera, with the landscape, with motion and things become more interesting.
noodling
Posted on June 16, 2011
I took the little LX5 out in Perth today. Just pointing it at people, things, places – it’s awesome. It’s fast, small, discrete, lightweight – the perfect little camera for every day.
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