← 2022 April 2022

  • Hastings Point this afternoon šŸ“· playing with a 45 year old 35mm manual focus Canon FD lens on my Canon EOS R5.

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  • My three year old loves making photos, has a Micro.Blog! Her username is @lunawithers, her blog is here, and this is the kids camera sheā€™s using.

  • Tom Cruise #notshotoniphone

  • Is love of aviation photography a hereditary thing? I guess weā€™ll never know.

  • 6:42am this morning // Brunswick Heads // Susara & Jake

  • Set an alarm to get up for sunrise this morning ā€¦.

  • Whatā€™s the story with hot air balloons carrying advertising? Is it a layover from former deals? Do the advertisers pay once, or a regular rate? It seems odd today.

    Hereā€™s some hot air balloonists over Brunswick Heads this morning.

  • Sunrise elopement at Brunswick Heads this morning

  • Wategos Beach this afternoon

  • Do you guys need me to pick you up anything while Iā€™m here?

  • Whenever I am out in public with either or both of my children I always carry their birth certificate with me so that I can easily and quickly prove that I am a Certified Practising Parent and not some hooligan that just walks around pretending to be a legit adult with children.

  • How my body feels after the last two years of life and parenting

  • Everyone stop looking. I found them.

  • My thoughts on Elon Musk buying Twitter

  • How old do kids have to be to ride on the dash? Asking for Goldie.

  • Everyoneā€™s worried about what @elonmusk is going to do to Twitter the social network, but no-oneā€™s talking about how heā€™s going to get printed copies of all our draft tweets every morning and if he thinks theyā€™re good heā€™ll just post them on his own account.

  • I just canā€™t believe a rich guy bought the free bird website off other rich people. Itā€™s like non-rich people only get to use the free bird website, not own it, I guess.

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  • Iā€™m a little bit obsessed with strapping this 50 year old Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 lens onto my Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera with an Urth adaptor.

  • Canon FD 50mm strapped onto a Canon EOS R5 ā›½ļø

  • Police are now targeting podcast producers who say that they will put a link in the show notes, yet do not put that link in the notes.

  • VH-VPE, VH-VPD, VH-VPH at Wellcamp Airport

  • Queensland Regional Accommodation Centre. Or as Scotty McDonald calls it, The Steven Miles Centre For Excellence, or as Iā€™ll call it, The Queensland Labor Money Pit.

  • Just three Boeing 777ā€™s hanging out in a field.

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  • If I had to choose, Iā€™d give it all away for the simple joy of being their dad

  • This is weird, but I need your help finding a ball.

    KMart used to sell these little massage balls that look like a virus emoji šŸ¦ . About 12cm in diameter, and really hard plastic. Theyā€™ve discontinued the product and Iā€™ve bought about 4 similar ones from Amazon but theyā€™re soft rubbery plastic and not what I need.

    I need hard plastic, something I can dig my heel into and bring peace to my plantar fasciitis.

  • It is so weird to experience old white male sexism in the flesh. I am pushing a pram through a shopping centre with my one-year-old daughter in it and a guy who Iā€™ve never seen before says to me ā€œthat colour purse really suits you.ā€

  • DF: Biden Administration Looks Gift Horse in Mouth, But Can't See It Because the Horse Is Wearing a Mask

    CDC guidelines suggest, for example, that nobody should eat rare steak or runny eggs, and that a woman should not have more than one alcoholic drink a day.

  • Danny Elfman, creator of The Simpsonā€™s theme song, performs The Simpsonā€™s Theme Song at Coachella and itā€™s beautiful.

  • Flight attendant said that if we ā€œhear the words e and vacuateā€ then those of us in the emergency row have to do something with the window and itā€™s all I can think about now. Do I let her know itā€™s one word? If they say evacuate do we still pop the window?!

  • Making like ScoMo and Canberraā€™s in my rearview mirror

  • At the risk of outing myself as a business guy and customer journey nerd, why don't cafes and shops just increase their prices by 1.5% instead of plastering signs like this across their business?

  • Finally someone answers the big question: Where has Yahoo Serious been?

  • Drove the dirt road from Tumut to Canberra this morning.

  • Is it street photography if you made the photo in a car?

  • Argalong - population of 29 - at 6am this morning

  • Yes, I would like fries with that

  • Waxing Gibbous from QF1765 tonight

  • Damn Qantas gamifying being green so I feel incentivised to achieve an arbitrary goal.

  • The Good Friday commute

  • Pretty good Friday

  • VA534

  • Game night at the Gabba

  • Tongaā€™s triple disaster - Expsoure:

    ā€œWe felt very vulnerable because our island, Lifuka, is so low. We just ran for the highest point, the hospital. Later we were warned not to drink the rainwater as sulphate from the ash had contaminated everything.ā€

  • I still have a bit of a traumatic reaction crossing this border to go to work.

  • Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

  • A list of principles for a class taught by artist and educator Sister Corita Kent in 1967-1968:

    Nothing is a mistake.

  • If Iā€™m making photographs for fun - aka not for money - Iā€™m often shooting with a 41 year old lens that was passed on to me from my aunty, a Minolta MD 50mm f2 strapped onto the front of my Canon EOS R5.

    Thereā€™s nothing technically special about the lens, but I love that itā€™s seen so much of the world. Plus I like the images it makes

    But because it's a manual focus only lens, it's a nice trick if any images are in focus.

    Recently started playing with Topaz Sharpen AI and that software really helps me where my manually focusing fingers fail me.

  • ā€œWeā€™re the Aristocrats!ā€

    RIP Gilbert Gottfried.

  • This weekend Iā€™m in Gundagai for a wedding, and Iā€™ve got a little bit of Saturday and Sunday morning exploration time. Where should I go exploring in this area this weekend?

  • "How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations."

  • I don't know how to say this without sounding a bit up my self, but I just spelled 'poignantly' correctly on the first go.

  • My fuel and drink at BP just came to $100.01, so I asked the girl behind the counter if I have a one cent discount so I could get a really nice number in my accounting software. She looked at me as if I was a crazy man.

  • Twitterā€™s asking a lot of questions about longer form writing today

  • Can we, or more to the point, will we innovate our way out of gestures at everything?

    "So long as we keep choosing to create. If we keep doing what it is we do as people. We are explainers and constructors. We are creators. We are resource makers."

    ā€“ Brett Hall

  • I hope for a future where our thoughts, our conversations, our relationships, and our transactions are not handled by a handful of the largest companies on the globe.

    I just think it's a nicer world that way.

    So I blog at micro.blog and that shares to some places, and I manually share to Facebook and/or Instagram sometimes, but ultimately I'd love to become acquainted with you outside of a corporate algorithm.

    One way to achieve that is email. Apart from Google's every attempt to ruin the experience for us, you subscribe to an email list and it appears in your inbox. You can reply to me, I can reply to you. It's good.

    If you like what I share, and you'd like to get it in an automatic weekly digest, chuck your email address in here joshwithers.blog/subscribe.

  • Mark Fisher, in k-punk, on naming things like music genres:

    "Naming is not a neutral act of referring. Naming produces surplus value, something that wasn't already there in the first place."

  • One of my favourite aspects of the world wide web and the internet, is the process upon which we find people who think the same as we do. People whose minds vibrate on a similar frequency to ours.

    So I present to you: Jameson Orvis's 'the essence of place'

    "The more I think about this label placement the more it pisses me off. Perhaps I could forgive the label for being so far from the geographic center of Brooklyn if the intersection of Brooklyn Ave and Atlantic Ave were at all remarkable. But no itā€™s just a random intersection along the A/C line with a 7/11 that the Google Maps label for Brooklyn just so happens to be positioned directly on top of. Why not just put it in the actual center of the borough? What purpose does this serve? Who or what algorithm is responsible? I descended a rabbit hole."

  • Police in San Francisco pull over a driverless car

  • Seems to have worked out ok for them tho

  • Kim Beazely - former Deputy PM of Australia, Ambassador to the USA, and current Governor of WA - on the general operational capacity of the United States of America:

    ā€œI think itā€™s brilliant the US actually works.ā€

    Fun podcast listen at Hemispheric Views.

  • One of those weeks where I was on FaceTime a lot

  • You guys need anything while Iā€™m here?

  • The difference 80km and a Ukrainian/Russian border makes in what you see on TikTok.

  • Ned Kellyā€™s legacy in tatters.

    I booked a two night stay at this motel hoping for stay based on Ned Kellyā€™s principles of stealing livestock, denouncing the British Empire, and shooting Victorian police.

    Not comfortability and cleanliness.

    1 star.

  • Just in: the new rankings for reading a book:

    1. Acquire the book and read it with your eyes.
    2. Acquire the book and intend to read it.
    3. Listen to a podcast with the author about the book.
    4. Acquire the book without intent to read.
    5. Listen to the audiobook.

  • we're all looking for someting, not knowing exactly what it is. then one day youā€™re driving toward the sunset with your window down, and wind running through your hair, as you think, ā€œthis is it, this is everything." and all you had to do, is open the window and let it in.

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  • I've got a hunch that this week will be the last one where Australia has a bloke named Scott Morrison as its Prime Minister. That election looms and the coalition wants someone else at the top.

    And that makes the team at 6 News' interview with ScoMo even more important. Consider it an exit interview.

  • The view from Kirribilli last night

  • This week is one of those weeks where Iā€™m reminded that Iā€™m actually quite good at being a wedding celebrant and I really enjoy it despite a pandemic tearing out my soul. Just completed wedding 3 of 5 for the week and itā€™s only Wednesday.

  • It wet.

    Pilot just explained that he and the other pilot were flying up from Melbourne for this flight and baggage loading staff were low at Melbourne because people in baggage were off work with Covid so the delays just multiplied from there.

    2.5hrs late so far.

  • Layers

  • Now that vaccinated segregation is coming to an end in Queensland why should we give up on classism now?

    I propose we start separating people based on race.

    Like, I donā€™t want to eat at the same cafe as a really fast runner, or F1 driver.

  • Bedtime views

  • Feels good to be back in Sydney/the Blue Mountains today. Feels like Iā€™m back in the office like the good olā€™ days.

  • Life with a three year old and a one year old feels like a blur

  • FINANCIAL LOSSES CAUSED BY DIVORCE

  • Souht of 'Talle sunday afternoons

  • Australia

  • Why the original iMac had a handle

  • Arrived home from work late tonight to a vomiting toddler. She managed to soil two compete bed settings, a bunch of Britt and my clothes, two pyjamas, and some fluffy animals.

    In other news, laundromats have really upped their price.

  • Eight hospitality trends/opportunities that could emerge from Covid:

    • Towns for remote workers
    • Home swapping
    • City getaways and glamping
    • Coliving in lifestyle locations
    • Staycations
    • Neighbourhood coworkings
    • Campervans
    • Hosting company offsites

    ā€¦ Peter Fabor

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  • Cows with a beef