Photography I Created
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Drove the 90 minutes from Exmouth to photograph the sunset in Coral Bay this afternoon and also see the couple I’m marrying this weekend, and after the sun had set I found that all the local restaurants all had 90 minute waits, so I thought, I could just drive back to Exmouth for dinner.
Alas, everything in Exmouth was closed, not even a vending machine for a chocolate.
So I present to you my art from today, art quite literally made by a starving artist.
Also, regional Australia, let’s have at least one kitchen open past 8pm hey?
Luckily today is the first day back from holidays for The Short Order, so I was blessed to receive a 5:30am breaky burger for dinner.
Driving from Siena, Italy, to Graz, Austria, today Goldie and I were looking for somewhere to stop for lunch and we decided on this place named after a beach in Los Angeles.
I took Brittโs Fuji X-S10 with the 27mm f/2.8 for a play while we were there.
๐ท๐ฎ๐น Our last Monday in Puglia
A birds eye view of Martina Franca, in southern Puglia, where we’ve been hanging out this month.
In these photos, happening at the same time, is a funeral procession, a dance contest, and an opera, amongst whatever else the 49,000 residents are getting up to.
There’s also two 360 photos of Martina Franca in this embed, a higher and lower shot, look for the hotspots when you’re scrolling around.
๐ท๐ฎ๐น๐ Fifteen of Monopoliโs best from my Mavic in Puglia yesterday
โช๏ธ I did it, I finally did it. I crucified the sun.
… and other photos from the sunset over Monopoli, Puglia, this afternoon ๐ท๐๐ฎ๐น
๐ท๐ฎ๐น๐๏ธ Family day at the beach at Cala Maka. The beach is apparently/allegedly called Torre Canne Nord Prima della Casa Grigia, which translated from Italian means, North Canne Tower Before the Gray House, which is the most romantic beach name I’ve ever read.
Good luck ever naming a beach better than that.
๐ท๐ฎ๐น 40 degrees celsius today in Martina Franca, but the second you step into the shade the temperature drops about fifteen of those bad boy degrees.
๐ท๐ฎ๐น Alberobello, Puglia
๐ท๐ฎ๐น Polignano a Mare, Puglia
๐ท๐ฎ๐น Sunday frames from Martina Franca, Puglia, Italy
๐๏ธ Tuesday at Spiaggia Lido Silvana, Puglia, Italy
Temple of Valadier: Refuge for sinners
Does Apple Vision mean 360 content is finally going to have its moment?
It’s normally pretty hard to try and fit an entire nation in one photo. It’s a little bit easier if you’re making a 360 panoramic photo. But still, most nations don’t fit.
So I can proudly say I think I got almost all of Liechtenstein in this photo.
I have a confession to make.
I didn’t know “The Alps” were a thing. I thought people referred to “the alps” when they referred to alpine areas.
This probably explains why I nerded out pretty hard when I got to the Alps and kept on typing the alps and all my computing devices would autocorrect to The Alps.
Anyway, here’s a 360 photo of a part of the Alps from Kufstein in Austria.
And another from Lake Wolfgang
Lichtenstein 3D
The fascinating story of Castle Itter and the last European WWII battle
Watched the sun set into Germany across the German/Austrian border tonight.
Withers on film in Hawaii
Withers in Mexico.
I found an undeveloped roll of film from our time in Baja California Sur. Missing Cerritos Beach!
Withers in Paris on 35mm film
My favourite thing to do in the big cities of the world is to ignore the must-do lists, the must-see places, the hotspots and the icons, and to just walk around and exist in a different big city. Walking down random streets, getting bad coffee at little-known cafes, and finding the unseen parts of a city. The towers, cathedrals, arches and museums are cool and we inevitably end up there. But thereโs something really interesting to me about experiencing another peopleโs normal.
My review and photos of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport
My first tweet was tweeted 18 months before I even started tweeting
Everything that was old and awesome becomes new and terrible, whist still whipping the llama’s ass.
The news is incentivised to be broken and terrible
Because Iโm a man-child I wanted to share my two of my favourite photos from photographing the horse sanctuary in Baja
Six months a gringo and no bad days
Our last Baja sunset for a while
Our last day in Baja
Last day of school for the girls in Baja
I’ve thought about these three points pretty much every hour of every day since I first read it three days ago in James Clear’s 3-2-1 email
The future of content: video of someone watching a video of someone who wrote a song about their low self esteem sponsored by a real estate agent Iโd not do business with if only because Iโm not going to click an ad to take me away from watching this train wreck of a video.
Location, location, location #playacerritos
You’ve got to get up early to catch the Mexican Coke dealers
Todos Santos, BCS, on Good Friday
Still the best food and beverage proposition in Baja
Martha!
Iโm doing a redesign of a website whilst also moving them from Squarespace to Shopify and Iโm pretty sure the cheeky copy sprinkled across the new homepage wonโt make it past the first review, but Iโm quite proud of it, so I had to share it somewhere.
Good Friday for Luna
Iโm going to miss living in the desert when we leave next week. So many cactus started flowering this week and theyโre beautiful.
Appleโs gotta be the company to come in and either buy or partner with StabilityAI right?
โPlease lower your standardsโ
Baja sunset
How do you do fellow kids?
The moon over Baja tonight was so beautiful. Here it is captured by three lenses. Ones an iPhone 14 Proโs 24mm lens, another is a Canon RF 35mm, and another is a Canon RF 70-200mm cropped.
Iโve never flown Delta Air Lines, but Britt did last week, and a friend here in Baja is a frequent flyer with the airline, both, unprompted, cited the seat-back entertainment as one of the reasons they would fly them again.
Customer satisfaction win for Delta.
My first look at the 400 megapixel mode on the Canon EOS R5
๐ท Mirror (@Rori)
Now youโre just a music playback medium that I used to know.
(Found in an op-shop in 2017)
๐ท Slice (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @meandering)
Last week Goldie grabbed a big knife off the kitchen bench when I wasnโt looking.
Thinking about the Coolangatta boardriders today
๐ท Prompt (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @moonmehta)
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a couple, asking them to make out in front of their grandparents.
(I’m a wedding celebrant)
Oh, this is awkward. The artificial intelligence doesn’t know that the United Kingdom has left the European Union. If I tell it is it going to have an emotional meltdown?
๐ท Support (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @JohnAN)
I’ve spent a lot of time at the Los Sagrados Horse Sanctuary over the past few weeks, and the biggest take away for me isn’t just the support we can offer to horses, but the support they offer to us.
The computer at Picfair has decided that these pieces of art are the ones people are most likely to buy from my print store and hang on their wall, prove it wrong.
Printing in most countries worldwide so delivery is usually local which means it’s quick and easy.
The one where Father Nathan Monk casually suggests that Jesus might of been gay.
The Christians are going to roast you, Monk. Godspeed.
22 Jump Street is going to be Kanyeโs Mother Theresa moment.
Which cinematic alien or monster do you think my huevos rancheros looks like? Iโm seeing Dr. Zoidberg.
๐ท Instrument (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @UnfocusedWanderlust)
On Friday I was photographing Los Sagrados for their new website, and a musician came out to perform the flute and percussion for the horses. It was quite a thing to witness.
Disco tech
Luna and I flexing our frequent flyer privileges this afternoon.
This week in cactus
While Brittโs been away this last fortnight Iโve had heaps of one-on-one time with Goldie while her big sister is at school.
Bono and The Edge’s Tiny Desk Concert is beautiful. In particular, the “argument between two mates”, Stuck in Moment You Can’t Get Out Of.
Missing home/Australia/Gold Coast tonight
Help me name my new creation which I made for the kids for dinner tonight. Itโs a quesadilla with leftover spaghetti bolognaise sauce and despite Lunaโs objections, itโs great!
Coming soon to old London Town, pixels that I made in Burleigh Heads.
Three years of hell
A new website for Los Sagrados Horse Sanctuary
๐ท Insect (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by a@alexink)
๐ท Tiny {people} (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @jasonmcfadden)
It was Lunaโs turn to decide what we had for breakfast. Her choice? La Esquina, the cafe with pancakes and a playground.
You know yo’ve really embedded yourself in a Mexican community when you see a friend riding in the back of a truck on the highway.
๐ท Houseplant. Did I do the #mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt right, @jensands)?
(Photo made a few moments ago on the way to get a coffee in Los Cerritos, Baja California Sur)
๐ท๐ฒ๐ฝ Analog (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @skarjune)
I made these photos on Playa Cerritos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, on a broken film camera a week ago, then a few days later they were developed in a photo lab at Currumbin Beach, Australia, and Iโm posting them today from Las Tunas, Mexico. The wonders of living in a connected world. (Britt has flown back to Australia this week).
๐ท Portico (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @annahavrom)
From a snow day in Nashville between Christmas and New Yearโs Eve just passed.
๐ท Early (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @krisfredrick) also shared on Pexels.
๐ท Road (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @Dejus)
Thereโs a saying in Baja that โbad roads bring good people and good roads bring bad peopleโ.
So we keep the ungraded and bumpy dirt roads as an instrument of faith in the neighbours we want.
๐ท Horizon (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @crossingthethreshold)
๐ท Connection (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @agilelisa)
The moment I connected with my minutes-old first child and daughter.
๐ท Shiny (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @odd)
The second percolator Iโve owned in Mexico. I forgot the first one was on the stove, on heat. Melted all the plastic components.
๐ท Gimcrack (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @jafish).
My local tyre shop here in Baja California Sur has real gimcrack vibes.
Friday afternoon in Pescadero, Baja California Sur
๐ท Ritual (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @drewbelf)
Our morning coffee. While weโre in El Pescadero, itโs from La Comuna Espresso Bar at Mini Super Munchies.
๐ท Together (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @sherif)
Our little nomadic family, our most recent photo all together in Australia, in October last year.
Rancho Gaspareรฑo
๐ท Early morning beach walks with my three girls (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt ‘walk’ suggested by @lwdupont)
Ten whale soup off Todos Santos yesterday ๐๐ท๐
๐ท Whole (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @val)
A whole lot of whale as I saw it from my aerial camera yesterday.
Because I couldn’t get my head clear to write this morning I worked on a cover for the book instead.
If you’d walk past this in a shop and stop, like this.
Would you buy it? Let me know why.
๐ท Engineering (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @ridwan)
These are my DJI microphones, and as a travelling nerd I really appreciate how they’ve been engineered, all to stay within the little charging case.
๐ท Tile (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @thedimpulse)
Luna, nine months old, taking a breather on the floor of a Tuscan church.
๐ท Tile (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @thedimpulse)
Photo made outside a small Italian restaurant in Brisbane.
๐ท Zip (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @miraz)
zip /zip/
verb
Local Baja news includes the taco price index
๐ท Solitude (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @circustiger)
I made this photo in Yosemite National Park.
The most interesting (to me) new app/social net-ugh-something-work is Artifact. Itโs from the guys who created Instagram but itโs like a โTikTok for articles/blog posts/news.
I personally would much prefer to read than watch a video, so this is my kind of network.
Islands, theyโre always in the last place you look.
๐ท Weather (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @pcora)
Photo made in Newport Beach looking at Catalina on Saturday just passed.
They got me by talking about my main domain name and my main domain host. Even though itโs not hosted at VentraIP. Iโm just so used to having to correct payments there.
I didnโt even notice the bung I in VentraIP, the bad email address, the bad domain.
Iโve locked the two credit cards I fed them. Feel like an idiot.
As Abe Simpson said, and it will happen to yoouuuuu.
A letter from a freelancing poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, to her publisher, Poetry magazine, with the business inspiration we all could take, from Letters of Note.
๐ท Four frames from El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, today
๐ท๐๐ฒ๐ฝ Four aerial frames from Playa Los Cerritos, Baja California Sur
๐ทโ๏ธ๐บ๐ธ Four frames out the window of AA2171
๐ทโ๏ธ๐บ๐ธ Four frames from LAX on Sunday
๐ท Four frames from Newport Beach this past weekend
Hey, donโt be alarmed or anything but the President of Mexico, the head honcho, the big guy in charge, has tweeted that one of his engineers has taken a photo of an elf. Just another day south oโ the border.
If you want surf and snow in the same trip, I can definitely recommend Los Angeles today.
Drove past this park today and noticed something interesting on Google Maps at (33.6621623, -117.8775484).
I wonder how many aircraft the Google Maps aerial photographers have captured?
Now Iโve just got to hope the people writing memos or sending emails regarding Belโs Guide donโt stop me.
This is good content, we should podcast about it.
Visited the Japanese mothership (aka Canon campus) in Los Angeles and asked them to clean my cameras and lenses.
Steve Jobs in 1984 spotting a Macintosh in the wild for the first time.
I couldnโt begin to imagine the what he was feeling seeing a product he knew so intimately, that his team had worked on endlessly, to see from the street it just being used by someone in an office.
I tried but it turns out you canโt go Out before you go In
Itโs so special to be in LA to watch the city fall to pieces with my own eyes.
โdat light + reflection
Goldie, taking full advantage of the Shatner Seat
What a time to be alive
Pure second child energy.
Iโm going to start sneaking in to her room while she sleeps and bottling some of that excess second child energy and selling it to soldiers and personal trainers who need to get hyped up.
Mexican Marines
Sunday // Playa Cerritos, BCS
Mark Twain’s use of a typewriter. I wonder if AI-writing is today’s typewriter?
Tres es compaรฑรญa (three frames of three humpback whales shot a few minutes ago in El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico)
Wednesday frames
Whale watching in Baja
El Pescadero seafood stall
I heard you were into Jesus, so I got you some Jesus
Wednesday in Todos Santos
Wednesday in El Pescadero
This is on the menu as Fresh Water or Agua Fresco.
Sometime before now Mexicans werenโt taking to actual water that was fresh and without watermelon straws, so smart boffins in Mexico City mixed in some fruit and sweetener, and hey presto, fresh waters and an obesity problem!
Anthony shared this signed cover art in today’s edition of The Sizzle and very few images can conjure up so much nostalgia. I still remember visiting the shareware kiosk (computer in a box) at Video Ezy and downloading the shareware version of Doom onto two 3.5" floppy disks.
Spotting a scam email
Don’t believe everything AI tells you. This bio sounds right, but it’s not. From what I understand I’ve never been in Vogue, The Knot, or Martha Vomit Stewart Weddings. I am not a founding member of the AFCC, and I’ve not been Sydney-based for over a decade. I also don’t write my couple’s vows.
The many branches of the Fediverse by Per Axbom.
One Million Downloads on Unsplash
It might be 8yrs late, but you’re finally getting my book: The Rebel’s Guide To Getting Married is coming in 2023. It’s a book about planning a wedding with intention and purpose, written by yours truly, Oz’s most hated celebrant & I’m writing live on my wedding blog.
Current status: forgot to put coffee in the percolator.
Current status: horizontal at El Pescadero
Sad. The person typing this has finally given up on the dream of eternal youth and is scaling back his dream of More Space to Default.
Popped up to say hi then went back down again
Hola
Iโve lived around the ocean my whole life and Iโve never seen the ocean as angry and ferocious as I have at Todos santos, Baja California Sur, this week.
Somehow both our girls have learned to pose like this and I have no idea how, or why, or where itโs from.
Ok then, photorapture it is
The Home Owners Association is not going to be happy
๐ก at El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Iโm not going to lie, I donโt have to hug everyone I marry when I first see them at the ceremony, but I want to.
Alani & Ethan #marriedbyjosh on the Gold Coast with the Elopement Collective
Luna asked me to play some fairy songs. So I search for such a thing in Apple Music.
Friday afternoon at Pescadero
Joe Mayall in There’s No “Woke Capitalism.” Only Capitalism:
“Profit: By any means necessary.”
“Companies seek profit. Everything else is just a means to an end.”
The spare tyre for our car sits up and under the body of the car, under the front seats. Myself and the tyre guy took quite a while to figure this all out.
You look at this photo and think it’s some kind of grand cathedral in Rome. It’s a storage room in Ravello.
Every week, sometimes every day, Britt and my inbox is filled with couples worrying about what happens if it rains, or if it’s too hot, or if something something. All valid worries, but they don’t stress us out too much because we always find a way. We’ll always find a storage room on the Amalfi Coast that also just happens to be an epic location for your ceremony.
That’s what we do. We look for solutions, not problems.
Any chimp can find a problem. We find a storage room, move all the things being stored, and then walk you into a sacred place where you can exchange vows intimately, in private, with joy and peace.
This is Raimie and Kelly on the Amalfi Coast in Villa Cimbrone with the Elopement Collective and Joey & Jase.
16 years ago today the way I viewed the world changed completely. I can still remember seeing that little lump of plastic and metal in Steve Jobs’s hand, watching a video stream, and thinking that everything changed. Today that remains ever so.
I believe that you can measure the meaning of something by imagining taking it away. What would life be like if we didn’t have it? Like earlier today I mused to a friend that if a certain media property disappeared, no one would notice.
Imagine a world without the iPhone. You might point to Android phones, but 16 years ago today the team developing Android ‘started over’ and despite the common argument that iPhone copies Android’s leadership, on that day, Android took iPhone’s lead.
Even comparing the two, Android was just a software platform under development. iPhone was hardware and software. Not long after it became a software development platform and the world as we know it today changed completely. Services you take for granted were enabled that day.
16 years is nothing special, but every year when this date rolls around, and the subsequent anniversaries, I reflect how years later we’ve not experienced a tectonic shift like that since.
“Make something wonderful and put it out there." You sure did, Apple. You sure did.
When you elope in a far-away destination youโre choosing a very different vibe and moment than a domestic elopement. It firmly places your ceremony - the beginning of your marriage - in the middle of an adventure. Between customs, packing, flights, delays, transfers, language barriers, different foods and weather, itโs impossible to not revel in the moment as you take a deep breath of that fresh international air and exchange vows with me and the @elopementcollective in some epic location like Italy, Iceland, or anywhere in-between.
Iโm up for a European wedding adventure any day of the week, but in June and July 2024 Iโll be there with The Elopement Collective plus House of Lucie and Jason Corroto.
More info available in my email my name at my last name dot co or withers.co/europe.
This is me with Stuart and Chelsea outside of some epic villa in Tuscany, Italy, with Jason Lucas a few years ago. Epic trip.
I chose a Kindle Scribe
Elderly lady walking her dog with a Bluetooth speaker blaring Liโl Jonโs 2002 banger, Get Low. Stay cool, Nashville.
Tasted fine Kentucky Angelโs Envy bourbon with a Great Indiana Manโข๏ธ
Roadtrip to meet an old friend for the first time
Better times
Kindle Oasis or a Kindle Scribe - which will be my new normal?
My favourite Apple Watch feature is New Yearโs Day
Noah Smith in The internet wants to be fragmented:
“Perhaps someday the human race will be ready to become one collective consciousness. But the experiment of the 2010s shows that this day is not today. Let the internet once more be an escape โ a place where you can find your people and be happy. Let us learn to speak a thousand different languages once again. Let the Tower of Babel fall.”
Neighbourhood fireworks > City provided fireworks
Water damage and damage electrical damage to the house were housesitting thanks to frozen water pipes over Christmas means weโre bringing in New Yearโs Eve with CNN via MacBook. Hilariously the internet just died.
Another day, another Airbnb, another part of Tennessee, another sunset. Seems cyclical.
Boring kids
A Squirrelโs tale
So a white Christmas in Nashville is pretty cool
Old mate out on the back fence of our Airbnb in Nashville this morning is a bit cold.
Merry Christmas from The Withers, Tennessee edition.
That cold front hits Franklin, Tennessee and its -18 degrees Celsius but feels like negative 30.
So so cold
Iโve been in Nashville less than 24 hours and the Christmas miracles have already begun
It is well
and with that the 2022 wedding season comes to an end
Iโve almost escaped Australia, just waiting for that delay to Dallas to stop being a delay
Really proud of how The Sizzle has grown. You deserve all the success, Anthony/@decryption.
Iโm selling a 245L Hisense freezer if anyone is interested, like this totally genuine buyer.
24 hours in the town I grew up in: Mackay
Before we get too excited about fusion energy, space travel and flying cars, itโs important to remember that this is how Australia Post wants me to find a lost package, with details from a Windows 2000 screenshot and calling a national hotline.
Such a Century Gothic welcome
How is Jetstar the only Australian airline fully utilising the Apple Wallet API with flight and gate updates and heaps of info inside the ticket info page?
Nine years ago I had an internet-enabled egg tray. I feel like technology has not really advanced past this milestone.
The invention of jaywalking by Clive Thompson.