Photography I Created
Retro ‘Roo
I’ve created marriage ceremonies in the coldest climates, through Californian deserts in winter, Iceland in winter, New Zealand mountaintops in winter.
Today in the Blue Mountains was the coldest I’ve ever felt, and in all those other weddings I wasn’t wearing a puffer jacket.
It cold.
Photo by my boy Zain Kruyer.
Get back to me when your wedding invite is a bottle of craft gin. This is an actual wedding I’m at in December.
She watches her big sister (try to) do ballet all week
DJ Patil - former U.S. Chief Data Scientist - has the best advice on building: dream in years, plan in months, evaluate in weeks, ship daily.
Nine years since I’ve walked through these doors
An update to the whole ‘my photos were stolen and published in a book at Kmart" story:
Before beginning any legal proceedings I sent them an invoice for a “plucked from the sky” number to license my photos to them. $2,200 an image, $8,800.
The publisher freaked out, took the book off the shelves, and called me to apologise. They ended the phone call with a commitment to come back with a compensation plan, but so far nothing.
$2,035 to send a lawyer’s letter on a hope and a prayer that they respond.
It’d be a lot more money to take it to court.
Sitting here wondering how to respond, so I sent a text. Thank god autocorrect softened the blow.
Expo 88 is the reason I'm a nerd
One of my earliest memories is from Expo 88 in Brisbane. I remember the intense display of future technology - or at least what they thought it would be - and it sparked something in me that still rages today.
The wonder of how amazing tomorrow could be.
Thanks to Anthony for sharing this Expo 88 blog post from the National Archives in The Sizzle newsletter today for bringing all those nerdy memories back.
One of these photos has a very cool Josh Withers in it, I’ll let you play Where’s Wally to figure out which one. The other is from the NAA.
Sam Neil is bringing Jurassic Park down under!
Temple & Webster bed: $450. Koala king mattress: $1039. I Love Linen sheets: $335. How Luna sleeps: priceless.
Outside our front door just now
A solid opportunity to transfer some of your wealth to me and for me to transfer some of my art to your walls at www.joshwithers.art
Y’all bringing your outdoor furniture inside after using it?
Saturday morning coffee date
I’d rather have no phone than an Android phone.
I never knew I needed a Transformer that transformed into a Canon R5 until now. now it’s all I want in this life.
Sunrise this morning from Snapper Rocks
Photos were created by me, on the sunrise of Wednesday, 10 August 2022, at Snapper Rocks and Greenmount Beach at Coolangatta, Queensland. Photographed on a Canon EOS R5 with a 70-200mm lens.
Ok, this is cool: makemydrivefun.com
Australian weather data on the iOS 16 public beta doesn’t look to be any better than previous incarnations. The leftmost app is Weathergraph which is using the Apple Weather API. The middle app is Apple’s stock weather app and it’s weirdly still using The Weather Channel (USA). The right most app is the Australian Bureau of Meteorology app, the arguably one true source of Australian weather data.
