Photography I Created
- The couple lived in one of the four local government area’s that had been ordered to stay at home, the NSW Premier said at the time “if you live or work in those four local government areas you should not leave your home unless you have to.”
- Sydney was entering a pretty severe lockdown and weddings were banned, there was literally four reasons given to leave the house. Weddings were allowed “for compassionate reasons” on the day they were married and I didn’t think that an elopement with no guests for a local couple who hadn’t communicated any compassionate reasons was more important than public safety.
- I would need to quarantine on arrival back to Queensland for two weeks afterward which is super fun for work and leave me making a financial loss on the wedding.
Snapper Rocks
Real talk fam, are people really paying $50 or $75 a month for LinkedIn?
A little demo of Adobe Photoshop 2022’s Neural filter on one of my photos
Qantas: Yeah, look, there’s been a slight delay with your flight, you’re going to be four weeks late …
Chinghee Creek on a Saturday Night for Travis & Christie
Happy 50th Sea World
50 of my and Luna’s favourite photos at Sea World for their 50th birthday today
Remember that time that the Black Eyed Peas hadn’t hit the big time yet, but when they did they had to re-record one of their songs? I’m prepping for a wedding I’m DJing tonight and wondering how people would react if I pulled out the OG.
On @danilic’s prompting I’ve installed DaVinci Resolve and am trying it for the first time this morning. I don’t know what this does but I am frightened at how it could edit me.
Friday sunrise at Snapper Rocks
Corporate headshots don’t have to look like you were just dragged in front of a photographer to get a photo for the website.
Created for Lightning Broadband.
One story out of many on how the Sydney Covid lockdown currently ending has cost me so much money
On the first day of the Sydney lockdown that’s currently ending, I had a wedding booked in the Blue Mountains. I was driving down (flights had been cancelled twice) at the time the lockdown was announced and I told the couple I couldn’t attend their wedding because:
I offered to freely postpone to a time when they were allowed to marry, and if I couldn’t be there, I’d hire a celebrant in my place.
They rejected that offer and found a celebrant and photographer who would flout the stay at home orders.
Today a NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal member issued them a full refund because I told them I couldn’t come, instead of just leaving them high and dry and not turning up, because then it would have then been a force majeure event.
So just in case you were curious, lockdowns mean nothing to consumer action, law is an ever flexible and changing ball of goo, the wedding industry really is not going well after two years of this, and apparently I now it’s my job to report a couple to NSW Police for breaching stay at home orders.
Covid sucks. Covid has almost completely killed my passion for weddings.
Sunrise elopement at The Calile Hotel this morning
Sorry sir, I am all out of way
All of my Apple devices are upgraded and now there’s a openthread.thread.home.arpa on my network. Nest Smoke Alarms, or HomePod Minis?
Monday afternoon in Burleigh Heads
Luna’s birthday week comes to a close. Now we have 51 weeks of mourning until her fourth birthday celebrations can begin.
Uh, oh, watch out petrol cars, the Chief Health Officer is coming for ya!
Two iPods are some of my favourite computers of all time
These two computers are two of my favourite Apple computers. The iMac G4, the white Intel MacBook, and my current Apple Silicon MacBook Air are up there as well, but these two were the first computers I fell in love with.
The first, the iPod Shuffle. A computer without a screen with seven buttons and two ports. 512MB of my favourite songs shuffled. I have vivid memories of walking to work with this wonder of a computer.
The second, the iPhone I bought when I couldn’t buy an iPhone, the iPod Touch, released in Australia while the iPhone was USA only.
Happy 20th birthday, iPod, you’ve run a good race.
How do you know things?
I think all day every day about the world I want to leave Luna and Goldie in.
I spend so much time wondering how to teach them how to know things. What they know will forever by growing and changing, but how they know things. How they learn, and how they research, and experiment, that’s so important to me.
So I’ve decided to create email accounts for them and to start writing to them. Because my words matter to them.
Your words matter.
Share them, with anyone, everyone, with me.
I don’t really care about fitting in with cool buzzwords and virtue signalling. But tell me how you lived in a tense moment today and how it was weird or awkward, but we learned more about each other.
Tell me about how you didn’t know something and you said you didn’t know.
Tell me about how you were scared and you said you were scared.
Life’s too short for platitudes and fitting in. Let’s be scared, daft, vulnerable, and authentic together. I don’t care what you know, but I’d love to know how you know it.
Speedtest’s quarterly Australian internet report shows that Aussie Broadband outperforms everyone else, including Telstra. I’m an Aussie customer, I’m getting about 900mbps down, if you signup using my refer-a-friend code we both get a kick off our next bill: 5272836.
