Hi! My name is Josh, this me blog.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

  • Playing with motion in Fortitude Valley tonight

  • Filed under "odd anniversaries" today is the 13th anniversary of the first time I saw a Newton in real life and also the Robina Apple Store opened.

  • It’s funny that the term “PC” aka personal computer has been essentially been burned describing Wintel computers when the truest and most-personal computers today do not run Windows nor do they run Intel chips.

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  • So, like, this wasn’t a thing before?

  • Currumbin

  • At first I was stridently against the idea of combining a hen’s party and a marriage ceremony, but honestly, it worked out fine. A++ would recommend.

    Elyse & Jon #marriedbyjosh in Byron Bay.

  • OOL

  • “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

    – Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Moon. No editing or filtering. Just the boring old moon standing there looking glorious tonight. As seen from Byron Bay.

  • A new issue of the Tugun Pause is in inboxes with my proudest headline yet: 416 crimes and a beach ain't one.

  • A friend just reminded me of that time I was on Sunrise for a Star Wars wedding on ... May the fourth. God bless the internets, may you always archive my weird business endeavours.

  • Tintenbar garden

  • "Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."

    – Erica Jong

  • "To keep young kids behaving on a car road trip, have a bag of their favourite candy and throw a piece out the window each time they misbehave."

    – Kevin Kelly

  • I love a sunburnt country

  • SYD

  • Photography from space was an afterthought. Astronaut John Glenn bought a Minolta 35mm from a drugstore.

    “At the beginning of the space program hardly anyone thought of photographs from space as anything more than a branch of industrial photography.”

  • 329km driving. 807km flying. 11km hike. All to create a marriage ceremony on a Monday afternoon.

  • 12 French submarines < 255 French-ish aircraft

  • That’s not a Qantas flight … that’s a Qantas flight.

    An Airbus A350-1000 in Hangar 96, Sydney Airport, for the announcement of Project Sunrise.

  • That face when the situation is not escalating

  • Back at my Ryan Bingham impersonation this morning.

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  • Rich people need it. Poor people have it. If you eat it, you die. And when you die, you take it with you. What is it?

  • Hastings Point this afternoon 📷 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 she’s using.

  • Tom Cruise #notshotoniphone

  • Is love of aviation photography a hereditary thing? I guess we’ll never know.

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

  • Set an alarm to get up for sunrise this morning ….

  • What’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.

    Here’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 I’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.

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

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

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  • I’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 ⛽️

  • 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 I’ll call it, The Queensland Labor Money Pit.

  • Just three Boeing 777’s hanging out in a field.