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.

  • 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.

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  • If I had to choose, I’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 🦠. About 12cm in diameter, and really hard plastic. They’ve discontinued the product and I’ve bought about 4 similar ones from Amazon but they’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 I’ve never seen before says to me “that colour purse really suits you.”

  • 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 Simpson’s theme song, performs The Simpson’s Theme Song at Coachella and it’s beautiful.

  • Flight attendant said that if we “hear the words e and vacuate” then those of us in the emergency row have to do something with the window and it’s all I can think about now. Do I let her know it’s one word? If they say evacuate do we still pop the window?!

  • Making like ScoMo and Canberra’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