On Thursday’s we fly in the rain

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Blue Mountains // I'm going here today, one of my favourite places in Australia. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

I don’t know what crime Remember The Milk committed to be left off this App Store list, but it must’ve been bad

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Birds on a wire // I think this is how the internet worked before computers. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

Kinda feel embarrassed about my previous 38 Decembers where I’ve proclaimed something stupid about how it’s been a “big year” or something philosophical about how next year’s “our year.”

If I worked at a newspaper in the buy, swap, and sell section, I would tell people my job was classified.

“Flight capacity into Gold Coast Airport has soared, with Melbourne to Gold Coast gaining traction as the busiest route in Australia for Jetstar and Virgin Australia. Sydney to Gold Coast also tops Jetstar's two busiest routes in the country.” - Destination Gold Coast

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Olive // Olive this photo of an olive tree. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Cows // This photo is one of Luna’s favourites, because she loved seeing cows so close. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Surfing // My classic favourite photo is a top down of a surfer. This one’s at Palm Beach. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

It’s almost a crime how good Instagram works on a Mac (Apple Silicon + Big Sur) considering Instagram doesn’t allow it to be installed without a bit of hard work. You can just drag and drop an image onto the Dock icon to post.

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Valley // Particles that have travelled at the speed of light for 8 minutes and 20 seconds, just to fall here. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Lorikeet 🌈🦜 // Hungry li’l Rainbow Lorikeets. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Dunedin // The only international travel I made this year was to New Zealand. On a day off in between elopements Harley and I went to Dunedin and found this gem. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

Currumbin Foam

If you're not onboard with a password manager already, then you're leaving yourself at risk using the same password or password-ish for every website. I mention this because there's a deal right now for 10 months free for 1Password for Families. Do it!

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Burnt // Literally hours before rushing back to Queensland before the border closed, I made this photo from one of the regions affected by bushfires at the start of the year. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 All of Brighton // Well before @karenfrombrighton3186 did all of Brighton, back on the 5th day of March this year, I was in Melbourne making a photograph of all of Brighton Beach. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store

Palm Beach at high tide this morning, no wonder it’s closed

Finally convinced the Apple Silicon (fanless) MacBook Air to heat up. 45 minutes of 4K video render in Final Cut Pro in an Australian summer.

I'd like to say that I'm doing this due to popular demand, but the truth is, only 3 people asked. So based on that small cohort I've assumed that everyone would like to purchase on of my favourite photos I made from 2020

Next month I’m talking at the Wedding Business CEO Summit. But because I can’t be there in person, I recorded it today. Start saving your pennies though, I’ll post about it when there’s tickets available to attend online.

Is the @remarkable the best tablet for a wedding celebrant? Here's my Celebrant Institute review.

Best Australian TV ad of 2020 has to be this banger from BCF

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“They try to get their users to do things that their advertisers want them to do, because that's how you sell advertising”

Matt Stoller in ‘We can have Facebook, or we can have democracy, but we can’t have both’

Just Britt and Luna two years ago breastfeeding mid-walk on the Venice Pier as Britt mothers our two month old daughter in Los Angeles as if it’s her twentieth child. You’re a wizard, Britt, I’m so proud of you.

There are two types of Australian online stores. The first doesn't ship to PO Boxes and doesn't take American Express. The second is everyone else.

I’m pretending like everything is fine, please hold your applause til the end of the performance.

Palmy Army

Light and cameras explained in the most technical but easily understood way. If you want to actually understand how a camera works, read this through.

I could watch this YouTube channel all night long

Finally mapped out my talk for next month’s wedding business summit, now I just need to find a quiet place to film it

Just received an awkward phone call from someone contracted by a real estate agent, to wish me a Merry Christmas “on behalf of” the agent.

I’m not as well financed as the agent, so can I ask each of you to randomly dial a phone number and wish that person a Merry Christmas on my behalf please.

I’m forecasting that within 12 months the remaining non-greys will be turned to the grey-side as we embark upon what will be our busiest and most taxing year ever. 2021 sees Britt and I with a newborn, a toddler, new 2021 weddings and elopements, and also most of 2020’s couples.

My friend Geoff at Motion Art Cinema said we should take before and after photos to see how 2021 ages us.

Bring it on 2021!

Whatever your wedding photographer is charging you, Luna will beat their packages by 10%.

Wedding has to start after her midday nap and she’ll need a never ending supply of Smarties.

Nashua

and roundabouts

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Report: Humanity not ready for aliens to be ready for humanity to be ready to find out that aliens have told the USA and Israel that humanity’s not ready for aliens.

In honour of my birthday today, please make a donation in my name to the Human Fund, money for people.

Photo by human, Jason Corroto.

Three weeks into taking a shot on Qoin, an Australian crypto currency launched by Batercard that you can actually use in retail and for services, and although I have not spent money yet, I’ve sold a few second hand things and from that injection of AUD I’m 12% up on Aussie dollar valuation over three weeks.

I wish I knew more about crypto currencies, but then whenever I look I feel like I know everything there is to know, so maybe it’s just all Wild West?

The reports of my 39th birthday are greatly exaggerated. I’m actually only 12.

A story about an Aussie athelete who posted himself in a crate from the UK to Australia, disappeared from Adelaide after he was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine, sentenced to death for drugs offences in Sri Lanka, but only spent five years in jail in Australia.

I'd neglected to mention weight/size in my reMarkable 2 review - so it's been updated. The reMarkable is 18% smaller than the iPad Pro and weighs 15% less. When you're talking about gadgets held in hands, that's a difference.