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2013-06-19 14:20:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

When a truly mad Willy meets news anchor suits and those cultivated voices. Gold!
#reshare

2013-06-19 13:48:03 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Resilience requires an understanding of life's harsher realities

This thought provoking piece suggests that, 'the self-esteem movement - encouraging parents to shower their children with praise - may be creating a generation of emotionally fragile narcissists,' and that building resilience requires a recognition of the harsher realities of life.

2013-06-19 11:52:00 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hey +Peter Sherriff +David Williams The metabones was a recent invention but looks like there are China copies? 

2013-06-19 11:14:08 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I often say that The Gift of Giving extends forward and back 
I certainly appreciated it at my end. May karma reward you with heaps of opportunity of all kinds in the future.

2013-06-19 10:52:14 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

And here's where you get the tickets but it's shuttered right now, come back nearer performance time, ok?

2013-06-19 01:54:18 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Google+ 2nd Anniversary Walk - All welcome regardless of gear or skill level

2013-06-18 13:29:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Everywhere, Everything & Everyone (15 mins)
Hear +Amit Singh. President, +Google Enterprise, exploring why customers and employees are changing the way organisations work.

2013-06-18 11:19:06 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

Someday, we'll all be free...

2013-06-18 07:22:17 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

For +Cableicous #cableicous

2013-06-18 05:36:37 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

And the Australian MOOC is....
https://www.open2study.com  ?
+Kim Flowers +Glen Pringle +morte oakley +Al Christensen
+Roland Gesthuizen 

#reshare   #mooc  

2013-06-17 14:19:28 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Was reading +Ming Thein 's latest article on his blog. He's very frank with himself and what he is.

http://blog.mingthein.com/2013/06/17/photographic-aspirations-part-one-who-we-are-vs-who-we-want-to-be/

I met him one year in KL - he's a young, intense guy. Then followed one of the comments to this video. Both the article and this video are absorbing.

#reshare #professionalphotographer   

2013-06-17 09:09:03 (25 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

So a family (old family friends) had us over for a meal and asked, Do you still shoot pictures, the old way - Knowing that they meant fffeehhhleeeem, I said, Yes, I still have the odd camera

Turns out they used to buy the old roll or two when they went shopping in the old days. These all seemed to be expiring 2006, so some landmark date must have been a year or two earlier.

They looked at me strange when I said it's alright, there could be weird colours on the faces but that's currently cool Number One replied, We have instagram for that....

2013-06-16 02:21:47 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

#autoawesome? Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble. Looking yum.

2013-06-15 08:07:30 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

+Paul Pavlinovich DIY 

2013-06-15 07:35:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Thanks to +Tony Adams share on story telling, I found this JJ Abrams TED talk - covers so many points about creativity.
#reshare     #mysterybox  

2013-06-15 05:50:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Henri Cartier Bresson documentary on SBS One TV now.
#melbourne   #sbs   #henricartierbresson  3:50 pm 15th June 2013

2013-06-15 05:35:30 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

My elderflower cupcakes and buttercream creations - this afternoons bakings ---- now, who wants one? 

recipe on monday xx

2013-06-14 13:41:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Just testing this flipboard curation. Probably needs the Flipboard app on Android or IOS. 
#reshare  

2013-06-14 12:14:16 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 22 +1s)

Well, we went to see Rone, a well known artist (google for that name) but I don't think we saw him. We saw quite a few though, industriously working.

2013-06-14 12:01:26 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

You know with some lenses, for a wedding shoot, you do have to stand very far away and communication becomes difficult

2013-06-14 11:02:59 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here are some quick notes for +Luster Lai +Paul Francis 

2013-06-13 13:19:55 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Ok, here's the one +Lady Fran W 

2013-06-13 11:20:59 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

There's a certain something when you walk with another photographer. It's not necessarily the exchange of technical tips and techniques, it's the acquiring of vision.

This is +Luster Lai doing an impromptu framing of two bicycles. I had a look at her LCD and exclaimed "ah, there you go again, your signature style - I can sort of see the two bikes but I haven't yet reacted in a way to make them human"

I was walking with the fish and was looking for expansive vistas - and just as I clicked this shot - felt that there was another scene unfolding - the iconic guy with the phone to his ear, shopping bag, the other guy half turned and a slightly moving tram in the back. Even that rivulet of water draws the eye.

And an over the shoulder shot for +charles embrey 

2013-06-13 10:30:30 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

First things first, I am not promoting any brand or getting any form of benefit, or for that matter expect to get any benefit from it.  Therefor my objective is merely sharing a photographic experience with you, rather than to sell this specific product or brand-name.  That said, it never stops to amaze me how versatile today's entry level cameras are.  To spoil myself for Christmas 2012, I bought myself an Olympus TG-1 camera for everyday use. I took it with me under the water of Port Philip Bay, Melbourne Aquarium, the rivers and mountains of Patagonia, the streets of Melbourne, and every time the results takes me by surprise.  No reason to do any post processing, as it contains its own in-build functions like shooting pinhole, tilt-shift, HDR etc. and its under water shooting is just amazing.

2013-06-13 00:44:09 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Captured on film - Tech - New Straits Times

http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/tech/captured-on-film-1.296883

Article on +Koon Yik Chin and his film pursuits
+Frank Yuwono +Kylie Knight

#reshare

2013-06-12 14:58:31 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Ok, really one last one before I turn in. She does look a lot sweeter and that's one of my fav songs.

2013-06-12 14:45:16 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

And so to bed. Just discovered this rendition. Go The Hammond Organ!

2013-06-12 13:47:45 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

And so, in this city of concrete, the seller of cacti looks over his carefully arranged pieces. Will you take one home?

2013-06-12 13:01:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

And for +Peter Weeks a Chinese couple posing for wedding shots, corner of Swanston and Flinders

2013-06-12 10:48:32 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

The Light In Winter - Melbourne 2013

Not very inspired, but it was good vibes, good company in the evening. The Blue Tree looks like an alien Daddy Long Legs.

Light in Winter 2013

 +Luster Lai hope you got some nice Live Time shots, mine were exposed ok but not special.

2013-06-12 09:23:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

We've been thinking about PRISM all wrong. Meet 'Good Guy Obama.'

(Credit: Reddit user beauitfulkenny)

2013-06-12 07:12:40 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Yup. #F2F2F2 or if you rather, &HF2F2F2

2013-06-12 01:11:28 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This article (with different images) was originally published on 11th June 2013 in: http://theconversation.com/nine-reasons-you-should-care-about-nsas-prism-surveillance-15075  
In the wake of former CIA employee Edward Snowden’s revelations of the PRISM NSA mass surveillance, people are once again asking why the general public should care if they’ve got nothing to hide.

2013-06-12 00:15:44 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Schwartz’s data suggest that lots of people are tweeting out links to articles they haven’t fully read.

This is why I suggest placing your social sharing buttons at the top of the page, right after the article title ;)

2013-06-11 14:09:11 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Let tomorrow be a morning of warm outlook if not warmth.
#chasingthesun

2013-06-11 12:49:09 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

So it had been an exhausting but wothwhile day, providing knowledge to postgrad students in their journey to producing their thesis. I had my old small sensor Kodak P880 with me and the golden light was fading into the night quickly. Tried to preserve some gentle light in a few shots. And not in others.

2013-06-11 09:48:51 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Hmm looked what the fishing line dragged up? Missed one from yesterday....

2013-06-10 23:28:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Via Zite app
#reshare

2013-06-10 12:15:35 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

There's this popular place at the North end of Elizabeth Street that's called Coconut House. Food's ok - quite Malaysian Chinese, but the tree outside? Spreading autumn.

2013-06-10 11:49:31 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Evening had arrived then. The time when people catch a tram home. Or read and wait

2013-06-10 10:06:54 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Melbourne is full of Street Art - whilst standing there, figuring out how to fish, a led group came with the guide talking away. Of course, out came the phone cams and there was photobombing. Well actually with the fish in your hand, you'll always be photobombed so you turn the tables and make the photobombing quirky if you can.

2013-06-10 08:41:03 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

More than One Shoe

For #shoesmonday / +Shoes Monday 
curated by +Olga Kafka +Laura Harding +Mee Ming Wong +Terry Fabre +Erwin Vindl +Paul Wright +Thomas Andersen 

2013-06-09 13:43:21 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

Ello? You're calling for John? Whatsits not here mate. He's gone invisible like, all I can see is his safety vest and helmet. No, I don't know when he'll be back.

2013-06-09 13:18:58 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Look, it's a bird, no, it's a plane, no, it's a Rone
Nah, been there, done that, the spots on the pavement look awesome
True Photography is about seeing things

2013-06-09 05:48:05 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Just came across this. The Life of Brian has moved on into history as a famous Python film. Didn't know it stirred controversy in its day,,,
#reshare  

2013-06-09 04:11:48 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

2013-06-09 04:14:30 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Used to be, before G+, one would shoot in isolation. Some photogs who shun the social networks still do, they feel it's somehow cool. Or some wander in closed packs - people they meet from the local camera club or the gear oriented forums. That's more gregarious but still, unless everyone is a forum addict, it tends to be infrequent meeting of the minds and the souls.

The G+ community in Melbourne has evolved somewhat differently. We have large gatherings infrequently and much more often, small subsets of personal groups. But pretty much hourly, someone will be in sharing photos, thoughts, aspirations, experiences - even into the dead of the night. And the boundaries of discussion and sharing are often across all groups and public, with outreach across the world. Sure, there are times when you want to think alone and shoot alone but even then, the encouragement and engagement when you... more »

2013-06-08 14:57:32 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Members of the VCA Contemporary Music Performance Coro Ensemble/Ensemble Mundo/Yambu Ensemble/Orquesta Frenesi having fun at their gig.

2013-06-08 14:21:17 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

There's an evolution happening in enthusiast cameras. Mirrorless are coming into some prominence given that users of classic DSLRs sometimes try to use them in a non classic way.

2013-06-08 13:21:54 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

I've not had a Pav like this before. The chocolate and cream is so yum.