Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol

Bob—my minion, courtesy of my husband—is a symbol of my excesses:

Too much chocolate and champagne: I, like Bob, am a candidate for the cakewalk rather than the catwalk.

Too much grieving: my father, who was affectionately called Bob (not his real name) by our extended family, died 13 years ago, but his ghost still looms at dawn.

Too strange a sense of humour: dark, subversive, and sometimes toilet.

And now I’m laughing too long and too loud.

Have a silly weekend.

😀

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse

Stylish in Shibuya

I’m lazy technically when it comes to photography. Part of the problem is that I have two sets of glasses and never seem to be wearing the right pair when I want to take a photo quickly. Which is frustrating because my muse is most certainly ordinary people, and for this reason the photography that I most enjoy is street photography, which requires spontaneity.

These lovely chaps cheekily photo-bombed me as I was taking photos down this street in Tokyo and then happily agreed to pose. Of course, my camera was on the wrong settings.

The other people-inspired form of photography that I love is portraiture, but I don’t get much time to do it these days. My good friend Kim is always a wonderful subject.

For incredibly beautiful and technically perfect portrait photography, see Joshi Daniel’s blog.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Violet.

Robot Restaurant Floor Show

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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way

On the Way to the Theatre

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken

I know what you’re thinking…
..but I haven’t taken to my husband’s head with a meat cleaver.

Being time-poor, I don’t cook much, but when I do, I like to try something new and recently attempted this MiNDFOOD recipe.

The problem is that the whole tap-the-pomegranate-skin-with-a-wooden-spoon-and-the-seeds-will-just-fall-out trick didn’t work so well. Hence the pomegranate bloodbath.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral

Day’s End – Falls Creek, Victorian Alps, Australia

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry

Sydney Opera House

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth

One of the things that sticks in my head from a photography course that I did is the instructor’s mneumonic for depth of field settings: F-stop 2 = 2 fence posts; F-stop 22 = 22 fence posts.

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Torii Gates – Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto

Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself

Wild Child on her wedding day

the Wild Child does things

her way; crazy, gorgeous bride

magical wedding

OOO

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity

What I noticed
were the birds:

the heron high
hunched
against a silent sky

so many pigeons, too,
symbols of peace, in view

the scavenging crow
safe to peck ground zero.

What do they know?

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed

Things My Father Told Me

After the blast, there was no sound;

people’s shadows crushed into the ground;

the dark abyss of humanity’s soul

revealed by an act – unspeakable. Foul.

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