Jeremy Brooks and I met on photowalk 7 in San Francisco a month or two back. We’ve been subscribed to each other’s flickr photostream since then. He saw the photos that bubby took at the trotting track last weekend, and had some very kind words:
This is so great! It really shows how interesting photos can be taken by simply shooting things that catch your eye, without a lot of preconceived ideas and rules that dictate what and how you should shoot. It also made me think about the benefit of changing your angle — things look different from the height of a child.
He’s so right. Giving her a camera has two great benefits: she gets to be creative and capture things that she’s seeing, and as parents we get to understand a lot more about how she sees the world.
Yay! 40 today! I’m old. Over the hill. Past it. All downhill from here. I can remember Jenny and I giving Dad a decent ribbing when he turned 40; fortunately Adelaide is young enough that she hasn’t worked that out yet. Planned that one well, huh?
I had an excellent dinner with my FTG family last night; tonight Lisa is cooking Mexican, so more food. Adelaide made me a beautiful card with a wonderfully decorated envelope, which was great.
I planned today and tomorrow as annual leave, but I’ve had to effectively cancel that to meet an end-of-week deadline. I won’t work all day today; I’ll probably knock off when I pick Adelaide up. Tomorrow will be a [very, very] full day though.
Very, very busy at work right now. A tight deadline for the end of this week, two other small projects next, and then a major deadline by mid-May. That one isn’t going to be pretty. We should make it, but only just.
Had lunch with the team today, and having dinner with Mum & Dad tonight, then heading home. Working from home the next four business days — Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, then meetings in the city all day Wednesday.
Fun, fun, fun.
Oh, and I turn 40 tomorrow.
Our little girl took so many good photos today I created a flickr account for her and uploaded some of her shots.
We went down to the Carisbrook trotting track for an hour this morning.
There were two things on: a whole bunch of classic cars that were passing through Maryborough on an RACV tour, and a trotting event.
I’ve put a set up on flickr that combines pieces of both.
Just read on The Age website that there’s been a fire in the Burnley Tunnel. Three people confirmed dead. Not good.
Bubby had her first school sports day this week. We didn’t go, but Brad did, and he forwarded a couple of photos. Usual place.
The dead tree that was in Mum and Dad’s front yard is still there. It’s not quite in the same shape it was before though: the chainsaw did an excellent job of turning it into a pile of 4 foot long pieces of wood. This was followed up with a cool shower and an ice cold beer. A perfect way to end the day: rampant destruction using something really noisy and a thirst quenching ale.
Gotta love the number of dumb bunnies people that leave their WIFI access points wide open. Right now I’m sitting in the foyer at 242 (aka ‘the death star’) using some connection cunningly named “SpeedStream”. I reckon the router password is almost certainly the default too, but I’m not that evil.
A busy day today. Meetings in here all afternoon, then I go home and get to cut up a tree in the folk’s front yard. What a perfect way to end a day of telco meetings: going wild with a chainsaw.
I’ll agree with the first commenter on this photo. Daaamn.
Nice work, Thomas.
Who said what?