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Portfolio Madness

December 11th 2008 08:31

Setting up a Photography Portfolio is not such an easy task. The guidelines I was given were - 5 images with set themes and then 5-10 of the photographers choice. Considering that on a 3 week stint around New Zealand at the start of the year I took in excess of 2000 photos, you can imagine how narrowing this down to 15 shots, over my whole LIFETIME, has been a challenging task!

Then, of course, there is the decision of your own categories. Say, for example, you choose 'Landscape' as one of them. Having travelled to 22 countries you can imagine how easy that task is!

Plus you have to worry about give and take for personal likes and dislikes. Given there are 7 people looking over them, you still have to wonder about your amateur eye versus their professional eye. Are you making a big mistake by using that one with the shot from under the bridge? How about the other one that you can either use in black and white or colour? Which one is best?

Taking a photo is so different to writing in that you have one shot on a 2D piece of paper to convey something that you can describe with a thousand words. The shot has to be more than just a point-at-the-subject-and-click shot. You have to capture the emotion in the shot, you have to allow the viewer a little peek into a world, and just as with writing, you have to give it to them from an angle that allows room for the imagination to explore and delve and conjure up the magic.

None of these made the final cut, but I like them anyway. Now I just have to catch that elusive lightning!

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Is money to blame or is it the person who spends it?

November 17th 2008 05:54

The talk of money is never far from anyones lips, especially at the moment with all the crashes occuring around the world and the belts being tightened around the home. But I wonder if money really is as bad as what people make out it is, or whether its more about who's hands it falls into and what those people do with it.

I know poor people who are rich in happiness, but I also know poor people who are miserable and spend their lives worrying about where their next dollar will come from. Then again I know grossly rich people who are happy - they don`t splash their money around, live within the means of their working class neighbours and help out a few stragglers whom they meet along the way. Then I also know grossly rich people who spend their who lives worrying about protecting their mounds of gold and spending ridiculous amounts of money on things that have to be kept in vaults, shoes that remain in their boxes and clothes that have never seen the light of day.

So it would seem that everyone is in the same boat isn`t it? Is it really as idealised as what we make it? That money is the root of all evil and people who are poor are the truly happy ones in this world? Take money out of the equation, they are living with what they know - how can you yearn for a plasma screen TV when you don`t even know what electricity is? Yet they may yearn for the ox that the man 6 fields across has. It`s all relative isn`t it? It`s not just about the money, it`s about everything in life and what you want, what you expect and what you do with what you have.

SO what would you do if you could have all the money you wanted? The reason why I posted this on this blog, which is essentially about travel, is because my ideal would be to travel the world... meet people, talk about life, experience different cultures... that`s where my money would going.

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ramble on travel

October 25th 2008 16:34

I know that I`m supposed to be writing travel blogs but I just don`t have the time these days so I just have to write a post for this blog which will be in line with some of my flashes of memories posts where there is no punctuation or capitalization to confuse things just the raw writing of words and the flow of thoughts when it comes to travel which is something deeply close to me

travel opens the mind and allows the traveller to rest their weary head against the rickety wooden seat of the train which is rocking gently or the plane that is speeding across lands where people point and still to this day wonder what it must be or depending on where you are above the earth wonder what it must be like to fly in one

travel brings you closer to people you never thought you would be close to and depending on what kind of travel you have will allow you to share things with people who you would have ordinarily walked passed in the street without so much as a blink or a grin but here you find yourself in a pub with a stranger sharing a jug of some delicious cocktail mix and spreading your life upon the table like a deck of cards

so that`s about it for my ramble on travel

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September 8th 2008 07:54

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Giants Causeway, Ireland

August 30th 2008 08:06

This day will be one that sticks out in my mind forever. Having spent a week with my grandmother travelling around Southern Ireland, on what would be our first and last holiday together, we decided to stop at the Giants Causeway, on our way back to Belfast, as a last sight-seeing destination. (See previous post for its history). Arriving when the sun hung low in the sky, we had to make the decision of taking the high road, a crumbly, cliff-side walk looking far out to sea and down below, to where waves crashed against the rugged coastline, or take the tarred road which weaved lazily down to the waters edge, where we could wander amongst the columns themselves

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The Giants Causeway - Ireland

July 6th 2008 05:45

Known in the 1700s as the Eighth Wonder of the World and attracting large volumes of international visitors, The Giants Causeway is some of the most spectacular coastline you will come across, the world over. Located in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, it has an estimated 40 000 basalt columns rising along the rugged shoreline. A walkway meanders along the top of the cliffs, giving views of the columns far below and a spectacular view across the sea ahead. A road leads down to the columns where you are able to wander the walkways and view them close up, which in Victorian times would have been lined with market stalls.

Although many ships floundered in the waters off the Giants Causeway during the centuries, perhaps the most disastrous was that of the Girona in 1588. As part of the Spanish Armada, the Girona was attempting to reach the safety of Scotland, carrying with it the crew of two previous shipwrecks, when she struck Lacada Point and sank. It is believed that over 1200 men died, including noblemen, with only 5 surviving

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