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B+W BB.

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Winter in Melbourne and London was spent rugged up outside or toasty-warm inside. My experience in Sydney is the total opposite, warm sunny days and freezing cold houses. I suppose no-one really considers more permanent heating solutions when the season is so mild and short. Still, it's definitely time to bust out the portable heaters and make getting out of bed more bearable.

I had another roll of film processed over the weekend (yet to be scanned) but it wasn't as successful as the first. After calculating the number of photos that worked to the cost of buying and developing film, it comes out at almost 10 bucks per (good) shot. Yikes! So this afternoon we broke things up and took the digital camera out. Between us PB and I shot 360 photographs, 176 of which were deleted and 6 of which appear here.

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BB's first hot chocolate, the real deal too. (Check out the smudge between her eyes).

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, 
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

 – Walden, Henry David Thoreau

PB, you Crusty Old Sea Dog, in the last year you've switched from surfing to SUP, given up espressos for weak soy lattes (?!) and more recently gone vego. But man, nobody could call you soft. I'm so relieved that since having a family you're (apparently) more cautious in the big waves.

* Photo credit goes to local lad, 16-year old Joel Barker.

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Some of the gems from the film I had processed this afternoon. Photographing an active toddler with manual focus was much harder than I had anticipated. This evening PB and I discussed the attachment of an imaginary darkroom to my imaginary screen-printing studio, while we holed up in our dining/lounge/study eating frittata, which is absolutely not to be confused with tortilla. (Sorry Chef).

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A few people have mentioned that the intentions of my last post were unclear. I am indeed taking a little blogging break. It's been over two years of this here space and I'm taking a step back to consider What To Do Next. I'm in my fourth week of returning to regular yoga practice after many years off, and my head is calm and clear. The old Canon AE-1 has been (literally) dusted off and I've armed myself with a roll of black and white to see what happens when I take it back to basics. 


Sleep is being lost over the thought of getting the film processed. As BB would say, I get blahla-flies in my tummy every time I snap a picture!

* iPhone snap by PB.