I spent a considerable part of my weekend talking about holiday clichés. Perhaps that's what prompted me to do a few "Australian clichés" posts. Well, they don't come any more clichéd than this, do they? :-)


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I'm still not quite getting the scans I want, but I thought I'd go ahead and post some Australia pictures, anyway ( Read more... )

A rare example of a centred image in my journal...


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My new scanner and I are slowly getting acquainted. I've done a few more experiments, changed a few settings here and there and learned a few new tricks, and I think my scans are improving. About time. :-)

I continued my double-exposure experiment in Australia, and while the majority of the results are negligible, I did manage to get a few decent ( Read more... )

... until you get yourself a new monitor and a new scanner and can't get a single good picture out of them, no matter what you try ( Read more... )

... you find yourself following live coverage of Australia's World Cup cricket match against England on the BBC website, then staying up until well past bedtime to catch the highlights of the game on TV. Admittedly, I wasn't necessarily rooting (sorry, barracking!) for Australia, but that doesn't alter the fact that I was watching a cricket match ( Read more... )

Nearly three months ago I arrived in Singapore, exhausted from several weeks' hard work but looking forward to meeting both old and new friends and visiting beautiful places in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. Now I'm back in Singapore, equally exhausted as on my first arrival here (if for entirely different reasons), and similarly excited about ( Read more... )

Australia, part 8: In which I visit Ayers Rock and surroundings, eat crocodiles and camels, get all worked up about things which won't mean much to most of you and come up with a brilliant idea regarding dead kangaroos.Hello, all. I survived my trip into the outback. If that's all the confirmation you needed, you may stop reading here. I'm alive. ( Read more... )

Australia, part 7: In which I see hundreds of kangaroos, eat one and get stuck right in the middle of the desert.Hello again, everyone. Greetings from the Oodnadatta Track, the ever-so-spectacular road from Adelaide to dusty Alice Springs -- not the highway, which apparently is quite boring, but the dirt road, which is considerably less easy on ( Read more... )

Australia, part 6: In which I learn to drive amidst kangaroos, and more such exciting matters...Well, g'day everyone. Long time no see. I gather some of you were getting a bit worried about me because of the lack of updates, but as you can see, I have neither been eaten alive by dingoes nor been abducted by one of Australia's ubiquitous serial ( Read more... )