I came across this photo I took a couple of years ago. I like it. More photos I say.
Photography
19
Mar 09
I have taken a lot of photos
As noted this evening while doing a back up of my photos directory. Nine years, 4 digital cameras, 47GB. Perhaps one day I will share more of them.
21
May 07
Why, hello there.
I have been taking some time away from the internet. You may have been able to tell. All I’ve been using the internet for is reading email sent to me but not responding, checking drum and bass forums for upcoming gigs, chatting to friends. I haven’t felt inspired to write for a year, and was pretty disappointed to find out from an online forum that my ex P, who I sponsored for New Zealand residency and moved here with last year, was engaged to a girl I knew and the mutual friend of ours who I’ve known for 11 years was hiding this information from me.
So I went through bad patch, I didn’t like my flatmates, I was working with crazy people, could no longer trust my friends loyalties, had multiple dating disasters (each was rated for disasterness and will be documented at some point in the future) and generally wasn’t that happy. So of course I’m not going to post this on my website. You can’t be funny when you are bitter and hateful, although somehow I managed that back in the days when I wrote this site regularly. Instead of channelling my angst into witty online retort, I went out and got a life.
This new life consists of two wicked flatmates, Ally and Kate (new, I kicked the previous one out, that was difficult). We are working on being a “flat”; watching movies together, eating together, going to gigs together. My job is better; my workmates are happier, I have a new desk aka The Ani Cave, and I’m now fully self-employed. I have been taking photos at gigs and am getting serious about wanting to do this far more regularly. I shot Klute at Sandwiches on Saturday night, some preview photos being here, with the big versions being better and my favourites so far being this one, this one, and this one. I’ll be putting the rest up over the next couple of days, and will hopefully be shooting Amit in Auckland on the 8th of June. Lastly, I have also met a wonderful, amazing, beautiful guy called Duncan. I’ve never met anyone quite so incredible.
So to cut a long story short, you may see some more text from me going forward. I will always be updating Flickr as per usual, and will be putting together an online photography portfolio in the next couple of months.
P.S. My sister found out she was pregnant just after she got married. She’s having a boy.
4
Dec 06
My First Photos In Print
I collaborated with a bunch of friends on the humhum collective photobook. You can buy it for $22.73 from Lulu. I have four photos on a 2-page spread.
N.B. The quality of the images you see under “preview book” is not indicative of the print quality, from what I understand. I am yet to receive my copy.
15
Aug 06
Did You Know I Always Update Flickr?
I’ve started sending photos to Flickr almost every day. I bought a Pro account and got a good deal on my cellphone. I’ve been sending quite a few photos to Flickr since last year. You probably don’t know this however, because I don’t post them here very often.
I just thought I’d let you know.
28
May 05
Me: Then To Now
I saw a file a few days ago where a girl had scanned in the images from all her photo ID cards. Seeing how I have no idea where my old school IDs are, I thought, “Why not do it for every year?” And thus it was so.
It’s funny looking at all these photos side-by-side. Things to note:
- I was a cute kid. I’m not modest. I was cute until age 6. Then something happened.
- My mum apparently liked ruffly collars.
- I always wore my “best” clothes to photo day. I remember forgetting about photo day when I was 8, hence you can see the clothes I normally wore – second-hand and not matching.
- My mum used to cut my hair. She really liked giving me a weird half-fringe, even though I have a stupid cowlick that meant it always looks retarded. Why she just didn’t let it grow, I’ll never know, but I’m sure she’ll tell me that I chose to have that half-fringe. I bet.
- Ever since I was a little kid, I always wanted curly hair. I first asked my mum to give me a “body wave” at 11. I don’t remember it looking that crap, and it dropped out after a few months anyway. At 13, all my friends were getting “spiral perms”, so I went to the hairdressers and got one too. By George, did they make it look like utter crap.
- I first got glasses when I was 10. Of course, being the silly girl I was, I chose really ugly purple frames. I had to wear them until I was 13, at which time I chose another really ugly set of frames, which I wore until I was 14, after which time I decided “fuck glasses, glasses are for nerds” so I just stopped wearing them, even though I can’t see shit without them, until my parents were forced to buy me contacts.
- At ages 13 and 14, I was a total fucking geek. As if that isn’t obvious.
- Just before my 16th birthday, I got my braces off. The excitement of having normal teeth lasted for 3 years.
- My goth phase lasted longer than this series makes it appear. Oh, teenagers.
- I am like a fine wine.
7
Apr 05
I Quit My Job, Sorta
3½ weeks ago, I decided that my job wasn’t leaving me enough time to do the things I wanted. So I wrote a resignation letter. A week later, I realised that I’m actually kind of broke and could probably do with a job, you know, for shits and giggles. To cut a short story even shorter, as of April 11th I will be working part-time at my current job, which leaves me the rest of the day after 1pm to do the things I want to do. Like sleep. Watch Trisha. Play on my DS. Smoke opium. Those sorts of things. I guess this post about micropatronage wasn’t half wrong after all. God dammit.
In actuality, I will be concentrating on my favourite hobby – photography. This means I will actually finish resizing my photos from my Christmas “world tour”. This also means I am going to try and make money off of my photography to supplement my meager part-time wage – things you will be able to purchase and enjoy, while giving me your hard earned money to support my half-hearted artistic bum lifestyle. But I promise, These Things will not suck. I have been thinking about These Things for a long time now. These Things might even be totally fucking awesome.
I will also have time when I am not exhausted to finish writing the things I start. This does not, however, mean that I will update my website any more, although actually it probably does. To be honest, I’ve been keeping a paper journal since the start of the year, and I can’t be arsed writing the same boring things twice.
“Today I went to work. Then I came home.”
“When I came home today, there was a poo under my chair. I scooped it up with newspaper.”
I mean, it’s not terribly exciting stuff.
Anywho, (did I just type “anywho”?) I finally uploaded a few photos from my trip to New Zealand and Dubai over Christmas. I have also moved my moblog photos to a directory that can actually be viewed. This contains more photos that I post on my website because I am a cheap bitch and it costs me 35p to send a MMS. Sorry, but it’s not worth that much to me.
24
Mar 05
Fun With Multiple Exposures
Click here to enlarge!
Well, sort of. This was done in Photoshop, not directly on the camera (not that you can do multiple exposures with digital, anyway!).
How To Do This For Noobs:
- Set camera on tripod.
- Lock all settings – shutter speed, aperture, focus, white balance.
- Turn on timer, or if you’re lucky use your remote (I am definitely going to get one – makes taking delicate shots so much easier).
- Do your little turn on the catwalk, multiple times, and try not to overlap your subject.
- Open in Photoshop. This step is very hard.
- Make each photo a layer.
- Lasso the stuff you want to keep, i.e. you, select inverse and delete.
- Erase edges if the layers don’t look the same.
- Save, masturbate.
Thanks to Maracuja for making this a community project, original inspiration Limmy.
14
Sep 04
Dear Queen Elizabeth, please take my money
Today I started my permanent job. Once again, I have my own desk, my own computer, and my own telephone with too many buttons. About time too.
Even thought I’ve been temping for the past 6 weeks, it doesn’t really feel like I’ve been working since I left the States. However, I was obviously doing something right at my temp job because my boss took me out to lunch and gave me a gift and a card the day I left. Obviously, I’m totally awesome.
I think I am going to have to give up the desk job at some point. Probably some point far, far away, but, still. I’ve been going to a chiropractor for the last few weeks because my back is totally out of alignment. A bunch of my joints are inflammed, and as I write this I have an icepack on my back. I guess that’ll teach me for having such bad posture.
Also, I’ve been in Manchester for two months and out of the States for almost four. Doesn’t feel like it. I’ve been really slack about taking photos, but here are some of Manchester anyway.