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HAPPY TWOSDAY!
Today is one of those special dates. It’s 2/2/22 and I feel like I should mark that somehow with a post, so I decided to share some pictures of where I am right now. Ordinarily, I’d be enjoying the Australian summer right about now, but thanks to COVID that wasn’t possible. So I’m currently in Colorado enjoying the snow. I’m usually what the Americans call a ‘snowbird,’ meaning that I tend to…
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Is it really 2022 already? Covid years are like dog years. Blink and they’re over. Washed away in slow-moving flood that feels less like a disaster movie now, and more like a scam, like a hotel that looks nothing like the pictures on the website. I want my money back. No, forget that – I want my time back! It occurred to be on Christmas Eve that a year earlier, as we collectively approached the…
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Tumblr will die in 2019
I’m not really into making tech predictions because invariably they end up being wrong (Back in 2008 I predicted Facebook was a fad!). That said, I think Tumblr will likely go the way of Xanga, Bebo, and Myspace in 2019, that is to say, it will cease to be important.
The companies decision in December to delete all adult material from the platform was one that I think will ultimately be its undoing. I can see why it made the decision in some respects, but their ‘one size fits all’ solution of getting rid of anything remotely skin toned is foolish.
Perhaps this platform will find new ground and forge a new path growing its base and finding new users, but somehow I doubt it. They’ve removed adult content and changed nothing else, and let's face it, without adult content Tumblr doesn’t really have a whole lot to offer, does it?
I just deleted the app from my phone, not because I think the platform will die soon but because I NEVER used it on my phone, and doesn’t that indicate the platform's relevance in some way? (Maybe it just shows it’s irrelevant to 40something dudes?)
Whatever, I think Tumblr’s pulse weaken in the coming months and without some new innovative reason to keep users engaged I just think Tumblr will become a dusty internet relic.
Farewell Tumblr. Aside from GIF’s I don’t really know what anyone used you for, but I guess I should say thanks serving all those GIF’s, they were fun. You said it yourself though, there are plenty of places to find porn online, just as there are plenty of social networks too, right?
Making the most of the warm evenings as another wonderful summer drifts off into the sunset here in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo taken at Brighton Beach.)
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Thank you, and goodnight.
Through the blur of a party at a friends apartment in Melbourne, 2016 comes to an end as fireworks explode in the sky to herald the arrival of the new year. This then is the 366th picture of the year, and the final one on this ‘visual journey’ through a year in my life.
It was a real challenge to keep up with this project at times, but in the end it’s been a rewarding one, giving me a catalog of pictures that capture the stories, moments, and memories of another year that has taken me from one side of the world to the other and back again. It started in a blur in Singapore, and ended in much the same way back in my beloved Melbourne.
Finding a photograph every single day isn’t as easy as it might sound. I didn’t travel as much in 2016 as I did in 2012, so there were days when I found myself searching the familiar for something new to share, some new story to tell. It was often those days when I found some of my favorite connections, moments, or stories, but not always the best picture. Sometimes I would meet someone or learn something that couldn’t be captured in a single picture. I’d have an experience that my camera couldn’t capture, and my words would fall short of describing. But what a way to go through a year, in search of experiences, connections, knowledge and stories. As hard as it was at times, it was always a pleasure.
So tomorrow will feel strange when I don’t need to find a picture or make sure my camera is close at hand. I’m looking forward to a rest for sure, to going to bed at a reasonable hour, and getting some sleep at last!
I hope you’ve enjoyed the project, the photographs and my stories, despite the typos and errant apostrophes. In the coming year I’ll be launching a podcast called 5 minutes of somewhere, about the symphonies of sound that surround us all, and I’d be delighted if you would check that out. The podcast will be about the sound, but the website will feature pictures and backstories, rather like the post I made from Andorra.
So looking back on the year I’d love to know if you have a favorite picture or story. You can tell me in the comments on the site or facebook, or send me an email if you like, I’d love to hear from you.
So that’s it… 366 Pictures is finished. If you’re one of the people who joined me on this visual journey through 2016, then I’d like to thank you for your interest and support.
I hope you have a fantastic year ahead.
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Immersion
On the penultimate day of 2016, I’ve come to Sherbrooke forest in the Dandenong Ranges National Park. I love this place. With its beautiful Fern trees and magnificent Mountain Ash trees, Sherbrooke is a magical place to find within an hours drive from the centre of Melbourne, Australia.
Standing among the towering Eucalyptus trees that reach some 100 metres and live up to 500 years, the sound of this place is as wonderful and vibrant as the lush green vegetation that envelops you here. Bell birds and the shrieks of cockatiels mix with the hum of insects, while the laughter of kookaburras echoes across the forest.
Yesterday’s summer storms have left the forest fresh and replenished and the aroma of Eucalyptus is strong. Wandering the trails here can be an entirely immersive experience that draws you in and rewards your attention. It’s a beautiful place to stroll through, but also a place to stand still and just observe, even to close your eyes and breathe in the clean air and listen. Like I say, I love this place.
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Into the sunset
At Elwood beach in Melbourne, a lone girl walks along the beach as a ship moves across the horizon that’s changing color behind her with the sun setting on another summer day ‘down under.’ The weather is clear now, but this afternoon storm clouds gathered across the city and unleashed a tropical torrent that caused flash floods and transformed roads into rivers.
As I walk along the beach this evening looking out over Port Phillip Bay, the scene feels reminiscent of days when I would wander along beaches on the Wirral Peninsula looking across the waves of the Irish Sea watching ships come and go from the Port of Liverpool.
I had a flash of perspective as I compared the two beaches, realising how far I am away from those once familiar shores and those sunsets, and how happy I am to be here.
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In suburbia
Today wasn’t a good day for a bike ride. The burning sun raised temperatures to a peak of 38 degrees (100.4 °F). But while everyone else stayed indoors, in air-conditioned shade, I elected to go for a short ride around the neighborhood to get some air, albeit hot air! It felt good to be out of the suburban streets of Melbourne once again.
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Stand where this picture was taken using Google street view.
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Back, safe and sound
Melbourne welcomes me home with clouds and a few spots of rain, but then that’s Melbourne. If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute! Later in the day it was bright and sunny, and according to the forecast some brutal summer heat is coming this way in the next few days. I’m not complaining. Bring it on!
The flight from Bangkok was uneventful. With very few passengers on the flight that left late last night, I was able to ‘stretch out’ across three seats in the middle of the plane.
Later, as I was going through my luggage back in the house, I found a shocking oversight by airport security in my backpack. In Thailand I had purchased a relatively large and very sharp knife to cut fruit bought on the street. I kept it in my backpack and forgot to remove it ahead of my flight to Australia.
However, despite going through the x-ray machine, and having not one, but two, manual bag searches, the knife went undetected by airport security!
My complete disdain for airport security is no secret, they’re over-equipped, under-trained, uniformed yapping dogs trained to put on a show of security while not actually providing much in the way of actual security. Their failure to miss this knife is yet more evidence of their total failure to provide the security they’re supposed to bring to the airways.
In fact, the second bag check was at the gate before boarding the flight. Here they looked through passengers bags gleefully removing drinks purchased inside the airport, citing that liquid couldn’t be taken onto the plane. I’m used to this nonsense security measure, so I simply put two cans of soft drinks in my back pocket and one bottle of water in another pocket, thus bypassing the secondary screening at the gate!
Stopping people from taking drinks -bought in the airport- onto the plane is a nonsense, of that I think most people would agree. But honestly, failing to detect someone carrying a pretty large knife, that’s an oversight that just goes to show what a joke all this security theatre is.
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For the brave
It’s my final day here in Thailand and the madness of Bangkok. This is a city that I’ve yet to find particularly charming, but one that is still fun to visit. In the sweltering heat the air is thick with the fumes of the horrendous traffic that growls along the city’s busy streets. The metro is a fast way to get around, as is the BTS Skytrain, but many people here choose to brave the roads on the back of a motorcycle taxi.
On a back road in the city, of of those motorbike taxi riders sits on a hammock reading a book and smoking under an array of cables at a makeshift taxi stop. Throughout the city moped riders, wearing orange vests with numbers on them, taxi people around for a small fee.
Cheaper than regular taxis or tuktuks, the motorbike taxi will zip paying riders through the city’s busy traffic, weaving a path from point A to point B quicker (and more dangerously) than most other forms of door-to-door transport.
In busy periods the motorbike taxi drivers congregate at designated motorbike taxi stops where you can easily find them, or simply wait for one to turn up there. They’re not for the faint hearted though. With fares starting at 10 Bhat (That’s US-30c, AU-40c, or UK-22p) the motorbike taxi driver needs to work hard to make a profit, so getting you where you want to go quickly is a priority, even if that means mounting the sidewalk and riding on the wrong side of the road against traffic!
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Seeking Santa
Merry Christmas everyone. Please excuse the errors that were all over my last post. I wrote it through the haze or sleepiness on a rather bumpy and over-air-conditioned overnight train to Bangkok. ‘Mauled wine’ sounds like something nobody would want! Doh! It was clearly meant to be ‘mulled wine!’ Anyway…
It’s Christmas day, but you wouldn’t know it here in Bangkok where it’s just Sunday. They don’t celebrate or observe Christmas day here, not even on a purely commercial level, so it took quite some effort to find anything even remotely Christmasy to feature as today’s picture.
After getting very little sleep on the overnight train from Chiang Mai, I eventually got into Bangkok at the unseemly hour of 6:50AM! The train station was quiet, but only in so much as it wasn’t full to bursting point. In reality it was still quite busy, just not by Bangkok standards.
I had hoped to see a Christmas tree at the main train station in Bangkok. For some reason I thought they would have one there, but no. Not even the tiniest thread of tinsel could be found, and in the already stifling heat of a Bangkok morning, Christmas seemed as far away as ever as I dragged my disagreeable luggage, with its broken wheel, to the metro line.
I spent much of the day walking around a couple of markets. First a local floating market in the east of the city, then the Chatuchak weekend Market. In retrospect a more restful day would have perhaps been a good idea after getting very little sleep on the overnight train from the north. However, Bangkok isn’t a city famed for being restful in any respect. It’s a sprawling and chaotic place buzzing with energy in the day that only seems to become amplified as night falls. Coming here was never going to be restful, and I knew it.
I wanted to find something Christmas related for today’s picture, even if Bangkok itself didn’t care for the holiday. This task proved to be more of a challenge than I imagined though. Despite there being a myriad of sketchy looking old white guys in Bangkok, none of them were Santa.
In the end, I did find Santa, standing almost unnoticed on a shelf in a way that felt more like an afterthought than a piece of meticulous marketing. I snapped a picture, half expecting the storekeeper to appear from nowhere and snap back at me, “No Photo!” as if they’ve got something to hide. But nobody cared. It was just Santa after all.
I took the picture, and I think, just maybe, his porcelain smile might have gotten a little broader for being noticed.
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Santa's moving target
As Santa Claus begins his trek from the north pole, I too am beginning a trek of a different kind. It’s not really the way I would choose to spend Christmas eve, but tonight I am on an overnight train to Bangkok, ahead of a flight to Australia on the 26th.
I’d rather be spending Christmas in the company of friends with a glass of mauled wine in my hand and some warm mince pies on a plate not too far away. But unfortunately the cost of flights to Melbourne over the holiday season were so expensive that the only option was to leave on either Christmas day, or the day after (boxing day, as some call it).
So, in order to make sure I don’t miss that flight, I’m heading on this overnight train to Bangkok. I’ve written to Santa and told him where I’ll be so I’m fully expecting their to be a raft of gifts waiting for me at my bedside when I awake at the crack of dawn as the train rolls into Bangkok station.
Christmas day in Bangkok? Could be interesting. Lets see!
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Just another day
It doesn’t feel like Christmas is just a couple of days away as I ride through villages in Northern Thailand, enjoying the warm weather and blue skies. I haven’t seen a Christmas tree so finding anything Christmas themed to photograph would seem to be impossible. Christmas isn’t really a thing in these parts, and the days here are passing with little or no anticipation of the holiday which will be just another day for most people here.
As I pass through a small village, a lady places freshly made sheets of saa paper out to dry in the hot sun. The paper, which is thick in texture, is commonly produced by small family run operations who make the paper out of the Paper Mulberry(Saa), a persistently growing plant native to Northern Thailand, that regenerates itself after each harvest.
The bark is soaked and boiled with wood ash, then it is pounded into pulp. Dyes are added then the sheets of saa paper are put out to dry in the sun on specially designed A frames.
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It'll be fine
A large truck bounces up and down, rising several feet into the air as an excavator reverses onto it. The haphazard way of getting the excavator onto the truck didn’t alarm anyone. People just drove around it without a worry.
Using the articulated digger arm, the excavator tilted and pivoted around causing the truck to jump and lunge in a way that just seemed like a disaster waiting to happen. Eventually the excavator managed to reverse all the way onto the flatbed truck, though slightly overhanging on the left side. The men involved reviewed the overhang then concluded that it was fine.
A few minutes later, without securing it to the truck in anyway, they simply took to the road like anyone else. Amazing really.
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Just seeing where the road goes
The best way to explore South East Asia is to rent a moped or motorbike and just head out of town going in pretty much any direction you like. Sure you could do a little research, maybe look online for some tips, or better yet ask a local, but just heading off and following the road for the pleasure of the ride and allowing yourself to get entirely lost is fine.
In a place where the road signs are made up of squiggles and characters, that make no sense to you that might sound daunting. But most of us have smartphones these days, so really, how lost could you ever be? Even when your smartphone fails you (and my clunky old iPhone 5 does very often), it’s not hard to find your way back to where you started by asking locals and using sign language.
I love doing this. For me, this is where the real adventures are, they’re on the road ahead that you’re following because you’re just curious where it goes.
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Need rice?
At a village market in northern Thailand, a woman sells many different varieties of rice by measuring out the desired amount into plastic bags for her customers. It’s a typical market you would see across Asia and much of the world. Fresh produce, meats and fish, are brought in daily. This is, in effect, the local supermarket, and there are other stalls selling other items from shoes to cheap jewellery.
My presence is not going unnoticed. They don’t get a lot of foreigners out here so I am being looked at with curiosity as I walk around the market. You get used to that when you go off the tourist trail, and I try to get off the tourist trail as often as I can.
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Stealth fishing
In the countryside of northern Thailand I came upon a man crouched on a bridge with something resembling a gun in his hand. I went passed him and looked over my shoulder and saw that it wasn’t a gun, but a home made harpoon that he was using to stalk fish in the river below.
My curiosity got the better of me, as it often does, so I did a U-turn and went back to the bridge to see if the man would allow me to take a closer look at what he was doing.
He was friendly enough, but neither one of us spoke the others language, and so it wasn’t easy to ask any questions. Also, he was clearly trying to stalk something in the river so the last thing he needed was some chatty “farang” (white person) spoiling his chances of catching dinner! I crouched down a little bit behind him and he pointed at the river showing me something. I wasn’t sure what. A fish I assume, though if there was one, I couldn’t see anything.
He showed me his home made harpoon, a little spear with a hook that was attached to a coil of fishing line that he would pull in manually if, and when, he caught his prey. I was hoping he would take aim and shoot something while I watched, but he was clearly in it for the long game, so I wished him good luck, shook his hand, and left him there on the bridge.
I’ve never seen anyone fishing this way before, or at least not from a bridge. I wonder if this was the best way to catch whatever he was stalking, or if there was an element of sport to his chosen method? He wasn’t there when I passed by later, so I imagine he caught his dinner and was grilling it somewhere nearby.
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