When I was in Melbourne we spent a day on a wine tour of the Yarra Valley. To be honest, I was expecting some kind of civilised, wine-tasting affair with spittoons and meaningful discussions about freshly mown grass, blackcurrants and beeswax. Apparently that’s not how they do things Down Under… I have never drunk so much, so quickly before 10am! We visited five cellar doors (thankfully, eating a big carb-filled meat pie for lunch at one of them) including Chandon, where we tasted red champagne, which was surprisingly yummy.
Contrary to popular belief, Moët is not pronounced “mo-ay”, but actually “mow-et”. Whilst Chandon is of French descent, Moët is Dutch, hence the t !
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Don’t you just hate it when someone travels to the same places as you, and their photos are a million times better than yours?
Essaouira is definately one of my favourite places in Morocco. The blue and white medina crammed full of spices and pigments and souks, not to mention the infamous blue fishing boats, are a photographers dream come true. Lomokev is a long standing Flickr Fave of mine, and his recent shots from Essaouira are stunning. The medina is quite small, and having spent a couple of weeks there, I know my way around pretty well. I love trying to pick out exactly where each shot was taken. *sigh* Oh well, seems like an excellent excuse for another trip!
You can find more of Lomokev’s Essaouira photographs here. (fez) has a fantastic Essaouira set too, in fact all of his Morocco sets are well worth checking out.
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Last week I came across some old National Geographics at the Salvation Army for the bargain price of 50 cents each. National Geographic is the only magazine I subscribe to; I’ve got more than four years of issues at home, and one day I hope to have a whole bookshelf full of yellow! I continually look back through old issues… the writing is timeless, and the photos are amazing inspiration. In a more perfect world, I would be a National Geographic staff photographer… or maybe an ‘Explorer in Residence’ - I’ve always throught that’s an amazing job title!The feature story from June 1984 issue is ‘By Rail Across the Indian Subcontinent‘, written by Paul Theroux, and photographed by Steve McCurry (one of my all-time photography heroes). I made a beeline for this issue because India is top of my wanderlust list of places to travel to at the moment (as reflected my recent reading list no doubt!). Continue reading ‘Nineteen-Eighty-Four’
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by receiving a crane you are participating in a crazy project i’ve decided to undertake, simply called “the paper crane project”. i’m going to make 1000 cranes and send them to 1000 people. i ask that you take a picture of your crane and then send it to me, as a print in the mail. once i receive all the pictures, i’m going to put them together in some sort of installation… obviously there is still thinking to be done about this. - Eshu
How dare anyone have thought of this before I did! What a fantastic project. This is why I love Flickr (and yes, Eshu is a Utatan). There’s so many creative people out there.
You’ll find the other nine hundred and ninety nine cranes over at the paper crane project.
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This photo I took (in Townsville) has been selected for Flickr333!To celebrate Flickr’s third birthday, they are holding a charity auction of Flickr members photographs. Mine is one of just 20 photos which are going to be printed, matted, framed and auctioned at a gallery in San Francisco next Saturday. Proceeds are going to the Kids With Cameras charity, which I think is absolutely fab.How totally and utterly exciting! I’m thrilled to have been selected alongside such amazing photographers. Yay!
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Becks is a marine ecology PhD student, living in Queensland (Australia), Dumaguete (Philippines) and London (UK). Marinegirl is her online alter-ego. She dreamt her up as as super-gorgeous superhero saving the underwater world (if you've seen Captain Planet, you get the idea). She is not, and never will be, in the marines.