the tilt-shifting desert sand dunes of nambia – aerial shot – amazing!

this is another from the stable of amazing shots from photo a day.

if you haven’t already learned this one, anytime that you see the word amazing in the title of the post, it means that the photo is complete bullshit.

this pic was taken at the beach.

what i do love about it though, is that when you take the time to look at the tiny little things in nature, you see the same patterns as you would on a grand or aerial scale, so in that sense, this really could be quite similar to what you would see if you took a helicopter flight over the sand dunes of namibia in africa.

oh how dearly i would love to do that. i hope i didn’t dissapoint anyone too much.

in light of my misleading you, i would like to present to you two, yes two tunes that are genuinely fom namibia. enjoy:

this next one is like if you crossed karaoke, the wiggles and namibians. (sorry, but that’s my honest call):

if anyone finds someting better, could you please comment and post the link? i will publish it.

Edited: January 23rd, 2012

a strange morning at manly beach

ok, first up, my apologies for putting up such a crappy shot.

i was busy and had no time to set it up or think about it. it happens when you are doing a daily photo blog and work at the same time.

there were some fun little waves on the go at about 8.30 am, but come 10am, it all seemed to drop off pretty rapidly.

what a bizarre day. with those angry looking black clouds, i thought it would piss down with rain. not a drop.

anyway, i hope i find something more interesting to shoot for you guys tomoz.

if you want to see some nice daily manly beach photos, check out sprout daily. they have it going on.

humidity, haze and temperatre made me feel as if i was in hong kong or something.

Edited: January 19th, 2012

great southern land – cronulla

after the storms. what was australia like in the 1980′s? what was it like when life was simpler and hairdos were particularly bad?

it was like icehouse. perhaps it is good we have moved on…

perhaps not.

Edited: January 15th, 2012

a classic australian summer scene

don’t you just love the australian christmas and new year period? i do.

sun, bbqs, prawns and heaps of swimming at the beach. though snow is pretty frigging awesome, i just love that we have our xmas and new years like this, rather than freezing in the cold like the rest of the world at this time (sorry to my northern hemisphere readers – take a little sunshine home from here!).

this kid couldn’t be stopped – he was just jumping off bundeena wharf all afternoon. noice.

Edited: January 3rd, 2012

it’s the little things in life – like seawater on my feet

i like fancy things, i sure do.

what i love most though, are the simple things. these things happen to be free, they are also usually overlooked by busy, stressed out people.

i like to be out on a hot sumer day. to have my feet in the water – being lapped over by cool airous seawater.

not too much to ask is it? i should do it more often.

do yourself a favour – treat yourself to a simple, free and natural pleasure and embrace it.

 
a lovely summer tune to get you through. love to you all!

Edited: January 2nd, 2012

happy new year starts with a self-portrait of my very long and very sexy legs

new years day 2012 starts with with a bang – long and sexy legs on the beach. enjoy!

happy new years to you all. may this one be better for all of us than the last!

Edited: January 1st, 2012

i finally get it

please allow me to briefly introduce you to my lovely feet. they get hidden most of the time and poor dears, they kind of suffer by being hidden. they are go-getters and really want to be out and about. they want to be raw, naked and 4WD (more 1976 landrover troopie than 2010 lexus, prado, pajero, discovery or pathfinder).

They want to explore, discover and recover from a few oyster/barnacle grazes without having to visit the doctor. They don’t have ABS, airbags, AC, cruise control. not even power steering, but they will never fail.

my feet lament the ‘good old days’ when they used to tread the beaches and hot asphalt of the eastern suburbs of sydney unperturbed. my feet also complain that the eastern suburbs in which we grew up together in, have been swamped by wankers. i can not disagree.

In a previous post, i gave a bit of a hard serve to the tongans for being so lazy.

i have come around full circle i think. look at the map below to see where tonga actually is:
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these people live in a dream place and in splendid isolation.

it was a massively bad move of the king to sell off citizenship, a move that has potentially destroyed tonga’s way of live forever.

tongans can grow all the food they need, if they want to, and become a small self sufficent island community.

as long as the majority doesn’t lose its way and all want to aspire to i-pads, i-phones and hummers, they should be fine.

it seems that before the now dead king fucked up and blew the whole kingdoms  cash, most tongans were pretty content with life over there.

i could easily imagine living an i-pod free life over there, growing my own fruit, veg, goats and pigs as well as spearfishing and surfing. what a life!

i take back part of a previous post of mine on tonga. it’s not so much about being lazy – it’s about assessing you priorities. If your priorities are are about staying alive, feeding your family and living a happy and stressless life, then do it tongan style.

Edited: August 13th, 2010

when the sky meets the sea

ahh, how good is this!?!?

Edited: August 12th, 2010

few fun waves at the bra

seems to be the first cloudy day in yonks. not too many guys out at maroubra beach today, plenty of fun little waves for everyone.

Edited: April 17th, 2010

yet another day with no surf – at all

if you need to be rescued today, then you really should not be near the beach at all – in fact, you should probably not be allowed to sit in the  bathtub without responsible adult supervision.

where have all the waves gone? seems the ocean off sydney has decided to become a great big, still lake.

Edited: August 4th, 2009

two lamp posts and a rubbish bin (on a grassy hill)

the title says it all.

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13 Aug 2009

I have re-shot this scene at night – click here to see it

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Edited: July 27th, 2009