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Off The Bat

Big thanks to Justin Heazlewood - The Bedroom Philosopher, for the new title for this blog.

Ahhh, a weekend at home, the first in a long time. So what did I do? Got a little organized. Cleaned up the office.. And then saw the CDs. Ever since I’ve had the digital camera the stack of CD’s has existed. They are the back up cds… there area bout 120 of them, in various states of order, labeling and catalogue. So I made the decision to do it, get them in order, labeled and all in a catalogue. It took less time than I thought, I finished at 2am. Now I have to see if I can keep the stack non existent in the future.

I also need to get some more frames. Problem with awards is that the certificates need framing, and the award photos need framing and then the house needs extending to accommodate the new frames. O the pain of it all…(yep… it’s all going to my head). It is kind of cool to get an award from Italy; I’ve never got a trophy before either… I guess it will be small and made of dog food or something, so I shouldn’t get my hopes up too much.

The ideas are still coming in from Sydney, saw some movies over the weekend that inspired me. I need to get out with my camera and shoot a bit.

Home Again

I think I’m finally back in Tasmania for a descent amount of time. I think I am anyway. I’ve just got back from Sydney and the Cannon Australian Professional Photography Awards, which is just an excuse for photographers from all over the Australia to get in the same location and drink a little too much and give each other awards. It is a little bit more involved than that but essentially during the day there are conferences and talks running alongside the judging of various categories of awards. I managed to get 3 silvers, 2 in the portrait contemptery category and one in the wedding contempeary category. It was the my first attempt at entering the wedding category, well, I tried to last year but I believe there was a mix up and the shot I entered was judged as a portrait and didn’t do anything as it wasn’t a portrait. But the Duck prevailed and my obscure wedding shot went to get silver.

The more important things that happened over the week was making some friendships stronger and meeting a heap of new photographers, a lot who are in my age group and in similar situations both with their photography and their businesses. I have already been in contact with a few of them and I’m sure I will be in contact with them for a lot longer, I guess we will all know each other for the length of our photographic careers and maybe beyond.

I didn’t take a lot of photos around Sydney. I probably should have. There are a few photos that are quite good and I will probably get them printed to put in the folder with all the other photos I’ve printed and then not got around to framing for the wall.

Sydney was inspiring; a lot of new photo ideas, new ways of thinking, new ways of photoshop were all put together in my head and are being transposed into photos and through the laptop. But it’s now time to get back into the business and figure out how to improve that for everyone involved.