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Cleaning and Cleanering

I’m sneezing. Means I’ve been making a bit of a dust storm doing the spring cleaning. It’s more of a Spring Organise than clean. The bookwork is up to date and in a friendlier format so it won’t take me ages to get it done. I’ve moved my BAS payments to monthly instead of quarterly, that way it will only have about 30 minutes a month rather than 4 hours each quarter where I try to figure out who paid my $22 via a direct deposit to my bank account and they didn’t tell me a receipt no.

I’ve also decided that the old exhibition prints have been sitting about for too long and they need to be hung somewhere and sold or melted down to create something I’ve been wanting for ages. From my first exhibition in 2001 I still have a heap of framed prints that have been sitting about for 3 years. I’m going to take out the landscapes from the frames and put in some different photos. I will have a set of about 15 frames to do mini exhibitions with.

If you want a cheap landscape print, let me know, prices start from $33!!! There will be a heap of matted prints to go. Hey, it’s nearly Christmas, so thing about others who may like something for their wall.

I even cleaned out my filing cabinet, lots of useless bits of paper in there, they may have been useful a while ago but not now, I just hope they don’t become useful next week.

All the boxes that I attack every time I need a piece of cardboard to put into an envelope have all been cut up and flattened, making a large area free for more things to gather and eventually be thrown out in years to come.

Ok, time for more sneezing.

Magazine a Go Go

Lots of magazine stuff had been happening. I managed to get my first cover on a root’s music magazine called Rythums. It’s one of my Xavier Rudd images. And again NO CREDIT.

Also there is a story in Australian Creative (obscure design and media magazine)of the FUJI Australian photographers collection. My pic that was accepted into Collection 10 was used as one of the cool shots they used to show it off.

In a magazine called Smart Start 2005 there is an interview with me that goes for a whole page. All about networking and it has some of my photos. This is aimed at the school leaver market and gives them some tips on where to go now their world as they know it no longer exists. My friend Sally took the picture of me they used, she GOT A CREDIT.

Friend Gail in the UK saw one of my photos being used over there. It was one of Sarah Kendall, Perrier nominated comedian. She has bought the rights and also said that she would get a credit where the photos were being used. NO CREDIT TO BE SEEN.

Noticing a trend? I like credits. I do editorial work for the credits, if someone sees a photo and they think “that’s a good photo, who took that?” They can look at the credit. But if there isn’t one there they forget and thus I loose a job. SO GIVE ME CREDIT.

Look out for this book,

it should be in all good book shops now, it contains some great photos from the Tarkine from some great photographers, including some friends of mine. I have 3 photos in it and will put them up here when finally see a copy.