onethousandpics (48)in #teamaustralia • 6 years agoFacing the storm: standing after life knocks you downThat little fireball I told you about a few posts back survived. Saved by a surgeon's knife and the titanium force of…onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 6 years agoSunset Swagger: dancing into nightI like the cut of your jib sunset. Your swagger toward night. The way you toss light across the ocean with your sway.…onethousandpics (48)in #life • 6 years agoShifting the goal posts: changing the meaning of life goalsLife makes ghosts of us all. There is no other way out. In a world filled with self-serving and externally driven…onethousandpics (48)in #love • 6 years agoCircles of loss and love: prayers for a ball of fireA few years back I was burnt out and washed up from looking after other people's kids when a little fireball danced…onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 6 years agoFinding Home: where are you from?My dear friend Elinor has a fabulous conversation starter. She asks, "Where are you from?" She doesn't mean where…onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 6 years agoWatching & Waiting: a dance into the setting sunI have been more inclined to wait for my vision of an image of late. I used to settle for what life gave me. Now I…onethousandpics (48)in #travel • 7 years agoCrystal Ball Photography - Vivid Sydney: get intimate with 2 million of your closest friendsI regularly avoid Vivid Sydney - one of the largest light festivals on earth. The idea of battling with a hundred…onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years agoSucked down the drainpipe: life and the death of creativity“What sort of brainwashing, he had wondered, had created a world in which people worked fifty or sixty hours a week…onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years agoSunset from the Cubicle #4: fairy floss skies and Sydney's Shit BusesMy sunset from the cubicle series has been waylaid by poorly timed customer enquiries and early finishes. You will be…onethousandpics (48)in #writing • 7 years agoChasing the Muse: on writer's blockMy writing muse has escaped her cage and run for the misty autumn hills. Now the words will not come. I can feel them…onethousandpics (48)in #blog • 7 years agoAttacked by a Beagle and other heartbreaking arguments with realityA Beagle broke free from it's leash and charged at me from the darkness last night while I was riding my bicycle.…onethousandpics (48)in #steepshot • 7 years agoBreenhold Gardens: finding pools of light in a photographer's paradise: NSW, AustraliaBreenhold Gardens was about finding beauty in miserable conditions. The rain fell at a drizzle interspersed with…onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 7 years agoWhat if ... and ode to the beauty of being weakWhat if you let it break you into a million pieces? Let it's momentum carry you to the floor like sand. What if you…onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years agoYou Complete Me: on finding the other half of my rainbow and other absurd notionsRainbows are a complete circle. We only see half of them because of our perspective. Where does the rest go? Is…onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years agoLetting in Light: on healing ancient historyWhen she was very small the cool kids made her walk at least ten steps behind them, alone. She felt a red hard ball of…onethousandpics (48)in #blog • 7 years agoDancing in the Street: life lessons from a homeless ray of sunshineMy home town is a rag tag collection of the homeless. A quirky lot who refuse to conform to the recent onslaught of…onethousandpics (48)in #portraitcontest • 7 years agoWeaving Spells: the illusion of romanceI like what I see, the me, reflected by you. It is no way to live, this fickle self existing exclusively as mirrored…onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years agoWrack & Ruin: life's hard lessons in forced surrenderMore than once of late I have wondered how it is that I am still here. I am not prone to exaggeration so believe me…onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 7 years agoSunset from the Cubicle #3: candy cloudsToday was all grey skies from the cubicle. I had given up on sunset colour and then ... this happened. And I got stuck…onethousandpics (48)in #travel • 7 years agoEyes of an Eagle: being hunted in Outback Australia: Kinchenga National Park, NSWSo the other day I'm driving along this dirt track in Kinchega National Park real slow right? Two reasons. First there…