Tag Archives: australia

Suburbia #1

Something I’ve always found about Perth: the suburban landscape I find boring by day, comes to life at night in a strange, static way. Maybe that is the way it is. Lights = life. Perth, Western Australia. Part of the Suburbia seriesMore

Birthday Pictures

My sister Chris lays emotional claim to my pictures of seagulls. “They’re my birds,” she says of the ones that were in the big book of pictures I once gave her for Christmas.More

Screen Test

I’ve only been to Moore & Moore Cafe twice in the time I’ve lived in Western Australia, and in my head, it is the place that serves up the best chai latte I’ve had to date (their food is pretty good too). I brought Flemming there recently and blew most of my USD $10 daily food…More

Home: Where your soul feeds (Part 1 of 2)

Jacaranda and eucalyptus: trees I didn’t expect to encounter across the Pacific, so being greeted by both everyday is pleasantly disconcerting. Over lunch with my host here in Mexico City one afternoon, I described the delight of living where gum trees are a source of natural aromatherapy with their scent, the way jacaranda adds a…More

13 was always my lucky number

Today marks my real new year. 10 January 2013 is my last day as a gainfully employed, regular pay-check earning, “real job” holding person.More

Biker

It is winter for us in the antipodes, so with nights dipping to single digits in the celsius (a walk in the park for those of you who experience real winters, I know), a little reminiscing about the season that so characterises Western Australia, is in order.  More

Interview with Cathy Topping on RAW

Ever wondered what it takes to compile a photobook with dozens of pets and owners? My interview with Cathy Topping on RAW today, sheds some light on what went into producing Shelter, the book that Cathy put together for DCH Animal Adoptions. Read the interview here All profits from the book go towards building a…More