Links to my Online Photos

Because of my health problems and other related time-users, I don't know whether I'll be putting up more links and displays in this image blog, though I'm trying to keep up entries in my general blog, Another Dark Little Corner.

Link to my Flickr Photos
I'm putting most of my photos up on my 'pro' (paid) Flickr site account, Sketches by Mez (www.flickr.com/ photos/ sketchesbymez). There are collections of my scanned historic family photos — a bunch from World War II, including the Japanese surrender in the Philippines, and earlier, right back to the early 1900s — as well as sets from my 2005 trip to Tasmania, visits elsewhere, hospital stays, Pyrmont and my general imaging.

Outside Flickr, there's a couple of Tabblo pages I've experimented with (www.tabblo.com/ studio/ person/ Mez). This site gives a way of creating a picture layout and display, rather than Flickr, which is like just slotting your images into an existing plain album. You can use the Tabblo layouts to publish a paper book (also possible with Blurb, and in different ways, Lulu [my blog books], and CafePress [blogbook vol 1]), ≈ others create image displays designed for online, or at least screen-based, viewing.

There's also my 'hub blog' here on Blogger, Sketches by Mez, which is just a place to collect together links to my other blogs, image displays and online presence.

Down by the River

Exultations & Difficulties
exultationsanddifficulties.blogspot.com
Martin Stannard's Blog-Zine
Saturday, April 23, 2005
River Photos, Paterson, New Jersey USA (January 2005)

These photos were taken ... on a day when the city was shrouded in a deep winter fog. The river seemed to disappear ... The trees reflected on the mirror surface of the water .... and the colors were so subdued that the effect is almost black and white.
Images and Text © Mark Hillringhouse, 2005

Moon over burnt-out Southern California

Raph’s Website — The smoke does help some things (26 October, 2007)




Full-size 1280 x 780 pixels

"this is the moon over Rancho Bernardo tonight. You can see where there is an absence of lights right below the hills; that is where the fire came through."

Testing Schmapplet entry

Shadows of Motion – Ocean Beach

Shielded with smoke, bedazzled by mirrors
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

Catalina Flying Boat Fam3_14-5-flyboat-man

Catalina Flying Boat Fam3_14-5-flyboat-man
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

Om ...

omega.jpg
Originally uploaded by Doctor Swan.

omega by Doctor Swan

A simple purity of vision

Manila After the Rain — another 'Tabblo'

Testing this as another way to use my images. In this case, displaying wartime family photos (posted on flickr) in an album page style like the one around at the time they were taken.

Manila After the Rain

Manila at the end of World War II — Photos taken by an Australian sailor

In the Depths of the City: A Tabblo Test

In the Depths of the City: A Tabblo Test (Flickr link)
Originally uploaded by Mezza.

"By night, and under cloudy skies, still I strive to see what joy in perceptions may happen yet to pass across my ken."


Testing this as another way to use &/or display my images

New Year's Eve Fireworks in Sydney

New Year's Eve Fireworks in Sydney seen from a rooftop here in Surry Hills, close to Oxford Street and Taylor Square, and with lots of other — mostly higher — blocks of flats around, nearly all with parties of people on their balconies.

A Feast of Photos

To perhaps cheer you up more than the distressing bushfires, feast on other photos, such as those of immigrant Aussie Ingeborg Tyssen (tysseneye.net)

Or search out others' at Luminous Lint (www.luminous-lint.com), or www.photogravure.com

It isn't summer yet (more than a month to Christmas)

Crisp black gumleaves have floated down onto Sydney's ocean beaches,
with dusty ashes and embers.
www.smh.com.au/ multimedia/ ringoffire/ index.html

Photos from general people of scenes around Blue Mountains
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871453791.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871454375.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871454187.html


Pictures from staff photographers
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871450823.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871450828.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871450834.html

This is the westering sun seen behind Anzac Bridge, which is just down the hill from us.
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871451200.html

Fighting fires
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871451202.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871451500.html
www.smh.com.au/ ftimages/ 2006/ 11/ 22/ 1163871451054.html

Catblogging v Porn: Another Grain on the Balance Pan

Janet Lafler & Matt Austern have cats they call Randy and Oliver:



(lafstern.org/matt/cats.jpg)

From Matt Austern's Home Page (lafstern.org/matt) See my post in July, 2005 for a question about this.

Profile photo

My online profile image, kept outside, has somehow had its URL changed, and I'm trying to make sure it's on the Blogger site so that won't happen again.

Raindrop_Fountain-Roselands

Raindrop_Fountain-Roselands, originally uploaded by Mezza.

Australia's (& "the Southern Hemisphere's") first "shopping - community centre" - Roselands - opened on October 11th, 1965.
Its centrepiece and symbol was the Raindrop Fountain: 15 miles of clear nylon thread suspended from the ceiling, with drops of water constantly trickling down into a pool.
It was removed in a remodelling project in 1988. A new, quite different fountain was recently installed.

See Suburban Icons: A Celebration of the Everyday, by Steve Bedwell (ABC Books, 1992) for more, and Source E in [PDF]

catblogging

coming and going - catblogging ella snoozing ( April 15, 2006)

To match with the green apple (11/10/2005); a quince

from Medlar Comfits, by Anna Tambour:

I love eating quince raw slice by raw slice—the knife is my favourite quince treatment. All of the quince's unique smell is retained. The sound of the knife going through the flesh is something I enjoy, as is holding the fruit in my hand. It is a wonderful feeling fruit, having a quite human skin.

The mouth-feel of raw quince is wonderful, too, if you like it (and I love it).

On cold days, though, there's nothing to beat baked quince and oatmeal with cream.

Neon Lights at Crest Theatre

Crest Theatre 20051203 (on Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

It's not really that difficult, although it took me a while to get the hang of it. On automatic settings, you will usually overexpose neon (because the camera reacts to all the darkness around it), and you won't get the rich colors. So now I use shutter speed priority mode. I usually start at ISO 200, 1/80 of a second (which was the setting for this photo), and then re-shoot it once with a faster shutter speed, and once with a slower shutter speed, just to make sure I get one shot that comes out well. — tspauld (Tom Spaulding)

Tasmanian Trip 2005 (story so far)

Tasmania 2005 (Some photos from my holiday to Tasmania, a Flickr Photoset - work in progress).
I'm not sure if I should break this down into smaller sub-sets, such as all the ones taken around Macquarie Harbour and Strahan, all the ones around Hobart and those around Devonport, plus a set of ones taken while travelling between the three main places I stayed; or breaking them down into landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, plants, places, people; or whatever.

I will have to find a different place to store the video clips I also took with the digital camera.

By Sea between Sydney & Tasmania (A Flickr Photoset - work in progress) This will include both the journey down and back, scenes of Sydney and Devonport as well as of the ship itself and sea-scenes from it.

this what was needed in major-league bulk supply in the banana plantations before Cyclone Larry hit?

From http://www.bananabunker.com

I am making no other comment at all. Whatsoever. Not even about the date.