Gellert Hill

Szabadság híd

Snow Angels

Grey sky Danube

Snouts

Terror

Preparing snowballs

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I’ve been a bit tardy with posting photos from the Mass Photo Gathering in Trafalgar Square a few weeks back. Here’s some of the action. If you’re wondering what it was all about – read this article.

20 minutes prior to the start – the rain threatens

Nice vintage Polaroid

The Freedom Warden aka blogger Old Holborn

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Trafalgar Square
23 January 2010
12 noon

I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! (PHNAT) invite all Photographers to a mass photo gathering in defence of street photography.

Following a series of high profile detentions under S44 of the Terrorism Act, including 7 armed police detaining an award winning architectural photographer in the City of London, the arrest of a press photographer covering campaigning santas at City Airport and the stop and search of a BBC photographer at St Pauls Cathedral and many others. PHNAT feels now is the time for a mass turnout of Photographers, professional and amateur to defend our rights and stop the abuse of the terror laws.

Strange light fell over Australia on 23 September 2009. An unexpected dust storm blanketed New South Wales and Queensland, turning everything an eerie shade of amber. At its peak, the storm swept up 140,000 tons of soil per hour. In spite of the worst dust storm in 70 years, intrepid photographers ventured outside to document what was happening to their homes, neighborhoods, and country.

Long time Internet geek blogger/publisher Derek Powazek has collated images from the day and produced the book “Strange Light”. Two of my pictures have been featured in the publication.

You can purchase your copy at Magcloud.

The Future Classic crew once again filled out The Civic top to bottom with various flavours of electronica, some deep, some discoey and some techy. Personally, I didn’t rate Isolee’s set – it didn’t go anywhere near as deep as I thought it might. In fact, the whole night was musically so-so, with Simon Caldwell stealing the show.

A slightly odd occurrence on the night -I felt sorry for those who were forced out of the hotel adjacent to the club due to a fire alarm, and found themselves exiting the stairwell into the laneway which was being annexed by the venue, converting it into an outdoor area for the venue – for smokers, and the German BBQ delights. A lot of club goers were quite confused when they saw parents with young children walking through the space.

View the photo gallery on Flickr.

Meet Mowgli – the baby orang utang

He’s one of the star attractions at Lok Kawi Wildlife Park. About 40 minutes drive from Kota Kinabalu – it was great to see a wide range of animals, including gibbons, proboscis monkeys, civet cats, a swooping rhinoceros hornbill and playful elephants amongst other animals, but had we known we would go to Singapore Zoo later on, we may not have bothered. Then again, there’s not exactly a lot to do in Kota Kinabalu, so this was certainly a good way to bide our time until we started our climbing trip of Mt. Kinabalu. But be warned – if you sit in the front row of their main show, you’ll go toe-to-toe with this ape in a coconut husking competition. There will only ever be one winner. In the time it took me to rip about a 2 inch wide strip of coconut husk, he had the whole lot off! I did manage to smask the coconut open, but that wasn’t exactly the brief.

If you’re looking to get there, taxi is the way. Pre-arrange a price (as with all Malaysian taxis), and you can probably get a driver to do a round-trip. Just make sure you get his telephone number to call him when you want him back.

The reigning coconut husking champ

Very clever episode of “Will it Blend?” where a selection of Olympus kit gets smoothified. Check it out.

Jennifer Cardini in the mix

Some photos I shot from the Kompakt Label Party / 6th Birthday for Deep As F*ck gig at The Cross a couple of weeks back.

I wasn’t overwhelmed by the gig – a modest turnout on the Sunday, which was due no doubt the countless gigs (We Love Sounds for one) that had occurred across the long weekend. Musically though was where I was underwhelmed – it certainly wasn’t anything to adventurous and I have to feel that like the Kompakt label, it’s lost a little of it’s fresh edge that we used to see a few years back.

However, I was overwhelmed by the ‘flu which I came down with the next day and am still recovering from.