Amy's Birthday Soiree

Despite forgetting Amy's present (hope you like it when you get it), taking the wrong turn and heading over the Story Bridge (again!), and me forgetting to get money out of the hole in the wall so the girls had to spot me, I very much enjoyed my serve of hot Coq (it had to be said, my infantile humour was clamouring to get out).

I'm pretty bad at verbalising french and combined with the many questions on my sexuality after recent photos, I was faced with the dilemma of asking for something suggestive from the waiter with possible alternative preferences to me (it was New Farm people). I went with my native tongue for the chicken with mushroom sauce. But I truly loved the Coq and couldn't get enough of it. I'm pretty sure the waiter said to me as he came with my meal, "Hot Coq sir?"

I couldn't bring myself to use flash in such a classy joint so we had to go with ambient light and noisy 3200iso





The photos don't do justice to the effort people went to get dressed up and Amy looked gorgeous in her birthday suit.

Happy Birthday Chum!

Hash

Amandine's gathering

An intimate and very entertaining gathering at Amandine's place, playing games with citizens, wolves, witches, clairvoyants, little girls, Cupid and sheeeeits... or was that "cheats" Sylvan?

It's not easy for other people to just pick up the D200 and get in focus photos, what with having to deal with AF points and metering etc. So apologies but the rest from that night were all out of focus :(

Speaking of AF issues, I also had problems last night, I think it was the Bailey's that Amandine served. I'm going to make Dave smoke more ciggies so that I can get a better photo of this one day (where was my smoke ring Dave?!)

Announcement

Hi all,

In an effort to get more and more of my photos online so that they aren't cuffing around on my computer taking up space, I have created a web album to shuffle some of the mediocre bits of work that don't really have a story (that would fit into a blog) or are polished enough (for deviantart).

So if you are bored and want to see how I'm progessing with my photography, head over to

Hash's Picasa Web Album

Hash Out!

Nihili est - in vita priore ego imperator romanus fui

By Day's Light:
Mild manner lady-boyish Ph.D student, Dr. Hash (Diabolus fecit, ut id facerem!)



In Night's Darkness:
Who's got two thumbs and doesn't give a crap if Rome burns? Emperor Hash (Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt...)



Head to Claire and Damo's Toga Party photo album for hi-res photos

Raptus Regaliter

Our friend Amy!

Sam and I were quite overjoyed when Miss Amy decided to call upon us as part of her holiday. Having been remiss from our lives for several years (well at least mine!), it was a fantastic treat to have her visit!

We were quick to show her some of the more "IMPRESSIVE" vistas of Brisbane

including the obligatory Mt Coot-tha summit

This was followed with a quick trip out to Bribie Island where she collected the ugliest shell for Claire and patiently waited for us to get on with our creative shit (as in arts and crafts and not as in Picasso-esq Mr Whippies)






Despite being repeatedly slighted by Claire (who insults people as a sign of affection... or is that just an affliction... Maybe it's coz she was affronted by the ugliest shell on the beach), she was still able to show us her WIcked breakdancing moves despite a bung knee. And the girls wanted to show that from Eeeeasssiiide to Wwwessssiiiiide, Australia was just one big Massifff! (Although gumby-fingers Amy can't quite make a W without breaking a finger or two)


Best of luck in the new job and in Perth! Hope to see you and Geordie sometime soon!

Sam and Hash

Crows v Lions @ The Gabba

Oh my first AFL match (Oh Mr. Gunn you were sooo gentle!)! Thanks to Claire for the use of her 70-300G (nice lens for the price). Wish I had a 70-200 VR like Frink's. D200 rocks for sports photos, pity it can't photograph through people's heads. Oh and sorry to the person out there who ate the hot dog I returned after one of the serving staff dropped it on the floor, frankfurt first, ewwww!


Avid supporters dress the same






Go Lions!

Waterdrops

So I got home last night and no body was in, I decided to have a little quailty time with my baby... I pulled out a tripod and spent the best part of an hour photographing water droplets.

I was amazed at the ease that the SB-800 flash lets you do strobe photography, though I wish there was some frequencies between 10 and 20hz as most things that you want to photograph (i.e. water droplets are in that range, 3-4mm/s)

My pick is number 3 and 4, though I do like 1 and 2 as well.

Revolving doors

Here is a little analogy about my life at the moment... coz I'm like a shark.

I use to think that the harder of life's decisions were meant to be simple doors one steps through, I was only partially right. I think these decisions are far more like revolving doors. It's probably not a new concept, like so many things in life, but new to me.

Ordinary doors are too open and shut, there is very little to fear. Revolving doors on the other hand are very intimidating things.

Enter or exit at the wrong speed and it will screw you over good, if you are wearing a cape, beware! Also unlike a normal ordinary door, two people can pass through a revolving door in opposite directions, even though they want to be on the same side.



You can try going the wrong way to someone else in a revolving door and you'll just end up pushing against each other. You can confuse people by going round and round. You can also confuse yourself. You can get trapped in a revolving door.



If you are handicapped, when it comes to a revolving door decision, forget about it, revolving doors eat wheel chairs, crutches and their owners.



I guess if there is one good thing about a revolving door, it is that you never feel as though it is truly shut. Or is that a bad thing?

Apple Drop

Bruised Fruit? Has anyone tried this before? Any tips or suggestions? Very clean crystal vase would be ideal, wipe down water on face of glass on every shot? Thanks to Katerina for her assistance.

Walk around Brisbane

I'm not sure but I thought the 18-70mm - AFG DX would have been a sharper lens. Maybe I need to up the shutter speed

Oh no! I think my CP5700 has gotten so jealous it won't take a picture of the D200!

Nah, CP5700 is still working (anyone want to buy it? Make me an offer!). It is the genius work of my creative and multitalented (I'd like to think of her has an artistic and crafty (Heheh) Macguyver) house mate Sammie! (pictured with Claire being tigers!)















Sure you ask where will all her talent with Macpaint lead her? Well then take a gander at this beauty which I think Sam is more than capable of surpassing Castle

Oh Claire is such a hot chiky babe I think I've got it bad for her... Oh read the previous post numb nuts!

In retaliation for ALL those pictures on her blog of me I think it's time I posted more of Claire too! (Word up Homie?)

There is nothing better than an unwilling participant for testing your flash photography. It's so much more exhilarating!

Shiny happy people posting blogs.

Dear Internet and bothersome people,

I am setting the record thoroughly and unequivocally straight as the proverbial arrow as to why certain people have many pictures of me on their blog. No, there is nothing remotely there between me and Claire but air itself (is that poetic alliteration?).

What began as an amusing interlude into my otherwise unglamorous social life, other people’s opinion of what happens in this fair household of ours is starting to irk and encroach. Rather than bow to pressure and stop posting photos of the lovely members Alpha Geek HQ and our antics, I thought I’d say my peace and continue as before. Why am I even bothering you ask? Well I too like to take care of the petty-minded, little people of this world.

Those of you who have malformed and misinterpreted notions of the personal dynamics in Alpha Geek HQ really need to stop reading quite so much into blogs. They are frivolous things created to amuse and distract people from their mundane lives. It is obvious that we have done our jobs too well as too many people are troubling me as to what is “the go” with Claire and I.

Why are you worrying your precious, insignificant, short lives, speculating whether the two of us are circling each other like endangered pandas on heat, (yes I have used this analogy before)? Why don’t you speculate instead on how you can move on from your staid and wholly uninteresting lives that forces you to be intrigued by the happenings of others?

If you stay here for too long, before you know it you’ll be driving an early model, beige Volvo in some housing estate on the suburban fringe of a non capital city, heating frozen meals for your cheating spouses (who only do so as a means spicing up your utterly mediocre relationships), hoping to win lotto as a means of escaping the drudgery that has become your existence. Apologies to those who have not formed such impertinent opinions of me and who

a) drive a beige Volvo (boxy and safe, but won’t get you laid),

b) live in a housing estate on the fringe of a non-capital city (Nothing wrong with the ‘Gong!)

c) have a cheating spouse (I’m sure some part of them still loves you)

or

d) wish to win lotto (take a number and get in line)

Why be concerned about us, be concerned about YOU! All is not lost, you too can lead exciting and meaningful lives worthy of being posted on someone’s idle blog. Do something irrational that gets people to laugh at you is a good start. And it’s not as if I’m the only other member of Alpha Geek HQ. There is also Sam who is somewhat more demure (only slightly) than I and is not repeatedly prone to daft antics that would gain her sufficient notoriety to be posted with such frequency (more often than not, she’s the one to lure me into such traps that end with Claire's photographic evidence and me stunned like a deer in headlights).

And before you ask, yes I do enjoy using my diverse command of the English lexicon to castigate and disparage people into feeling a little worse about themselves

‘Nuff said, peace out, someone else’s problem… maybe yours? Bookmark this link should you ever forget what I have said and slip back to your old habits

why-you-should-not-read-too-much-into-blogs

So get on with it.

The "tongue-in-cheek" Hashinator