Missy Higgins @ The Tivoli

Went to see Missy Higgins supported by Jackie Marshall at the Tivoli. What's with the 'tude that man hating lesbians have? Like I care about their sexual preference, just hands off my girlfriend, there's enough to go around!





Photos were poor as all I had with me was the 90mm f2.8 and 50mm f1.8, angles were bad as I was too scared of the death stares I was getting from the chixors with comfortable shoes. They think they own Missy because of the ambiguous lyrics in her songs. As Hetero Claire puts it "I want her songs to be relevant to Me... Me and someone of the OPPOSITE SEX!"





Have a look here on how it should be done

Things that make you go Hmmmm...

Crazy insect with mandibles of death!


2^3 eyes hurts more when flashed


Mouldy froot anyone?

Paid work - Woohoo!

I never would have imagined it but some people paid me to take photos! Wish I had a wider angle lens for the St. John's Cathedral in Brisbane, the people knew the stone mason who worked on the cathedral extensions.

Also made a canvas print of a flower for a friend's house warming present.

London

I met up with Therese in London and went to see the things I missed out on the last time I was there. We arranged a sickly romantic meeting in the middle of the Tower bridge, I was so excited I even got there early so I could get some breakfast down to calm my nerves (I had about 3 hrs slept thanks to a red eye special from Pisa).

I inhaled a breakfast burrito of chicken and salad (bad choice in hindsight) and went to meet the girl. Therese, too, got there early, giving me a big hug and we walked in relative silence off the Tower bridge, gazing wistfully into each others faces before she announce, "By the way you have a big bit of lettuce in your front teeth!" Thanks Gorgeous! :)

We also met up with the Nash's whilst we were over there, it really helped to have Chris and Michelle point out places they liked. As much as I bitch and moan about how crowded and busy London is, at least I wasn't bored whilst I was there!

A couple of shots from the British Museum filled with colonial plunder and antiquities!




The great natural history museum was also something else, the Waterhouse building alone is amazing. LOOK!! UNDEAD MONKEYS!! AIEEEE!!




We stalked about sunny London and sat next to an old man feeding the squirrels, singling out a particular one he called Susie Squirrel (thus picture with obligatory squirrel-in-park-eating-nuts photo) Chris met us for dinner and we tramped about Trafalgar square before settling on some great Japanese. Therese got cold and I lent her my only warm item of clothing and braved the London autumn evening in nought but a T-shirt (well pants too... come and get it ladies!), needless to say I got sick and she still blames me for the runny noise and fever I gave her! Puh!




I wanted to go to Dover, but it was suggested that there isn't much there unless you were in a boat coming from across the channel, so we went to Brighton/Hove instead! Pebble beachs are a pain in the ass. There was an amazing donation cat which purred when people passed near it, it gave me the willies when it caught me unawares with my back to it the first time.



I left London and Therese with a promise to see what would happen after 3 months apart. It was worth the wait.

About a Girl

"Im standing in your light
I do hope you have the time
I do pick up number two
I do keep a date with you"
Nirvana - About a girl

So the news I have been sitting on for so long and have been so reticent in sharing far and wide for fear that it was just a figment of my lucid imagination is... I have met someone wonderful.

It’s funny how you can live for a very long time in complete ignorance to the world around you, steeped in your own concerns and troubles. Yet all it takes is to open your eyes and things are seldom as bad as they appear in the shuttered space of your mind. Commonsense? Yes, but that is sometimes hard to find when you do not care for those logical rationales.

On this Italy trip I rolled back the blinds only to find a wondrous person in return.

A long story short, Therese is a friend, who I had only met once before, of my housemate Sam. We kept in email contact because of a lapse in concentration during a group email (we need to thank Karen for the initial impetus). We ended up deciding to rendezvous in Sardinia since she was on a 6 month journey and I was on a conference. I found that four days in Sardinia wasn’t enough time in this lovely person’s company, and I jumped through hoops to see her again before we were at geographical antipodes. I conjured up a shortened trip to Italy (sorry Gio!) after leaving Therese in Alghero, Sardinia and kept my promise to take her to dinner and the theatre in London (The Lion King at the Lyceum - Thanks Chris and Michelle)... What lady could resist dinner and a show? Needless to say things boded well for us from that point on.

Yes yes some of you wheedled my excitement out of me, but by in large I’ve been kind of vague about Therese. So why was I so taciturn about this scenario? Well for starters, Therese was only 2 months into her 6 month sojourn in Europe and she was hoping to turn her 6 month journey into something a little longer and more permanent. Also she lived in Sydney and was into sheep and horses (Ag. Science degree!).

A Science Communicator by virtue of further training, Therese makes me feel ineloquent when trying to convey the synopsis of my Ph.D project, she has much to teach me about communicating ideas with efficiency and without overwhelming detail to the wider community.

We have weathered four long months, separated by 23000 odd kilometres and numerous bad internet cafes. She has recently closed the distance between Brisbane and Sydney to be with me, so I feel Therese is here to stay. Be on the lookout for more exciting events involving this gorgeous lady!

My last picture of Therese asleep on a bus to Alghero Airport as we prepared for our first painful parting of ways. I remember wondering if I would ever see her again as I stared at her on the bright view screen of my trusty D200. Sometimes a 2.5" viewfinder is just not big enough...



Thankfully you've made my camera obsolete by moving to Brisbane Gorgeous!

Porto Venere

Alrighty, time to get this overseas trip photo monkey off my back! I'm missing out on some important news I would like to share with you all.





SO! Gio took me to Porto Venere, favourite hang out of Lord Byron. A stunning sea side hamlet with amazing colour-washed terraced buildings, must have been glorious on a better day! Ah well you take what you can get. Nevertheless, I'm still gobbed smacked when I look at the photos of my trip, it almost feels like a life time since I was there with Gio!



Apparently Lord Byron found his muse by wistfully watching the sea pound the rocky coast line