Tipua

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With the demise of google+ a few years back there was a wonderful community born from the ashes of another failed google product (thats a rant for another day).. this started by a good ozzy bloke called Chris Sutton (who also has wisely avoided FB:) ). The community has certainly matured over the years and turned into a great bunch of people out to share art and art of all kinds, photography is just one element.

They also have a cool quarterly book they put together which is provided in digital format and also hardcopy, I am fortunate enough to have a good mate Al Chris who also is a member who kindly shared with me the one of the hard copies from last year. Its a wonderful read and so good to see a diverse range of images and stories from all across the globe. So if your looking for a great community of artists without all the gaff of FB or instagram be sure to check it out

https://www.tipua.com/


I had the opportunity to provide some feedback and judging on a local photo club

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I had the opportunity to provide some feedback and judging on a local photo club (Shoalhaven) monthly theme, it was a really great experience reminisce of the old days where competitions were about really getting good feedback and bettering your images and captures.

There are so many competitions now, some which i have entered and spent a not insignificant amount of money on (I did get some returns i suppose with a few prizes) however I have not really felt my photography has improved as a result. Hence I’m a bit dubious when people, especially those running a photo competition say you need to enter to better your photography

These monthly themes and local local clubs certainly hark back… More

The Annual General Meeting of the SPC followed by the October assessment meeting was held last night via Zoom. Bruce Williams is our new president and we have some new faces on the committee. Lois Sparkes, Peter Noakes and Dave Macquart have all stepped up.

The set subject for October was ‘Buildings’. This was a very popular topic which attracted a large number of diverse and interesting images.
We were very fortunate to have Gerard Blacklock as the judge for the evening. Gerard is a very keen and long time experienced photographer. His comments and assessment of the images entered was very interesting, informed and informative showing his expertise and appreciation of photography.
He awarded the Photo of the Month to Dave Macquart for his stunning abstract photo titled ‘the Confluence’. Congratulatiosn to Dave and many thanks to Gerard for the time and effort he expended on our behalf. He made it a very interesting night.

Bob.

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This is Bob, Bob is in his pond at the park, not in the sky. Bob is chilled, he has a girlfriend (could be a boyfriend.. actually Bob could be a bobette, we are not fish experts), we see them on dates late at night
We have no idea how Bob ended up at the park pond, but we do love to visit him along with the cranky owl that turns up occasionally.

Hey Lewis Fogerty, here’s that missing goldfish hes fat.

Skyline

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My favourite park for some skyline shots, great clouds as well.

Somewhat challenging conditions unit 1 child repeatedly telling me how fing boring and slow we are and that males are more likely to be hit by lightning…, the middle one demanding to know when the lightning will hit me and the little one determined to take off down the hill on a scooter with no brakes (really gotta fix that).

#sydneypark
#parklife





Retro.

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I got this game 30 years ago, so many times i thought i should just throw the thing out but never did, the middle child has found it and gotten addicted

Turns out peeps on ebay trying to sell these for 400 bucks US.. crazy

#nintendo #squish

So whats worse than lockdown ?

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Having your favourite park shutdown due to $%#tards protesting.

Consequentially we are dodging horse crap on our run/walk now

There are only two points I will make 1) a high proportion of people who attend these rallies/protests do not actually give a crap about the cause, they are more interested in conflict with authority… 2) The police have not done themselves any favours when they talk about their police force as ‘troops’ – next they will be turning up to protest rallies with military grade weapons … thats worked well in otehr countries right.

Anyways, we did spend some good time in the garden checking out the flowers and bugs..
The first one sums it up for me, slug on a flower… vs the ?