balloons

Someone put random balloons on one of the poles at the beach :)

Seagulls at

Bondi Beach

footprints

When you get to the beach early enough, you get to see the 'fresh' beach and see the first footprints of the day

beach baths

I love the drama in this photo, and I love the reflection on the wall of the baths

Sense and Sensibility

To Mr. Willoughby, that he may endeavour to deserve her.

sunglasses

I tried to get the sunrise reflected in the glasses, but my favourite glasses just don't reflect well enough!

waves

coogee beach sunrise encore

maroubra

beach afternoon light

Sunrise photoshoot

This one I like because it's not just a typical sunrise shot, but has the railing as a foreground feature.

coogee

I like manual focus, because I find slightly out of focus photos quite beautiful. I mean slightly, and I mean only certain photos.

steps

coogee beach steps

i like the angles in this photo

la perouse

october theme

inspired by my last photo of september, the month of october will feature photos of the beach

peaceful morning at coogee beach

sunrise

at Coogee Beach

I took a mirror with me, then buried it in the sand and snapped away

sandstone

i love the texture in this picture. this could also be used as a wallpaper
maroubra beach

Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading 
or do something worth writing about.

sunset..

on a eucalyptus tree

another sunset in the bush

kangaroo valley, just a different day and different place

red

autumn leaves

tropfest winner 2011

the winner of a short film festival held in sydney every year

sunset in the bush

kangaroo valley

another closeup

of a flower,
they're just so intriguing. everytime I look at this photo I notice something different

snow on branches

the morning after it's snowed, you have a beautiful clear sky but can still see the snow on the trees.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young

Warning, lots of words coming up :)


I found out about this beautiful article after looking up a song I heard the words in. I found out that it was an original article by Mary Schmich and that Baz Luhrmann made this cover of the song Everybody's Free, with an Aussie voice actor, Lee Perry saying the words. I was studying Romeo + Juliet around the same time as I discovered this song, so it really resonated with me.
I think this advice is so smart, and even though advice is always hard to take, read it! (and then listen to it)


Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young
By Mary Schmich, original here

Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who'd rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there's no reason we can't entertain ourselves by composing a Guide to Life for Graduates.

I encourage anyone over 26 to try this and thank you for indulging my attempt.Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

sunset

Just another regular sunset at home.

dust storm day

I took my dog for a walk to the beach :)

the panic of creation

oh i understand this completely

from here

via here

cantinflas

'man's first responsibility is to be happy.
the second is to make everyone else happy.'

flower

Bark

I used to take lots of close ups, I love being able to see tiny details that I think you otherwise wouldn't pay attention to.

another impala

greenery
in south africa

Sunrise View.

What is so pretty about a sunrise that makes me get up at least once a month at the crack of dawn just to sit and watch it come up?

tall

Isole di Brisago in Locarno, Switzerland

I mean, everything's tall to me, but this tree was massive.

midnight music

this is one of my favourite songs to listen to when I'm up late working on assignments
and yes this was posted at 1 in the a.m!

from the walk in the park

another bizarre looking flower..

maroubra beach

Sandstone

surprises

are the best.
whether it's listening to an old song and hearing something new in it
or coming home to a random gift sitting on my bed
or someone playing a favourite song of yours without you asking
or winning a competition you forgot you entered.

even though sometimes they're hard to keep a surprise, the outcome is always awesome. (I guess that's why I appreciate them so much, because I find it so hard to keep surprises a secret, so I really admire those people who can do it!)
so thank you to all those people who've surprised me in some way :)

what else is awesome is surprise cake. people should do that more often!

bark again

This is quite similar to this photo, which is funny because they weren't taken at the same time but actually at the same place!

grass

Flower

This photo took a few tries to get right, it was before I learned how to control aperture and I couldn't get the focus right. But, here it is.
This flower looks like an exotic bottle brush, does anyone know what it is?

model making

I had a bit of a panic attack this morning, which inspired this graph. 

After spending countless hours labouring and stressing over a model I've made, I finish it and feel really relaxed and accomplished. Then I realise I still have to transport it to uni (on the bus!!) and start to stress out trying to find the right box because usually the options you have are just a little too small or a little too narrow.

norah head

taken a while back whilst camping at norah head

I love the beauty of water and it's scary how powerful it can get, I guess this photo doesn't illustrate it but you can imagine how powerful it is

maroubra

we went geo-caching at maroubra beach and this a photo i took then.
and the geo-caching ended in nothing, we swore we found the spot but there was nothing there, it looked like someone had taken it.

the wind in the trees

just a walk in the park discovering plants

perdy

kangaroo valley

kangaroo valley sunset

wheat

bark

the beautiful texture of bark

Sunset

When the red sunlight of sunset colours my tree :)

bird of paradise

Found some beautiful flowers on a simple stroll in the park

september

This month I'll be posting my photos of nature for the 365 project :)

This is a scene on a random mountainside in Switzerland in January, I love this photo but it also doesn't capture the whole scene which was stunning and so breathtaking.

Steve Jobs

'Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to   avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.'


'Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.'


a friend showed me the 2005 commencement speech from Stanford and these are some of the lines that really stuck with me. watch the speech here

ponte rialto

lights on the ponte rialto

venetian boats

along the water's edge

something good to remember..

success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal

- mike ditka

snow

Man I miss the snow so much.
This was taken from the ski lift on a cloudy day, where you can see the sun trying to poke out.
Bliss.

chuck norris

is the only man allowed to touch Mr. T's mohawk

therme vals

I was lucky enough to visit this beautiful bath in January.
It is designed by Peter Zumthor and we spent about 6 months at uni learning about it and talking about how brilliant it is - so it was really great to see it for real.
It took 3 hours by trainn (from Zurich) and then a half hour bus trip along a winding road, mostly on a cliff face, to get there.
But it was so worth it.

fribourg

the view in fribourg.

i heart fribourg

I want to leave!

On a train in Switzerland
I thought the translation was a bit odd, as if you say I want to leave! I think it should be I want to get off.
But anyway, discovering these things is the beauty of travel

Durban, South Africa

 I love the curves of this house by Elmo Swart Architects.

Sometimes you get these beautiful curved houses but you never see it from the inside. 

Or they're curved on the inside but that beauty doesn't translate to the exterior.

So it's nice to see this beautiful example (also using wood!) that is a perfect combination, curves are such a beautiful thing in a home.

This is actually an extension added onto the thatched-roof house which you can see in the right of the above photo.

  But check out that beautiful staircase, yummy. I would just stand and stare at it, the perspective in this photo is amazing.

 Oh and it's in South Africa. Awesome :)

via trendir