sometimes you just gotta....

Sometimes you just get the urge...
it has to happen now....
no time to think...
no time to get changed....
you need it now....
and it does not matter if you are in pink bunny pajamas or not....

a bit more

I think we can fit a little more in the gap right at the top......

Silk Markets

A shot of the Silk Markets from across the street....

No prices...
very few rules (apart from a claim inside the door that people should only buy authentic merchandise)...

Lots and lots of haggling....
I was not quite in a haggling mood last night so I was not at the top of my bargaining game. I walked away quite sure I had been massively ripped off rather than just mildly pickpocketted....

Singapore.....

waiting.....

in an airport lounge.....

I will be heading off to China very soon...

a very cold.. and therefore I expect very different China to what I saw last time....

Ready to go back into not being able to actually see my blog, or facebook or anything the might be a little less than ideal for the people of China to know....(I feel flattered that they see fit to block my little bloggy thing - ramblings about my moustache and how the boys have done in swimming are definitely worth firewalling!)

A gentleman nearby has been (rather too loudly) bi-linguilly speaking sweet nothings on the phone and convincing his beloved to wear less while talking to him on Skype.  I am therefore happy I have no photo to accompany this posting.

Arrogant and Presumptuous Photography Portrait.

As it turns out, I am going to be a lecturer for the 2012 Photographic Society of Queensland Conference.  Giving a talk about something that is far too complicated for me to get my head around, so I am hoping my confusion will come across as "arty"....
As part of the program (to populate the fairly sparse website above among other things), I had to submit a portrait of myself for the program. so I got the boys to help me take one this afternoon....

(There was no way in the world I was going to put a photo of me with a fuzzy lip up there!!)

I think I look a little Arrogant and Presumptuous (A&P).... but I have been (deservedly) accused of being A&P before - so it is probably fairly accurate.



Photogeek stuff:  Taken out the front of our house, into the low sun by Xander while Zak stood off to my right on a box pointing the flash down at me from just outside the frame.  A tiny bit of desaturation and vignetting in photoshop...

Swimming Carnival

Now that the good warm weather is here - the school swimming carnival was held with 3 days to go in the school year...
The boys did really well (they have done spectacularly in so many things lately) and are both on the school swim team.

We will not talk about the swim suit malfunction or anything else I think....

my boys... but nice looking...

these pictures look just like Xander and Zak... but these boys looks sweet.....

Geek info: 2 flashes... 1 behind the boys facing the cream wall to blow it out.. the other in a stand off to the side and front a little...  tiny tiny but of playing in photoshop and out pop the results...

Out of control.....

My mo is out of control!!!

This might have had something to do with it....

I think the Mo makes me look gosh-darn sleazy.....
what do you think?  http://mobro.co/MyklDevlin

others from the TPS photoshoot....

Photoshoot play....

The boys and I joined in with a Toowoomba Photographic Society photoshoot over the weekend... the boys in front of the camera and lots of people, including me behind it.

So playing in the old Toowoomba rail yard and then in an alley... this is some of what I got....

Details:  READ NO FURTHER UNLESS YOU ARE A CAMERA GEEK!  All of these were shot with a D7000 with an SB900 flash sitting somewhere.  The flash was generally set on manual output - most around half of the full output...
The camera was in manual.  Shutter speed at 250 (highest shutter sync speed), the aperture was determined by what effect i wanted the flash to have and how dark I wanted the background to be.....  flashes were triggered with cheap Yongnuo triggers...  I can throw in some things about how all this works if anyone is interested....

Mo-gress

I have started covering my face while I am sitting at traffic lights.
My top lip has its own pet slug....
You really have to be a certain type of person to appreciate this is truly a special kinda look.

BTW - lit using my Ipad as a light source, little bit from the other monitors...  I still have serious issues with MBOCS!

Movember

I am doing "Movember" this year.
Basically it is a month of growing a Moustache in order to raise awareness for men's health issues, particularly Prostate Cancer and Depression.
Check it out at http://mobro.co/MyklDevlin

As a result - this is what I look like now....

It seems the Mo comes with a strange attitude....

I might look a little more like this actually.....

not that this look is any better at all....
I am going to look truly silly by the end of the month... but it is all for a good cause!

If you log onto the link http://mobro.co/MyklDevlin you can throw a dollar or two in as well!!

Very COLD

For my birthday I got a waterproof camera.... it is going to be all sorts of fun...

but because I could not wait to go to the beach with it, I got the boys to throw buckets of water over me.

I should have thought a little harder than this about the consequences about being soaked in cold water in the Highfields wind at 5 in the evening, but I am rarely accused of over thinking things!!

Nerf Gun

Photo last week...
the idea was that there were going to be nerf darts flying out of the gun.....

It was going to be so easy to do!
Yeah... it really wasn't.....

Anyway - I can pretend it was always meant to be some sort of portrait....

It will just be our little secret ok?