Hello! I thought I'd be entirely uncharacteristic and actually update my journal, even to the extent of attempting to build a decent theme to go with it.

I'd like to thank everyone for their support, views, favourites and comments on Heroes of Science Action Figures and Heroes of Science Volumes I & II --

 

The response to these has been quite overwhelming, not only on DeviantART but on Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and some other more terrifying places the internets have to offer. Please continue to share the image with your friends!

Still no plans to make anything more of it though, it's just a picture.

I am considering making some more infographic-style things along a similar theme, but as my success rate for actually producing any of the projects I have in my head is quite low, I'm not going to go into any more detail for fear of a) disappointing anyone, and b) committing to something prematurely and being forced to follow through with it, probably leading to point "a" all over again.

Thanks again!

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Yes.

Gallery | Personal Site | Photog Site
Twitter | Youtube | Soundcloud

Heyhey. I haven't died - the rumours have been greatly exaggerated.

I've recently (six months ago) moved half-way across the country. I'm now much further south than I was before.

I'm struggling to get any enthusiasm and inspiration for photography again, which is disappointing me. I don't have as much spare time as I once had, and unfortunately taking happy snaps doesn't pay the bills.

I'm still around, I'm still occasionally doing things, and I still check in here when I can.

Take care, as always,
R

Hi. I'm atrociously, atrociously bad at updating blogs and journals. I apologise for this. Below, in point form, you will see some things that have happened recently.

• The Ridge Lightning Gallery closed down. It was open for six months, and was - by all measure - a success. It closed due to some problems with the building and the lease, not due to any reason involving the actual success or failure of the business venture itself. Thank you to all and sundry who supported the Gallery while it was open!
• Am working more and more doing various graphic design projects, which is fun.
• Saw Avatar 3D. Found it very pretty, but infuriatingly badly written. Overall, fun, though. Plus 3D without red and blue glasses is never a bad thing.

For now, that's all. Stay tuned for another update in, oh, say, 7 months or so.

Hello. First, housekeeping:

1. Standard apology for not having updated this journal in eleventy squillion years: I'm sorry I haven't updated this journal in eleventy squillion years. Everyone else updates their journals with interesting stuff, I just don't have much to say.

2. Shop is going well. It's paying its rent, which is a big deal for a small business that's only been open a couple of months.

3. Storm season hasn't started yet, so there're no new lightning photos.

In the "new news" department, we have:

- I bought a new dining table and chairs. OH YEAH.
- I'm reading Dawkin's latest book, and it's as spiffy as I expected.
- I recently bought an old Olympus OM 50mm f1.8 lens and an adaptor so I can whack it on my E-510, so you can readily anticipate a deluge of photographs of very small items enjoying themselves in the tiny slice of clarity between the front bokeh and the back bokeh.
- All is well.

Take care, drive carefully.

R.

Hello, friends, followers and freaks.

I apologise for my recent lack of activity here. I've had a bunch of other things getting in my way, and old DeviantArt has fallen into the low priority basket.

Among other things, we're working on opening a new (physical, bricks and mortar) shop for selling lightning photographs in Lightning Ridge, which is consuming a huge amount of my time. If all goes to plan, that'll be open for business within a couple of weeks.

Otherwise, things are good, all is well and I don't really have anything exciting to report. Sorry to be such a boring person, but at least I don't have any bad news.

Thanks, folks.

Hello. Yesterday, I was honoured with a Daily Deviation for "From The Top" [link]

I'd like to thank kkart [link] for featuring my image, and I'd like to thank each and everyone who commented, favourited and watched as a result of the feature. If I didn't get around to thanking you personally, I'm sorry. I appreciate all of the support!

Thank you!

Hello. I'm updating my journal because the horrendously old entry on my profile page was annoying me as much as it probably annoyed everyone else.

The storm season is effectively over here, so there'll be no new lightning photographs for a few months. (Unless something wildly unexpected rolls in, but hey.) (EDIT 4/4: It did.)

In other news, my laptop battery has decided to expand like a pufferfish, and is (naturally) out of warranty, so now I'm out of pocket $200 for a new battery. Hoorah! I'm also running my Macbook off of AC power only, which means (for reasons I cannot fathom) that it's running at about 60% efficiency. It takes me twenty minutes to open Photoshop. And I have webpages to design. Sigh.

So yeah. Haven't updated this because not much has happened, and I'm really not the bloggy type. In fact, I hate blogs. And I hate the word "blog" even more. It sounds like a euphemism for something I don't think I want to know about.

Russ out!

I was just poking through my favourites in a pathetic attempt at sorting them into categories -- I gave up, by the by -- when I discovered the formula you need to get me to instantly favourite a picture.

All you need to do is take a picture of a train, in Sydney, with lightning in the photograph. Oh, and HDR it to death. And put a nifty vignette around it.

And then you get to watch my head explode as I try and figure out which category to put it under.

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Meanwhile, in other news:

Sun-Seeker [link] has been kind enough to feature some of my (and Syndyne's [link] ) pictures in a journal feature, which I appreciate endlessly. Thank you, sir!

Thank you to everyone who's supported my lil gallery here!

Here's a photo by Syndyne, for the heck of it:



Me, standing on a bulldozer, showing an unhealthy interest in the tin can covering its exhaust pipe. 'Cause that's the sort of thing I do.

Lehho and tidy muppelshacks!

So I changed the CSS for my journal, because I can. And now it looks like a darker version of DA's standard thingy. Yay, darker.

I've uploaded a lot of crap recently, thanks to everyone who's added and commented and what-have-you. I think I've almost exhausted my hard drive's useful content for the moment, I'll add more once I drag the camera out and do something useful with it.

Well, there you go. Yes, this was just an excuse to get the CSS thing happening. Hoorah, CSS!

Hello, I am a footer.

I'd type stuff here, but it'd require effort.