photography

Otterday!

Hoyden About Town - July 5, 2008 - 2:12pm

I love love love today’s otter.

This baby river otter was found wandering around Petaluma with his friends. After stopping into a tavern and an auto parts store, they were guided to a more appropriate creek by Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue.

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I’m not worthy

Hoyden About Town - June 27, 2008 - 1:58am

You know that stage when you’ve been doing a hobby five years or so, and you think you’re getting really quite good at it most of the time, then you cruise Etsy and the blogosphere and realise you’re totally not worthy?

Check out these breathtaking soaps.

Tumbled Turquoise soap by amethystsoap

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Otterday!

Hoyden About Town - June 21, 2008 - 11:51pm

Today’s baby small-clawed otter was snapped in April at Tacoma’s Point Defiance zoo by “How I See The World Around Me” at flickr. This photo is just begging to be captioned. Read more »

Visual language: evangelical outreach department

Hoyden About Town - June 18, 2008 - 11:51am

What make you of this tract’s cover image? It intrigued me enough to lay out 50c at the religious bookshop, anyway.

sceptics.png Note how the subject is dressed in a very urban metrosexual style, with his earrings and his goatee. What does this signify in the context of Christian evangelical outreach? Read more »

Otterday!

Hoyden About Town - June 28, 2008 - 7:35pm

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Today’s otter comes courtesy of the Sunshine Coast Daily.

Mo and Bud, small-clawed south east Asian otters from Underwater World, are on their way to New Zealand for what the Daily calls “a breeding holiday”.

An Underwater World spokesperson said: Read more »

Lazy Sunday!

Larvatus Prodeo - June 22, 2008 - 6:28pm

Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!

I’m still going with, ahem, a certain project - couldn’t keep up the 6000 words a night pace, but that’s ok. Hopefully it’ll be finalised this week and I’ll be able to have a life again. I did go for an afternoon walk the other day, and here are some New Farm and Brisbane River photos for you! Read more »

Solstice soon

Larvatus Prodeo - June 16, 2008 - 1:04am

With the winter solstice almost upon us, and very short days, and because I’ve lacked the time to work on my own photography lately, I wanted to highlight these two rather spiffy photos of the Brisbane sunset taken by Cabaran: Read more »