i’ve switched over from greymatter to wordpress.. i started this blog with greymatter all the way in september 2001 – and it was about time i did something new :p
i still love greymatter, it was very easy to use but it didn’t have the ability to categorise my entries, which i think is in need since i’ve been blogging for almost 6 years now!
excuse me if you still see things change, i’m still fiddling around with the code 🙂
i’ve kept comments disabled so i don’t have any dramas with spam and my webhosts again..
If you’ve been a part of the photoblogging community, at any time in the past 5 years, you will know Heather and Derek.
Heather Champ and Derek Powazek, who in my eyes, are two of the pioneers of photography on the internet and are a constant source of inspiration and creativity for hundreds, if not thousands of people around the world.
When I received an email from them in 2004 about their newest creation, JPG Magazine, there was no doubt I wanted to be a part of their dream. I was excited to be involved with people who truly loved photography and the spirit of community and sharing, and I am still proud to this day to tell people I was in the first issue, Origin (and on the cover, no less!).
It was with this passion that I kept supporting Heather, Derek and JPG over the next issues, and would wholeheartedly keep it up as long as they keep up with the great work too. It was exciting to see their work and themselves in an amazing publication, but more importantly to see their dream realised together.
Sadly, their involvement with the magazine is no longer, and as their friend and someone who still believes in the spirit of the photography community and it’s origin, my involvement will cease here also.
I am not doing this to be melodramatic, but to make a point to myself, that when you believe in someone and something, that you follow it through to the very end. And if the end comes quicker than you think, that you are able to see where you came from and what YOU want to do next. Don’t let anyone else make up your mind or your heart for you.
We all have an end, but we all have a beginning.
Take me back to the start, Heather & Derek. I’m ready for whatever you’ve got planned.
JPG Magazine – Issues One to Six are still at Lulu.
Check them out if you can because Paul sure doesn’t want you to.
planned for a relaxing weekend, but as it always happens, there’s just so much to do, even though it’s not much at all
saturday morning, early start to get a few things for the apartment. we have an open house soon and mum wants me to decorate it like i’m on oprah or something, lol. later on, i went to meet my friends out in parramatta. i hadn’t seen most of them since aisy’s wedding, so it was really cool to hang out with them again. very cool to see little natalie, she’s gotten so big (yet stays so small) and i got to spend a little time with her on my own which was nice. saturday night was girl’s night with my sister, which was cool. Mischa got her hair cut, i finally got my eyebrows done and Hayley told me about her plans to travel some more..
sunday, mothers day, was another early one. went and got the groceries before the crack of dawn so i had the rest of the day free. we had plans to see a movie with mum, but Hayley read the schedule wrong and we got there too late for the morning session, but way too early for the lunch one. we ended up in the food court, having a good old laugh which was better than any movie any way 😉 walked around for a bit, buying mum what she wanted for mothers day (not what we thought she wanted)
i think by then, i had really overdone it. things started to get hazy and i couldn’t form a sentence other than ‘i need to sit’. by lunch, i was on the couch at my parents house passed out and having some nasty round ligament pains. i slept for about 3 hours before driving myself home, half in tears because of how uncomfortable it was. the rest of the day was a write off, i didn’t want to move (and couldn’t) so i went to bed at 6pm and didn’t get up until this morning.
things are alot better today, feel like i’m getting a cold though but nothing that i can’t handle. i realise there’s alot of stuff that i’ll experience in the next few months, so things like round ligament pain i need to take in it’s stride. but… it still sucks.
