Off Track

I Didn’t Want a Dog… So I Bought One Off Gumtree

I never liked dogs. I didn’t actively dislike them, but I wasn’t really a fan and never really wanted one… Which worked out well I guess, because what we actually got was a baptism of fire… All packaged up as…

Mergin Maps | Data Collecting for the Win

Do you data? I love collecting data. Some might say I have a bit of a strange relationship with timing, counting, plotting and collecting information in relation to things I do. Don’t get me wrong, I can do a task…

I wrote a story

I shall be taking long service leave from my fight photography work, effective immediately. All fight albums shall remain on the website () until the end of the month. (originally was going to be the end of the year) Galleries…

TFGC #3 | Holy cheese balls

Saturday we had a little open mat in Launceston. However it was so much more than a little open mat. It was a freaking amazing open mat! With a whole bunch of equally freaking amazing women from all over Tasmania.…

Tasmanian Female Grappling Collective

Late last year Jess Fraser came down to Tassie to hold an Australian Girls in Gi (AGIG) open mat. As usual it was a fantastic day hanging out with chicks from other clubs and having a roll and a laugh…

Jellyfish – the launching

Wednesday night saw the launch of Lisa Ann Gershwin’s latest book ‘Jellyfish – A natural history’. Described as a coffee table book it is really more than that. It has the impression of a coffee table book, in that it is…

Photographing fully grown humans

Since I started putting together a little studio in the front room of my house I have really only had small people to use as my subjects. The novelty has started to wear off for them though, so unless they…

Boots – Beams – Burnie

Last Wednesday night was the annual Advocate newspaper reader snapshot calendar awards night thingy. My little mate Leena landed Miss December, so we wandered on up to the North of the state to partake in some wine drinking and frock…

This is what I did when I was 16…

I had a pet rat called Ratticus, two green mohawks, safety pins through my ears a brown leather coat and pants held together with patches… And I used to enter my Irises into the Royal Horticultural Societies annual Rose and…