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• Living In Paradise
  by Scheherazade

  I’ve been out taking lots of photos this weekend and it struck me today just how lucky I am to be living in such a beautiful place as Ca…

  I’ve been out taking lots of photos this weekend and it struck me today just how lucky I am to be living in such a beautiful place as Cairns. I have thought this many times before but now I’m seeing it through a different eye. A photographic lens really heightens your sense of things around you. Honestly, where else in Australia could I hop in the car and in 30 minutes time be on a sandy beach, a tropical rainforest, at a gaping gorge, or drinking a freshly made latte at a coffee plantation in the highlands? An hour or two more and I’m en route to the Great Barrier Reef. soaking in a mineral hot springs, or wandering though an ancient lava tube in the outback. My new found interest in photography has really brought a lot of changes for me. I’m getting a lot more exercise just for the fact that I’ve now got an incentive to get out and go exploring for things to photograph. That can only be a good thing. And in the process, I’m re-discovering the beauty of Far North Queensland.

• Great work, BAD customer service.
  by Dean Armstrong Images

  Went into a certain well known Cairns photographer’s gallery today (not LIK) and was going to introduce myself and have a bit of a chat a…

  Went into a certain well known Cairns photographer’s gallery today (not LIK) and was going to introduce myself and have a bit of a chat as I have been meaning to do it now for some time. As I headed to the desk to where he was sitting another gent spoke to him and without even looking up, threw off a couple of comments back to the gent and still did not even bother to look up. His trusty assistant then came to his side and he started talking to her and basically ignored the gent. / I am so glad a photographer can treat another person like that…I thought he would be trying to sell his work or even discuss it. My opinion is, if you are to busy to talk to the people that come into you gallery, go out the back and have someone talk to them. / I have a market stall (yes, I know, less stress and all that and I am eager to talk to people) but I make sure that I say hello to everyone that passes through my tent AND look at them while I do it. The world is lacking general customer service these days and it is sad to think that when it is the customer that make our business happen.