‘Mount Wellington’ is available to purchase as a card, laminated print, poster, mounted print, canvas print, and framed print. Mount…
‘Mount Wellington’ is available to purchase as a card, laminated print, poster, mounted print, canvas print, and framed print. Mount Wellington overlooks the city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia. Click here to view Darren Stones’ profile Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance member / (Australian Journalists Association) / Click on each image to enter the purchasing area. Thank you. Card Laminated Print Poster Mounted Print Canvas Print Framed Print Click banner below to enter Darren’s web site
For those interested in “A taste of Australia”, I’ve put together 30 images which can be viewed as a short slideshow on Flickr. “*A ta…
For those interested in “A taste of Australia”, I’ve put together 30 images which can be viewed as a short slideshow on Flickr. A taste of Australia The images include: Fauna Outback Coastal People Sport Festivals and a few others The images are also geo-tagged – Map Hope you enjoy folks. Cheers. Latest 20 images uploaded to Flickr
Roll back to January this year and I spent the better part of a nice sunny day trying to set up three different e-mail accounts in Entour…
Roll back to January this year and I spent the better part of a nice sunny day trying to set up three different e-mail accounts in Entourage (Outlook) on my Mac. I’d done this job many times over for different accounts and never had any trouble, but on this particular day it just wasn’t working. So after hundreds of google searches, heaps of walks down dead ends in forums and countless test emails to my poor suffering brother, I finally had three working accounts. Add another few hours to the session (hell, I’d gone that far, might as well extend the fun) and I had the most organised, filtered, rule following little e-mail app you could wish for. Even now I’m tearing up at how beautiful it was. Emphasize the word was. This morning I went to check my messages only to find nothing. I’m not actually sure how you find nothing, but I digress. Oh, there was a welcoming e-mail from the Microsoft Entourage team, so again, nothing. Somehow my preferences have disappeared into the ether. Now you would think if I had invested a day of my life setting this stuff up that I might have kept some record of the rather complicated settings. Maybe I got caught up in the euphoria of that day, maybe I’m just a dope. Either way, I didn’t. Now I’m a fastidious backer-upperer. One of my lecturers used to teach the mantra Save Often by sneaking up behind us in class and clicking on the X button to close our work regardless of where we were at. If you were in the habit of saving every few minutes you were fine, if you weren’t, you weren’t. I nicknamed him Cowboy X – part reference to the mysterious workings in a sadistic mind that could take pleasure in the pain of his unprepared students, part homage to the Sesame Street character. I carried that mantra through to my back ups and I do it habitually. But now I’ve learnt another lesson and once I’ve got my baby configured the way it was yesterday, I’m going to take screen grabs of all the account settings screens so I’ve got a record of how I got there. So am I going to sit here for ten hours today and figure it all out again? Nup – rainy day in Hobart, day off work, bookshops and coffee are awaiting. I’m having my first e-mail free day in quite awhile. I’ll let you know if I’m in rehab by tonight.
13th December – First day / Caught a bus into Wollongong and then a coach to Sydney Domestic airport for a flight to Hobart, Tasmania. A…
13th December – First day / Caught a bus into Wollongong and then a coach to Sydney Domestic airport for a flight to Hobart, Tasmania. Arrived at 8pm and was picked up by Kieron, Kelly-Jo and Dylan. We went back to Crabtree to see Roman and Lily so that they could open their Christmas presents, then drove back into Huonville to stay the night at the Huonville Grand Hotel. I took some night shots of the lights on the bridge and had a good night sleep 14th December – Second day / Woke up in Huonville Grand Hotel and enjoyed the view of the bridge. Lunch was a treat with all the family (Kieron, Kelly-Jo, Lily, Roman, at the Huon Manor with a two course lunch including Seafood Chowder and Seafood Tapas plate. / / / We then got a lift with our friend Mary into Wrest Point casino. This was the view / 15th December – third day / Third day / Woke up at Wrest Point to this sunrise view – magical! / Next was a cruise down from Hobart to Woodbridge on Peppermint Bay Cruises. We had some lovely sights with an underwater camera at Tinderbox, a sea eagle feeding near Woodbridge and a gourmet lunch and visit to Woodbridge, Tasmania. What a day! After our cruise we had dinner at the Drunken Admiral and I took some photos of the harbour, sandstone buildings and the many boats moored at Constitution Dock / 16th December, Moonah and Huonville / Had Curried scallops for breakfast and met up with Kieron and Kelly-Jo for lunch at Kawasemi Japanese Tea House in Moonah. We had a lovely platter of sushi and sashimi accompanied by some tempura. Delicious! The decore was amazing. Really wishing I could have taken some photos 17th December – Flight home via Sydney and Wollongong /
A tale of surreality and evolution. 6.14am, I’m propped up in my bed in North Hobart Tasmania with the laptop and a damn fine wireless…
A tale of surreality and evolution. 6.14am, I’m propped up in my bed in North Hobart Tasmania with the laptop and a damn fine wireless connection surfing the bub. My window is open to let the beautiful fresh air/day in and I’ve realised that sometimes I actually like the traffic noise. The man across the road runs a hire company and is playing an Elvis CD that is booming across the neighbourhood as he puts cement mixers and whipper snippers on display for the day. A year ago I didn’t know what red bubble was. A year and a bit ago I lived on the big island of Australia, not the good little one. Five years ago I didn’t know how computers talked to modems without wires and stuff. Fifteen years ago I barely knew what the internet was and couldn’t see where e-mails fitted into the scheme of things. Thirty years ago a whipper snipper would have been someone saying whipper snapper incorrectly. Sixty five years ago the king was yet to be crowned.
My work Ex Australis is currently be…
My work Ex Australis is currently being shown in the Works on Paper Show at the Handmark Gallery. All the works in the show can be seen here. The opening is tomorrow night, 31 July at 6pm. The senior curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Dr Roger Butler, will open the exhibition. Anyone in Hobart should pop in and say hi.
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I had the pleasure to take my first trip to Hobart earlier this week (a quick trip for our wedding anniversary). As we got to the hotel w…
I had the pleasure to take my first trip to Hobart earlier this week (a quick trip for our wedding anniversary). As we got to the hotel we noticed a familiar name outside our window. After going for a closer look we were actually standing next to the “Steve Irwin” – the Sea Shepherd ship that you may have heard something about – protecting whales and seals. We were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time as the ship was due to leave for Melbourne, then Western Australia before heading down to Antarctica to butt heads once again with the Japanese whaling fleet. The crew were conducting free tours of the ship to raise awareness about the cause and what they do. We were shown round the ship by extremely articulate and passionate international volunteers who make it their business to stick up for ocean creatures through direct action, in often extremely dangerous situations. These are also people who count themselves very lucky to have made it into the select few who made it onto the ship. Their methods may not sit easily with some people. Indeed Greenpeace (co-founded by Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd) sees the organisation as agressive and has more recently distanced itself. The imposing logo with a skull accompanied by Neptune’s trident and a shepherd’s crook, along with the black painted hull give some idea that these are people that act as well as talk. If you listen to the crew or read about Paul Watson you can make up your own mind about how they achieve results. I think that Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd both have a different part to play, and their ultimate aims aren’t too different. It was facinating and inspiring to hear of some of the stories of their fight to save whales, seals, sharks and other marine wildlife around the world, and to see the array of new and ancient technical equipment on the bridge, donated food in the mess, and the clear passion of all the volunteers. It’s worth checking out the Sea Shepherd website , or you may be able to catch the Discovery/Animal Planet TV show Whale Wars to find out more… and yes, I bought the t-shirt. Stay in touch Subscribe to T-Shirt Updates Subscribe to my T-Shirt blog | visit the blog
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