Sometimes friendship takes very strage forms. The can be intense or cool. Repeating patterns or random gestures. Whatever parts you feel compose a friendship, toss them into the comments sections. Love to hear what you think :)

Arriving in Singapore and stepping out of the terminal is like opening the oven door when your face is too close to it. I walked straight into the car while shredding my outer layers of clothes, and went into the shower as soon as I got home. The flight was pretty good, service was awesome - neighbouring passengers, weren't. The Singapore Airlines flight was carrying passengers from air India, and unlucky me got sandwiched between a noisy family. They were passing food across the aisle and blocking passengers during boarding. The mother was feeling nauseous, and was really rude to the cabin attendant who was being extremely nice to her. She even got up to throw up in the toilet while the plane was landing (seconds from hitting the ground), completely ignoring the crew that were shouting at her. The funniest part was when they all got their bags and tried to leave the aircraft while it was still taxiing to the dock.



Every time I come back for a holiday, there are a dozen new shopping centres which have opened, while all the existing ones have been given a facelift. The shops here are flooded with Japanese influence, along with every single luxury brand under the sun. Just walking into the stores makes me discover all kinds of things I never knew I needed, and heaps of new ways of spending the money I don't have. Anyway I'm trying to restrain myself so I can engage in optimum retail therapy while I'm in the land of the rising sun.

So I've spent in total a few hours playing with this camera even though I bought it a week ago. I have to say the image quality is really impressive, comparing them to the mass of grainy blurrs that get churned out of all my friends Cybershots (don't be mistaken, I'm a Sony fanboy). I read some articles online about making the most of compact digitals, and found out to get that cool blurred background effect, apparently known as 'bokeh' or shooting with 'apperture priority'.

'march of the penguin' F4 1/15 400

Hey there, these are photos from my time in melbourne. Recently I have upgraded my gear and returning from a long period without photo taking. Hopefully I'll improve with time :D Below is the story of the picture above, continue to check out my photo progress over time with PhotoJam.

"Taken from my room, a lone soft toy is tired after a long days jog."

Welcome to our new blog, you like? I'm jon, one of the two authors who will contribute all the crap good stuff here. At the moment I'm a 3rd year university student studying accounting, a part-time barista, free-lance graphic designer, and a person who generally needs more inteterests in life. Hopefully this blog will be a way to find out more about myself, and develop some skills (photography and writing, obviously) along the way. Another thing worth noting is that I'm about to spend the next 6 months of my life in Tokyo, Japan as part of a exchange program. This is probably the opportunity that instigated me to get a camera and with some luck capture some good memories.

This began my shopping hunt for a camera of my own, and despite a lot of advice from others, I decided to go with a compact digital point-and-shoot camera. Yea I know just about everyone has one, but I actually didn't, and the only camera I bothered to carry around was the one stuck to the back of my mobile phone. My investment was in a 12x optical super zoom, high end camera, with a decent amount of manual options to allow me to learn more about basic photography and composition. The thought of having to try and squeeze every ounce of potential out of this new toy kind of challenges me. So I don't have anything much to show yet, but never-the-less, say hello to the newest member of my family.