Well it has been super busy in the world of Nigel Honey Photos and I have a few things to blog, and some are actually going back a little while now partly because I have been slack, and other things have had to go to print before I blogged them. Anyhow… Tonight Mel, Lucas and I headed to “The Flight of the Snow Petrels” Children’s Parade, part of the Antarctic Midwinter Festival.
A large procession of drummers, and people with large penguin shaped lanterns left the wharf near the School of Arts, in Hunter St, and headed around to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, where those that got there early enough could see some fire twirling and fire eating. It was a bit of a battle to get through the crowd to get a few shots, but I got there and thanks to the low light ability of the Canon 5D MarkII I grabbed a couple of shots and got out of the way of the crowd I had pushed through to get to the front of.
After this, the show moved into the courtyard at the museum but we could not stay as the large animal costumes were scaring Lucas. Was certainly a different way to spend a Friday evening.
Many of you will know that I am a coffee lover, coffee geek even. I have spent the last year or so trying various coffee varieties from different roasters both locally here in Tasmania, and from interstate. I have found some good stuff, but recently I was put onto a company called Roast and Post by fellow OzPhotoWrap podcaster and freelance photographer Cameron Laird.
Well Tuesday morning I ran out of beans, which naturally caused a degree of panic and stress for me, so I jumped onto the website and put an order in. My beans were personally roasted just for me, and labeled with my name and roasting time and date, and sent on the next express post to Tasmania!
I selected the sample pack which contained the above four varieties, I just opened the Indian Tiger Mountain and it has blown me away! Delicious! The espresso has blown me away, so much flavor and quite a good kick, and real coffee flavors, not burnt or smokey flavors.
Yes it is better than my previous favorites, by far.
I’ll make you some when you come to chat with me about your photography!
Yeah yeah I know I am a geek and a nerd and all of that, so I could not resist bidding on this Steve Jobs plush toy from PodBrix when I saw it on eBay. I could well have been the only person to have spotted it, or maybe just the only person to see it who was geeky enough to want it, because no-one else bidded on it! Which means Steve was all mine for the princely sum of 99c plus $12 postage. WIN!