Stranger Photos Have Occured, Kangaroo Point

So, I'm feeling a little guilty about having neglected this blog for a while. But, I've just been so swamped with everything else! And by the end of this year, I hope this has a proper place to live... like, a real website, not just a random blogspot thing that I have an excuse to neglect.

Anyway, I've resumed my little projects, and this time, the camera has been dropped at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Queensland.

And these are some of the resulting pictures!

If you want to see ALL the pictures, go to facebook.com/WMLTM for the full album! Oh, and tag yourself while you are at it. =p

Stranger Photos Have Occured - New Farm Park

So I thought it's time to do another one of my random projects, considering the last one was in May, and the camera never came back.

This time I decided to go for the tried and tested "tie the camera to a spot and come back" approach.

The little rascal left for work with me on Saturday, 20th Aug, and got tied to a lamp post in New Farm Park near the ferry terminal.

About 7 hours later when I came back for it after work, only 3 frames had been used, so I thought I'd try again the next day in a better spot, figuring that people probably didn't notice the rascal on the ground.

So the next day, 21st, a Sunday, I tied the little rascal to a bench near the first spot it was at.

And as luck would have it, 5 minutes after I left the camera there, (and about 5seconds after I got on the bus to work) it started raining. And as I was just thinking to myself, it's just gonna be a drizzle, it started pouring buckets. Great. And I freaked out about what I'd the little rascal caught a cold and died or worse, drowned in a shallow puddle.

Again, about 7 hours later, I went back to pick the rascal up. This time just hoping that it was still alive. And....

IT WAS GONE!!!!!!

All that was left was the leash....

Walked around a bit trying to find the camera, and heard some drums. Being the nosy parker I was, I couldn't resist following the noise...

When I got back to the bench for one last look before I headed home dejected, guess what I saw?

YES. In the short 10 mins that I had gone and located the source of the drumming, the camera had been returned to the bench. And whoever had returned it had stuck a note on the camera

"Sanity may be madness, but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it ought to be."

Thought it was an interesting quote, but, thank you for returning the camera, kind stranger.

So, right now, at this point, the pictures are developing. And my fingers are crossed, hoping that the rain hadn't drowned the poor thing.

Will update soon with the developed pictures. Stay tuned!

Stranger Photos Have Occured - 15/04/2011 Brisbane

Hiya all!

To those of you who are on this page because you've found my camera, thank you for participating in the project!

Initially I was so terrified that no one's going to notice the camera or play with it, or that someone was gonna run with it. Then the partner decided to freak me out saying maybe some homeless dude shot a buncha pics of his junk. Made me so not tempted to develop the pictures.

But, I'm really happy with the results. There's some great people out there, great photographers! And thank you for playing with the camera!

 The Location - South Bank Riverside Walk. 

The Setup - Waterproof Disposable Camera attached to a card, attached to the railings.

The card for those of you inclined to read what's written on it. 

For all the pictures from the roll ( all of it developed well... =p) please visit the Stranger Photos Have Occured album. If you know the people in the pictures, please tag them! Let them know that you've seen their pictures!

Here's a selected few from the album:

See more at Stranger Photos Have Occured album on Facebook!

The Disposable Memory Project

As some of you would have heard by now, WMLTM has decided to participate in the Disposable Memory Project, and has released 2 cameras in Brisbane. The first was left at the Nundah Rail Station, and the second was handed over to Tom & Teri Rowe while yours truly was trying to jump up a bus, leaving me no time to explain to them what was going on. So, they had to figure it out themselves.

For those interested in tracking the progress of the cameras, you can follow them at the links below:

For Camera No. 323: http://disposablememoryproject.org/cameras/camera323.html

For Camera No. 324: http://disposablememoryproject.org/cameras/camera324.html

Do note that it may be months before we know where the camera has gone off to. Camera 219 had been inactive for 10 months before being found again. =p

I AM so SORRRYYYYYY.... & PlaModel Day 12.04.11

First.... I AM SO SO SO  UTTERLY SORRY... that I've abandoned the plog for the last few months... I promise I will be more diligent with mah posts....

But, anyway, so now I'm back here... and, I actually do have quite a bit to update. But, most importantly, is the pictures from PlaModel Day (12.04.11). This is probably gonna be the first of many. Oh, and I discovered that the PlaModel has Tilt-Shift lens... yah, so it took me that long to realize that.

Anyway, selected pics below. To see all of it, visit the Wherever My Lens Takes me Page!

We Want Your...

BRAINS!!!

Yes, today was the 5th Annual Brisbane Zombie Walk, in support of the Brain Foundation.

Yep. You saw right. BRAIN FOUNDATION.

5,000 Zombies. 1 city. Heaps of fun.

Oh, and add, PLENTY of PROFITS for the RED FOOD COLOURING MANUFACTURING SECTOR.

I tried to make some wonderful blood but every store I went to was out of red food dye.

The procession was mostly documented by my iPhone, until it gave up the ghost because I kept taking pictures.

Here are some select shots from the event:

2010 Brisbane Zombie Walk

The Marching Route. 

 Storm Trooper Zombie

 The guy in the blue shirt wants his hand back. He's got a chainsaw replacement right now. 

 Oooo... A Pole Dancing Zombie! ...

 ... and the love of her life, Tarzan Zombie (ok, they aren't actually a couple)

 SPARTA!!!!

 The cops were deployed to protect the Zombies. 

 Love that skull. 

 Zombie Slaves & Their Master.

 The Zombie Soup Kitchen. 

 Mister & Missers Zombie. 

 This is why chain mail is bad. 

 Zombie Baby. NOT.

 Love her outfit. Cool As!

Seeing that Halloween is just around the corner, maybe some of you might draw inspiration from them...

Lomo Madness in Brisbane

Heya!

Firstly, sorry for the long disappearance. School was busy, I was busy, and my bed wouldn't let me go.

Anyway, I've got the first lot of lomo films developed, and there's some sweet pictures that I wanna share with you guys.

So, without further words...

"Lomo Madness: Brisbane Edition"

The Golden Eye

 

I swear this has GOT to be my favourite so far. And the best multiple exposure composition I've ever done. This was taken at the Ekka.

 Okay. Old habit of having to shoot clouds from a plane at work here. But, hey, I like imagining that the clouds are a field of fluff I can roll in. Can't a girl dream? 

 West End. So old school. *Loves*

 The South Bank view from Victoria Bridge. 

 Again, from Victoria Bridge. This time it's the North Quay view. 

 View from Victoria Bridge again. Sunset over the William Jolly Bridge.

 1. I don't know how many exposures there were. 2. I don't know where from. 3. I don't know which way to orientate it.

 View from Victoria Bridge: West End & William Jolly Bridge.

 At the South Bank Parklands: "5 White Ibis, sitting on the rails. 5 White Ibis, sitting on the rails. Along came a crow, and scared them all away. No White Ibis, sitting on the rails." 5 seconds after this shot, a crow came by a bullied them off. 

 If I'm not mistaken, this should be the view from the City Cat. God only knows where I was headed to then.

One of my favourite pictures: Sunset, Roma Station. The view's not from the station itself, but it's pointed towards the station.

 I forgot where this is. I'm guessing somewhere between Sailsbury Station & Coopers Plains.

 

The underpass from Normanby to Roma. 

The Disderi Triple Lens

 I think you can tell that this is the same picture as the one above taken with a different camera. =p

 

I seriously do not recall where this is. But, it's cute. =p

 

The Ferris Wheel. At Ekka.