Spotted while walking around my village. Looks like the junk mailer got here before me.
Lonely Mail, 35
Spotted while walking around my village. Looks like the junk mailer got here before me.
Author: Mike
Shining Pools
Walking to a meeting in Sydney, the sun was shining onto the glass facade of an anonymous office building. The light reflected in shimmering pools on the side of a sandstone building, making the uniform shapes seem quite organic.
Submitted the the WordPress weekly photo challenge Shine.
Parramatta, city of the future
Sydney is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live and work in, with sky-high property prices. The population is expanding, mostly to the West, and hence, so to is the attention of property developers. Parramatta is a suburb in the western sprawl, and the city council have announced a $1.6 billion investment in new buildings – offices, apartments and retail. And so, Parramatta starts its transformation.
Taken with my new Fujifilm X-Pro2 and 35mm f2 lens.
Weekly photo challenge: Harmony
In response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Harmony.
You may detect an element of irony 🙂
The road to San Francisco
The typeface, that is, not the place. Apple designed a new font for their watch, aimed at being legible on small, high-resolution displays. They later brought it to iOS and OS X, providing consistency across all their devices. Nick Keppol has written a two-part article that explains typography basics and then takes us through the design decisions that went into creating the new typeface. It’s fascinating for a typography nerd like me. Feast your eyes and brain here.
After the rain
After the rain – lemon
After the rain – footprints
After the rain – chair back
After the rain – puddle
After the rain – spider’s web
The Fujifilm X-Pro 2
Fujifilm have announced their new ‘Pro’ camera, and it looks pretty fantastic. I have loved the Fujifilm dedication to their own vision of what a camera should be – small and light, but with high quality design and manufacturing that combines wonderfully “traditional” style handling (i.e. good ergonomics and manual controls instead of lots of menus) with some ground-breaking technology. Not only do their cameras take good photos, but the experience of using them is very natural and harks back to the classic 35mm film cameras that we remember fondly.
I’ve started up an X-Pro 2 resource page, which I will continue to update as I discover more.
Fog in the Mountains
An uncharacteristic drop in temperature and overnight rain transformed the endless vista of the mountains into an intimate landscape with pockets of life rising up from the valley floor.
Mike Baker | Photography 