My trip to Papua New Guinea was the perfect way to start 2011.

These photos were taken on a fish-eye lens from a canoe going down the Sepik River – the Sepik is one of the world’s greatest rivers and is over 1200km in length. The greener shot is looking out over the fjords in Tufi.

PNG was a magical place, every bit as special as I’d imagined it could be. I especially loved the endlessly changing sky.

from the hunsonisgroovy blog .. i want to live in that tent.

There are very few things more exciting than that suspense you get, anticipating a batch of freshly printed photos from a long forgotten camera film.

As a rather impatient person, I generally don’t get too many thrills from waiting, but there is an exception to every rule, and this is mine.

I discovered the film last week and got it processed today, and oh! so many surprising shots and moments to remember.

:: Sydney-siders at play + beaches along the Bondi to Bronte walk

:: going slowly down the Ganges on a fishing boat

:: Winter sunrise on Pembury (near Barraba, NSW, Australia). I love the way the fish-eye lens makes the light refract and reflect and reverberate across the sky; it’s almost magical.

Beautiful.

some of my pics from India: unfortunately my camera was stolen right at the end of my trip, but here are a few of the cherished remains! Visit my flickr to see more.

Very excited because soon I’ll be starting my watercolour painting class at the Pine Street Creative Arts Centre! Can’t wait to start making floaty, ethereal pieces like these!

Yasmin is a Goddess.

And, I want hair like her. Or at the very least, I want curls like those.

PS that last pic is Edita Vilkeviciute; I could also happily have hair like her, too.

The beautiful photography of Haran Kumar.

So so so excited about my trip to India - I leave in exactly one month !!!!!

..it reminds me of arriving tired and alone at Anchorage airport in Alaska, very early one morning last August.

I was just waking up and it felt like I was walking into a dream or an enchanted sleep where I might just disappear over the horizon once the plane was off the ground..

.. a collection of glimpses into the magnificent imagination of Courtney Brims, an artist based in Brisbane, Australia.  On her website, she says that she loves all things unusual and is inspired by fairytales, Victorian illustration, memories and dreams.

Beautiful!