bedroom vignettes on Flickr.

My pretty afternoon teapot! For the record, it was brewing a sweet pink pot of Gypsy Rose tea.

JR is a French street artist who became famous for posting photographs of everyday people around cities of the world - from Paris, to the favelas of Rio, and the crumbling buildings of Shanghai. This TED talk features him sharing his stories and dreams, as well as his interesting take on the meaning of art - that we should use it to turn the world inside out.

The old Pembury stables - dust, leather, wood & wire. See the rest of the set on my Flickr.

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.

Kat Hing Wai (吉慶圍), a walled village in Hong Kong’s New Territories.

It is home to about 400 descendants of the Tang clan, who built the wall in the early 1600s to protect their village from bandits.

Today, most of the homes inside have been renovated but the six-metre thick wall still remains. The gate to the village is guarded by an entrepreneurial crowd of old women, who pose in traditional fringed hats for $HK20.

The village is in an area known as Kam Tin (錦田) which can be accessed via the Kam Sheung Road station. We took a double-decker bus to get home, via Tai Po Market - it’s an interesting journey that goes quite close to the Chinese border, and meanders through rural and industrial areas.

Currently in Hong Kong, enjoying the sights and sounds of the Lunar New Year celebrations for 2011, year of the rabbit.

Photos include shots of migrant workers waiting in Shenzhen for the long train journey back to their homes and families; HK residents celebrating the new year with offerings of incense and food at the Sha Tin Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas; and Hong Kong Harbour lit up with messages for the new year.

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.

the simple joys in life are always the most beautiful:

1, 2, 3, 4: watching the petals unfurl in a cup of blossom tea.

5: a rainbow after a sunshower hanging above the old tool shed on the farm where i grew up..

Beautiful.