how to visit apolima island, samoa
visiting apolima island in samoa is not a particularly easy undertaking. apolima is a collapsed volcanic cone which is home to just one or two families and a priest (because […]
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uluru and kata tjuta at sunset [photo]
here are three photos of uluru (“ayers rock”) and kata tjuta (“the olgas”) at sunset. i have seen many perfect pictures and postcards of uluru before finally visiting the place, […]
vivid sydney, 2016
vivid is a 3-week winter festival of outdoor lighting in sydney, where landmark buildings and popular places throughout the city are brought to life at night. here are some impressions […]
photos of tasmanian trees and other woody plants
during two recent trips to tasmania, i had the opportunity to discover the beauty of the island and its amazing wildlife. while the australian and tasmanian fauna generally receives much […]
blue dragon: a beautiful bad-ass nudibranch
on a recent beach stroll on the northern new south wales coast, i came across small weird-looking blue-and-white creatures with lots of appendages. having washed ashore, they looked more like […]
picasa buttons: automatically sort video and raw files into subdirectories, delete orphaned raw files
here are two customized picasa buttons to automate things that i’ve done manually for far too long. i’m publishing these mostly so i’ll find them in the future myself, but […]