The only words one can use when describing the results in the Rugby last weekend. I’m quite willing to admit that Australia hasn’t looked like a serious contender in the last year or two, but England has looked much worse. To go down in a similar fashion to the 2003 world cup is just horrible. Still, Australia losing was conceivable. What amazes me was New Zealand choking against France!
While I lived the dream that it would be the Aussies winning the world cup, if you looked at their form over the last 2 or 3 years, you’d say there is little chance it could be anyone other than the All Blacks winning the cup! I didn’t get to see the game, and I am not sure I want to.
To top it off, the Springboks almost got done in by the Fijians. I decided to watch the first 10 minutes of this game and ended up staying there for the whole thing. It was awesome to see such a little nation schooling the big boys for so much of the game. It was one held-up try that kept the momentum from taking the fijians all the way.
On the other hand, it is good to have a Southern Hemisphere super-power still in the running. SA should account for Argentina, then it doesn’t matter who they meet in the final. Hopefully the cup will come back to the right side of the globe!
Other news? I guess there isn’t much. Still sorting out work for next year. I think we have it sorted, but you will have to wait till next monday to hear the result. Had a meeting for a wedding shoot in December. I need to get my head around a wedding shoot that I have this weekend too. Lots of stuff on!
So there you go. I still have these assignments hanging over my head, so I better see to them.

I really don’t know what happened.
It’s not like I have any negative feelings toward it or anything.
I just haven’t been blogging.
I guess you can hit a patch where it becomes “just another thing you have to get done” and then it slows down.
It’s been the same with the camera. I haven’t pulled it out anywhere as much as I would have liked to. I think it will just be a matter of getting back into the swing of things.
I’m on holidays at the moment, so that should mean that I have more time for such stuff, but so far that is not proving to be the case. I am trying to get a couple of assignments done, and I have a sermon to prepare for 10 days time too, so it is all going on!
There is lots of other little stuff happening too (some not so little). I have been to a number of different job interviews over the last couple of weeks. There are no end to the awesome opportunities out there, so the holidays are also the opportunity for Shona & I to pray about stuff, think about stuff & make some of the big decisions about what we are going to do over the next little while, as well as waiting for the interview panels to make up their mind about whether their plans happen to coincide with our ideas.
So there you go. I am knee-deep in the Anabaptist “Radical Reformation”, I’m thinking a little less about creating an evangelism tool, I need to knuckle down & work through Matthew 18 (and decide how much of it I want to preach on) and at the same time, I should probably clear head space for Shona & my future.
Don’t worry though, I am hoping to get back on track with tg.com too.

I bought a “Lomo Supersampler” the other week & have been having lots of fun with it since then. It’s a film camera that takes four shots onto one frame of film over 2 seconds. Good fun & captures things in a really interesting way. I like the fact that there is no way of controlling the exposure time or anything like that. A real simple plastic device where you have to just give stuff a go.
You can rest assured, there will be more to come!

Lisa, about to make her triumphal entry.

It was a busy weekend.
Sam & Lisa’s wedding on Saturday was a real blast. I really enjoyed taking the pictures & it was nice being told to try & be as arty as possible. Below is one of my faves.
Sunday morning it was preaching at 7:45am, then again at 10am, then a confirmation class to lead at 11:30, followed by afternoon tea (a delightful rest) at the Myer’s house, then the confirmation service itself at 6pm, where I got to do a reading and an interview.
Lets just say that I was happy to get home that evening…

It’s not often you get to do a photoshoot in “Goulds Second-hand Bookstore”.

Seeing amazing places like Notre Dame make me wish I was a mason. The stone cutting type, that is….

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Just messing around at the Louvre. This is actually my reflection in a big mirror in the Babylonian section. I think that is part of the Gilgamesh epic behind me.

This angle with a fish eye makes the Eiffel tower look like a hat!

Weeeeee! and here we are back in Scotland. At the top of Ben Ann. A long climb, but a great view!

This is a Babylonian law thing. I have forgotten the proper name. Thousands of inscriptions on it!

I was fascinated by bits of graffiti around Scotland & France. I do think it is wrong to do, but I am often intrigued by the messages people put on places & also what an interesting statement it makes when you have a monument that will last a thousand years, with a message on it which will last maybe a month & probably only hase a weeks relevance to it.
Anyway, here is some graffiti…

This one will stay relevant for some time I suspect.


This was my favourite. I am not sure what it means, but it is pretty cool!
What do you think of Graffiti?

I know there have been people asking for them, so here are a couple of the pictures from the wedding.

Do I need to point out anyone or anything? We are on Fort St. on the Mountains side of the Bridge.

This is my fave shot of Shona. She has such amazing teeth!

The Bridge has a cliche element to it, but you have to take at least one of these in Sydney to be legally married right? I also apologise for a kissing photo. Deal with it…

The first is another take of the tree @ Stirling Castle.
The second picture is of one of the fables “Highland Coos”. Good looking little fellas. This guy looks particularly healthy, because he gets to live next to the Glenlivet Whisky Distillery!