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Resumption of Non-Photoblog Blogging

vlado — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:58:14 +0000

I have to start off by saying I’m quite happy with how the photoblog experiment for the past year has gone… some of my most regular, and consistent(ish) blogging for ages. So, I don’t intend to stop the photoblog aspect of blogging here, BUT, I’m feeling the need to write again.

Why? Well… there’s a number of reasons.

Firstly… I’ve honestly missed the experience of writing here.

Then there was the realisation that I’m approaching TEN years of blogging. Yes TEN YEARS! January 2011 will mark the my 10 year anniversary of blogging. January 1st 2001 I posted this gem with the help of Blogger.

Welcome to the world that is my mind. This trip should not last too long
Finally, I’ve got around to getting a weblog (ie. “blog”) together. Before I get into things, I’ll just lay down the rules for myself and for you, “Joe Public”. The purpose of this site is to provide an outlet for my thoughts and a location that family and friends can come and find out the latest “going-ons” in the lives of the Kekoc family.

This initial “blog” will be a short one, as I am not all too sure of whether it will work and would rather not waste too much time if it doesn’t. If it does work I “intend” to make regular updates of the blog and hope it will prove to be a useful point of reference for family and friends.
With all that said, here goes – TIME TO PUBLISH !

Then, there was the realisation that so much has changed in the word of blogs, the internet for that matter in those 10 years, and so much in the way I use the net, what I do on it, with it.

So… with all that and much more that has crossed my mind in the last two days as I contemplated resuming more traditional blogging, I thought I’d record these ideas, explore them as I once did, here! I’ll blog about how things were and how things are different now… sure, at times there will be a lot of navel gazing… but HEY! This is a blog and this is what blogging has traditionally been all about.

Not that any of this will matter anyway… seeing as my neglect of this blog over the past few years has seen my readership completely dry up… but I didn’t start blogging for the readership… I blogged for myself, and ten years on, I’m right back where I started… blogging for me.

So… my plan is to write something here at least once a week, preferably twice, and the photoblog aspect will continue, probably at a similar rate as has been the norm of late i.e. once a month sort of thing.

Hell if it all goes well, I might even consider runing the Australian Blog Awards, aka The Bernies, again in the new year.

Wish me luck!

Split Point Lighthouse

vlado — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:08:27 +0000

Boxer Puppies

vlado — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:26:58 +0000

Seven Beautiful Boxer Pups

I had intended to post this earlier, but alas, these IS only so much I can fit into my last minute preparations.

Chicago and Sernity’s puppies are now 8 weeks old are ready to go to new homes. We’ve managed to sell two already, so we have 5 more to go.

Thankfully, they’re so cute we’re getting interest filter in slowly from the ads we’ve placed online.

I’m going to miss them when they’re gone… but God knows we can’t handle that many more mouths to feed in our house.

Parrilla De Maria, Madrid

vlado — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:14:15 +0000

Exquisite Argentian Steaks Cooked Right In Front Of Your Eyes

On my last visit to Madrid, we visit a brilliant restaurant called Parrilla De Maria… I grabbed a card with the intention of returning when I came back… unfortunately, I misplaced that card and have struggled remember the name a location of the restaurant… perhaps a few too many cervezas.

Parrilla De Maria

Thankfully, I took a photo of the front and have located it with the help of Google Maps Street View. I’m so looking forward to having an Argentinian steak there… I will remember not to fill up on tapas before hand this time.

CYM Bushfire Benefit Concert

vlado — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:10:52 +0000

Pryvit

With sofobomo well and truly underway, and with me having just over a week before I head over to Spain for two weeks, I’ve come to the realisation that I’m unlike to get time to take photos for my preferred theme of “Melbourne”… so I’m going to have to change it.

Huljanochka

Given the number of photos I took at the benefit concert on May 3rd, and that I’ve already processed the images, I’ve decided that I’ll make it the theme of one of my projects.

Yes… one of them… but more on that later.

Due to the nature of this book, i.e. it’s my fallback option… it’s the theme I’m choosing so that I don’t fail to complete my sofobomo commitment, and I’m extremely unlikely to want a hard copy of the final product, I’m going to go with producing the book in Scribus and publishing the PDF in Issuu.

Hopak

This will all have to be done in the next week though, as the concert was on the 3rd of May, and I won’t be back in the country until the 6th of June… so, you can expect my first book by this time next week.

This brings me to my OTHER project. As I’ll be in Madrid, I thought I might be able to get my cityscape photography fix there and make a second sofobomo project out of it. I did toy with the idea a while back, but I think given the circumstances, it’s really the only option if I want to get a cityscape sofobomo project done this year.

Cheremosh Ukrainian Choir

I plan on getting one of these books printed though, and will be using Blurb to see what sort of quality it produces. If it’s any good, I’ll use it to produce the other books I’m currently considering doing, inspired by sofobomo, but these aren’t part of my sofobomo plans because of the nature of the photos I’ll be using.

The projects I hope to do in the not to distant future are:

One Hundred of Ten Thousand – 0.01% of images from the first 10,000 taken on my Canon EOS 40D
My Life in Photos – I’m forever on the other end of the camera, and I’d hate for my kids to not have a collection of photos of their father, so I hope to gather photos of me and put them all into one book.

Ambitious but at least these have no time lines… and these will most definitely be published and take pride of place on my coffee table.