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The opportunity came up through the awesome guys and girls at NZFM to put an entry into their annual exhibition. I hummed about this, I procrastinated about this, I said yes, I can do this, and then I was no, I can’t, I’m a fraud.

Fortunately I have awesome friends who ‘laid the smack down upon me’ and told me, that I can do it. So, I sucked it up, put aside my social life and entered.

As of 30 minutes ago, my entry, left my computer and went out into the world, to hang on the wall. Now that I have finally done, this, I want to scream from the mountain tops that, I’ve just got my first exhibition entry going on show from next weekend.

What was I so worried about? People cutting down my tall poppy. They can try and cut me down all they want now, but their photos aren’t hanging on a wall in Parnell.

Enough of the naval gazing. I went to a photoshop workshop today. I thought it would be a bit more than a basic photoshop but I was wrong. I spent the whole day bored. So I made this photo instead. Enjoy.

So in my last post, I told you all I was setting up a time lapse project last week, and last night, I finished it. Yay! And without further adieu, here it is!

It took 2 days to photograph – over 1000 exposures taken, only 700 odd used and two evenings doing post-production. Next time I shall be much quicker. Might even try some tilt-shift as someone suggested to me on twitter.

Now to start thinking about my next project for stop motion / time lapse… suggestions?

On the 4th August 2010, I ordered a portable battery pack for my iPhone from firstin.co.nz. I thought it would be an awesome thing to have because my phone always goes flat when I’m out on the town and would prove to be handy again in the USA next year and in emergencies – like an earthquake?

A couple of weeks on, having paid money via my debit card to firstin, I hadn’t seen sight of the product on the courier, so I rang them and was told there was a delay, it would be another week. I could handle another week. I’m not in any hurry.

It is now a month on, and after no email communication from firstin, except for a product I have never ordered from them, and me having to ring them a few times, I still have no portable battery pack for my iPhone.

After a few tweets back and forth about iPhone batteries in a disaster, I realised I still had not received my battery pack. I googled the name of it to show a friend in Christchurch what I had ordered and then found this page. Its for the same product on the firstin website, but states that if you order before Fathers Day (2 days ago) and it hasn’t been delivered in time for Fathers Day, you’d get it for free.

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