Thing that made me laugh today.

Check this out, so funny.......make sure you have sound




hahaha asshole.....

Playing Wii can be useful after all.

I was at an event the other day for the Australian launch of the Mio GPS units.

As soon as I entered I noticed the large plasma screens displaying the very familiar Wii Sports baseball. Already the event already had won the coolest award just because there were compueter games involved. But it got better, they were running a competition to win one of their fan dangled shiny new GPS units. The competition was to see who could hit the furthest distance on Wii Baseball.

OK I thought glancing around the room, there is a really good chance that i could win this, after playing quite a few hours at home with my family. So I stood up to the mark and proceeded to hit my 10 balls.

I hit 6 out of 10 home runs (one out of the park) with a total distance of 997 meters. (incidentally it was set up for a right handed player, so I was hitting backhanded being left handed myself)

This was enough for me to quite easily win the GPS unit.

The lovely people at Mio presented me with a trophy and a box containing their newest GPS unit, which I have to say, works like a charm and will be instrumental in getting me to my photography jobs all over town.

Thanks Mio, and I guess thanks Nintendo too!!

Lying about Mega Pixels.

I like many others before me have been unfortunately engulfed into eBay, beyond any hope of return.

If I ever get you a present, you can be sure it probably came from eBay. Not because it it particularly cheap, just because it is so dam convenient most of the time. I can buy something from my couch with out having to type anything other then my inital search.

I was looking for a digital camera to buy for Cam for his 3rd birthday, which is coming up soon, seeing as he is such a talented young thing (like his dad) :P and I noticed a lot of dodgyness going on in the digital camera front.

A lot of people selling digital cameras are claiming they are a much larger mega pixel then they actually are.

For example, they claim it to be a 8MP camera, when in fact it is a 5MP camera that interpolates (adds missing pixels via software). Which is nothing like a 8MP camera. I have seen some claim 12MP from a 3MP sensor, it is A JOKE!

Although nearly all I have seen somewhere mention the fact that it is interpolated, the headline doesn't, and this is highly misleading, apart from time wasting. Especially for the lamo who doesn't know anything about cameras, or even what interpolation means. It's shifty selling and it should be stopped.

It's misleading because you can interpolate on the computer up to any MP you want. So you could call a 1MP camera a 100,000 MP camera, and just mention somewhere on the page that this is via interpolation afterwards. (actually interpolating to 100,000 MP would take some time and probably crash your computer)

It should be in EBay's policy that MP count should be an actual representation of the real image sensor, not the made up post processing of the camera crap. At least within the headline, which is what you look at when you buy stuff on EBay anyway.

Copyright Cammy

Here are a couple of pictures that my son Cameron took with the Canon Mark II
He is nearly three, and if any of you have ever used a mark II you can imagine he was struggling to hold it to his eye. I think they are great, they have a real sense of style to them. Goes to show when people don't take you seriously you can get better images...

Caitlyn Abby Taylor born Today

Caitlyn Abby Taylor was born this morning of May 10th @ 0428, weighing in at a massive 2.93 Kg and measuring 46cm in length.

both mum and baby are doing great, it has been nearly 34 hours since I have properly slept and I actually don't feel that bad. Adrenaline is an amazing thing.

I will put up some nicer pics when we get her home.

oh and Cam says: "he loves his new sister."

Catching Sunbeams

Well the last couple of weeks has been spent in the anticipation of the imminent arrival of my second child. I have pretty much missed out on all of the good jobs at work, with me being such a flight risk and all. To be honest I am starting to get sick of people asking me if the baby has come yet. Like they wouldn't already know if it had.

We were going through our home videos the other day and we found this movie of Cam when he was about 1. Cam was trying to grab the sunbeam streaming in through the window in the morning. Probably one of the cutest things I have ever seen....looking foward to all the cute moments of number two as well.

Childrens Hospitals

I'm currently staying in a hotel in Melbourne. Melbourne is a big City and I know zero people here, so although there are a lot of people here, I fell very isolated right now.

I am down here for the channel 7 Easter telethon, which is raising money for the children's hospital. It's a great cause and I highly recommend you all giving money if you have some to give.

Lately I have found myself at children's hospitals more often then I would like. The amount that I would like to be at a children's hospital is never. So any amount above never is too much.

First there was Jennifer Hawkins and Jake Wall, handing out stuffed toys in a promotion by Lovable. It seems all fluffy and lovely until you get there and watch a two year old projectile vomit for about five minutes, while you try and photograph the 'happy moments', (particularly difficult to do when you can't really see through the viewfinder from the amount of tears coming from your eyes.)' hold it together man, you can do this. You don't even know these people.'

Actually the amazing thing about really young sick kids is, they don't even know they are sick.
The might vomit for a while and then get back to playing with their toys. That innocence makes it even sadder. (for me anyway)

I swore I would never go back after that experience, but not a month later Rachel hunter was out and about doing a similar procedure, though this time without the soft toys.

There is something terribly disturbing being around kids that are of the same age as your own who might die. There is something even more disturbing about going in and photographing these children. Like the act of capturing that time, somehow preserves their sickness, and not their memory... yeah I know thats a terribly morbid thought.

I mean you can look at it two ways:

One way is that the celebrities are coming in and brightening up the day of these poor kids who are stuck in bed all day with intermittent chemicals being injected into their bodies.

The other way is that Celebrities are coming in and shamelessly promoting themselves at the expense of genuinely sick kids. I mean I am sure that they think they are doing a nice thing, but if they were really there for the kids, why troop a media pack through the ward in order to let everyone know how wonderful they are?

Nicole Kidman always visits the Children's hospital when she is in town, and she doesn't take anyone with her. Maybe when you are super famous you stop worrying about people knowing what you do.