25.9.12

The Colour H in Scoop magazine



Remember this opera poster from a while ago? Well some photos from that shoot are appearing in the current edition of Scoop magazine. After selling out in Perth in May, the Opera Box team are taking the show on the road to Albany. If you are down that way, definitely check them out.

20.9.12

The Colour H turns three!


It's pretty weird to realize it, but this blog has been going for THREE whole years as of today! I feel like a LOT has happened in those three years. Seriously, some things happened. I've just written two things in capital letters, so you can tell it is significant to me.

When I started this, my main mission was just to share my photos. It seemed a waste to have them all cooped up on my computer. I did not realize how it would shape me, shape my life. But it has.

I don't see myself as a blogger in the same way people who make their living from their blog are. I see myself more as a collector or an archivist. This is a space where things are recorded, kept for later. I have never followed all the instructions about how to get more people to see your blog, I think because I find them all a bit fake-friendly, and the consequence of that is this space has stayed quite obscure. And actually... I kind of like that. Being hidden, just doing what I do.

Now, as you know, I have launched The Colour H facebook page and that is quite a different experience. For starters I have only put up photos taken on my phone so far. It is SO much quicker and easier than blogging. Although I am in the habit of carrying my camera most places, I carry my phone everywhere, which means I never miss anything. And again, although I am used to people staring at me when I take out my camera and stop in the middle of the footpath to take a photo of a puddle, I attract far fewer stares when I do that on my phone. And I am quite enjoying that. But I have also found I am sharing my photos to a much wider audience than before which is a little confronting, but also fun.

I want to keep going with the blog, definitely, but I haven't sorted out in my head what to put on here vs what to put on the facebook page. As always, it will continue to be a work in progress. Thank you for visiting here and a special thanks to the people who have commented over the years and shown support. I really appreciate it!

love,

H.

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2.9.12

The Colour H: now on facebook


Hi! I am a little sick with nerves to announce I've just started a facebook page. I'm not sure what makes me so nervous, since I've been yakking on here for nearly 3 years now, what's so different about yakking on facebook? I think it's the idea of counting up all those 'likes'. Or the lack of them. Or just the idea of sharing anything beyond the relatively obscure and quite safe space of a blog that not many people read. Anyway, I will promote it a bit more soon, via whatever means I can come up with, but for you guys who read this I am giving you the first chance to see it, like it, critique it... and I shall flog it a bit further afield once there is something actually on it. So, here it is, go ahead and be the first to like it!

H.