About Me, About This Blog.
Anglo/Australian living in Australia or France, I’ve worked in Australia, Belgium and The Netherlands. I’m always curious to see what’s down the next street. I take photos, make music and write things.
I take photographs for pure pleasure. Photography helps me see things better and to notice what’s going on in the corners. I love capturing textures and surfaces, especially patterns on water and shadows.
I also carry a Canon IXUS 220HS almost everywhere I go. It’s light and produces high quality images with little effort. The main camera is yet another Canon EOS 300, wore the last one out.
I stil use PaintShop Pro for editing, but I dont do much. I mainly use it for cropping and resizing.
As you may gather, I’m not a professional photographer! All photos are taken by myself and are subject to copyright.
It is Drifter policy to always include one of my photos on a post. All the music and writing is my own work, unless credited.
The music is made on a Fostex VF16 or a Tascam digital recorder, my main instrument is anyone of my dozen or so guitars.
I hope you enjoy looking at my stuff.
MY POLICY.
As much as I appreciate nominations, I dont do awards. This is a bit too casual, I dont put much work into this.
I dont accept pingbacks, they dont do anybody any good at all.
I like getting Likes and I am always pleased to get new Followers.
Copyright Notice.
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You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.
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August 4, 2013 at 7:40 pm
Am Anglo Swiss, but also carry a camera wherever I go, if the size allows. Less with my Nikon D7000, but now have a Canon Powershot G15 for the quick shots in between.
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August 4, 2013 at 8:01 pm
I suppose lots of people have camera phones now, I have, but I rarely use it.. You cant beat a camera….
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August 4, 2013 at 8:19 pm
I agree. I have a camera phone, but rarely use it. It is just not the same.
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October 13, 2013 at 12:47 am
I’m like you, always curious about what’s around the corner, always taking photos or writing things either in my head or in my travel journal and of course, on ,my blog! And I am Australian too: born here with an English father and Lebanese mother.
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October 27, 2013 at 8:03 am
Thank you for taking part in Project R. It is wonderful having a story about relationships told through photography.
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November 2, 2013 at 3:51 pm
Dear Ambitious Drifter, I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award 🙂 Here is the link: http://shardsofsilence.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/the-versatile-blogger-award/
Warm Regards,
Vic
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November 3, 2013 at 11:50 am
Thanks! I feel the blog is a little too casual for awards yet (compared to the work other people put in. I apreciate the nomination though!
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June 18, 2014 at 9:55 pm
Bonjour Pierre ! – j’espère que vous allez bien. Hier, j’ai déjeuné avec Rosemary, et elle m’a parlé de votre site. Je suis heureuse de vous transmettre mes meilleurs salutations.
http://stringertravelling.com.au/history/TripPagesHTML/carennac1.htm sees a very brief mention of Figeac ! 😀
I note with irony that this ‘about’ page states your being, as am I, a blogger who does not accept awards, and yet the third person to comment does so for that very purpose. It is rather trying, this nonsense; but I’m rude enough to make my feelings well-known on the topic. I doubt very much that anyone’s going to try it on again. [grin]
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June 18, 2014 at 10:24 pm
Hi M-R!
I added the note about awards after my first nominations. I’ll settle for a Nobel prize maybe. I’ll check out the Figeac reference. Cheers!
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June 18, 2014 at 10:32 pm
Naah, don’t bother ! – it’s much too small. [grin] We did love the place, even though we remembered it largely on account of parking in an area beside a big church and coming back to find that someone had allowed his/her dog to shit right next to the car: which wouldn’t have been so bad except for that fact that the dog was very obviously not well … Honestly, I’d like to kill people who don’t train their dogs or clean up after them.
I was very happy to see that Rose has hopes for Otto, speaking of dogs … Such terrible stress our animals can be so loved as to cause us …
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June 19, 2014 at 9:16 pm
There were posters up in my street in Holland ‘Jouw hund – jouw poop’ … your dog, your shit. The commune here provides poobags now, but there’s always someone…….
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July 8, 2014 at 2:46 am
Nice meeting you. Love your cat!
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July 8, 2014 at 2:59 pm
Welcome to the blog! The cats are local strays who live in the market gardens next door. They have a dedicated Cat Woman…. and gourmet scraps from me. They’re a real bunch of characters.
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July 16, 2014 at 6:07 pm
Thank you for stopping by Storyteller. — Ray
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August 8, 2014 at 7:32 pm
What part of France do you live, Pierre? 🙂 I like your blog. Always like outspoken people….
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August 8, 2014 at 7:36 pm
Figeac in the Lot. Beautfiul place great food.Yorkshireman/Australian, so plenty of opinions….
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August 8, 2014 at 7:38 pm
Tu as visite Pont Valentre? Ca a l’air trop beau 😀
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August 8, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Ajouté sur la liste…. pas de voiture….
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August 8, 2014 at 7:46 pm
C’est dommage…
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August 8, 2014 at 7:36 pm
Thanks, by the way….
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September 6, 2014 at 6:50 am
I just nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award!! I hope you will accept 🙂
http://meaningfulmommy.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/a-one-lovely-blog-award/
~Megan
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September 6, 2014 at 7:15 am
Thanks Megan, a lovely thought, but I am ‘award free’… Cant take myself too seriously!
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September 6, 2014 at 7:47 am
No problem!! 🙂 still a lovely blog in my book!!
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February 14, 2015 at 3:01 am
Just stumbled across your blog and think it’s great – photos and text.
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February 19, 2015 at 9:00 am
I will take my time and will snoop around in your blog, so I will get to know you. Nice to meet you so far. I often saw your picture at M-R’s blog..it’s time to get to know you!
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February 24, 2015 at 6:08 pm
Very interested to learn more about you and what you blog about.
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June 20, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Loved mucking around in your www site of simple insightful words and pictures, often of little everyday things of great beauty and interest. If I’d known you were on Dangar Island in January 2016, I’d have introduced you to a beetle I met there.
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June 20, 2016 at 8:53 pm
Glad you liked the site. I like to be on first names with the local fauna 🙂
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December 11, 2016 at 10:13 pm
I like “Photography helps me see things better and to notice what’s going on in the corners.”, and especially the bit about the corners – very true. And I know just how you feel about accepting awards, I’m just the same. Adrian
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December 11, 2016 at 10:27 pm
Cheers. Bristol was a SleazyJet cheapie from Toulouse on my way home. Love the place. I saw ‘The Rivals’ at the Old Vic. Utterly magic… 1775 play set in Bath in a 1766 theatre. Captain Cook didnt turn up here till 1778.
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