Uploads from rovanus

64 - tragic kingdom

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:23:06 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

Tragic Kingodm - No Doubt

They pay homage to a king
Whose dreams are buried
In their minds
His tears are frozen stiff
Icicles drip from his eyes
Welcome to the tragic kingdom
Cornfields of popcorn
Have yet to spring open

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Lessons Learned:
*Garbage costumes are wickedawesomefun

68 - spark

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:22:51 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

Sometimes the spark of inspiration manifests itself in rather unexpected ways

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Lessons Learned:
*Don't try to push an idea too hard if it's not working - sometimes what you get out of the mistakes is better

67 - ikaros

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:22:38 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

Everyone knows the story

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Lessons Learned:
*GET A FUCKING TRIPOD
*Failing that, try and find something stable for you to lean on before snapping in low light

66 - no evil

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:22:02 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

Bound, gagged, blinded and silenced.
It's for your own good.

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Lessons Learned:
*Masking tape is not my friend
*Set up the shot BEFORE blinding yourself

65 - thing's off the wagon again

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:21:33 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

After the Addams Family threw him out, his battle with alcoholism has been fought and lost... He now lives inside a cask of wine on the side of the road.
Tragedy.

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Lessons Learned:
*Don't take photos while drunk...

74 - the curse of the silver princess

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:21:04 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

The sequel, coming this November to hangovers everywhere

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Lessons Learned:
*The Silver Princess is a hideous bitch-goddess and will leave you for dead.
*Try and have a free hand for the remote

73 - the altar of the silver princess

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:20:25 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

Coming this July...
What happens when photographers try and be artistic while drunk?
Find out...
The Altar of the Silver Princess

(silver princess, n: Australian colloq. for the bag inside a cask of wine)
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Lessons Learned:
*If you're drunk, put the camera down...

72 - out of the outside

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:20:08 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

If you knew what was waiting for you
you'd stay out of the outside too

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Lessons Learned:
*J is fucking creepy

71 - blueshift

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:19:17 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

Sometimes you just need everything to slow down

70 - the deluge

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:18:38 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

The sky opened over Melbourne today - torrential rain, hailstones a centimetre wide... it was freaking epic!
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Lessons Learned:
*Hailstones are a bitch to catch on camera
*Newspapers are only effective if you're prepared to be stained black for the rest of the day

69 - flair

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:18:06 -0700

rovanus posted a photo:

Not just a crotch shot - My good friend I had a party on a boat and the theme was cocktail with a hint of pixie. As she was the director of A Midsummer Night's Dream, I thought it was fitting

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Lessons Learned:
*Make sure you have something at least a little bit white to reflect the light on the autofocus sensor

61&62 - do not disturb

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:06:08 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

I just did 16 shows in 4 days.
No photos today

63 - drunk & pastry = oh so tasty

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:05:56 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

Oh dear.. I remember this...

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Lessons Learned:
*Focus while drunk = baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

60 - kirkegaard

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:05:16 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

[Danish: Graveyard]
I broke the lens...
Ack...
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Lessons Learned:
*Be really careful when using a flimsy aluminium tripod...

59 - the veil

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:04:32 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

There is a thin veil that separates our world from the next.
Sometimes it's better not to see what lies beyond.

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Lessons Learned:
*Turn the exposure down when using low shutter speeds, otherwise the whole photo gets whitewashed

58 - arachnophobia

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:04:03 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

Shadows totally count

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Lessons Learned:
*Shadow hand puppets rule

57 - spaceman!

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:03:34 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

Sometimes you just need to let your inner child out to play - they make more fun with a cardboard box than we could with all the technology in the world

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Lessons Learned:
*Always use your surroundings when you're at a loss for props

56 - what keeps me here

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:03:20 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

I so desperately want to leave this place... There's always something that stops me from having fun... But I know I can never face it.
Not because I'm scared, but simply because I know it will never show itself

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Lessons Learned:
*Cloning in really fucking hard!

55 - white nightmare

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:02:55 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

Sometimes it's not what's out there that's scariest...
It's what's inside...

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Lessons Learned:
*Flash can work to your advantage when you want that stark effect, just try to cover it with some plastic or baking paper first

54 - la moitie

nobody@flickr.com (rovanus) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:02:35 -0800

rovanus posted a photo:

I feel like I've been cut in half, I'm that tired...