Capture the Cover ~ Yellow Pages Photography Competition

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WOW! The number of Instagram photos I have taken in the last two and a bit years. Clearly I am addicted. You can follow me HERE if you like. Anyone who does follow me will know that my posts are made up of three things. Baby, food, where I live!

Here are some recent Instagram shots of Southbank. How great is winter in Qld!?

 

 

Satisfying both my love of Instagram and my local community Yellow Pages Capture the Cover Photography Competition is all about those two things so BINGO I signed up!
 

The competition is in its second year and going on LAST YEAR'S COVERS I can only imagine the amazingness which will be created this year as Instagram has been added as a way to enter your photos. Of course you can use a digital camera and send them in too.

Fat Mum Slim has always been my go-to girl for everything Instagram and she got me onto my first Instagram printing platform PRINTSTAGRAM then it went crazy!

Here are my favourite apps for printing Instagram:

Poster Candy

Australian based printing company with prices started from $19.95 (30cm x 40cm) to $49.95 (70cm x 100cm).

Check out what Naomi of Seven Cherubs did with eight posters!

Casetagram

Make your very own phone case out of photos from Facebook, your photo library and of course Instagram! So simple to import pics etc. Only $39.95 with free international shipping. Get on board for Fathers Day!

Image from Fat Mum Slim

 

Origrami

 Photo on the front, location map on the back serve up in a cute little box which looks like a camera! Brilliant! 

What the Kodak photo lab was to the 35mm film Origrami is to Instagram. So you take your photos, upload them to the site and then they are printed out like old school Polaroid shots and then on the reverse is the location to took the photo in map format. My trip to Tokyo is currently being created this way. How great is that?!

$19.95 for 36 prints!

 

So back to Capture the Cover....

This year’s theme is Only Locals Know, so each photograph needs to capture something that only you would know about. It might be the best place to get a coffee, or the perfect location to view the sunset, just so long as it’s taken in the region that you live.

I 'live' in two places. Brisbane and Sydney. So I get to shoot and share so many interesting places.

Below is last year's cover in my local hang out. You can see more of last year's entries HERE

 

 

 

 

So what's the detail?

No photos of people's faces.

Get creative.

http://www.capturethecover.com/

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Are you going to have a go? Of course you are. It's easy, fun and you could share in $60,000!

 

First Time Around Sydney

Just when I thought I could take breath and spend a day in Sydney away from trauma, Cyclone Yasi hit. I was waiting at the airport ready to board the plane and I was mega stressed, we still hadn't got news if everyone I knew in Tully was ok and what exactly the damage was. But I tried to just take stock in the knowledge that when we knew, we would do what we could to help. So I decided on a media shut down.

All tv, radio, social media from 5pm until 5am the next morning.

I ate, drank, slept, listened to music, had long showers and indulged in general. It was still hard with the situation unfolding still in the back of my head.

I had some tasks to do while I was down there, so got into that. Then on the Saturday I was tour-guided around Sydney.

There is no airconditioning on most public transport.
It got to 44 degrees on the day I was there. It was still 36 degrees at midnight that night!
Its busy and crowded and has lots of people.
The harbour is beautiful.
I love Manly.
On recommendation we found this bar at the Sebel at Manly and stayed for hours, it was fantastic.

Sydney is where the doctors think I obtained one of the stomach bugs I picked up which made me very sick which was compounded by the ones I got in SEQ due to flood water etc. YUCKS!

I did get a chance to eat with an old friend at Rockpool. Was great!

I ate at a few other place too. Of course I did!

A little piece of my heart is held in Sydney now.

We had the most memorable afternoon here. It was 43 degrees!

Sebel Manly

The Offices of Baked Relief

Through the Brisbane floods and clean up I was on the run a lot. Lucky I like being a busy person.

I was in and out of flood affected areas, my car was covered in flood mud, my feet got dirty and once even some mud got splashed on my face. All in all it was gross.

The running of Baked Relief was required everywhere and all of the time. It was so fast moving, you would not believe it even if I was to try to explain. But my phone and PC needed to be with me 24/7.

Here are some of the spots Baked Relief has set up office in the last month! (yes, it has only been a month, but feels like years.)

The Digellamobile. (first Friday after the flood)

Westin Hotel Sydney (Friday last week)

More about this in a post soon ;)

A hospital in Brisbane (Friday this week)

Hospital? I hear you ask. Well I have picked up a very bad stomach eating virus or bacteria which will be reviled tomorrow morning when the results come in. It was bad. Very bad. What I have learned is just go to the Doctor to make sure everything is ok. Dont be too brave about this stuff.

So I will be here until things in my tummy are more normal. I have not been able to eat food since Monday. Fingers crossed I get out by Monday as I have a very big, fancy smancy event in Sydney which I will relieve soon too.

Thank you all.