Category: writing
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The Perils Of Isolation
One of the chief perils of isolation right now is the freedom it gives to you to do things: Your own way. As you are cut off from the scrutiny of others and their good advice, you can take bad advice from yourself. This is the general approach of people who make home-made gunpowder or…
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Please Note, Facebook Accounting Department
Guys and gals…I do not do this for money. I do not build model aircraft for money. Nor do I write about them for it, nor take photos of them for it. I do not deny that I find money useful, and would like more of it to play around with, but I realise that…
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Well, I’ll Be Darned, Eh…?
I’m so pleased that the photographs I took in my studio of Bill Duncanson’s Bentley motor car model have made it to the cover of the premier Australian modelling magazine; Modelart Australia, Issue 110. I feel it to be a real, if unacknowledged, achievement for my studio. Of course the graphic artist on the magazine’s…
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Why The Devil Am I Writing This All Up?
You may find yourself asking this question when you read this column – or any of the other fine bits of sticky literature* I write. The humour column, the camera column, or the commercial photo column. The last named is, of course, written for money…I’m not ashamed to get paid for typing. But what of…
The Little World 