Anyway, a friend of mine sent me an email on Wednesday, inviting me to a “quiet” day at the tennis – little did I know what I was getting myself in for! Ok, so, maybe I made that bit up – I knew exactly what I was getting myself involved with, and I guess that was the point in going!

I’ve put up a whole bunch of photos I took yesterday on Flickr and my website (only my favourite few made it up to Flickr – unless you’re a friend or family, but you can see all of them on my website). We (The Heard) originally planned on being outside supporting Robert Smeets, but due to the weather, we decided to remain indoors instead. I, however, had borrowed my father’s funky new camera and had brought all the equipment assuming I’d be outdoors, so most of the action shots of the sports didn’t work too well. Oh, and there was also the problem of being told I couldn’t use the long lens I brought (75mm-300mm for any photographers out there), because it was deemed to be a “professional” camera, and due to some arrangement with the official photographers, professional cameras could not be used (except by the professionals, of course). Still, I got a few decent shots – even if they’re not quite as close-up as I hoped for!

Oh, and you might have also seen some photos in “The Age” or other papers of a large group of people in yellow straw hats – unfortunately, The Age thought we were “The Fanatics” (despite the fact that almost everyone there had “The Heard” printed on their T-shirts). Just thought I’d clarify that.

Anyway, so what’s so interesting about Melway that warrants a post on my website? Melway Edition 1, that’s what! Imagine being able to look back through time and see what life was like before the eastern freeway (when we also had 6 digit phone numbers, and measured things in yards and miles – my god… such times existed?), or to look back to a time when we had 20 drive in theatres (I believe the figure is now 2)!

Oh, and most importantly…

It only cost $2.50.

Anyway, I just came accross this video and thought others might be interested in it too. Hopefully you should be able to view this directly on this page, if not try visiting YouTube, where the video is hosted.

I thought they looked cool (especially the moon one – I thought that looked better in black and white), so… I’m posting them here for you all to see (well, not HERE… but in the “Richard’s Favourites” album

In case you haven’t figured it out already, when I’m displaying pictures in my posts, like this:

view more images from this album

(oh yeah, and for those of you playing at home, the pics only show up on the website, so stop reading this email and visit the site, dammit!)

…it’s picking 3 random photos, but if you click on the “Visit this album”, you can see the rest!

Wow… isn’t that exciting.