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Other / 30.08.2016

My vimeo presence in the last two years has resulted in me being contacted by people from all over the world liking my work. Most are videographers, but a number join vimeo because they are interested in a particular subject or because they maintain a video blog. Today I received a message from someone in Istanbul who joined vimeo yesterday as ‘Best Quality Mushroom’, liking my ‘Tree Mushroom’ video. Earlier this month I received a message from ‘Days of Disorder’ a video blog maintained by a Spanish person based in Berlin who liked a moth video of mine.

 

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Other / 29.08.2016

This a.m. I collected the two 64 gigabyte USBs which I sent to the NFSA with 215 HD species videos in April, from the post office. Steve and I are working our way through re-titling the SD videos, so in due course at least one of the USBs will be making the return trip to the NFSA.

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Other / 23.08.2016

Steve emailed  Dave Allen at the State Library to tell him that he has put the data files for HD Tapes 81 to 100 on the hard drive awaiting collection. I supplied the contents lists which have been included.

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Film Diary / 07.08.2016

This post is included not so much because of what I filmed but because I filmed – for the first time since my return, indeed since June 10. The location was the same, the lagoon in the sports complex, now empty of water. The subject was a small bottle brush tree, with many buds and a single, red flower. Filming again was a therapeutic blowing away of the remaining cobwebs of jet lag. It has taken longer than usual to get back to my normal sleep pattern.

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My Travels / 25.07.2016

I left home on June 24 and returned on July 25, spending an ideal four weeks on the other side of the world. My hope for a happy landing in London was shattered during my stop-over in Singapore, when I learned that the UK had voted to leave the EU in the previous day’s referendum, casting the nation’s public and political life into shock and turmoil. The vote dominated conversation with family, friends and strangers. To me it was an own goal. Mercifully, before I flew to Germany, Theresa May had filled  what seemed an agonisingly protracted governmental void by becoming Prime Minister. But all the while life around me continued as usual.

The focus of my journey was to be with family and friends, fitting in sightseeing, the subject of this post, between engagements in London and combining sightseeing and staying with Clive in Somerset and with Peter and Gaby (my cousin Leila’s younger son and his wife) in Germany. I had the unique pleasure of spending time with Jaap and his partner Elisabeth in Holland, (his country of birth which he only left when he was in his forties) where I also met his elder sister… Read Complete Text

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Website / 15.07.2016

While I was overseas an email from a curator at EOL arrived stating that my collection has been updated after a hiatus of more than a year when EOL’s data harvesting system failed. On my return I checked the link and all 387 of my videos were present instead of the past year or more’s output languishing in the Encyclopaedia of Life Videos on Vimeo page. I have a backlog of 150 taxa (species) files which were ready to send prior to the harvesting failure and I will need to check my albums for additional taxa logged since. Plenty of fun and games ahead.

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Other / 16.06.2016

I collected the Deed of Gift from the Museum signed by Michelle Ryan who is Manager of Publications & Photography. The Queensland Museum has now officially accepted my donation of my Image Library. As with the State Library’s collection of all the unedited footage, there is a clause which provides for the inclusion of additional material. Michelle and I are trying to find a way of raising money for the Museum to publish my One small place on earth book which I am currently re-writing. Fingers crossed.

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Other / 03.06.2016

Hugh Alexander having witnessed my signature, I today posted two copies of the Deed of Gift for my Image Library to the Queensland Museum, one copy of which will be posted to me signed by the Museum. Negotiations took a while because I have retained copyright. I gather the Museum owns all rights for all but a few of the donations it receives.

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Other / 25.05.2016

I have just completed the settings on the five latest videos Steve uploaded to vimeo last night, bringing the total to 402 in seven years. There is virtually no back log.

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Film Diary, Other / 13.05.2016

I was thrilled and touched to receive a hand-written letter from David Attenborough thanking me for the photos of the Log Cabin Case Moth and the letter about finding it that I sent him. He wrote that he had never seen the dewlling of a Log Cabin Case Moth before and that he found it fascinating.