Green Church, Orange Sky

Lorna Sim

World Toy Camera Day 2007

We were at the St Thomas Anglican Church and graveyard at Carwoola (very near Captains Flat). This is a Holga shot with Fujicolor Pro 400 and cross-processed with E6. I'm still trying to figure out why the bright sunny sky has turned red, but I love it! Kind of spooky and evil looking.

Burning Calories

Robert Burne

Food for Thought

Just desserts for the wicked chocolate!

A Waste Bin of Flowers

Kathleen Fisher
World Toy Camera Day 2007

I’m a sucker for words in photographs, so this bin in the alley behind Galutzi Café in Yass was always going to catch my eye. I wish I could say there is some profound meaning in this shot, but it’s purely ornamental — the bold blue makes a perfect contrast with the sunny yellow flowers I found by the café’s back door. Having said this, I do love the juxtaposition of the living, star-like flowers falling into a container for refuse.

I took this image on this year’s World Toy Camera Day (20 October). I was sick and couldn’t go on a planned photographic outing with a group of fellow plastic camera nuts, so forced myself to spend an hour shooting downtown instead. I’m rather proud of my self for finding inspiration in a local alley!

For technical fans, this shot was taken on a cheap roll of ISO 400 35mm Fuji Superia, adapted to fit my Truview (Diana clone). The overlapped panorama was created by only partially winding the film on … there’s normally about one full turn of the film advance button between shots, but I turned it only three-quarters of the way. It’s a fun technique.

Mine, Mine, Mine

Ed Whalan

World Toy Camera Day 2007

The Captains Flat mine site is an amazing place — my previous interaction with it involved high pressure cleaning of the dump bins as part of a rehabilitation project, so we could stop the toxic leaching of residue from the old mining days into the soil. It's much cleaner taking photos.

Four at the Pub

Kerry Baylor
World Toy Camera Day 2007

Here are a few pics from the Captain's Flat pub. I was using new cameras and managed to overexpose all my shots of the old mine (damn it, they were cool as well) and underexpose the interiors! I used a cheap and clunky Bierette 35, and wanted to capture the nooks and crannies of the corridors of the old pub.

Captains Flat Pub and Post Office

Robert Burne

World Toy Camera Day 2007

For World Toy Camera Day on 20 October, most of the Betties visited Captains Flat, an old mining town about 60 kilometres Canberra. After a wander around the disused mine site, they enjoyed a cooling ale at the local pub, which claims to have the longest bar in Australia. Not bad for a town of 500 people!

I picked my toy camera up at the local supermarket as I drove out to the Flat. It is a $10 blue "Snap Sights" SS05 reusable daylight plastic camera with a 28mm plastic lens, preloaded with 27 exposure 200 ASA colour negative film made in Italy but spooled in China. It leaks just enough light to give a simulated hand-coloured effect! Check it out at www.intova.net/sfc.html.

An Apple a Day....

Kerry Baylor

Food for Thought

An apple is the first thing I think of when I need a snack.

Food Chain

Ed Whalan

Food for Thought

Brain Food

Lorna Sim

Food for Thought

This "food for thought" image only reflects where I spent most of my time these days and nights. In fact, all my submissions so far have reflected that. I shot this when my chef husband prepared these two new special board dishes for the floor staff to see and taste, so we'd all know what we'd be serving.

Animals and Men

Susan Stayer
Food for Thought

"From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought."

Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 1, bk. 5, ch. 5 (1862).

Looking Out, Peeping In

Lorna Sim

Reflections

This was taken at the end of another busy night at the restaurant. Everything's packed up and we're all ready to go, except for this last couple still deep in conversation and into each other ... ahh, the luxury of dining out. I thought I might as well try and catch the mood of the night while waiting for them to call it a night.

Facing Home

Susan Stayer
Reflections

I was wandering around outside the house one evening with a Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim, a cheap little plastic camera that I'd just bought. This image came from the first roll I ran though the camera. I'm a sucker for reflections!

Bird

Robert Burne

Reflections

Alan Gauir's Untitled was a prize-winning entry in the 1991 Floriade sculpture competition. A detail of this work reflects rather ominously in the lily pond.

Hypnotised

Kerry Baylor
Reflections

During bus rides, I am often hypnotised by reflections and light.

Sock it to Me

Susan Stayer

S*X

"Sox".

3am in the Kitchen

Kerry Baylor
S*X

I hope everyone is having fun with this week's challenge ... it took me a while.

"Six".

Flowers and the Bees

Ed Whalan
S*X

I'm probably breaking the rules, but I've done two pictures.

My theme is "sex".

As Through a Glass, Darkly

Robert Burne
S*X

I'll admit to the "sax".

Six Blue Bottles

Lorna Sim

S*X

I was wondering what to shoot when someone delivered these water bottles to our restaurant. I was hoping to come up with something more saucy like "sex" — maybe another time.

The Mill and the Floor

Kathleen Fisher
S*X

The Harden-Murrumburrah flour mill was built in 1865, a time when crops were sewn by hand and grain cut with a scythe and threshed on the ground. Back then, its produce was an essential part of the Australian diet, a simple and surely survey-friendly mix of bread, corned meat, split peas and the odd drip of treacle.

Those days, of course, are gone and the mill has been shoved into the modern world of real estate development. It’s currently for sale for $995,000 and is being marketed, among other things, as a potential retirement village or shopping centre.

That "sux".

I took this shot in-camera with my crazy PIX Panorama. The overlapped images create an unusual montage, unrelated apart from colour. The tiles on the left are the entrance to a shop further up Albury St — they remind me of rusted honeycomb.