Cold Weather

Robert Burne

Nice to Meet You

Ruby, rugged-up against the Winter cold!

Circus Morphings

Ed Whalan

Open

Here are some shots I took at a circus as part of the bris festival.

Vanity

Robert Burne
Corner

Here is the corner of the wash-basin - a response to those who post photographs of toilets!

Consistency

Robert Burne

Corner

This "Queensland Roar" player shows remarkable consistency in technique in his corner-taking.

Bus Ride Blues

Kerry Baylor

Looking Up, Looking Down

Little People

Miguel Gallagher
Artistic Inspiration

I love this: Little People.

It's a bit like the little animals which was very cool.

Monument to Batman

Batman looks like either a matador or classical Greek sculpture in this quirky shot by Angie Harris, one of Susan Stayer's friends. Angie is based in Columbus, Ohio ... check out her blog, Pinkie Style.

National Library of Australia Adds Betties to Collection

"Charlie B" by Kerry Baylor

The Betties are abuzz with excitement because....

The National Library of Australia has asked if they can add us to their collection!

Specifically, we're now part of the Library's PANDORA collection, which is an archive of online publications that are considered to be of "national significance" and "lasting cultural value".

What this essentially means is that this blog will be regularly archived and preserved, even as technology changes over time, so that people anywhere can have "access to it in perpetuity" — that is, forever.

How cool is that? The Betties have made it!

Four-Piece Frog Puzzle

Kathleen Fisher

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Okay, it's embarrassing to admit, but I've started doing jigsaw puzzles. Even worse, they're affecting my photography!

I took these four shots in December, but just realised last week they could be re-sized and layered to make a single picture (and a whole frog).

Music for Working

Still from Johnny Cash's "Hurt" Video

Kathleen Fisher
Artistic Inspiration

Are you one of those people who puts a much-loved song on repeat and listens to it all day? I am. Call me uptight, but I even have 20 tunes in a YouTube playlist that I, without fail, Photoshop to. Naturally, they're appropriately tortured. Absolute favourites for spotting with the Healing Brush Tool (how apt) are:

1. "Hurt" by Johnny Cash
2. "Your Ghost" by Kristin Hersh, and
3. "An American Trilogy" by Elvis Presley

What do you listen to when you're playing with photography?

Betties Get Vivid

" Off Hume Highway 2008" by Lorna Sim

"Booroowa I 2008" by Lorna Sim

Betties on Show

Canberra gets snap happy from 11 July to 12 October 2008 with Vivid, Australia's inaugural national photographic festival. Lorna Sim has gone into over-drive for the festival, participating in four shows and awards.

First is Space, a group show of landscape photography in its broadest sense, at Canberra Institute of Technology's designspace@CIT Gallery from 14 to 25 July.

Then Lorna has entered the ACT Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) Print Awards, which will be judged on 22 July at the National Musuem of Australia.

She's in another group show at the Blue Roof Gallery in Tharwa, called "My favourite thing is to go where I have never been", which is a Dianne Arbus quote.

Then it's HIY2008 — Hang It Yourself at Photoaccess. Photography meets street art in this show ... there's no curator and no interference ... anyone can stick up to five images anywhere they want on the walls of what is being called "the ultimate open access exhibition". Look out for a bunch of Betties participating in this one.

Building in Progress

Lorna Sim

Unfinished

This was shot in November 2007 in the new build-up areas in Gungahlin. I took a quick shot with my Canon 5D & a wide angle lens 16mm-35mm (set at the widest) from the passenger seat while the car was moving. I believe this house is probably completed by now.

Byron Bay Beauties

Kerry Baylor

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I thought this lovely lady would be in good company with Kathleen's Lambing Flat Beauties. I love how she is sitting ... I have never seen a full length sitting mannequin before.