Post Title: Boo! It's time for frangipani 2.0!
Excerpt: Thanks to those of you who have kept me in your RSS Readers, and thanks to those of you who keep popping back in every so often to see if there's been any activity....
Well, 8 months since I left Tokyo and it's time for a complete reboot of frangipani.
I plan to shut down the URL www.frangipani.info in a month or two.
But don't be sad. It's not finishing, by any means.
I have exported the entire database of entries from 2002 over to a new home as a sub-directory of www.martinecotton.com and I will be blogging from there from now on. Yesiree Bob, I now have 2 blogs - my professional photography news blog, and frangipani 2.0 for my personal blah-blah-blah nonsense.
So, head on over to the new location: frangipani 2.0 can be found at www.martinecotton.com/frangipani
September 14, 2009 12:08 PM | Boo! It's time for frangipani 2.0! | Comments (0)
Post Title: The new life.
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The weather has been incredible - magical, the kind of blue skies so blue that resort photographers don't need to retouch their pictures, and often not more than about 30 by day and cool enough for light summer blankets at night.... There is a lot of work here for photographers: hundreds of resorts and real estate agencies, and a massive wedding & events industry, there are not enough photographers to keep up with it all in the high season (which starts in May and runs till about November).
April 12, 2009 12:40 AM | The new life. | Comments (0)
Post Title: Shannonvale Sunset
Excerpt: Post cyclonic sunsets are often spectacular. This is what we saw yesterday evening, after Cyclone Hamish kicked his clouds across the skies of Port Douglas. (The new Lumix has a lovely video feature that I haven't made enough use of yet.) I hope that Cyclone Hamish, now at category 5 (as strong as Hurricane Katrina) and being classed a 30 year storm, does not make land. That would be just devastating. Lordy, Australia is really having a tough year. Fires, floods, earthquakes, shark attacks, croc attacks, cyclones....
March 8, 2009 8:41 PM | Shannonvale Sunset | Comments (0)
Post Title: Comment problems
Excerpt: I've been getting emails to let me know that there is a problem with the comments. I'll be looking into it over the weekend now that things have started to settle down some, and hopefully everything will be fixed shortly. I'm in Australia, have been for 2 weeks now. I'm really happy, really busy and ready to start blogging again. Standby........
February 20, 2009 9:37 PM | Comment problems | Comments (0)
Post Title: Id, 1965 - 2009.
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His name was Id, and he and I and all our friends went to Griffith Uni together, back in the day when it was a hotbed of all things alternative and political.... His Flickr page is full of great photography - some of them covers for the mag. I haven't seen him that much over the past 10 - 15 years, but he came along to my 40th birthday party in Australia last year, and set up a little studio in my uncle's living room to take real portraits of people.
January 18, 2009 1:34 PM | Id, 1965 - 2009. | Comments (0)
Post Title: Toothfaeries
Excerpt: Toothfaeries. Not just a fairy story! I'm slowly catching up on the backlog of party pics from my time in Oz - there are truckloads of them, it's quite daunting! These pics are just a few from the Toothfaeries reunion gig at The Zoo on Jan 5th - a few days before I flew back to Tokyo. It was an exceptional night full of the joy of life and old friends. You can see more - I hope - here. The main star of these pic's is a dear old friend, Grant. I was so happy to see him...
January 29, 2008 9:12 PM | Toothfaeries | Comments (0)
Post Title: Rodeo!!!
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January 12, 2008 11:16 PM | Rodeo!!! | Comments (1)
Post Title: The Roadtrip
Excerpt: Hello friends, are you still with me? I know it's been a while but it only seems like a few days! So. I'm in Tokyo, nestling back into my cosy little house with a new vegie cookbook, a million chores to catch up on, fresh Kaldi coffee in the fridge and my full iTunes library. I got back on Tuesday, during a remarkably mild period - it was 12.5 degrees that day, but the coming forecasts scare me and I think I feel a healthy hibernation coming on. I'm back at work, eating well, avoiding alcohol and considering a...
January 12, 2008 7:10 PM | The Roadtrip | Comments (3)
Post Title: Summer colours in North Queensland
Excerpt: The weather since I landed in Cairns has been nothing but perfect. There is a water-hole just down the road from Dave and Elissa's place, we spent the afternoon there on my first day (and a few days since then, actually) and I took a bunch of pics making use of the lovely afternoon light. We also spent a beautiful day at the reef on a friends boat, Calypso. They don't call it the *Great* Barrier Reef for nothing, ya know. So many fish, so much brightly coloured coral. We had a ball. I've been reminded that Far North...
December 15, 2007 12:39 PM | Summer colours in North Queensland | Comments (3)
Post Title: I miss the good, old-fashioned summer storms of Australia!
Excerpt: Last nights weather in Tokyo was quite typhoon-like, with up to 50 knot winds and rain.... Seems there was a lot of wild weather around the region last night. These spectacular pic's were emailed to me by my cousin Georgia who was cycling home in this phenomenal electrical storm in Sydney.
March 6, 2007 10:34 AM | I miss the good, old-fashioned summer storms of Australia! | Comments (14)
Post Title: The kids are alright
Excerpt: My brother finally updated his Flickr account with a bunch of pics from recent kiddy Bday festivities. Now I'm feeling all homesick.
February 15, 2007 8:22 AM | The kids are alright | Comments (2)
Post Title: A different life part 2
Excerpt: In keeping with the Australian bush theme, here are some pics my brother sent me of their recent holiday on a cattle farm near Cooktown, in Far North Queensland - complete with authentic Aboriginal cave art. Enjoy.
October 31, 2006 1:18 AM | A different life part 2 | Comments (3)
Post Title: A different life
Excerpt: On my fathers side of the family there is a long history of “bush” Australia.
October 30, 2006 5:35 PM | A different life | Comments (3)
Post Title: honouring the ancestors
Excerpt: Memorial days and anniversaries and birthdays and other such sundry annual signpost events are a singularly strange phenomenon. Why do we bother? What does it signify other than the fact that time marches on and we're collecting more lines on our faces and scars on our souls (hopefully getting a little wiser as a result)...
October 22, 2006 1:56 AM | honouring the ancestors | Comments (9)
Post Title: About last night....
Excerpt: Approximately 6 Australians, and a small handful of Europeans and Nth Americans all cheering Japan. At least 50 Japanese, many wearing their blue jerseys and with the flag painted on their cheeks.
June 13, 2006 9:31 PM | About last night.... | Comments (6)
Post Title: My Family: Portraits
Excerpt: David and Elissa, my brother and sister in law on Newell Beach, 30 km's south of Daintree in Queensland. I love this photo! Evie, my goddaughter and niece. Isn't she beautiful! Evie comforting her brother Fraser after the boys at footy gave him hell about his blue hair My nephew Darcy after being told he couldn't sit in the front car seat on the way to Cairns. I love this photo, he looks so vulnerable and cute....
May 14, 2006 11:57 PM | My Family: Portraits | Comments (0)
Post Title: Gekkos and rain
Excerpt: Currently in Shannonvale, at my brothers place. It's nestled in amongst the foothills of the Atherton Tablelands, in behind Port Douglas in far North Queensland. It's steamy and wet. They've had 2.8 metres of rain since the beginning of this year - 2 days of sunshine in about 3 months. It's raining again now and the family have all gone to bed, exhausted after a long (overcast but not rainy) day at little league footy. I love the tropics and feel totally at home here, with the forested mountains and low hanging clouds and creaking insects and croaking frogs...
May 6, 2006 10:23 PM | Gekkos and rain | Comments (3)
Post Title: People 2
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May 6, 2006 9:54 PM | People 2 | Comments (0)
Post Title: People
Excerpt: Since I don't see these people very much any more, I was determined to try to get some decent portraits. And since I haven't been posting much lately, I thought I'd make up for it by sharing some of these portraits with ya'll. There'll be some more to come........
May 2, 2006 11:04 PM | People | Comments (7)
Post Title: The Secrets Out
Excerpt: Last Thursday I took this picture from a bus crossing the Rainbow Bridge on the way to Narita Airport..... It was raining and 16 degrees. Miserable and gloomy. But hey, I was on my way to a place where the weather is much much nicer..... Where was I going and what was I doing? Planning this secret trip was one of the most fun and spontaneous things I've done for years.......
May 2, 2006 2:42 PM | The Secrets Out | Comments (7)
Post Title: This is where my family lives and works
Excerpt: My brother David went up in a helicopter a few days ago, to take photos of Port Douglas for some of the properties he's selling (he's a real estate agent). He took this picture and sent it to me this morning to torture me with it. Today in Tokyo it's cold and overcast. Like it was yesterday (well actually it poured almost all day yesterday). And the day before. And so on. In Port Douglas it's sunny and 30 degrees. Isn't it beautiful. Must go back there soon, it's the perfect place to chill....
February 21, 2006 9:21 AM | This is where my family lives and works | Comments (4)
Post Title: Birthdays galore!!!
Excerpt: Down in Port Douglas (Australia) it's my nephew Darcy's birthday today and he got a walkman! And in Maroochydore (also Australia), it's Tallulah's birthday on Sunday and she's going to be in hospital, where she's been for the last 6 days, having a number of operations on a nastily infected heel. Poor baby. Hippo Birdee to my little darlings, Darcy and Tallulah. Love you!...
February 8, 2006 10:36 PM | Birthdays galore!!! | Comments (2)
Post Title: Angel Evie
Excerpt: Would you just look at this magnificent creature. She is the happiest baby I ever did meet. Doesn't she have the most infectious smile! She's beautiful and I love her muchly. She turns one year old today. Her name is Evie and she is my god daughter and niece. Happy birthday darlin' girl. Wish I could be with you....
January 28, 2006 6:35 PM | Angel Evie | Comments (2)
Post Title: Australia Day
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January 26, 2006 6:01 PM | Australia Day | Comments (4)
Post Title: Evie Grace Helen Cotton
Excerpt: My brother and sister-in-law gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby girl at Cairns Base Hospital last Thursday. Just one event in a week of significant newsworthy events here in frangipani-land.
January 31, 2005 1:30 PM | Evie Grace Helen Cotton | Comments (14)
Post Title: Through fields of cane...
Excerpt: Cattle and Cane I recall a schoolboy coming home through fields of cane to a house of tin and timber and in the sky a rain of falling cinders from time to time the waste memory-wastes I recall a boy in bigger pants like everyone just waiting for a chance his father's watch he left it in the showers from time to time the waste memory-wastes I recall a bigger brighter world a world of books and silent times in thought and then the railroad the railroad takes him home through fields of cattle through fields of cane from...
January 20, 2005 3:47 PM | Through fields of cane... | Comments (2)
Post Title: My Family by Candlelight on Christmas Night
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January 15, 2005 12:52 AM | My Family by Candlelight on Christmas Night | Comments (4)
Post Title: Christmas Day
Excerpt: Christmas Day in Far North Queensland passed by in a blur of Coopers Extra Dry, wrapping paper, way too much delicious food, photos, new go-carts and "green machines" for the boys who were totally stoked with their Christmas haul... A day of Abundance in every possible form and meaning.
January 15, 2005 12:38 AM | Christmas Day | Comments (2)
Post Title: The Frangipani flower
Excerpt: Merry Christmas, everyone. Have a fun day wherever you are (especially you Japan workers who will be...erm... working...) and I hope that the New Year is full of cool stuff and special treats and dreams-coming-true. The flowers in this photo are frangipani's. They smell great and in fact, as I type, I can smell the frangipani tree outside in my Uncles yard. It's quite intoxicating. Hmmm. Or is this intoxicating sensation just from the large glass of absolutely magnificent 4-sisters semillon savignon blanc by my laptop? OK, I might have to put it down to a heady combination of...
December 22, 2004 11:54 PM | The Frangipani flower | Comments (3)
Post Title: Mooloolaba
Excerpt: Mooloolaba - the family home. Looks nice, doesn't it. These days it's over developed and over crowded, but it wasn't always that way. This place will always be important to me. Mum and Dad had their first date (and kiss) here, wayyyyy back in the late 1950's, just before Mum headed off to Europe on her obligatory post-uni adventure. And I had my first kiss here too. I have been dumped by countless waves at this beach. Me and my brother have eaten countless post-beach ice-creams purchased from the old ice cream shop on the corner of Brisbane Road...
December 22, 2004 11:30 PM | Mooloolaba | Comments (0)
Post Title: Tallulah and Hannah
Excerpt: The trouble with holidays: they always go way too fast.
December 22, 2004 10:55 PM | Tallulah and Hannah | Comments (0)