Notes and thoughts from attending the YOW Melbourne conference.

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Andrea Magnorsky gave a talk^[1] on Bytesize Architecture Sessions^[1] :

Bytesize Architecture Sessions are a workshop format that help teams understand the systems they work on. Each session focuses on a small slice of a system. After some sessions your team will become more homogeneous in the understanding of their systems, grow a consistent vocabulary and ultimately build tools to design the future together.

I was interested in …

Over the last few years I’ve been shooting a lot of film. I like the results I get. Within a set, the images have a consistency and cohesiveness. I’m especially proud of:

• Hydra - Shot on 35mm Portra 160.
• Western Landscapes - Shot on a 6x9 camera with Portra 400.
• Southern Mountains - Shot on a …

Published June 12th, 1960. Lawrence Durrell.

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‘You write’, says a friendly critic in Ohio, ‘as if the landscape were more important than the characters.’ If not exactly true, this is near enough the mark, for I have evolved a private notion about the importance of landscape, and I willingly admit to seeing ‘characters’ almost as functions of a landscape. This has only come about in recent years after a good deal of travel – though here again I doubt if …

We landed at Queenstown airport at the end of winter. It was M’s first time in New Zealand and I wanted to show her the landscapes that I had grown up around. We spent two weeks travelling around the southern lakes and mountains. In my bag was the Hasselblad 500cm film camera, a medium format camera system that produces images in a …

Shot using the Hasselblad 500cm on Portra 400 film. Read Southern Mountains for black and white photography and story about the trip.