2.33
Shawn and I have started taking photos from our office (2.33) to make use of our amazing view of the city and to experiment with our camera. For each day of the week we post a photo on http://flickriver.com/photos/41420945@N03/
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Whale watching
Last weekend, Lisa and I drove to Warrnambool to watch whales. The bay in Warrnambool attracts Southern Right Whales, in particular whale mothers who raise their young (while the father hangs out somewhere in the ocean). For me this was the first time I had the chance to see such gigantic and fascinating animals. It was amazing just to see their fins, to watch them play with their tails or even seeing them jump out of the water.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Video & photography
I'm attending an introductory course on documentary video production at RMIT together with Shawn and Emy in order to work on my filming skills (actually, in order to develop those skills from scratch :) It's been an interesting experience to see how much work it is and how difficult it is to produce something that looks good and is interesting. The photo was taken at the end of a film shoot at the farmer's market and shows our group.
The next thing will be that I want to get more into photography, which will be the context of my final study for my PhD. I'm planning to get a new camera (my old one broke) - the question is Canon Powershot G10 or Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3? Hopefully I'll have more recent updates to present on here then.
The next thing will be that I want to get more into photography, which will be the context of my final study for my PhD. I'm planning to get a new camera (my old one broke) - the question is Canon Powershot G10 or Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3? Hopefully I'll have more recent updates to present on here then.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Volleyball again
I'm back in action on the volleyball court with the Melbourne Renegades. I've already played in the second and first team over the last 2 years. Now I'm in the third team, because I want to focus more on my studies and I can't commit to the amount of training required for the first two teams. It's fun though to play in the third team, which is led by my house mate Jared. All players know how to play and put a lot of effort into their game; we've got a good team spirit, and we easily won all games so far.
PS: the photo is obviously neither me setting nor my photo, because my camera is broken. But I'm planning to get a new one soon and I hope to deliver more photo impressions from the court, from uni, and my life in Melbourne soon.
PS: the photo is obviously neither me setting nor my photo, because my camera is broken. But I'm planning to get a new one soon and I hope to deliver more photo impressions from the court, from uni, and my life in Melbourne soon.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Congratulations to a colleague and very close friend
Tuck submitted his PhD thesis last Monday and received his balloon at the School of Graduate Studies (If you see someone with such a balloon on campus, you can assume this person has just handed in his or her thesis - or it's open day at Melbourne Uni ;) His supervisors, Shawn and I were fortunate to be with him at this big moment.
Tuck has worked extremely hard over the last few years and created a more than outstanding piece of research. His supervisors highly praise his work and I'm sure it will be the thesis against which all other theses in the near future will be compared with (including mine :-O ) Tuck has also managed to get a post-doc position at an outstanding university in Europe, and that during times where funding and jobs are generally short.
He will leave us soon and Shawn and I will miss the conversations with him over a cup of coffee about research, life and everything else.
All the best Tuck!! ... and time for me to get some work done ;)
Tuck has worked extremely hard over the last few years and created a more than outstanding piece of research. His supervisors highly praise his work and I'm sure it will be the thesis against which all other theses in the near future will be compared with (including mine :-O ) Tuck has also managed to get a post-doc position at an outstanding university in Europe, and that during times where funding and jobs are generally short.
He will leave us soon and Shawn and I will miss the conversations with him over a cup of coffee about research, life and everything else.
All the best Tuck!! ... and time for me to get some work done ;)
From Sheffield to Salzburg to Auersbach and back to Melbourne
I travelled quite a bit over the last few weeks: First I left Sheffield after 3 great months and said "see you" to Nicola, Silvia, Coilin, Grace, Andy and Peter.
Wolfgang picked me up at the airport in Salzburg and I had a few fantastic days with him Laura, Sophie. It was great to catch up with Elisabeth, Regina, Michi, Carina, Geraldine, Berni, Christoph & Sigrun.
On the way to Auersbach I stopped in Graz to hang out with Lena on the Mur beach.
I spent my last week in Austria then in Auersbach with my family, relatives and friends Mario, Arnold, Christoph (playing volleyball felt sooooo good :), Lorenz, Jürgen & Phil. Time was way too short, and it wasn't fun to say "goodbye" again.
After more than 28 hours on planes and at airports I arrived in Melbourne where I was happy to see Lisa again. All the travels were fantastic, but I'm more than happy to settle down for a bit and to change trains and planes with my bicycle.
Wolfgang picked me up at the airport in Salzburg and I had a few fantastic days with him Laura, Sophie. It was great to catch up with Elisabeth, Regina, Michi, Carina, Geraldine, Berni, Christoph & Sigrun.
On the way to Auersbach I stopped in Graz to hang out with Lena on the Mur beach.
I spent my last week in Austria then in Auersbach with my family, relatives and friends Mario, Arnold, Christoph (playing volleyball felt sooooo good :), Lorenz, Jürgen & Phil. Time was way too short, and it wasn't fun to say "goodbye" again.
After more than 28 hours on planes and at airports I arrived in Melbourne where I was happy to see Lisa again. All the travels were fantastic, but I'm more than happy to settle down for a bit and to change trains and planes with my bicycle.
Monday, February 23, 2009
A weekend in Wales
I spent the last few weekends mostly working (or at least I tried to) so that I would have some time for Juergen, Jenny & Johanna. They came to the Island for holidays and we caught up in the North of Wales for the weekend.
I was planning to take the train to Aberystwyth early in the morning on Friday, but I took the wrong train and ended up in York. Eventually at 6pm (and 4 hours later than intended) I arrived at the coast in Wales and met JJJ.
The following day, we hung out on Llyn Peninsula. Unfortunately, my digital camera stopped working, so I don't (yet) have many pictures to show. Any who, we saw lots of beaches, sheep, hills & the highest peak in the UK (or at least we saw the clouds surrounding it), the hometown of the British pop star "Duffy" (who won 3 Brit Pop Awards a few days before), cliffs, and more sheep.
We continued our trip with some pretty impressive castles (Caernarfon, Beaumaris and Conwy), and a short visit to the place with the longest name in the UK, called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which is Welsh for "St Mary's Church in the hollow of the White Hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio near the Red Cave. We saw neither church nor cave, but the sign at the train station was pretty loooooong.
It was good to see the sea again, get some sun, have lots of food (especially the huge breakfasts with everything from black pudding to baked beans), and to hang out with old friends and have fun (and to eventually get the RIGHT train back ;)
I was planning to take the train to Aberystwyth early in the morning on Friday, but I took the wrong train and ended up in York. Eventually at 6pm (and 4 hours later than intended) I arrived at the coast in Wales and met JJJ.
The following day, we hung out on Llyn Peninsula. Unfortunately, my digital camera stopped working, so I don't (yet) have many pictures to show. Any who, we saw lots of beaches, sheep, hills & the highest peak in the UK (or at least we saw the clouds surrounding it), the hometown of the British pop star "Duffy" (who won 3 Brit Pop Awards a few days before), cliffs, and more sheep.
We continued our trip with some pretty impressive castles (Caernarfon, Beaumaris and Conwy), and a short visit to the place with the longest name in the UK, called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which is Welsh for "St Mary's Church in the hollow of the White Hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio near the Red Cave. We saw neither church nor cave, but the sign at the train station was pretty loooooong.
It was good to see the sea again, get some sun, have lots of food (especially the huge breakfasts with everything from black pudding to baked beans), and to hang out with old friends and have fun (and to eventually get the RIGHT train back ;)
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