Dave and Jen For Oxfam

Digital cameras and holidays. There is a valid train of thought about people going on holidays with their little digital cameras and spending more time taking photos then soaking in the experience. There is plenty i agree with in that regards, and one only needs to sit in any crumbling temple watching people get frustrated with each other as they jostle to take, largely, terrible photos of wonderful things, before bustling back on to a tour bus. The logic of this argument gets stronger when you consider the photo their tiny point and shoot camera attempted to take of a distant temple, at sunset, with their tiny flash on is all but throw-away. So why did we take 3 cameras with us? 

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If you follow our Twitter feeds you would have read that Jen went on a training ride on Saturday without me, as I was off at a music festival. On the topic of Twitter feeds, you really should head to our profile and Follow us! Whilst I typically don’t like to get involved with event reviews, the editor convinced me otherwise and I ignored the little voice shouting “if you catch a cold from this you’re going to be miserable in Vietnam” and braved the masses. Fortunately most of my other work is ahead of schedule as the final week before we go looms, so it felt like a nice sunny day to be squished amongst a lot of people and attempting to make some sense out of the day. Arriving home rather late (shall we say) I sat down to the same Acer Aspire One micro-laptop that we will be taking on the trip, and punched out my part of the review on the only-slightly-small keys as yet another nice practice run for writing site updates and articles whilst overseas. In the last week we have added a few other outlets to the list of things that I’ll be writing for, which means as many abused adjectives and as much unabashed hyperbole for the sake of Oxfam Australia as I typically manage for the sake of music production.

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