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A high-contrast black and white photo taken standing in the middle level of Sydney's Martin Place Metro station looking both up to the entrance and down to the bottom level. There is a lift directly in front at the bottom, with two sets of double-escalators on either side, and then another two escalators coming in from either side of the frame going up to the brightly-lit entrance to the station.

A high-contrast, very moody black and white photo inside a big gothic cathedral looking down the aisles of pews towards the altar.

A high-contrast black and white photo of the platform at Gadigal station, with a bunch of people standing around. It's all very clean and white and futuristic-looking.

Today was a day ending in Y so we took the Metro again, this time to the Art Gallery of NSW. We dropped into St. Mary's Cathedral on the way back, and I realised that the photo I took inside there plus the couple of the Metro platform and station looked great in high-contrast black and white. I also realised that with us getting off at Martin Place Station this morning, we've now seen all of the new CBD Metro stations!

I also brought the DSLR along and took some Proper Photos of my favourite pieces of art in the gallery.

Posted on 3 September 2024, 20:10

A photo of an older woman with grey hair sitting at an electronic drum kit in the middle of playing. There's an iPad in the middle with the app "Melodics" open, indicating with coloured squares which drum pad should be hit when.

Currently teaching @yayKM's mum how to play drums.

She's a lot better with the coordination than my mum is, but then I found out that she used to play the full church organ that involves using both your hands and feet!

our house darkroom family drums

Posted on 2 September 2024, 10:49

A photo of the tunnel right as you leave Gadigal station. It's brightly lit with walls that curve up and are corrugated to deaden echoes. The bottom half of the walls are an off-white, and the top half are alternating black and white, and the roof is black. It's very visually striking.

A photo of the HUGE mural at the middle set of escalators at Gadigal station. It's multiple storeys high, tiled, and features a bright cheerful yellow background with a blue tunnel painted in the middle that curves off the right.

A photo taken from the top of the escalators down into the Metro platform at Barangaroo. The walls are roughly-cut sandstone with some sort of leafy (I think?) art decoration at the right.

Today we took the bus to the Metro, then the Metro in to the city so we could go visit the Sydney Aquarium!

Have I mentioned how good the Metro is? Because I feel like it bears repeating, it's SO GOOD. We got off in the morning at Gadigal station, and after we finished with the aquarium we walked north and then took the Metro from Barangaroo back to Tallawong. They've done such a fantastic job with the interior of the stations, it's bright and modern and interesting, I love it.

I bought the DSLR along so I could take photos in the aquarium, and I got some shots of our wanderings through Barangaroo that I'm really happy with too.

sydney darkroom sydney metro

Posted on 29 August 2024, 17:22

A photo of a big bowl of tonkotsu ramen with three pieces of fried chicken beside it, as well as an extra boiled egg.

Today was a quiet one, but we did go out to Japanese in Chatswood (once again, shout out to the Sydney Metro) and it was excellent.

chatswood darkroom food portrait mode ramen

Posted on 28 August 2024, 20:38

A photo of two flour-covered round golden brown loaves of bread with magnificent splits in the top, sitting on a cooling crack.

I haven't made any bread since March, but aw yiss, still got the touch. 😎

our house darkroom portrait mode bread

Posted on 28 August 2024, 11:49

A photo of a three-section metal tray, the left has a roti canai which is a sort of fluffy balled-up pastry thing and a dollop of sambal sauce, and the other two sections have two different types of curry sauce in them.

A photo of a plate of mee goreng, with a slice of tomato, lime, and three slices of cucumber next to it.

Featherdale has been followed up by Mamak and it was goooooood as hell as always. 👌🏻

Good thing I've done 15k steps today, between Featherdale and an hour on the elliptical, because I am SO FULL now.

chatswood darkroom food mamak

Posted on 26 August 2024, 20:06

A photo looking out the front window of a Sydney Metro train in the tunnel, the tunnel is a rounded shape and we're in motion so there's a ton of motion blur.

We are home! Taking the Metro to Central and changing to the airport line was such a damned good idea, it was so convenient. No road tolls, plus I didn't need to attempt to drive while being tired.

However the downside of being up at 4:50am is that it's now 9:23am and my body is telling me it's lunch time.

darkroom sydney metro

Posted on 25 August 2024, 9:17

A photo of our extremely ghetto "weather station": it's a piece of wood attached to the outside of our back room with a tupperware over the end to protect the sensors from direct rain. The new sensor is dangling down underneath the tupperware and looks almost like it has a microphone on the end of it (it's actually the weatherproofing mesh).

It's aliiiive! I might need to reposition it a little, but I'm fairly sure that it shouldn't be getting any direct sunshine where it's dangling there because there are a bunch of trees just over to the right on the other side of the fence.

I'm quite pleased with the overall architecture of my code for this whole project, it was delightfully straightforwards to find a library for the sensor and integrate it.

our house diy darkroom esp32

Posted on 24 August 2024, 12:53

A photo of a sunny window behind a kitchen sink, with cream-coloured vertical blinds partially open.

A photo of our box window that's in the lounge room, also with nice cream-coloured vertical blinds partially open and the sun coming in.

We FINALLY got the dingy grey vertical blinds in the kitchen and lounge room replaced with nice new light cream-coloured ones today. @yayKM had a seething hatred of the old ones, I didn't think they were that bad but I'll definitely grant the new ones look much nicer, and they brighten the place up quite noticeably at night.

our house darkroom renovations

Posted on 23 August 2024, 21:38

A photo of the box of the Dune 2 Blu-ray and a Pimoroni "HyperPixel" four-inch display, plus the new temperature sensor which consists of a coiled black cable with almost what looks like a silver microphone cover at the end of it where the sensor lives.

New goodies! Dune Part 2 in 4K HDR, a replacement screen for one of our Raspberry Pi-attached dashboards, and a different type of temperature/humidity sensor, the Sensiron SHT-30, that's actually got a weather-proof mesh around it and is specifically designed for outdoor usage.

(Our current BME280 it turns out is not, and despite being protected from direct rain, the humidity after it rains gets high enough that the sensor gets saturated and all the readings end up being wrong. I also found out that you can actually calculate the dew point if you have the temperature and relative humidity so I don't even need the BME280 to do that for me! The only thing that I'll be missing is the atmospheric pressure, I COULD leave the BME280 attached for just that but but I don't actually know that I care all that much about it tbh.)

our house raspberry pi darkroom esp32 dune

Posted on 21 August 2024, 14:35