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• Post #4448683

  Lime is the worst product we've ever seen in Melbourne

• Post #4401036

  Some of the pics from last week, in Melbourne but not necessarily of Melbourne. #Photography #Melbourne https://social.ewenbell.com/objects/b9047e7e-eced-49f8-bc63-74fdb7f26966

• Post #4343903

  AI isn't taking your job, it's taking the funding for your job and leaving a hot mess for understaffed units to deal with.

• Post #4311521

  Finally decided to contact Rode about an intermittent issue with one of their mics I've been having for a long time. I did a recording with duplicate mics, one worked fine but the Rode did not. I sent them the recording. The kid handling the support request appears unable to work out that a single file can have multiple tracks, and he's only listening to track 1 and says there's no problem here. I am just so fkn sick and tired of my time being wasted by people who get paid to turn...

• Post #4270098

  I decided not to be so cranky this afternoon so I've eaten a whole bag of candy and will soon fall into a half-coma which should take the edge off things nicely.

• Post #4261058

  The golden light was coming through the windows and I resented having to share my attention with someone else instead of just wander about taking photos! Anyhoo, my second colour photo in 24 hours. I'm out of control this week. #Melbourne #Naarm #Photography #Coffee #NotMono https://social.ewenbell.com/objects/8832ca80-d37b-4db9-b508-a595caf5aa52

• Post #4238964

  Sharing a few of the photos that didn't make it into the zine for July. Have spent most of the day feeling straight up angry about various situations right now, and need to focus on things that nourish instead. #Melbourne #Naarm #Photography https://social.ewenbell.com/notice/B8QEHKYaQR7v9UleM4

• Post #4195989

  If you cannot do it for love, then do it for spite. Spite is totally valid.

• Post #4133767

  "A Long Chat About Learning The Art of Photography" https://youtu.be/x480fxJoFlw Several weeks back I asked for thoughts on what people wished they understood a little earlier in their photography journey. Some of that proved very useful. Some of it was in a different direction to my brain at the time. Here's the final outcome of that! I was working on a video idea, and now that video exists. It's a long chat, so maybe better to watch on the weekend with a cup of tea. It'...

• Post #4132628

  Quick question for analogue and manual focus fans out there... What do you think AF schmuckos like me fail to understand when it comes to the joy of shooting manual? I'm road testing a little 50mm lens this week, and observing in real-time how AF vs MF changes the way my brain thinks about photography. I bet there's a few folks around here who have been shooting MF for a long time and are wondering why I have been soooo slow to figure this out :) #Photography #EwenTube

• Post #4100454

  I want to share some numbers. My life is numbers at the moment. I made this video over recent weeks. I gave it time to distil. It's a long one. Lots of scripting to make sure I had a direction on paper that I could commit to. Then record, and a very very long edit process. Maybe five days of work all up... https://social.ewenbell.com/notice/B8egNizS0tXdb7bqLo The number is 5 days. In its second day in the wild, it' cleared 400 views and a total watch time of about 80 hours. 1/

• Post #4075081

  Just saw the phrase "vintage computing" next to "SPARC" and I gotta tell you this hurts. I am so friggin old aren't I. When the heck did that happen???

• Post #4012185

  Living the dream. Getting paid to photograph chocolate eclairs. I will not be taking questions at this time.

• Post #3884965

  Should come as no surprise that the July photo zine is a monochrome affair. It's just my mood this winter. Most cities look better in B+W, and Melbourne comes up a treat. All that winter light making long shadows. ewenbell.com/zine New edition of the zine is on the website now, ready to download. No trackers or signup etc. If you like it, share it :) Have a great weekend everyone. #Photography #PhotoZine #Melbourne #Monochrome #Zine #CameraNotIncluded

• Post #3860232

  Started readin a few posts in Scottish en nooow me wee brain canne stop usin that accent and tis proper crowded inside me heaaaaad tnight.

• Post #3617248

  It's the year 2026 and the ABC is still pulling this shit. I do not give a rats arse if a "small business" wants to complain about paying a livable income to their staff. If they cannot do this, they have no place running a business. There is no special right to make money while other people can't afford to pay their rent or buy food. When you own the business you shouldn't simply expect to make money regardless of how you treat humans. This crap makes me really cranky...

• Post #3604360

  Gonna sit down without a screen and watch a movie. Brain off. Here are my choices... Raising Arizona Gattaca Escape from New York What a time to be alive.

• Post #3578379

  My fave genre of YouTube videos are people giving advice on how to grow a channel even though they aren't getting any views.

• Post #3572417

  Current mood

• Post #3547217

  Yeah another video about life without Adobe and yes I did drop a mention for Dark Table in this one. But I spend more time talking about old cables you no longer need, so anyway... Here's 14 mins of "Life After Adobe" :) YouTube: https://youtu.be/bzafOOWabpo PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/fDqqrJrCxJJxdNTKucdLP4 LIFE AFTER ADOBE "The biggest fear people have about changing their editing software is not being able to go back and access all that work they have already put...

• Post #3530609

  Apologies I haven't been sharing much in the way of photos lately. My brain has been dunked in acid wash for the last few weeks while I plod through a couple of very large projects. Having exhausted myself by digging myself into a ditch, has been hard to find the energy to try digging out again. I have been out to shoot a few photos, but then lacking the energy to edit them once I'm home. Sometimes we just need a break from the camera. Anyhoo, here's a pigeon. The most successful s...

• Post #3327271

  New on the Tubes "Can you capture like Leica without buying a Leica?" This video features a look at the Brightin Star 50mm F0.95 MF II, the Nikon Zfc and one more camera that definitely is not a Leica either. YouTube is here: https://youtu.be/-V-Lm PeerTube is here: https://makertube.net/w/kcE1bp1c2Qqju12Sz8iMEd #EwenTube #Photography #Leica #BrightinStar

• Post #3194052

  I just ordered a small number of stepping rings and filters to compliment my existing chaos of stepping rings and filters. When they finally arrive in the distant future I will have no recollection of why I ordered these particular stepping rings, or filters.

• Post #3117018

  #BrucePascoe documentary. Yes please. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-05/yumburra-documentary-debuts-sydney-film-festival-grace-mckenzie/106754620

• Post #3061421

  When I try to read text in an article my brain makes shapes. If the words connect, the shapes form and the article becomes a visual object. Sometimes the are no shapes, or the form evaporates after the first paragraph or two. I can't really "see" the shapes, but they're there. They have gravity in my brain.

• Post #3061420

  I wonder how many kilos of cheese I eat every year?

• Post #3018058

  Rich dude threatens to go overseas and pay no tax instead of staying in Australia and paying no tax. Slow clap. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/taylors-wines-threatens-to-move-overseas-tax-changes-sa/106736510

• Post #2977632

  #Phanpy is great. I do wish there was a button on every post that let me boost+like in a single click as that would reduce my mouse traffic by 80%.

• Post #2977631

  Can only remember one song from The Waterboys. I was a kid when "Whole of the Moon" came out. Still love the depth and journey of that track. Was surprised to discover how much is scribed onto their wiki page. It's a novella.

• Post #2977630

  Any of my peeps here read this book by David Epstein? https://davidepstein.com/range/