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Going a bit crazy with the camera over a beautiful Tasmanian autumn weekend in both night and day
We had a beautiful couple of days of very still, sunny weather, which seemed a perfect opportunity to get out and finding those great...
Mark Thomson
May 28, 20212 min read


177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 34 - The personal side of history in Slovakia
Jenny aka Yenni has written several books in English, including two of an autobiographical nature, a remarkable achievement for someone...
Mark Thomson
May 27, 20213 min read


177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Episode 33 - Comparing with Ukraine
Tasmania has received many Ukrainian migrants since the large migrations began just over 70 years ago. Many were displaced people as a...
Mark Thomson
May 27, 20212 min read


Some rare windless nights and an unexpected Aurora
Last week we had a couple of amazingly still nights in Hobart. For those who know Hobart well, this is very rare indeed, and even rarer...
Mark Thomson
May 19, 20212 min read


Tasmania in autumn - so many photographic opportunities
Of course autumn is great in Tasmania for a whole lot of reasons, not least of all for the amazing colours that start appearing in our...
Mark Thomson
May 8, 20212 min read


177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 32 - Insights from a big ,cold island
Greenland is a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, perhaps comparable to Scotland and Northern Ireland within the United...
Mark Thomson
May 3, 20212 min read


177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Episode 31 - Learning about living together from Sarawak
I feel like I manage to find something different to learn from with each story in this podcast series. Perhaps I could also say that...
Mark Thomson
Apr 23, 20211 min read


Watching waves
I went down to Dodge's Ferry to catch up with family and as it was a nice day and thought I might be able to catch some nice drone...
Mark Thomson
Apr 11, 20211 min read


Getting out at night again for some long exposure fun
There was a time when I'd go out several nights a week to capture long exposure photos. But of course, we all run out of inspiration from...
Mark Thomson
Apr 8, 20211 min read


More aerial photography , having fun with HDR panoramas
I'm not going to write too mu ch about these, I'm hoping the pictures will speak for themselves, and I am partly using this blog as a way...
Mark Thomson
Apr 5, 20211 min read


177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 30 - A bit of Nigeria in Launceston
So I made another trip up to Launceston to met with Edward, who works for the Northern Tasmanian Development Corporation, to find out a...
Mark Thomson
Apr 5, 20212 min read


177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 29 - Postivity and realism from Brazil
With these interviews, I really like to try and understand the environment where people grew up and how that may have influenced their...
Mark Thomson
Apr 3, 20212 min read


177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 28 - Facts about Finland
Finland is a country that often gets mentioned in Tasmania in regards to various social problems , as a place which offers some models of...
Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20212 min read


177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Episode 27 - Made in South Korea, living in Launceston
This episode is hopefully the first of a series of migrants living up in the north of Tasmania, in this case, Launceston. I have done one...
Mark Thomson
Mar 22, 20212 min read


Why I'm not going to post photos on Facebook anymore
Ok, I'll admit that this headline has a bit of a "clickbait" read to it, but, apart from the fact that a strong headline SHOULD entice...
Mark Thomson
Mar 22, 20212 min read


Trying to get creative with the drone while fighting the weather
As I've perhaps mentioned before, drone photography and videography can be very much determined by the weather conditions and light. Of...
Mark Thomson
Mar 9, 20213 min read


Update on 177 Nation of Tasmania...learning patience and looking beyond Hobart
At the beginning of the year, one of my resolutions was to be more aggressive and pro-active in finding people to be on my podcast. It...
Mark Thomson
Mar 5, 20213 min read


Episode 26 of 177 Nations of Tasmania - Understanding Iran
One of many reasons why I started this podcast was that I could see how easily misconceptions and stereotypes about a certain country or...
Mark Thomson
Feb 20, 20212 min read


Episode 25 of 177 Nations of Tasmania - Discovering Bangladesh
Arman's journey from growing up in rural Bangladesh, through boarding school near Dhaka to studying in Tasmania, has in some ways...
Mark Thomson
Feb 15, 20212 min read


Time for another photography blog post - let's talk drone photography !
The last time I talked about drones was probably when I landed my second Mavic Mini in the Derwent River. But just over a week ago, in...
Mark Thomson
Feb 10, 20212 min read
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