The Amalgamation

Photography, Lomo L-CA+ 35 mm film scan, June 2008.

A multiple exposure showing both my face and my feet.

Photograph, Lomo L-CA+ 35 mm film scan, June 2008.

Looking out the window, what did I see? Two kids kicking a soccer ball into a tree.

Photograph, Lomo L-CA+ 35 mm film, June 2008.

This is a double exposure showing both a young girl and the television show she was watching at the time.

Graphite pencil on tinted paper, May 2008.

Pencil on tinted paper, June 2008.

Isaiah 44:3-4 (Today’s New International Version)

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.

Photograph, June 2008.

Taking a drive on a coastal / rural road one gloomy afternoon.

Copyright F. Lokot 2007

Graphite pencil on paper, August 2008.

This was drawn at a time when I was quite ill, and the medication caused significant weight increases. It was an awful time, and I hope I don’t experience anything like that again. There was a time when my figure was not far off the body shape of the girl in this drawing, so it was something of a shock to have such rapid weight gain, when, aside from pregnancy, I had never experienced that before. Sigh!

Copyright F. Lokot 2008

Photograph, May 2008.

Looking out across the front fence, I espied this stripy couch on the roadside. Either it was picked up by a garbage truck, or it was stolen by the individuals who travel around scavenging junk from people’s front nature strips (the grassy bit next to the footpath).

Photograph (Nikon D40), May 2008.

Photograph (Nikon D40), June 2008.

Cropping and colour adjustments made in iPhoto.

Pencil and ink liner on paper, April 2008.

Pencil on paper, April 2008.

This was actually just a quick practice sketch inspired by an art book I was reading. It was emphasising issues to do with perspective, vanishing points and all that. So, this is one of the sketches I did, trying to develop a sense of distance using shapes and colours.

Photograph, June 2008.

That’s me in this photo, taken recently on a cold winter afternoon. It makes me laugh, a lot!

Photograph, June 2008.

Here’s a photo scanned from our first batch of photos from our new Lomo LC-A+ with the Russian Lens. It’s a film camera, hence the scanning. Yay! I love the character and spontaneity of this brand of photography.

My Lomo home is at www.lomohomes.com/fikalo.

If you’re wondering what on Earth lomography is, check out http://www.lomography.com/. You might also want to try one of the many Lomo groups on Flickr.Com, for example, http://www.flickr.com/groups/lomo_lc-a/pool/.Well, I’ve got the last exam for this semester today. It’s for a sociology subject. Better get back to cramming!

Pen and pastel pencil on tinted paper, May 2008.

Pen and pencil on paper, November 2007.

Mmm… weirdness…

Photograph, May 2008.

Pen on paper, March 2008.

I have no idea what this represents or why I drew it. I just wanted to draw something a little weird, that’s all.

Photograph, 12 May 2008.

I love the unique textures of this tree. Unfortunately, someone planted them too close to the sewer lines - they are the kind of tree that seeks out water and breaks into pipes. We ended up having to get some of the trees removed and the sewer line replaced. You don’t want to know what the backyard looked like before the pipes were fixed. So gross!

We call it a paper bark tree though I can’t identify what exactly this type of tree is.

Photograph, colour 35 mm film, scanned and adjusted in iPhoto, 2002/2008.

This is the old house at Mathison Park, Churchill, Victoria, Australia. Having taken many a stroll on the walking track there, I had often wondered what this building was doing there. Eventually, the Churchill newspaper ran an article on the history of the local area, interviewing a lady who had once lived in the house.

More information:

Walking trails in the Latrobe Valley

Churchill on Wikipedia

Pencil on paper, April 2008.

Pencil on paper, May 2008.

Inspired by Triceratops. I think I made the neck too long. Man, dinosaurs can be difficult to draw!

Dinosaurs and the Bible

How do dinosaurs fit in with a Biblical worldview? There are various interpretations and ideas. Here are some Triceratops-themed articles, written by scientists and academics who believe the Bible, offering some ideas on this topic:

- http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5592/ M. J. Oard - “Watery catastrophe deduced from huge Ceratopsian dinosaur graveyard.” 2002.

- http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/2493 J. Sarfati - “Liaosaurus: a ‘missing link’ of the horned dinos?” 2002.

- http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/696 D.L. Swift - “Messages on stone.” 1997.

Photograph, January 2008.

I have no idea what this plant is, but we have a few of them growing around our garden.

Photo, May 2008.

Black swan (Cygnus atratus) diving for food or something… Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria.

Photograph, 35 mm colour film in Ricoh RZ-735, scanned and edited in iPhoto, 2002 / 2008.

This is a photo from my beachside honeymoon. I can’t believe I’ve been married over six years now. I’m only aged in my mid-20s. I don’t feel old enough to have been married that long!