THIS is photographer Geoff Comfort’s aerial shot of a gravel carpark, in Tuggeranong and it scored him a gold award at the recent Australian Professional Photography Awards. Geoff has curated the work of 15 leading Canberra photographers for a special exhibition of award-winning images inspired by Floriade’s final-week outdoors and adventure theme.
The exhibition will showcase silver and gold award-winning entries of landscapes, exterior architecture, outdoor wedding and portrait photography, travel and sporting images.
Geoff’s haul was two gold awards, one silver and one silver distinction award for his APPA prints, making him the highest-scoring photographer from the ACT.
The AIPP photography exhibition, the Inspiration Hub, Floriade, 9am-5pm, October 6-12
Club exposes its chums
HERE is an abject lesson in communication by the communications manager of a fine Yarralumla club.
First he dutifully emails the club’s monthly newsletter, then realises that instead of the 990 email addresses of members being listed in the “bcc” (blind) section, there they are for all to see. The club’s entire, email-enabled membership. And what a top-draw list.
No doubt mortified, he despatched a recall email, compounding his misery by again openly listing the entire club membership.
Third time lucky, he finally mastered the “bcc” function and sent out a grovelling apology and characterised a misguided belief in the “recall” function, which he says “will delete unopened copies of this email”. It absolutely doesn’t.
“Moving forward I will ensure that this never happens again,” he solemnly promises. Moving forward he might like to keep an eye on the job ads.
Walk on the wild side
PLOD decide to give the media a “wrap up” of the 39 boofheads booked for seatbelt offences during September and launch its October traffic control targeting (copspeak for running red lights).
So they drag the fourth estate out to one of Canberra’s busiest intersections – the spaghetti juction at the corner of Belconnen Way and Gungahlin Drive, where there was no parking and invitees were asked to “park safely”.
CC would have liked to have seen how their risk assessment rated a TV camerman with a heavy camera being skittled there in the line of duty.
The corporate memory dims
THE corporate memory of “The Canberra Times” gets ever shorter… our gardening writer’s wife Gerdina Bryant took a call the other day in Cedric’s absence.
“I am from the ‘Canberra Times’ and was checking if Cedric Bryant was still designing gardens,” came the query.
“Yes, he is, why do you ask?” replied Gerdina.
“We thought he may be interested in advertising on the ‘Sunday Times’ garden page” .
Gerdina suggested this possibility was remote “considering that after writing the ‘Canberra Times’ garden page for 24 years before he was terminated without notice” .
“‘Ah,” came the reply. “I guess he will not be interested in advertising with us.” They got that right. But we love you, Cedric.
Lonely future
WE have seen the future and it’s not pretty. In fact, it’s pictured below. In launching Canberra’s first hotspot in a $100 million strategy to create one of the world’s largest Wi-Fi networks over five years, Telstra provided this frightening vision of telco nirvana where people buzz around the hotspot so enslaved to their screens they barely speak to each other.
Hmmms…
- WITH nary three months to the festive season, the bah-humbugs at the Chamber of Commerce are offering bosses a workshop on the pitfalls of the office Christmas knees-up with the promise of “guidance on the ways you can ensure that no-one will have any ‘morning-after regrets’ following your next Christmas Party.” According to the chamber fun police, parties can occasionally lead to sexual harassment claims, poor working relationships and other damage to morale or property due to the combination of high spirits, informality and alcohol.
- AT the second The Older Persons’ Assembly, held in the Legislative Assembly last week, the 59 delegates apparently spent half an hour debating the meaty subject of imposing a speed limit on skateboards, but fortunately without resolution.
- HAS Origin run out of energy? In promoting its entry into the ACT market Origin Energy’s strange PR stunt has been to run around town around in a van handing out free macarons from the fabled hand of Adriano Zumbo. However mother-of-three Rebecca wrote to citynews.com.au complaining that the van didn’t show at Belconnen on Saturday as scheduled.
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