RXA

“Have you seen the new nano … the click wheel is out of proportion and offends my Librian sensibilities.” – Selena

I took Matthew to the dentist this morning and I must say how impressed I was at how he handled himself.

He followed the dentist’s directions and squeezed my hand occasionally when it hurt. The whole time he was making both the dentist and the dental assistant (nice…) laugh which his funny comments and observations, which I wasn’t sure was such a good thing when he had a drill in his mouth.

As per usual Matthew had the entire situation sussed out and was making sure everyone else knew what to do.

Matthew: “Right Dad, you sit there and hold my hand in case I need to squeeze you … the dentist will put me in the chair and take me for a little ride and then put the nose bit on and then fix my teeth and then I will have a drink … right”

Me: “Ah OK Matthew but shouldn’t we ask the dentist what he needs to do.”

Dentist: “No … he’s right.”

I love that kid.

eBay!

Originally uploaded by RXAphotos

After the park we headed down towards the pier/marina.

The best thing about these walks is you stay as a group but that group could be spread out over two hundred meters or so. This keeps the whole group mentality feel which we all enjoy but it takes the pressure of if you want to sit and spend time time taking a particular photograph.

Another thing I particularly enjoy about photography is the community. I was doing a lens swap on the pier when a person approached and introduced himself. He had a camera and saw that I had two so I must in theory know what I am doing. But as I said to Henry (his name), “Theory is a beautiful, but not always accurate thing.”

We chatted about his new camera and photography for about ten minutes and thanks to Kylee who read a recent post about wishing I had a notepad on me and bought me one, I was able to get his email address and point him towards Flickr (and rxaphotography.com of course).

Henry trundled off and I saw him taking to David about ten minutes later.

At one point the three of us (that’s myself David and Chris … not Henry, Henry had gone by then) were to be seen taking a plethora of photographs of some birds sitting in a line on (for lack of a proper term) pier posts. For some reason this fascinated us and I reckon we spent about ten minutes there. God knows how many frames we got of them (I just counted and I took 47) between us?

Our stomachs were taking charge at this moment and we headed up to the main street for some lunch at Subway.

Aside … A few people have asked me why the photograph is entitled eBay? I now quote from the Pixar Film Finding Nemo:

NEMO: I wanna go home. Do you know where my dad is?
PEACH: Honey, your dad’s probably back at the pet store.
NEMO: Pet store?
BLOAT: Yeah, you know, like I’m from Bob’s Fish Mart.
GURGLE: Pet Palace.
BUBBLES: Fish-O-Rama.
DEB: Mail order.
PEACH (a starfish): Ebay!

“My son’s in Prague, your Mother is in Rome and where are we? In bloody* Frankston!!!” – David

* Word changed to protect the innocent.

“They pass each other at 1pm in the morning.” – David.