As most Australians saw, there was a total lunar eclipse recently and I took a few hours away from Waterlollies in order to set up my telescope. We made a night of it and we were joined by some friendly neighbours who brought vodka.

With binoculars, telescopes and cameras we saw plenty of the moon that night and I managed to get some amazing shots simply by aligning my camera lens to the telescope’s eyepiece. By fantastic coincidence, my digital camera’s lens fits quite neatly into the telescope’s eyepiece. Here are my favs from about 75 shots.

High-power lens: The earth’s shadow creeps in from top left.

Low-power lens: Taken about 10 min after the above shot.

Towards the end of the eclipse as the light starts to reappear. Increased the exposure (+1.3) here in order to see detail in the darkness.

My favourite. Same shot as above but decreased exposure (-1.0). I have this one as my desktop wallpaper.

I took this photo from the window of my home-made spaceship, shortly after lift-off.

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Waterlollies progress

oO0oh.. contractions are very close together now. The biggest and most difficult scenes are finished. Part C has 85 scenes and there are 13 to go. Here’s the graph:

As you can see, storyboard is complete and we’re days from finishing..

Flash Forward People’s Choice
Thanks everyone who voted for 30 shorts. People’s choice voting closed on August 30 so now we sit tight and wait for September 19-21. The Flash Forward Film Festival (”FFFF!”) night is held at the end of the conference and the winners of the individual categories are announced.

To stay up to date on the conference itself, keep an eye on the Flash Forward site over the coming weeks.

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By next update, I’ll be finished Waterlollies and music/audio should be in its final stages. Talk to ye then!

-Phillips

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If you’ve seen the main page of Bitey Castle, you’re probably aware that my 30 shorts in 30 days project is a finalist in the upcoming Flash Forward conference to be held in Boston next month.

I’m up against Bernard Derriman’s ‘Congo Windfall‘. In the past, Bernard and I have gone head-to-head in several festivals so for Flash Forward, we’ve finished our trailers. Here they are. A big THANKS to Ween, who have kindly granted permission to use this song for the festival trailer:

Voting for People’s Choice is open now and will close on August 30 so please, drop me a vote (no, not Bernard.. MEEE!).

If you voted for me, thanks! If not.. grrrr!

Waterlollies graph
Hey cmon, it’s only been 3 days since the last graph. OK then, here’s a quick one:

Waterlollies overall:

(i = done)
(.. = not)

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