Category: Photographs
Photography is another great love of mine. I got my first DSLR over a decade ago and have been teaching myself ever since (though now I’m a mirrorless man). Most of my photos are from travel and sport matches, but I do try to capture the odd street photo with my iPhone.
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A Manner Of Repose Not Often Seen
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) She is wearing a yellow dress with an anachronistic bow at the rear, the edges of which can be seen bouncing with a gentle buoyancy with each of her steps. People walk around her as she makes her way down the sidewalk but there […]
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Strong Motion
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) I finished Strong Motion over the weekend and liked it better than The Twenty-Seventh City. Franzen can’t help himself when it comes to graphic sex scenes, can he? Everything unfolds predictably but the joy of his writing is in the observation. Next up is […]
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I Felt As If I Was On Solid Ground
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) I recently received the official word that I have been accepted to complete my PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). This is the happy result of over a year of legwork that included choosing my research topic, composing my research proposal and […]
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Hers Was A Hopeless Surrender
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) This story is part 5 of 5 of The Man From Kiama. There is a romance to allowing oneself to be pulled along by the perceived energies of the universe but it is akin to being enslaved by a master who is not interested […]
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The Interminable Vibrations Of Hipster Capitalism
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) This story is part 4 of 5 of The Man From Kiama. She had soured on Sydney and what she called the ‘interminable vibrations of hipster capitalism’. He was sure that he would never understand what she meant by this. She got a job […]
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They Stood And Populated A Moment
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) This story is part 3 of 5 of The Man From Kiama. She said she would return to Kiama on the weekend but he knew it was a lie. The train accelerated away from the platform and glided over Terralong Street en route to […]
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Five Years And Two Girlfriends Ago
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) This story is part 2 of 5 of The Man From Kiama. The next morning found them walking along the water in the general direction of the lighthouse. The beach at Bombo could be seen arcing into the haze that constituted the horizon on […]
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He Was Sure He Would Love Her
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) This story is part 1 of 5 of The Man From Kiama. The train would get to Kiama at just past three in the morning. He didn’t know this girl save for the aspects of her that were immediately obvious. Her hair was auburn […]
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“She would have laughed at this…”
This is the first post in what should be a fun project: I’ll be using my Instagram feed (@tovagreg) to share microfiction inspired by the photo I’ve posted. I’m not sure what will become of this, which is part of what makes it fun. Mostly the stories will be one-offs but there is certainly the possibility […]