Anonymous asked: I freaking love your pictures :D
I like you so much more than I like the previous anonymous commenter. Cheers!
My name is Sophie, but I sometimes go by Sophia. I live in Sydney. I take photos. I like to dance. I've driven off cliffs both literal and metaphorical.
Say hello.
sophie.l.roberts@gmail.com
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These Things That I Love
I think I need to shoot on film again.
Falls Festival | Lorne, Victoria | 2007
Photograph by The Sydney Justice & Police Museum | via. draped-in-velvet
When ‘Harry Leon Crawford’, hotel cleaner of Stanmore was arrested and charged with wife murder he was revealed to be in fact Eugeni Falleni, a woman and mother, who had been passing as a man since 1899. In 1914, as ‘Harry Crawford’, Falleni had married the widow Annie Birkett. Three years later, shortly after she announced to a relative that she had found out ‘something amazing about Harry’, Birkett disappeared.
Anonymous asked: Do you even know how much of a cliche you are on the internet?
Hello anonymous. You’re my first one! And yes, I know, 20-something girls with digital cameras who take pictures of things in their life and then put them on their blogs are incredibly common/easy targets of disdain.
I’m okay with that though, because disparaging, anonymous commenters are just as much of a cliche - and at least I’m producing something other than non-specific criticism.
So much crew love for the Puma Sailing Ten.
I would very much like to be running around sand dunes in Abu Dhabi right now instead of sitting in my office updating project feedback logs.
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High Highs - Open Season
Seriously, how beautiful is this?
Gabrielle and I did one class together at uni - Music and Popular Culture. I did it as an excuse to watch youtube videos and call it ‘study’, Gab has actually gone on to work with some pretty amazing artists (Gotye anyone?) as part of the two person team at Bossy Music.
Follow her. She finds the good stuff before you do.
#5careers
I wish I could take credit for this game, but my friends Matilda, Calli, Simon and Matt were playing it and I just jumped on the bandwagon on twitter.
It’s easy – what five careers would you pick, in any time, place or gender? If you’re anything like me you’ll struggle to think of the first few and then you’ll think of a hundred.
I’m currently on: 1930s explorer/archaeologist in Egypt, poet/writer/muse 1920s Paris, ballerina, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette (pre-revolution), late 1950s early 1960s film star – LA, Palm Springs, Cannes etc.
Best of the rest -
Matt: Cabaret MC Weimar Germany, Vatican priest, high sea explorer, Beat Generation poet/saxophonist, Native American chief
Matilda: Bauhaus architect, black blues singer, frontier USA cowgirl, astronaut, artist/poet in the 1920s
Simon: Paris 1920s film maker, Hells Angels bikie, Enlightenment inventor, Renaissance composer, LA 1940s industrial designer
Calli: 1980s Vogue editor, primatologist, Bauhaus architect, 1920s Paris artist/poet/muse, colonial Africa game hunter
Sheree: window shop designer, 1930s circus performer, concreter (smooth it over with a little spade), 1950s housewife, the President
Georgina: C18 promenading French woman, Amelia Earhart, 1970s hippie band groupie ala almost famous, artists muse, chocolatier
I keep coming up with more. What would you pick?
I always secretly hope that summer will last the entire year.
Hawks Nest 2010/2011
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