The New Canvas Prints Now Available

Posted on May 4, 2013 by KJ Halliday

I have been really busy at the moment in my spare time getting all of the first set of canvas wall art prints ready for sale. I am happy to say they are now available at Beautifulbeaches.com.au in a range of sizes.

Buy Canvas Wall Art

If you have visited this site before and looked through my photography and especially my poetry series, then some of the prints will be familiar (especially the image at the top of the site). Seeing these works make it onto canvas is very satisfying as it is much nicer to look at photography once it is printed. I have some sample shots giving an idea as to how the prints will look once they are on a wall.

This is from a short series called ‘Reflections’ and you can buy this canvas here.

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The Pointless Stereotyping of the Boston Bombing

Posted on April 23, 2013 by KJ Halliday

The news of the Boston bombings and the capture of the two American citizens of Chechen background has been a tragedy as well as a powerful symbol of what we all really think. After checking out the digital witch hunt that was unfolding on Reddit.com I found that there was a live Boston emergency services broadcast available online. Strangely, after checking it out after the murder of an MIT Police Officer the radio chatter turned to a car jacking at a 711 with the suspects described as ‘middle eastern’.

Now that the entire tragedy has played out with one brother dead and one in hospital I wondered why these two Chechen brothers would be described as “middle eastern’, not from the police officers but from the witnesses. Was it their looks? Probably not. Accent? They probably had a foreign accent but it would have sounded more Russian than middle eastern. Or was it the guns, explosives and apparent confession to the carjacking victim that they were responsible for the Boston marathon bombings?

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Creating New Canvas Prints

Posted on April 11, 2013 by KJ Halliday

Hi everyone! I have been working on some canvas prints from some of my current photography as well as creating some from scratch. I have been wanting to do this for a while but time, work and everything else that life throws at you has slowed me down. I have the ‘test’ canvas prints on the way and they should be here by next week (exciting!). I am still confirming how and when I will make them available but this is likely through Beautiful Beaches (confirmed!) as well as Etsy and I want to pop off to some local markets as well.

Blue Water Canvas Print

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Some Photos from the Depth of My Hard Drive

Posted on April 3, 2013 by KJ Halliday

Sometime between losing a computer due to old age and getting a new one, and then another new one, I misplaced quite a few photos. However, I’ve now found them and have been digging through some of the shots. I haven’t had time to play around with some edits but I know I haven’t posted any shots on here for a while.

So here goes!

Sunrise over greenhouse

This was one of the first nice shots I got from my new DSLR and I still love it. It looks even better in full resolution of course as it shows the slight transparency of the greenhouse roof. Another lifetime it seems! So what’s next on this random photography tour?

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Saying Goodbye to an Amazing Dog

Posted on March 23, 2013 by KJ Halliday

I had some terrible news this week about my dog Willy that lives with my parents in the country. He has not been well for a while with a lot of arthritis but now it seems he may have been bitten by a snake. Unfortunately, he had to be put down. Saying goodbye to a pet is never easy but I never saw him as a normal dog – he was an amazing dog.

My wonderful dog, Willy, a beautifully natured border collie.

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Transferring Business Skills to Creative Projects?

Posted on March 1, 2013 by KJ Halliday

I have been busy at the moment doing a complete overhaul of my photography and content production business website Double Foot Productions. Currently, I work a lot writing for various blogs as well as managing content for other websites which is a lot of fun. I can still remember going through University when email was still a pretty cool innovation as far as the internet was concerned (makes me feel old!) learning about traditional media.

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Update for ‘Head for the Hills’ Novel

Posted on February 10, 2013 by KJ Halliday

As I have mentioned in previous posts I have been working on a new novel that is slowly starting to take shape. It is, for me at least, a very different prospect than writing a poetry series. Not because of the length mind you, but because of the fun you can have with character development, settings and the overall course of the storyline.

I have been nutting out the characters at the moment in what I want to be a ‘natural selection’ process. I don’t want to fall into the trap of introducing lots of characters only having to kill them off later or have them drop off the map so to speak. Instead I am writing a few character based chapters introducing the different aspects of the story and I know that the strongest characters will win out.

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Tearing Down Refuge Island to Rebuild

Posted on February 2, 2013 by KJ Halliday

I have been working with my other site Refuge Island for some time now and never really got it just the way I wanted it. So instead of it being a creative writing site, then a news site and then something else, I have decided to make it a more personal blog about my own faith and beliefs as a Christian. It is something that I have wanted to work on for a while as I find it is helpful to put down some thoughts about faith and belief in the written form to explore them in a more complete fashion.

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‘Scents’ Poetry Series Moving Here Soon

Posted on January 25, 2013 by KJ Halliday

Hey everyone, my time has been limited lately which means I have been working a lot. However, I will be getting to something that has slipped my mind for some time and that is to transfer the Scents Sand Censor Billy Tea series of poems onto this site. If you have been visiting the site for a while you would know there is another older site buried underneath this one.

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Original Photography, Poetry and Art by KJ Halliday

The New Canvas Prints Now Available

The Pointless Stereotyping of the Boston Bombing

Creating New Canvas Prints

Some Photos from the Depth of My Hard Drive

Saying Goodbye to an Amazing Dog

Transferring Business Skills to Creative Projects?

Update for ‘Head for the Hills’ Novel

Tearing Down Refuge Island to Rebuild

‘Scents’ Poetry Series Moving Here Soon