// November 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Brisbane, Home, Photography
I love taking pics of Ferris Wheels, and took this photo on a very clear sunny day at Southbank in Brisbane with my Lensbaby lens. Did you know the original Ferris wheel was designed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., as a landmark for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Also check out my night pics of the Perth Wheel here.
// September 13th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Home, Photography
The weather put on a lovely sunny spring day, and Mark and I cycled to Kings Park in the city. We have not been on our bikes since last summer; and tomorrow will be very stiff and have saddle-sore bums. Spring is a great time in WA, with millions of wildflowers carpeting parts of the State. Kings Park Botanical Gardens has a selection of these neatly arranged into beds based on their classification and regions. I took quite a few photos, and created a set on Flickr, and a selection us below.
// September 13th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Home, Photography, misha
A few weeks ago we arrived home and in the excitement of us being home Mishca ran out into the garden, and out there she has either run past a thorny rosebush or cornered one of our cats. The result was a nasty scratch on her eye, and it has had to be removed. She has now fully recovered from the surgery and is back to her lazy self.
I snapped these photos of her this morning of her being cute with my lensbaby lens.
// September 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Perth, Photography
Some photos from tonight’s show.
// September 5th, 2009 // No Comments » // Perth, Photography
The 2009 Perth Fashion Festival kicked off last night with West End Haute. Held in the old gasworks, the runway had a great industrial and edgy feel. But sadly the MTV Fashion Bar next door was not as interpid- it was the ground level of a carpark, with a sloping floor and was very cold. The runway shows were fantastic, and I got some great shots.
// August 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Photography, Travel
Last year on a trip to China I picked these up from an antique market that was on next to my hotel in Qinhuangdao. I am sure are fakes and not antiques, but they still very cute. I bartered for them form this tiny old man with no teeth, not speaking the language, when bartering you enter your price into your cell phone, and show him the screen, he then clears your price and responds with his counter-offer). The little toothless man was very hard on the price. In fact at first I thought they were so over-priced that I left, and later when I got back to the hotel was kicking myself for not getting them. I ended up going back and ended up paying about $30 each for three of them. I am still convinced I was totally ripped off, this was the week before the Olympics, and he showed a great toothy grin when I opened my walled and handed over my yuan.
// August 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // Partying, Photography
StyleAID is Perth’s opportunity to join the worldwide force of fashion fundraisers fighting HIV and AIDS.
StyleAID is a global fashion event originating on the west coast of the US eighteen years ago and making its Australian debut fifteen years ago in Melbourne.
// July 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Photography, Travel
These were sent to my Grandmother on my Grandpas passing by Tara, my little brothers girlfriend. Gran had them sitting on this sideboard in the lounge which has this yellow tinted glass window next to it. In the morning the light from the window looked great on the flowers.
// June 6th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Photography, Travel
In 2007 I spent Easter with my family sailing in on Zinkwazi at Whangaroa Harbour at the top of the North Island in New Zealand. At the end of a fantastic trip, Greg, Doug and myself headed back to Auckland, leaving Mum and Rob on the boat. Northland is one of my favourite parts of New Zealand, and after a trip away, driving back to Auckland there is this point on the Northern Motorway where the city first becomes visible, sparking over the Waitemata Harbour, I have always loved this view of the city.
On this trip back into Auckland the sun was getting low, and casting a lovely warm light. We dropped Greg and back home, and then Doug and I head back to the North Shore to take some photos of the city basking in the warm autumn light. I tooks a series of photos which I have stitched in a massive panorama of the city. I have had this panorama sitting about, not really knowing what do do with it until I came across a picture of a tiny planet on http://thebobblog.com/ and decided to give it a go and see if I could make one (using the instructions on Photojojo), this is my first attempt, and I am quite happy with the result. The final tiny planet imag is not the tine, it is 0.5m x 0.5m, and I am going to print a large version and get it framed.
// March 1st, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Home, Photography
After many years of attempting to grow natives in pots, Mark has one of his first flowers
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