A Trip To...Sunny...Canberra

This past weekend Nick & I went down to Canberra to visit my friend Mel on what was supposed to be a skiing trip. Unfortunately the skiing portion was canceled due to the massive wind and rain on the ski field, but we still had a great time with Mel and it was nice to get away for a mini vacation for the first time in...well...at least a year or two.

On the drive down I had to coerce Nick into taking some light photos of the road on our way down to Canberra, but once he took the first one and had a look at the result, he was hooked and got a little crazy with it. I used to love taking these photos when driving at night with my parents and it was awesome to see Nick enjoying it as much as I do.

Here are a few of them.



We surprisingly didn't take many photos of ourselves in front of touristy things, but did take a few of us getting ready to go out and in transit, including a crazy Nick!



There was a Nick Cave exhibition which was incredible, but we couldn't take any photos in there. You can find info on the exhibition >>>HERE<<< We also visited the Telstra tower and the National Mint, which Nick and I completely geeked out about. We'd seen the "How It's Made"episode on the Discovery Channel about how coins are made and were extremely excited to check it out. If you're going to go to the mint, go on a work day because weekends are kind of...dead. The orange mechanical arm that moves the drums however, was still awesome and did a little bow when it had finished it's routine. Again, the geeking out ensued. I don't have any photos from the mint, but we did mint some $1 coins ourselves...which oddly enough cost us $3 each....

Anywho, these are some of our photos from the Telstra tower including a panorama of the view of Canberra from the tower. Ridiculously high and ridiculous vertigo.

Enjoy.

Romance and Candlelight

...well, not really romance, but there was definitely candlelight. My boyfriend & I live near Chatswood, and in the last year we've had quite a few power outages. On the last one, I decided to use our old baking tray to light some candles and once I got started, I didn't stop until the whole thing was filled with candles. It managed to light up almost the entire lounge room, and it looked incredible.

As always, my camera was by my side to capture the evening. Check out the photos below.

Party For Poverty

Last week I was asked by a mate of mine, Chris, whether I wouldn't mind photographing an event that he'd organised, the Party For Poverty, to raise money for Oxfam. He had the venue, musical acts, everything organised, but no one to photograph it, and of course I was excited to be photograph the event.

The venue was the really awesome La Strada in Darlinghurst and was beautifully dimly lit...unfortunately that also mean that I couldn't photograph a lot of it without flashing the ever loving life out of people. My saviour was the videographer Koji, who had a video-light attached to his camera. I made sure to use his light as much as I could and try not to have too many Deer-In-Headlights looks.

It was an amazing night, Chris did an absolutely fantastic job organising it all and I'm hoping that whenever he needs a photographer, he knows he can call me! It was so much fun to photograph.

Below are some photos of the Sleepyheads, a fun, fantastic Sydney-based band that is filled with the loveliest people who absolutely love what they do.

Too much work and too much illness

So, I've been kind of working A LOT lately and seem to have been nauseous for the last week and a half as well. Unfortunately that has meant my bloggering has come to a stand still. I'm still nauseous and still working lots and lots, but I've decided to celebrate the fact that it's Friday with a post.

The weekend is here and I've got photography assignments and meeting to go to over the weekend that I'm really excited about. Tonight I'm going to go photograph the Party For Poverty, which is being held to support Oxfam at La Strada in Potts Point and I can't wait for it. There will be music and fun and I'm really looking forward to photographing it.

So, to celebrate my Friday and the beginnings of my weekend I'm sharing some photos of a night shoot I did with my boyfriend Nick. Now, I say night shoot, but it was more of a night shot as it was freezing and we were ill prepared for the cold.

So here're the photos. Enjoy.