I thought it would be fun to see our progress over time. This happened every 60 seconds and I chopped out the boring bits like sleep and work etc. The room goes from neat-ish to messy several times.

Sunday was not only the birthday of my brother (the auspicious 21) and my partner’s brother (25).

But it was also the wedding day of my cousin.

Although I was not the offical photographer, I simply couldn’t resist taking a few candid pics of the day.

To capture the energy, as my gift to them.

Congratulations guys. You’re a beautiful couple. May you have many joyous years ahead.

More photos here.

It was in a sunday night and I wanted to have a bit of fun light-painting.

After a hectic week at work, it was supposed to be relaxing few hours up on the knoll of Kings Park.

Painting on a canvas of blackness with palette of light.

But unlike the beach, there are

1) lots of people

2) light spill from the city

3) murderous hordes of mozzies

4) lumpy grass that makes sticking a tripod  to it ludicrously hard

5) murderous hordes of mozzies

6) candles that can’t fight the wind

7) and hunger pangs for hot chocolate at The Moon.

So I guess it didn’t work like how I intended.

Light painting fail.

But thank-you for all that were involved. You know who you were.

So the wedding went really, really well.

There were two cameras. I had an assistant that worked alongside me.

Perhaps it’s something to get into on the basis upon request, that is, wedding photography.

Congrats Laily and Anthony. Was great fun to capture.

As life would have it, when I want to ramp  up more of the fun things, I get the things that I’d rather not have. A roster crammed with work, more consulting roles, more tastings, and less time to do it all in.

So you could say this is a form of apology for all the readers seeking small bar information. I’ll endeavour to visit more in the next few weeks.

But as for now, I’m a little anxious over a wedding that a friend of mine has shanghaied me into photographing. She ’strongly insisted’ that I do the photography for her, this being the first ever paid gig.

Ah well, she loved the pre-wedding shoot, and I’m sure it can’t be that bad. They’re an electric couple and capturing that energy won’t be hard.

And to the bride and groom, I wish you the best of what life has to offer.

Fingers crossed.

Living in a country with no native deciduous trees (except Tasmanian Beech), it’s quite a novelty this time of the year when we get treated with spectacular colours of ’Fall’. Most notable of all cases, Liquid Amber aka American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) appears to ignite into flames of yellow, orange, red then deep purple.

Its a commonly planted tree in the many Shires, adapting to the Mediterranean climes of Perth from it’s homeland in warm temperate America. One in full bloom is a awesome sight to behold, but as transient as this display is, announcing the shorter colder days of winter, is soon gone leaving a bare frame behind. Take in the free things in life; the beauty of nature.

The Friday 9^th May was a beautifully misting morning sans the haze that blew in from a bushfire from Ellenbrook. Everything was covered with a lovely shroud of dew. I couldn’t resist walking on my way into Subiaco for few macro shots. It’s the simple (and free- yes I believe this is in the true essence- free) things in life we miss rushing off to work that can really make your day, as this did.

Enjoy.

If you would like the file for desktop wall paper let me know and I’ll e-mail it to you.

To begin with the famous and perhaps clichéd maxim, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’, is often reiterated ad nauseam, for countless images of meagre sentimental value. It is only natural for us- as the trivial humans that we are- to place things in boxes, to categorise and bring seemingly inordinate array of items/ themes/ narratives into some coherent fashion. Perhaps this makes us make sense of the world. After all, in a world where things followed no course would be like a ship without a sail (not to mention counter-evolutionary – when you are being chased by a predatory cat you need to make quick decisions). I would hazard a guess to say it would be a sense of ‘meaninglessness’ that would be forever enduring, if we never categorised anything. That’s not so bad, right?

I’ll leave you to ponder that one.

This brings me if I may, onto the subject of photography. Opening this little Pandora’s Box circa 2007 (admittedly I’m a newbie to this art); I found a new way of expressing myself creatively like many other hobbyists discover. It was on holiday to South East Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) that I found myself thinking ‘in pictures’. Strangely you see mundane moments of human interaction transform though a lens. Things that we all have: faces, hands and feet convey much more when one can take away the distractions of race, class and creed. Things that are undeniably human: assurance, love, solidarity and aloneness. It’s also things we don’t notice, things that we dismiss at a glance not taking in the ‘beauty’ of all things not only great, but also so small that it would make ant wonder.

I would very much like to ask my readers what their opinions are of the following pictures, how it makes them feel; first impressions, likes- dislikes, their reactions, thoughts and feelings. I will follow with my own feelings on them after a couple comments, there are also more on the flickr link below.

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