Perth

Here's a few photos of a trip into Perth a few months ago with a friend. I didn't get too many decent photos, but here's a few that I quite liked.

There's lots of graffiti around, some of it really cool, some a bit average. I like the blue lady one, it would look great on a wall as a painting.


A couple shots here of the city. The first is looking towards the Lucky Shag. I think the processing works really well here. The second is a shot similar to what I've posted here before. This time the water wasn't very still, so the reflections have blurred into solid colour.

Joel

Here's a photo of my youngest son Joel. It's taken with studio lights, using the wall as a background. He's not real keen on sitting still for very long and would rather come and play with all my camera equipment that I tend to leave around and not in the camera bag. I've convinced him here to sit still by given him one of the caps from a lens.

Joslyn and Blake

Joslyn (Jo's sister) recently got engaged to Blake. We're planning on doing an engagement shoot outdoors, but since they were over for dinner the other night, we decided to get a few studio shots too. Here are a few of them.

The happy couple.


And a few of Joslyn, looking gorgeous as always!

Bali 2010

Jo, myself and some friends went to Bali for the first time ever last year. We didn't take a lot of photos, being way to busy having an awesome time (thanks to our excellent 'hosts', Shane, Donna, Greg and Vicki!) I guess everyone has seen Bali and what it looks like, so there's not much point sharing heaps of photos.

However, here are a few photos of Bali I'd like to share, enjoy :)

Donna and Jo organised to go to a few orphanages with a pastor over there. On the way, we went through the 'slums' and visited this family that the pastor knew. It certainly makes you appreciate the comfort we have over here!

This was their kitchen and living area, which is just hard rock. We gave this little boy some toy cars, which he happily made 'broom broom' noises with :)


The young girl in the family and I think it's her older brother. He was 19 (he looked about 12) and just sat there tying up bundles the whole time we were there.


The first of the Orphanages we went to.



And the second one. I missed out on this one, but Jo and Donna ended up teaching an English class to the girls, which was pretty cool.



It really strikes you how happy everyone there is, with so little compared to us. We could certainly learn a thing or two about contentment from them. It shows that you don't need wealth to be happy!

And here's some photos of the awesome scenery from around the island.

Patient Luke

One of the joys of having a Dad who has a camera is that you 'have' to model for him. Luke normally is pretty good, but after 20 shots and umpteen light position changes, he gets pretty sick of it :) He does however make quite a good model (in this biased Dad's opinion)

An evening at the beach

We took our family down to Point Peron. I was hoping to catch an awesome sunset and also tire the boys out. The boys tired out, the sunset decided that it was going to be not so awesome. At least the boys had a ball tho :) On the downside, I also lost my Op/Tech camera strap. It was super comfy too *sniff*

Aran and Luke just love racing. If you want them to clean up, finish dinner or empty the dishwasher and they're not keen, just make it a race! It apparently makes stuff that previously was impossible, magically happen.


Joel loves 'helping', or simply trying to unzip the camera bag to let MORE sand in. And Aran thinks that a rocky and sandy hill makes a good slide. I'm sure Target likes it when the clothes wear out. :)


Jo took this photo of Luke, in her words, 'I actually took a cool photo!' :D I'm not sure what's going on here with Joel, but he doesn't look happy. Probably because Mum has the camera again, not Dad ;-)


Since there were a 'few' seagulls around, I attempted a few shots of them in flight. 300mm on a full frame camera isn't really long enough :(

A new look...

I was getting bored with how my blog looked, so decided to give it a facelift. It now looks a lot simplier and cleaner. And what better way to celebrate than a photo of the lovely Carlien, who was happy enough to be my model when testing out a few different lighting ideas in the studio.