059: James St

On the way to see Slumdog Millionaire at the Palace Centro cinemas tonight I could barely believe it when I caught this snap almost without pausing. My flat mate and I were on the way in and I stopped her saying hang on I just have to get my photo of the day (a regular occurance for people I'm with, thank you Ben for being patient), having no idea quite what I was going to capture, I whip out my camera, point and shoot. It was exciting to get my pic in just one shot today and be a bit stoked with it at the same time. Oh and if you haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire yet, go! I highly recommend it.

058: Lightomaniac

Another chance to play with light. As you can tell I'm quite fascinated at the moment! Light is such an important part of a photo's make up. It's fun just experimenting with different sources and angles.

057: Paper shades

This lovely lamp shade sits above our dining room table. I'm very into lamps as part of a room's decoration, they can be great features and well, who doesn't want more light in a room?

056: Sneak peek

Everyone, a sneak peek into the wonderful new world of Black Dove Body Bar. Claire and Lindsey (the creators) are steadily working hard to get Black Dove ready for it's launch party at the end of March. This is a feature wall in their studio, a blackboard texture, where comments and pictures can be left. A wonderful and creative idea that will give yet another personalised touch to this exciting new business that will soon be open for business. For more news on these guys check out either their website or the Black Dove Body Bar group on Facebook.

055: Self pictured?

I just can't for the life of me think of a decent name for this shot so I guess I was going for self titled like musicians do one their CDs. But basically this is just the light that sits on the wall next to my front door. Shame it's broken, it would be very cool to get a second shot for 365 with the same composition, just at night time with the light on. We also have louvers along the front of our house so I just tried incorporating them into the foreground of the pic.

054: Balmy evenings

This is a follow on from photo number 007. This time I walked further up the river to the point where it turns and breaks off for Breakkie Creek. A lot of people have boats moored here and I just love the way the light hits them when the sun is going down in the evening. A thoroughly enjoyable photo shoot this one.

053: Hidden secrets

I went to a photography exhibition in the Valley today. View Finder was held over Friday night Saturday and Sunday at the Nine Lives gallery and gave amateur photographers the chance to display some of their film work. A very cool little place, I love that it's tucked away and you have to enter a little cafe and up through a tiny stairwell in the back corner to get there. As Nick says, it's nice to have these little hidden treasures around Brisbane. I just couldn't resist snapping the little logo stamped strategically on the wall up the stairs.

052: A creative treat

Today was all about screen printing! Together with TAFE friends Alarna and Aiden, plus a new friend Kat we took ourselves over to Capalaba for a day's screenprinting workshop with the lovely Thea of Thea and Sami. And what a great day we had learning plenty of tips and tricks for any screenprinting we want to do at home. This was my first little trial print, I was super stoked with how well everything turned out and now have a wee bit of sewing ahead of me to make some cushions out of my lovely prints. Stay tuned!

051: Thank you Mr Alexander

This was a great find for my photo today. Carrying my camera around is paying off. I popped into Peter Alexander in the city to check out a couple of pieces from his latest range and was delighted by the decor of the changing rooms. The rich velvet red curtains, renaissance like mirror and an elaborate hat stand to hang your bits and pieces on (a great idea, there is never enough hooks in changing rooms!). So with the challenge of a confined space to try and angle the shot I've aimed to capture the great little spaces they have created.

050: Soft light, big lamp

Fifty, quite a first milestone! Hooray. A simple and quite photo tonight, I love the light and shadow cast across the wall and the profile of the lamp highlighted (I love big lamps!) It's lighting up the little cup sitting on my bedside table holding some favourite beads and rings.

049: Mail time

I was very excited today when I checked the mail box and realised that finally the first issue of my Frankie subscription had arrived. So voila, me devouring the March/April issue where I can barely pause to set the shot up. If you're like me and you can't survive the long wait between issues, head to the Frankie website for their daily blogs with new and interesting tip bits from their creative, exciting and pretty world

048: Photography recycling

So this is totally a recycled photograph. The photos on either end is number 18 and part of the shoot from 29. But it's nice to see the pics printed and finished in a hang on the wall type of way. I got these done up for Ben as a little present so it's kind of cool that it's provided me with another photo for 365.

047: A nightcap

MmmMmmm Baileys anyone?

046: Get inked

I love that most Sundays my brother Nick seems to be able to provide me with a cool shot I just wasn't expecting. This is him with his new 'real' tattoo on his shoulder and the result of a big night drinking with the boys 'fake' body tattoo. It made me laugh that the first thing both Mum and Dad said when they saw him was that one better not be real! It looks pretty good though, maybe better from further away, the artist must have also been a little intoxicated, but I like it. I love that he looks a bit worse for wear too. He's just disappeared now for a recovery sleep.

045: Let your eyes be creative

Happy Valentines Day everyone! I should probably have taken a photo of Ben and I or something more appropriate to represent today, however while I was watching TV I noticed how cool the rounded reflection off the bin was right next to the airconditioner. So I snapped that instead. You can see little Bentley curled up next to the bed. Not sure how well it works as a photo, cause you kind of have to look past the bin and into the rest of the pic.