334: Over exposed sunset

Driving along Kingsford Smith Drive this evening, noticing the gorgeous sunset disappearing before my eyes, I made the sudden descision to pull over (sorry to any cars that I may have cut off as a result). Having taken a few sunset photos this year already, I went for another style this time! Looks so warm and summery

333: Time out

A random shoot around town. Playing with a 50mm 1.4 lens. Lovely light, lovely soft focus.

332: The wind in our hair

I had a lovely and relaxing day today, catching up with close friend's Anna and Samantha. Anna has borrowed her Mum's convertible while she's away so we all got a little bit excited and went for a ride down the highway with the roof down. Tried to capture some of that openess here with Anna, driving, just caught in the left side mirror.

331: Peachy smiles

Ben's band, Rise for November, took part in another photoshoot this evening. Experiementing with getting light into the dark alleyway that was selected for location we ended up driving a car in and using the headlights. Turned out it worked a treat. Peachy smiles all round. This is Steve, the singer's, head shot for their myspace. Check it out here along with the rest!

330: Shadows suggest

I'm always keeping my eye out for interesting shadows caught on walls (floors, ceilings, anywhere really). Sometimes the light can capture an object and cast a striking shadow more interesting than the object itself. I've given it a whirl this evening with this old washing basket left lying around.

329: Wind me up monkey

Discovered this little monkey at work today. You wind him up and he jumps a full back flip. I managed to borrow him for a few minutes and get some action piccies. A great opportunity to capture some quick movement, and boy does this guy jump fast. Faster than I realised. But I love the final effect in this photo - 3 stages of movement blended nicely together.

328: Bday

Today is my friend Samantha's birthday. So many warm birthday wishes to you my dear. What better way to make an ecard than doodle a little picture on a post it, photograph it and email it off. Lovely, simple and effective. It even got prime spot on her desktop - just for today :)

327: Bang bang

Little dog - still learning new tricks! Bentley playing dead. Haha, he managed to hold it for much longer that I thought!

326: New heights

It was an early rise and shine this Sunday morning! An 8am excursion with a handful of Black Dove Body Bar dovelies. Off we headed to Rocksports - Fortitude Valley for some serious climbing, well as serious as you can be while you're climbing with this fun bunch! It was a great challenge and everyone got behind each other as the morning wore on and we began to try the harder walls (with overhangs and the like). When I found myself too worn out to climb anymore I whipped out my camera and used the opportunity to get some photos at unusual heights and angles. This was by far my favourite pic of the day - Lindsey was pushing herself up this blue wall (HARD) but she totally made it. You go girl! I think the shot worked so well cause of the different leveled surfaces and the light pouring in the window above, casts some great shadows and highlights!

325: New camera old camera

This evening, just as the sun started to go down I got out my new, old camera. A Ricohmatic 35, a nice little pressie I got for my birthday, and I sat it on the window ledge. Looking out across the jacaranda laden treetops I set about doing a little experimenting. My best shot (above) has just about captured the tree branches ever so close to clearly, while the actual trees in the background have been beautifully distorted and faded. The black of the camera softy suggests the image's frame. Quite cool.

324: Scissors, paper, rock

Kicking back on a Friday afternoon. Nothing beats a bbq and a few beers. Currently Ben and I are really into XXXX's new brew Summer Bright Lager. Make sure you give it a go, it's surprisingly good! The other added bonus is that it has the old scissors, paper or rock printed under each bottle cap, so you have the joy of this old school little game everytime you and your mates open a new bottle.

323: Dear horizon

This evening I excitedly took myself off to Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) for their annual photography graduate exhibition. This year "Dear Horizon" is open to the public from now until the 21st November at the Southbank Campus. A lovely collection of the students work ranging from photo journalism and photographic art practice through to creative advertising. While I was there I took a moment out to try and capture one of the buzzingly, atmospheric rooms for my photo of the day. It boosted me with a new injection of creativity that left me with a buzz of excitement over the possibility of studying here one day!

322: What's on the box

Late night TV... about as quality as day time TV! Perhaps it's time to put a DVD on? I was a bit late getting to my photograph today, but a interesting angle on the remote while watching TV before bed made up for it.

321: Down the drain

After getting a great drain photo (I know, it sounds strange) in Bristol, England earlier this year, I was inspired to find another one in Brisbane today. Now unfortunatley our Brisbane one's don't hold the town name like Bristol's do - that's what drew me too it in the first place (a slightly different memento to have of a town). But it was a great time of day to be out shooting and I quite liked that this drain had a newspaper down there. Lucky I caught it when it did, only a few hours later the rain came pelting down so it won't be there anymore. Something different anyway. Looking down instead of up. Never know what you might come across when you aren't looking straight ahead at eye level!

320: New wall art

Candi has added these lovely looking illustrated fans to our living room wall. Very appropriate after the weather has been so hot here!