Fremantle

Jay and I are off to have a day out in Freo today for our anniversary and it looks as if summer is here – 34 degrees and sunshine. A bit of shopping perhaps, a walk around the Fremantle Markets some tapas for lunch at the Mad Monk, Mao’s Last Dancer the cinema and then, depending on time and appetite, maybe a hot chocolate…

Trip to York

York is a heritage town in the wheatbelt to the east of Perth. Its a fair old trek from where we live by the sea, so we packed the camera bags and headed out early as its a couple of hours drive through the forest and out into the fields. On the way we stopped off at a place that makes it own olive…

Fake Holga

Processed a few photos from Araluen – did them in a Holga style, as thats my current obsession 🙂 Cant wait to finish up the last few shots on the Holga and send them off – wonder what delights it’s captured this time

day out

Having been couped up for months due to illness, bad backs, non-stop rain and generally having other things to do, we decided to plan a proper day out. Jay got lots of yummy food for a picnic on Friday, we programmed the GPS (thats a story for later on..) and this morning, headed off to Araluen Botanic Park http://www.araluenbotanicpark.com.au. Its about an hours drive…

shooting with the Trip

I have the Trip 35 and the Holga with me today as promised and guess what – it was fookin’ cloudy again this morning.  Not a problem for the Trip, but the Holga needs sun. So, I popped out across the road for a coffee with one the guys I work with and took the Trip. The good thing about Perth is the traffic…

Big Day Out

well, not big, but as Jay’s back has been really sore for months, it was a big deal for her. We took the train into Perth yesterday so we could go to the WA Art Gallery and also see Kevin Ballantine’s Holga exhibition in the Spectrum Project Space on Beaufort Street. Had lunch in the Belgian Beer Cafe on Murray St – was deserted…

first films

so, as you know, I’m on the quest for photographic enlightenment and that involves a forray back into the world of film. Starting with the basics – a Holga medium format toy camera and (still to arrive – Monday hopefully) Olympus Trip 35 As I said in the previous post, the first of the Holga films came back and they are wicked! The only…