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Late Surf with Full moon

After Marnie's show, did some quick running around town and tried to get back asap to Avalon, as I knew there was still a little wave around. I paddled out just as the sun set. And the moon had already risen, and how good does it look A nice eerie calm beset us all, I got a couple of good waves too, had to wait for a while in between, which was fine, as I was enjoying the view that reflection . . getting darker now, and less crowded Last shot as I came in.Had to use my surfboard as a tripod to eliminate camera blur ( about a second exposure )

Marnie Skillings SS10-11 Collection

The ever so lovely Kerry Doyle Sophie doing her thing on Eve First show, off schedule, week before fashion week starts, and Marnie has secured the use of Botanical Gardens for her show (lucky girl ) and sydney weather has really turned it on for her.
Here we have resident botanical gardener with Masha ( yes, Masha just arrived form Russia ) , Georgia & Jen Shoes in the collection are all vintage men's shoes, and I wouldn't mind a pair Jen & Masha ( poor Masha looking a bit tired, she only just arrived from Russia ) Zippora, Isabella & Chrystal The Carta ! Stephanie Carta back in town, opening Marnie's show Georgia Chrystal Jen Masha ( yes, don't be fooled, she might be jet lagged, but can still pull out the energy for a good photo ) Sara Elizabeth Isabella, while David Bonney does his last minute adjust. Something I did not know about David , and he might kill me for telling you all, but David was an accomplished actor before he switched to styling, only reason I found out was because I was flicking through the channels and got caught by an Aussie movie called Walking On Water <2002> , and it was a pretty good movie, David's was like the main character, but was init for only 10 min ( ? you ask, just rent it and watch it ) he also appeared in Night Out and an episode of Flying Doctors ( plus I'm sure he's done more than that ) Georgia Bambi Chrystal ( and Masha ) Ruby Sara Elizabeth Kerry Masha Georgia Isabella Jen Eve Steph Carta Ruby Jean Zippora Marnie's girls Nice first show in this great location, and with the weather. But something tells me , when the it all starts officially next week, we won't be this lucky with the weather. Just a hunch I have.

BBQ

Always up for a BBQ in the backyard getting hungry again now looking at it again

Funny Random Photo

Took Evan to the cinema to see Beneath Hill 60 ( recommend it ) and Evan was wondering why people where taking pictures of the sign above another cinema door.

Palm Beach Fun

back from Melbourne, and another nice summer autumn day in Sydney, no surf to really speak off, so we head to north palm beach for a swim, still a tiny wave coming through, off shore wind, so little barrels, let's get out there with the water camera aaah, just missed the shot, little curling on the top, and check how clear the ocean is today looks like it is overhead, but really this is barely coming in at one foot, just the angle I'm holding the camera at who's the spunk with the kids :-) India , braving it out to the back, I'm going to teach here how to swim under an oncoming wave success, hehehe, look at those eyes love how she's bring her legs up like that when she's supposed to swimming under the wave ( is she posing ? ) clouds coming in, time to head home for lunch. But here you can see how there is no swell to speak off

S!X showroom at VONHAUS

Peter Boyd & Denise Sprynskyj are the duo that make up S!X And I'm loving their flag series love love love want to shoot these
:-) John ( Alexei Sayle , didn't you kill my brother ) , Grey Aviary, models some of the jackets notice the resemblance ( hehehe, sorry John, couldn't resist) another piece I would like to shoot editorially
can you see me in this jacket ? I can, walking the streets of Anvers

R.M.I.T. and the grey aviary

Denise Sprynskyj, is not only the 4th year Fashion Co-ordinator, she's also one part of Melbourne label S!X, so after my piece at the R.M.I.T. she organizes John ( Grey Aviary ) to come and get me from building 8 and take me to the VonHaus building , where Denise and Peter Boyd have their S!X showroom John's here, so we walk the few blocks in the melbourne drizzle This building is a happening little place, derelict for too long, it has recently been renovated, house a gallery and a wine bar on ground floor and then S!X upstairs, and very central in the CBD
:-) hmm, does not look as good on the phone cam but this was after I shot some of the S!X pieces , camera packed away, and on my way to fin a taxi to get back to the airport

R.M.I.T. 4th year fashion students

I forgot to take a picture of my attentive audience in building 8. Was not sure if I would have enough interesting subjects to talk about and for the class to not get too bored with me babbling on. There were about 50 students, but all turned out well, they were interested what I had to say and I hope I encouraged them a bit to get overseas and get some experience over there. They also asked me some good questions, the funniest one though was on how to sneak into shows without an invitation, I think everyone involved in fashion would like to know the answer to that.
After my hour long talk, Denise Sprynskyj took me out to lunch, along with the program director Robyn Healy ( she was supposed to be in Berlin, but with that ash ) and fellow teacher Sean Ryan.

After lunch, see-ing my flight was not till later in the evening, I suggested to the students we do a little backstage photoshoot of all them in their own outfits, so here we go

a little RMIT photoshoot, I hope I got everyone in there
























































woauw, long post, lots of photos

but thanks guys , was fun

Sydney > Melbourne

very early start to the day, sitting on plane, ready to taxi to runway, and sun is only just now coming up. So yes, was up way early, but it's all good gold reflection golden flares through golden windows but what's not golden would be being stuck in that peak hour traffic heading into the city this early in the day ( and it only gets worse ) ready to take off, and you can just spot the tall office buildings from Sydney's CBD on the horizon on the right in the early morning light plane's shadow on take off Another look at that morning traffic Sydney airport, showing the 2 terminals ( international and domestic ) and the plane banks to the right, north, as I had hoped when I did my seat selection, so I get this great shot of Sydney CBD, still with long shadows from the early morning sun great shot, city, harbour, moore park, stadium Randwick racecourse nd a great shot of Coogee beach with Wedding cake island and Bondi beach with the cliffs of Dover ( heights ) now big banking turn , 180 degrees, heading south now over the ocean, with early sun still low on horizon loving this reflection south coast beaches, looking like a good spot to do some exploring , or just chillin out Great shot of Jervis Bay heading inland now early morning for in the gulleys looks great doesn't it closer to Melbourne, and getting grayer. Loving that strip of colour in the middle weird colours, wondering if this is from those fatal bushfires last year coming down great thing about Melbourne is that it is close to the nature and there she is all the lines heading to Melbourne CBD So why am I here again you ask, well, at my exhibition last month i got to meet one of the teachers at R.M.I.T. and asked if I would be interested in giving a little talk/presentation to the final year students, love to , and here I am

Next day, flat

Absolute cracker of a day, more like summer day than autumn day ( no complaints there ) but zero waves
Nice just to go for a paddle