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Los Angeles > Sydney

Fast forward about 16 hours, which was all nigth time, so no photos, but now we are about several hours out of Sydney, and first light

as the sun is coming up behind us, it feels like we are flying to Sydney and draggin the sun with us



























How awesome are these photos, after about 5 hours plus flying from New York to L.A., and then 8-9 hours from L.A. to Sydney with nothing to see outside, it's definitely nice to get these at the end of the flight.
And this is pretty much what I do on flights, catch up on all the John Stewart's Daily shows ( I download several weeks worth, but then never get the time to see them , except now on the plane ) and take awesome photos like these


Yeah, back in Australia, here we have the entrance to Port Hacking, Bundeena at the top, and Cronulla at the bottom with a tiny wave breaking onto shark island you can see , how, if there was a massive North East swell, how those swell lines would travel up port hacking and hit that sand bar

South Sydney National park cliffs, really nice coastal walk along those cliffs by the way and back around passed the entrance to port hacking and cronulla and passing directly over Voodoo's, awesome reef break near cronulla cronulla beach where there used to be some massive sand dunes, and now just a little lake. Love the plane shadow on the water and again over botany bay hard to tell, but this guyon the paddle ski, is near a pod of dolphins great time to be heading out, looks like they will have a nice day about to touch down touch down taxing to gate rollers still down come to standstill and door opens now just wait for the ok from ground crew

New York > LAX

After my first ever thanksgiving day ( did not realise the extent of importance on this day until now ) and doing some shopping at B&H, it's to the airport in the afternoon to catch a flight to L.A. but as the sunsets at 4pm sometime, not many pics from this flight to L.A.

Thanksgiving day in New York, start it with colour

Again, up early, as my body clock is programmed to wake up this early now :-)
But glad I do, as again, how's the view from my room at Soho Grand of the sunrise !!! spectacular, hey Tommy, we should print this one up for somewhere :-) been trying to get one of these sunrises at Avalon for a while, but a lot harder to ge tout of bed there, where as here at Soho Grand, I'm pretty much still in bed hehehe woauw print print print
back to bed for 30min, hehehe

Michael Angel New York showroom

ofcourse I just had to pop in to Michael's showroom and pay a visit, I saw his mood board for the next collection, woauw, sorry , no photos of that yet, maybe I can give you a preview in February :-)

A visit to Erin Fetherston showroom

I had an appointment with Samantha at Erin's showroom. Lovely people Erin has working for her, good to see. And then the view they have as well, got to love that

Early morning view from my room at Soho Grand

love looking out of the window at the room at Soho Grand, and yeah, after yesterday mornings early start , I was up early again this morning from habit beautiful sunrise early morning, no matter, surely is the best part of the day, well one of them, sunset would be the other :-) about 30 minutes later and the reflection of the Soho Grand lights up the buildings against the sunrise

Wish Winter 2011 Campaing Shoot

Early start to the day, as we don't get a lot of daylight this time of the yeat in New Yotk, sun's up at 07:10 am and down again by 4pm and with a forecast for rain, we best start early.
So we put Stoj and Pam to work at 5am, yikes :-) Iekeliene is used to early mornings ( and late nights ) Bridget & Jonathan helping me out today, here getting gear tour 2nd location Yep, a bit of a bite in the air today, but does not seem to affect Jonathan as he checks the light Ieeeeeek ! :-)
Ikek loving her new camera, Canon F1 ( no, not some new digital camera, we're talking film ) half way thorugh the shoot
last shot like Kenny's wedding, we been so incredibly lucky the rain held off , really lucky :-) bum shot, I mean, last shot :-)

Vinegar Hill, DUMBO, New York

Vinegar hill away from all the hustle and bustle of new york
DUMBO
Down
Under
Manhattan
Bridge
Overpass

Brooklyn Bridge
working out our locations and possible shots









now just pray the forecast rain stays away

Fitting

We spend about an hour doing the fitting with Iekeliene, Stoj ( make-up ) and Pam ( hair ) are here as well, to get a briefing, all is looking good Sasha will be styling the shoot ok, and we are done So , Iek's turn to take some photos
Iek ready to go to her photography class now one last shot of Iek in front of my photos that are still hanging up in the lobby and now it is time for Todd and I to go and do some location scouting ok, see you tomorrow Iek

Iekeliene Stange

my reason for coming to New York, shooting with Iekeliene arriving for the fitting by bike The people over at Tribeca Grand were kind enough to let us use the space of Salon bar to do our fitting, as 7 people in the hotel room would have been a bit crammed.
Salon looking great by the way

:-)