sonny photos

First hours in Belgium with phone cam

and already sourcing a location for a shoot the new train line from Airport to Antwerp could be interesting around here loving these colurs wood stack

this could look good

later on, sky turns grey again, that's the thing about Belgium, several seasons in one day :-)
ok, got to pack some boxes now

London > Brussels

Another terminal , another plane M25 King George, Staines & Queen Mary Reservoirs some one near Oxshott interesting circle formation of houses at Epsom and bordering Ashstead Common forest London, surrounded by suburbs London in the distance Thames heading out to sea



Leaving England to cross the Channel, White Cliffs of Dover ( but probably Ramsgate in this case )

Belgium coastline and Oostende airport The mighty Schelde river Fort Breendonk, which was used during the second world war by the germans as a prison, better term would be concentration camp, not like the bigger ones in Germany and Poland, but many unfortunate ones ( about 3500 ) got deported from here to the worse concentration camps, many to never return, but one of my grandparents was locked up here, shipped out and did manage to make it back. I remember my grandmother telling me the story ( several times as grandparents do ) how he never wanted to talk about what he saw and happend, so one day he said to my grandmother, ok, I will tell youthis one time what happend but then after that I never want to talk about it again. So one can only imagine the profound effect it would have had on people, witnessing the horros of nazism on a lighternote, Zennegat, great place for an afternoon beer Belgian sky zoomed in the photo to show what I believe to be Wim & Hilda's place in their somewhere, what you think Wim ?

Sydney > Singapore > London

A380 , 2 gang ways, upstairs and downstairs ok , lets go ready for take off runway north west Sutherland Western Suburbs Blue Mountains late afternoon light night sky and about another 4 hours or so to go till we land in Singapore fast forward 10 or 12 hours and as luck would have it, this shot is taken at the very front of the plane, as in the the first door as in , someone got himself an upgrade to first class. Such a great surprise when you go to board your plane and as they scan your ticket , the handler gets a warning to check the boarding pass again, prints out a new one, and you look and it says first class, woauw, first time for me, so loving it, a proper bed was made up for me after dinner was served, so first time I actually had a proper sleep, not a long one but a real one So I had a lot of space and privacy, 3 windows, 2 screens and a big table plus another space for me to put my laptop, so I got a bit of work done as well early morning light over Germany/Poland

loving the colours I been on top of stairs a few times, and was always keen/curious to have a sticky beak down the stairs to have a look, but thought not to as it would be in appropriate to do so, and now that I am down here in return it feels in appropriate to go up the stairs :-) sunrise over London as we circle to land and I can see all this on the big screen in front of me with the skycam

Heathrow up ahead zoomed out touch down, and our Captain today, Carlyle Bruce, thanks for a smooth flight

Last days in Sydney with phone cam

Jacqui, again, serves up another yummy dish Lunch at Franks Bar

Richard at Fransk Bar makes a wicked iced coffee, no ice cream and add your own milk

last night in Avalon, and awesome colours in the sky Jacqui and I came down here to enjoy a glass on sunset, no surf and as soon as that sun was gone it got pretty chilly, yup, not summer yet, no by a good 15 degrees :-) loving the dessert at Qantas lounge a mini pavlova in a glass, so delicious Here comes my plane for flight to London, with Sydney CBD in background the mighty A380

Sydney Biennale at Cockatoo Island

Jacqui has been wanting to take me and the kids to Cockatoo Island for a while, to see the exhibtion on there as part of the Sydney Biennale. So of we went, and lucky for us, they have a free ferry running from Walsh bay ( easier parking for us ) to Circular Quay and onto Cockatoo Island, and looping around like that every 45min or so love our bridge and opera house

such amazing winter weather we are having in Sydney these past days, just awesome blue sky days, but no surf to go with it unfortunatly Leaving Circular Quay



Spunk alert on the island, Cockatoo Island was a naval shipbuilding yard, so lots of cranes and wharehouses around here

some of which house exhibitions like this one

awesome day awesome girl in tunnel this was one of the most popular pieces with young and old, a fine water mist





love the look of these old cranes against the blue sky back to our beautiful bridge. I keep saying our, as I have a little gripe about the fact that we are still paying a toll to cross the bridge, and a rather high toll. Back inmy day...it used to be 20cents, then went up to a dollar, then a dollar twenty, at the time it was said that this was need to pay of the bridge, built in 1932, a lot of loans were invloved and the toll was used as a way to pay of this load and then State Premier came out with the big announcement some time in the late 80's that the "bridge was ours " as the loan was repayed. So, great, we all though, no more need for the tolls ( which slows traffic down a lot ) but no, now we are paying more than double, up to 4 in peak hour ( they now introduced different tolls for different times ) So yeah, if it is ours, why we still paying( more than double ) for it just had to get that out sorry back at Walsh bay, there was still something to see as part of the biennale at wharf 2 as well
spot the fam India trying to be taller than Jacqui time to head home, thanks Jacs for insisting we go ( even though I wanted to stay home and work in the vegie patch :-) It was a nice outing :-)

Shooting Cosmopolitan today

And Charlotte, Fashion Editor, booked a room in the hotel close to location- we are shooting on the streets- with an awesome view of eastern suburbs possible location outside of the hotel anyway, back to this view, love it. So we are doing a street style shoot and using fashion bloggers as models ( If only Bryan Boy was in town hey ) So our models today are Montarna from Intersection, Sara from Harper & Harley, Tash & Elle from They all hate us, Bel, Love more and finishing with Nicole warne from Gary Pepper Vintage. Was a fast succesfull shoot and guess have to wait now till end sept oct to see the results. Here's a shot, I think Charlotte took it, of me shooting Tash & Elle

Townsville > Brisbane

Townsville airport take off Belle enjoying it as much as I do Townsville with Castle Hill and Mount Stuart behind it Airport, which is as big as it is due to it being pretty much a US Airforce base during WWII Croc territory, Ross River Bowling Green Bay National Park foothills























Brisbane so no photos from fligth to Sydney as it was night time flight and nothing to see except for these two munchkins getting an upgrade to business class, look at that smile :-) aaaah, the luxury :-)

Last Day in the Far North, driving back to Townsville

View from our plunge pool at Pool Port Douglas early in the morning, up early as we have a 6 hour drive ahead of us looking west going south, somewhere in between Port Douglas and Cairns a few hours later, after stopping at Innisfail to grab some supplies, we stop at Cardwell again for some lunch. but this time at dead low tide, so beach does not look as inviting, hmmm, mud crabs ? Hinchinbrook Island National Park

who doesn't like a palm tree Yasi damage, Ingham Queenslanders looks like you would want to hang out here on a lazy sunday afternoon interesting, this used to be a hospital Magnetic Island National Park  just of Townsville, ok, off to the airport. Jacqui is catching up on her posts as well, and plenty of photos to go with her observations. In a nutshell, I do images, and she does words good, so check it out

Port Douglas late afternoon light

In between the marinas

let's go fishing

evening trawling trip quite time no ? loving the view of the ranges as well

Mt Sorrow, Daintree

Pool Port Douglas

that's what this place is called where we are staying, and it is called that because . . . . there are pools everywhere :-) and exotic tropical flowers with the Mossman Gorge and Daintre hills in the background



spot my baby :-) so nearly each place opens up tp the pool, got to love that I would recommned this place, if you don;t need a hotel , with the regualr turn down service, and can handle self contained this place is perfect, and more economical than the nearby resort/hotels, and for us a great base to go exploring from. And, friendly people that run it also makes a difference.