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Let Sydney Fashion Week Begin !

While Sydney Fashion week is on, I'm hosting a wee little exhibition at the Pullman hotel which is official hotel partner this year. I selected 10 of my fav shots from last year ( well, I lie, I selected about 60 and got Emily from IMG to help me cull it down to 10 ) After setting up my pictures at the Pullman hotel, I went to the Carriagworks in Redfern, which is the new venue for the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia, in the foyer this brand new Mercedes Benz, which will be mine if I mention MBFWA enough times this coming week lol The Runway Room at the carriageworks, finishing focussing the lights Chairs arrived at the Theatre, this looks like a great venue as well Welcome sign, now get me that car :-)
#MBFWA

Val Garland's M.A.C. Cosmetics Masterclass Sydney

Lucky me was hired by M.A.C. Cosmetics to photograph for the afternoon the preparation for Val Garland's Master Class, here are some of the finished looks. Some of Val's highlights from her illustrious career.

Carla Zampatti SS13/14 Fashion Show Backstage Sydney

Miss Cox is in town

Rebecca Vallance SS13/14 Fashion Show Backstage Sydney

cool, Caitlin is in town

Gary Bigeni SS13/14 Fashion Backstage Sydney

Fasion week does not officially start till monday, but there were already a few "off schedule " shows





















Finally, Alice comes out and gives me a fun photo ( donlt get me wrong, love Alice, she's a georgeous elegant woman, just nice to get a fun shot of her as well :-)

Love me a council clean up

O our way to check out these home extensions, I saw 4 big wooden ladders being thrown out, including a straight one with wooden rungs I been looking for to hang from the kitchen ceilinso we can hang our pots and pans of it with some butcher's hooks. But these big A frame ladders are a score I feel. So happy with my find, imagine if they made it to the garbage truck and were destroyed. SO we set these up in the garden and had some fun

sharing is caring. Time for a drink as we wait for the sun to go down and do some photos with the fairy lights





some gif fun

nearly the whole family

aah, but we have the timer on the camera there we are, cat and all more gif fun fairy light time Jacqui visibly impressed with my long exposures hehehe

Surf Sessions at Bilgola Beach

Had some footage on go pro needing to be edited and published, so here's a 2 min clip of 2 sessions at Bilgola beach, one in Jan 2013 and then March. I don't surf that often at Bilgola, but the bank has been fun out there.

Shooting Lookbook with Valentina for Truese

Charlotte Blakeney doing the make up and hair today at Wish studios looking good woohoo,looking glam poladroid glam ok, let's shoot

Alice Springs > Sydney flight back

and yet another glorious blue sky day in the N.T. :-) take off, and I see the ranges and gaps I visited yesterday must be Emily or Jessie's gap on the left did not see that before ( the green rectangles ) not even 5 minutes into the flight and I'm already like woauw amazing, love it, get me back there !! :-) zoomed out again, woauw, I need a few weeks and a serious 4WD and I promise I will produce some awesome photos I mean, looking at it from up here, it's like our version of grand canyon, just looks so spectacular if you look close, you will see the river bed on the rigth is still green Saint Teresa, some 80km from Alice Springs in South Easterly direction. See-ing that know, wish I had spent an extra day ( or 4 ) driving south east :-) because just before Saint Teresa you have those shots preceding the shot before saint teresa and then after saint teresa you get this, big snaking caterpillar look close and you could imagine a mars landscape looks like the flight is taking us exactly the same way as we flew in  just can't get over how awesome it looks down there

and then the Simpson desert starts

100's of kilometers of red sand give you an idea of where I am yep same path as flight in

I wonder at what stage the Simpson is no longer and becomes theStrzelecki Desert



there are those lines again, can anyone shed light on what they are



band of cumulus clouds







topof Australia lake

Darling river one cloud two clouds flying past Cobar again

getting closer to the eastern seaboard

must be cloudy day in Sydney today that's bush fire smoke amongst the clouds, somewhere in the blue mountains airport in the middle of the photo where Jacqui took me for my birthday acrobatic flight descending Sydney in the clouds Botany Bay and cronulla beach in sydney south national park I been wanting to go to for a while now ( one day ) port hacking sand mining at Kurnell just before landing

Last Day in the Alice and surrounds ( all 300kms of it :-)

Just 10-12km out of town and we get to Emily's gap and I love this tree and you see how important these trees are in the summer to give some much needed shade from the blistering sun just amazing landscape, these long snaking mountain range, and then you get these gaps where water would flow through after the rains and as you can see by the dry river bed, no rain in a while Ollie & Fin, the video crew, stayed on with me for an extra day as well ( the rest of the crew flew back today )  to get some more location/landscape shots/footage would like to be here now one day when the water is flowing Caterpillar Dreaming Rock painting at Emily's Gap, an aboriginal story about the three caterpillars



Emily Gap from the other side on our way to the next gap, spotted this one could say it is funny, but one could also say, please, take your rubbish with you after you finish your big adventure, if every Euro tourist did this, well, then yeah, it would be a tip wouldn't it Jessie's Gap Outback pyramid at Jessie's Gap vastness to the south, I guess about 100-150km and you would be at the edge of the simpson desert broken up caterpillars ? got to love the outback and taking shots and the strange thing is I'm trying to cram in so much in one day when you should really spend a good big week out here exploring but be wary at dusk of wild life roadkill on the wide open road Corroboree Rock, a sacred Aboriginal site The rock itself is an outcrop of dolomite from the Bitter Springs Formation originally laid down in salty lakes 800 million years ago. Dolomite is a soft sedimentary fine grained rock. It is very similar to limestone except magnesium carbonate is the dominant compound rather than calcium carbonate. At the base of the rock you can see dark grey and light grey streaky blobs of 'dalmation rock'. A ring of low ground surrounding the rock makes it look like an obelisk. it's incredible how thin it is, and I read how this is pushed up by years of seismic activity after a beer at the Ross River resort, we were on our way to a ghost town, the friendly bar keep told us to check out the Sphinx, same rock formation as corroboree rock and this one too is super skinny ( I know not in this shot of course ) I became a horse whisperer for about 5 minutes, but this is as close as I got, I did have more luck with a donkey, who actually walked up to me

on our way to Arltunga Historical town, now a ghost town, some say it is the birthplace of the outback, a gold rush here in the hills prompted the South australian government to invest in this area before Alice Springs existed, and now reversal of fortune so to speak the colours one the few remaing buildings, the police station and jail :-) early airconditioning unit as we drive on, I spot this seam of white gleaming rock up on a hill, not too far off the road, I pull over and see if the boys care to join me for a trek up the hill, they opt out, but I'm intrigued and head up, not soon after, it feels like I'm walking along fields made up of broken quartz so much of it, and I'm curious as to how/why the higher I walk the bigger the Quartz

till finally, at the top. And these blocks are the size of an apartment block incredible and it runs through the hill, incredible. It did look more magical with the sun reflecting on it from the road you can see it carry on through the hills glad I walked up here to check it out, as I am impressed on our way back to Alice, I love the hues in the desert skies from the outback