Weekly Photo - 17/04/2011 "At The Going Down Of The Sun..."

This weeks photo does break one of my rules being that it was shot for my university assessment however being assessment time I have not had a great deal of down time. For a location photography group assessment on The Shrine of Remembrance, fellow student Marie Lafferty and myself took this image of one of the Victoria Police Shrine Guards up on the roof top balcony of the Shrine on the same day that many Melbourne area ANZAC Day services where being held a week ahead of the main dawn service in the Melbourne CBD which attracts a crowd of thousands..

I would also like to give advanced warning that next week there will not be an image as I will be without internet access on a SCUBA Diving holiday, there will be a large post when I return. 

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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:


Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn


At the going down of the sun and in the morning


We will remember them."

Weekly Photos - 10/04/2011 "Church of the Latter Day GEEK"

Today was the the first service for the Church of the Latter Day Geek, an idea started by Adam Hills and the crew on Adam Hills on Gordon Street Tonight (ABC every Wednesday at 8:30pm) to poke a laugh at audience member, Buffy fan and church minister of the Romsey Uniting Church, Reverend Dr. Avril Hannah-Jones.

Avril not only laughed along with the rest of the audience but she also put the joke back on Adam Hills by starting the service which is expected now to become an annual event. The church was much like any other, except with more pop culture references and fancy dress! For something different I decided to mount my GoPro HD Camera to my shoulder having it take a photo every two seconds, producing the short time lapse video below the pictures.

On Saturday I spent the day at Melbourne Showgrounds photographing attendees of the pop culture expo, Supanova, there will be a blog post from that around mid week.

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The time lapse can also be viewed on YouTube at http://youtu.be/JdqZpA1OjCE

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film" - Robert Adams

I have finally picked up my film, after having to pay for its developing twice due to the camera store not keeping good records of who has paid, oh well I won't be going back there any time soon.

Bellow is a small sample from a total of 61 frames shot on a roll of  Kodak Portia 160VC and a roll of Kodak Portia 160NC.

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Weekly Photo - 03/04/2011 "Gone Fishing"

I am deeply sorry for missing last weeks blog post, I have been shooting a lot for university and everything else has been shot on film which I haven't had the opportunity to get developed yet, I hope to make it up with another post towards the end of this week with the results from my developed film.

Today I went for a drive down to Port Melbourne to photograph some sunset kite surfing, however in my infinite wisdom shot it almost entirely on film and so have nothing to show of it here. Just near by I came across this bloke fishing, it was absolutely freezing and he didn't seem to be having much luck catching anything... None the less I like the photo!

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Weekly Photo - 21/03/2011 "Royal Visit"

I am glad to see that my Sunday post was missed by many of you and I hope to make it up with this, albeit a day late.

Today His Royal Highness, Prince William of Wales KG spent the afternoon touring flood ravaged parts of north western Victoria... So naturally I decided to go too.

In the last 14 hours I;
• Drove over 630km (390 Miles)
• Went through only 1 tank of petrol
• Made 586 Images
• Spent more time standing and waiting then I did driving or photographing
• Spent that time wisely chatting to some great local, interstate and foreign media
• Was messages by 2 people who saw me on live news broadcasts
• Most importantly had a great time!!

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Weekly Photo - 13/03/2011 "Untitled"

First of all I would just like to update you on a few changes to the blog. After discussions with several people I have decided that after just one month to suspend my "This Month in Photos" posts, this is simply due to the fact that I'm currently not shooting enough variety of subjects in a month that are month specific to warrant such posts, instead I will be posting occasional posts to show on work I am producing for personal, university or client shoots which obviously cannot be used for my weekly photo from week to week.

This past week I have been constantly running around getting everything I need for university and basically just settling in for second year, for that reason I have not had much opportunity to shoot for myself. This weekend I have been in Sydney minding my cats while my parents are away so I seized the moment of peace and quiet to shoot for this blog.

Weekly Photo - 06/03/2011 "Light, Camera, Action!"

Anyway on Monday I got back to Melbourne eager and ready for action in the first week of second year studying a Bachelor of Arts in Photography, having arrived from Sydney's glorious temperatures and sunny days I was shocked to be confronted by several days of thick low lying cloud which was less then inspiring looking through my course content thinking "How could I possibly make good pictures with this light?"

Whilst sitting on the couch sheltering from the rain and watching an old recorded episode of "Storm Chaser's" I was suddenly blinded by the sun shining through the balcony windows, moments later I snapped this, just incase it didn't show again...