Day Eighteen - Copping

I spent my Saturday out at Trav's place in Copping. I mentioned it in my Day Seventeen post. This little square of photos is basically a compilation of four of the many photos I took on the weekend out there. So technically they're not Day Eighteen photos but I was at work all day. Beh.
Top left is for the ladies. Men at Work. I know you love boys building trails.
Top Right is a pinwheel sitting in Trav's rhubarb garden. He has about 40 sticks of rhubarb, and two sticks of pinwheel. It confuses me a little. Rhubarb isn't really the most versatile vegetable. Yet it's about the only produce growing in his garden. Even then, you can only eat half of it. Apparently rhubarb leaves are quite the poison. My mum used to make stewed rhubarb when i was a child and i'd always be really cautious eating it to make sure no little bits of leaf had snuck their way into my rhubarb. I wasn't going to get poisoned on someone's whim! Anyway the un-cropped version of this photo is a lot nicer. I'll probably upload it separately.
Bottom left is the end of what was once the bar in the living area of the house. This was one of the original fixtures of the hotel and the room is heritage listed with crazy carvings in the ceiling. Lit with a Vivitar 285hv on 1/16th with a green gell.
Bottom Right is Trav Mitchell himself downside whipping the sketchy hip to dirt at Dodges Ferry skate park.

After this I made my way to Mezethes to shoot some photos for a brochure. Then we carted our band gear to the Brisbane Hotel where we played a show with Grey Daturas. The show was fun, from what I can remember. I made it a little more interesting for myself by starting a tab and drinking ridiculous amounts of alcohol before playing our set. At one point I had to stop playing completely because i completely forgot how to play one of the songs. I'm a little nervous of the tab's $$$ after the night though...ahh fuck it. I had fun. So did Andrew Harper apparently...

Andrew Harper on The Ghost and the Storm Outside
"Good performance is what saves this act from disappearing up it's own clacker. Fun to watch. Yeah."

Anyway that pretty much wraps up my weekend!
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Sam.

Mezethes Photos

I took some photos for Mezethes Greek Taverna yesterday as a favour for Stas. They'll be used for a brochure of some sort I imagine. I was in a rush with the interior photos so didn't have time to set up lighting of any sort but they came out okay i suppose. Exterior shot lit with two Vivitar 285hv's to the left and right each on 1/2 power.

Day Seventeen - Dodges

It was such a fun day today. I got woken up by Hugh in my room (down from Launceston) and he's a pretty motivating person to see first thing in the morning. All smiles and positivity all the time. So we went out to Trav's place in Copping and everyone put shovel to dirt and worked on the trails for a while. His place is a beautiful early 1900's hotel that's been completely run down and neglected. He has plans to renovate the whole thing. I'll post some photos I took of the house later on.

Anyway, after that we went out to a Jam that was being held at Dodges Ferry park.
Hugh Andrew himself cranking a turndown over the most retarded transition i've seen in a while.

I should probably also mention that this photo is straight out of the camera. Only slightly cropped and border added in photoshop. So there you photoshop fucks! ;)


Nikon D200
50mm f1.8 at f4
ISO 100 at 1/250th second
Vivitar 285HV to the left and behind at full power
Vivitar 285HV on the deck behind the litle ledge pointing up at 1/2 power.