Day Fifty Nine - Pennell

"I'm looking for my sleeping bag, and i'm pretty sure you're fucking IN the cunt!"
Travis Pennell


I love this guy.

I also love the bokeh and the blue tones in this one that match his eyes. Yeah. I'm an art fag.

Day Fifty Eight - Keys

My title's aren't very imaginative. My cat's on heat. It's pissing me off.
A day late posting this one. I've been playing piano a lot more lately. It's nice.

Strobist
Vivitar 285hv at 1/4 bare above the keys
Vivitar 285hv at 16th with blue gell firing into two glasses at the far end of the piano.

Here's another photo from yesterday. Well, the day before yesterday. It's fitting because it involves Kitten who's been annoying me to no end the last couple of days being on heat and meowing constantly. You can also see the piano in the reflection of my glasses. I totally planned that.

Day Fifty Seven - We Mean Business

Kitten disappeared for half the day today. The longest she's ever run away for. I found her later on, cowering under the BBQ out back with a tomcat hassling her. Poor little girl. She's still a little bit quiet and funny but i'm sure she'll be fine after some more cuddles!

I bought a tripod today. A Velbon. It's sturdy as fuck and has hardly any plastic which is a good thing. Reduced to $200. Bargain!

Strobist
Vivitar 285hv at 1/16 to right of kitten
Vivitar 285 hv at 1/4 pointing up behind me

Day Fifty Six - Patrick Dempsey

I won Patrick Dempsey in a game of Drag Bingo at a pub in Melbourne on Monday night. You have no idea how happy this made me. Oh Patrick.

The setup for this shot was actually kinda complicated for my tired self. Patrick was sitting on my tv contemplating his new role in the enchanted when i approached him and asked if he wouldn't mind a photoshoot. Of course he had no hesitation and smiled at me with a nod. My tummy fluttered. I placed about 4 empty glasses and a cologne bottle on a chair behind dempsey and aimed a Vivitar 285 HV at 1/16th power with a blue gel to the left, also using a makeshift snoot to control the light spread. This created the blue bokeh from the out of focus hotspots from the flash on the glasses.

Patrick was lit from the right with a Vivitar 285hv at 1/16th and fired through about 4 sheets of paper to diffuse and lessen the light. (Vivitar 285hvs don't power down below 1/16th.) I put through an order with midwest photo exchange today for 2 westcott 43" umbrellas, 2 lumipro 8' light stands and umbrella clamps. $270 later, but definitely a worthwhile investment. I'm looking forward to shooting decent strobist portraiture.

Day Fifty Five - Coming Home

No matter how many times I leave Tasmania, I always look forward to coming back. Katie comes home in 8 sleeps too. =)

I'll upload more photos from Melbourne over the next couple of days. Five blog posts is enough for one sitting.

Day Fifty Four - Curiosity

Monday in Melbourne. Coffee in Yarraville again. I spent too much money today again. This dog was so small and so cute so of course, I had to photograph him. Maybe I take too many dog photos. Maybe not. Who cares.

Day Fifty Three - New Friend

This gorgeous Kelpie lives a few houses away from Max's Dad's place where we spent a few nights while in Melbourne. Everytime we walked past he'd squeeze his head through the hole in the gate and beckon us to come and pet him. He was lovely. After a few pets and licks he'd run off and get his ball, dropping it through the hole for us to throw it for him. Poor little guy. Obviously didn't get enough loving from his owners. I want to take him home.

I should also mention that Max's dad is actually Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

Day Fifty Two - Premiere

PREMIERE PREMIERE!! Two Wheels 'N' Pub Meals, our latest BMX video premiered at the Anchor tonight and it was nuts. Heaps more photos over here!
The DVD will be available for sale in a few weeks. I'll keep you posted.

Day Fifty One - Hungover

25. Around the number of drinks consumed the night before, many courtesy of Rupert.


Max took this one straight after I took a photo of him looking very similar on the other side of the table. Breakfast in Yarraville.
I love Melbourne. Here's Rupert being a turtle. Silly boy.

Day Fifty - Rupert

This is Rupert. One of Max's longest good friends. He met up with us on the first afternoon in Melbourne and we proceded to drink into the evening. It was fucking amazing. The night included Melbourne's Ice Bar and Drag Queens. Nuff said. I'm tired and have five days worth of photos from Melbourne to post so I'll just let the photos speak for themselves. Aparently each photo speaks a thousand words so this will be one hefty essay...