Vivid 2011
Bit delayed but finally got round to getting through the rest of the photos, cold nights and the projections were heaps dynamic and moved around making long exposures difficult. Vivid does seem to be growing in size but one thing I did notice was that the projections on the Opera House weren't as precise as the previous years, not sure why.
The display at Customs House was rather pretty though!
Pics below:
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Sports Car Weekend at Eastern Creek
So you've seen the preview with that sexy chrome painted SLS, now here are the rest of the pictures, plenty of fast cars to drool over.
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Eastern Creek over the weekend
Spent some time at Eastern Creek over the weekend to check out some racing including Round 3 of the Australian GT Championship. Felt like I got the hang of panning that day and some areas seemed easier than others, definitely wanna go again some time soon and put the 70-200 to work, had a bit of trouble at the start of the day and was using shutter speeds of 1/160 or so, with a bit more practice, managed to get a couple of good shots down to about 1/50 and 1/60. Got dark pretty quick so I had to up the ISO a fair bit, up to 1600 near the end. Well here's a shot from the day, I'm still going through the pics.
SLS!
Probably get the whole gallery up in a few days.
Magic City 2011 – It’s Showtime – Photos
So after snapping over 1800 photos, I've been able to cull that down to a lovely 250 or so for your viewing pleasure. It was a much better night than I had expected (probably because the hardstyle started later than usual.
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Thanks for looking.
Few more birthdays
So as you can see I've finally gone through some more photos and these should be the last of the birthdays I've been to where I've had my camera with me. The first is a small album from Ben, Carmen and David Huynh's birthday, not quite as entertaining as the year before, but it was just a nice cake cutting at Carmen's place followed by dinner at Wagaya.
Next up was a dinner and karaoke night at Mizuya in the city, fun night out and in terms of photography, I've experimented a fair bit with these photos trying out various different looks (either low saturation, high contrast B&W or playing with split toning). Any thoughts and opinions would be great.
Particularly fond of this shot though, just like the way the light from Kim's phone shines on her and makes her stand out.
2011 begins, and I’m almost there
So after this post I'll be a couple of photos from being up-to-date, but since I stopped blogging for a while until now, quite a few things have changed, I'm finally in my final semester at Uni with another two subjects to go (seriously can't wait til it's over) and in addition to that, I had started full time work. Such a drastic change from being able to laze around and bludge to getting up before 7am getting ready to catch the train every day to work. Days at work vary, some insanely hectic to others where you're not too busy. Team's been great, everyone around is heaps friendly and always willing to help out and answer questions. I won't mention the awesome start to the year, walking out of the Etihad Stadium with a huge smile on my face, if you weren't there, you wouldn't understand.
Deb's birthday wasn't too far away from the start and I was there to take a few snaps.
Next up was my man Mike's 22nd birthday. For some reason this kid decided not to have a 21st birthday but instead, opts for a large 22nd! I just don't get him sometimes, but it was a great party despite me not being able to get back in at 12 as Aurorar bar sucks and no re-entry after 12 is permitted. Cover photo is in black and white because I'm moody and all that 
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Tang turns 22
Final set of photos to complete this post is little Yvonne's 22nd birthday, celebrated with plenty of food.
Yvn's 22nd
So just another post and I'll be good to go, apologies to those waiting for photos (if you want them quick pay me 
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Last moments of 2010
So the last days of 2010 went by rather quick, first and foremost a lunch outing with the majority of the crew that did BIT or ISM starting from 2007 (God that was a long time ago) to celebrate their final days of Uni (not me though, because i'm special). It was a nice lunch courtesy of Christine, our course coordinator who's helped us through hundreds and thousands of emails and queries. It was a a nice gathering and good to see everyone before we all parted ways.
- bitism lunch
Once back from my trip and having a few days of long away rest and sleep, it was time to be out and about again, firstly, a BBQ at Lily Tran's house to celebrate Christmas. Nothing better than spending a nice summer afternoon with friends around the BBQ with a drink or ten. No one ended up too drunk and with my fairly okay drink count, I was still quite good.
Christmas at Lily's - 2010
No summer is complete without a fishing trip of sorts, so early one morning we make the trip up to Clifton for some fishing action. There were quite a few people there already so we couldn't get prime position, but we pushed on anyway and hoped for some luck. But as you can see from my album title, it was somewhat fail, ended up catching 2.5 fish (one of them was a tiny bream). Nice thing about getting up early is catching the sunrise and I've finally done some sunrise photography.
Lovely sunrise
One of the final set of photos for the year was from my younger cousin's birthday who despite his size, is only 12.
Wilson and family
So these photos represent the final days and weeks of my 2010, but it was such a thrill being able to spend the transition into 2011 with an all night party with the number 1 DJ, Armin van Buuren. Such a great event and you really can't top seeing Armin for 9 hours straight, still remember the climatic countdown with the drummer just hammering away, almost as though he couldn't keep it up. Small glitch in the countdown but it was one hell of a night. Spent the next few days exploring a bit of Melbourne which was quite fun, but definitely gotta plan another trip down soon.
Well that wraps up 2010, I'm a step closer to getting this blog updated and getting the rest of the photos up.
Jenny and Johnny’s Engagement
So as the party for Jenny and Johnny took place on Saturday amid scary looking weather the rain held off to ensure a lovely time. Naturally I was taking photos for the event, and they're below:
A Night of Light
So on Saturday night, VSA UNSW unveiled their Night of Light charity gala and what a night it was. Plenty of photos to show off wonderful night. Photos coming on facebook very soon.
Enjoy.
DEFQON.1 – Photos
So the Regatta centre was once again turned into the ultimate party island and I had the privilege of being one of the official photographers =D. Bit different to my usual gigs and definitely more stressful having to keep track of your nice shots and having them ready on the night. Bit harder not being able to sit in the comfort of your home on a fast computer sorting through the photos are your own pace, rather being rushed to sort out some nice ones for the website.
Was also quite stressing to meet the 1pm deadline to get pics for the poster, definitely tricky seeing as the venue was barely full.
But anyways, it was a nice day out with awesome weather, pics are on www.q-dance.com.au website and whatever didn't make the cut is below:
Photos from the past few weeks
So, I've been a lazy ass lately and photos have been piling up without being posted, so I've just thrown everything into one post.
First is VSA cruise of 2010, a lot of fisheye photos in this one, suprised I managed to get this in focus.
Next up are the photos from the VSA UNSW BBQ from August.
Also, 10 years later after we had all left primary school, the time capsule we had put in the ground in the year 2000 was finally dug up. Some things had changed at school, while others largely remained the same. As our memory of what was in the capsule was quite fuzzy, we all remembered the things in there being better than they actually were. The contents were a bit disappointing.
Within the last few weeks, our friend David Huynh had the privilege of graduating, finally after years of work and thousands of dollars, he's got the piece of paper which makes it all worth it.
Nugo also tried to redeem himself with his 22nd birthday (not many photos from this one), most of you will remember he conked out really early for his 21st and this time round, he wasn't gonna disappoint.
Thien and Kalee also celebrated their 22nd birthdays with a Korean BBQ dinner at the Bakehouse garden in North Strathfield complimented by two games of ten-pin bowling.
And most recently, during the mid sem break, I went on a trip up north to MacMasters beach on the Central Coast. Wonderful time with decent weather, and when it did get chilly, the jacuzzi was a nice touch.
Carolyn, Eileen & Sylvia’s 21st
A night of drunken fun at the Forbes hotel, pictures below:
VSA Team Day 2010
Photos from the VSA team day, it was a great day out with beautiful weather and plenty of fun and friendly faces. Plenty of fun games and activities as well as some serious discussion about what VSA is and what we can do for you.
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Andy’s 21st b’day
Photos from Andy's 21st at Forbes hotel, tried out a new style of processing, would love any comments on whether you like it or not.
