Older photos – part 2
Next up we have my partial attempt at Sculptures by the Sea at Bondi Beach, partial in the fact that I only got half way before having to leave to head to dinner. Definitely need to make more of an effort to go, more than once preferably as it's one of those events that is always so much fun (photographically). So much choice of subject and in varying environment makes it a challenge to capture something different.
Would love some comments on this photo, bit of an experiment with the composition and the post (and funnily enough, not even a sculpture itself!)
Below is my take on Sculptures by the Sea 2011.
Click for the rest of Sculptures 2011
So the reason the photos from above were cut short was the need to attend Steve's and Janet's birthday at Hurricanes in Darling Harbour. Photos from the night below, nothing too fancy seeing as I only had my 35mm f/2 and no flash with me (I've been pretty lazy these days).
Click for pics of Steve and Janet's 23rd
Sunday Dinner – Pan Fried Salmon Fillet
Surprisingly there were no left overs from yesterday's BBQ with the family so I had to resort to making my own dinner, there was a piece of Salmon Fillet in the fridge so that'd be the choice for the main.
Salmon I keep very simple, all I did was sprinkle on some cracked pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice. In the frying pan I had a few cloves of garlic frying and once it got up to temperature, in went the fish. As it cooks sprinkle on a little salt and flip over. Serve once cooked to your liking.
Here's the end result, with a green salad on the side as well as some potato salad.
Pan fried salmon
Made a little dipping sauce on the side made up of mustard, mayonnaise, lemon juice and a little honey.
Very quick, very simple and pretty good in taste.
Day 12 – Yoyogi Park, Ginza and the Ninja Cafe
Another day and another adventure, a good day always starts out with a good breakfast, and not much can be katsu curry with an egg. For some reason I have a strange liking for Japanese curry even though it's hardly a proper curry.
Katsu curry breakfast
Being a Sunday, we wanted to go see some Harajuku girls, or the people dressed in cosplay as the last time we went, it was rather disappointing. This time round, it wasn't spectacular either, but we had an interesting look into the culture of the Japanese youth in Japan.
Entering Yoyogi
Upon entering Yoyogi park, there was a very vibrant atmosphere, almost like a festival. The first sight was the water feature above and surrounding us was the sound of drums from the guys below.
Drumming away
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.
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.
Sambo & Seak You’s Wedding
On Sunday the 29th I shot my first wedding ever and it was quite a tough experience, firstly I was the only photographer at the wedding reception (held at Golden Star Palace) and there was no direction or desire ot certain photos from the wedding couple, their instructions? "Just take photos of whatever" no help at all, not even knowing what was going to happen and when, I was constantly running around trying to plan ahead with some luck. It didn't help that English wasn't even the main language being presented by the MC letting everyone know what was about to happen. The food however was delicious and I enjoyed as much as a I could before scrambling around trying to get photos. Overall I think the photos turned out great, but it would have been great to be a bit more consistent, but nothing some Lightroom can't fix.
Photos of my first wedding shoot are below:
Ishani’s 21st Birthday
On Friday the 27th of November, I went to shoot Ishani's 21st birthday with a 007 theme and it was great fun, this was the first event I shot with my new SB900 flash and I love the results, the extra power allowed me to bounce using the high ceiling giving quite nice results. Overall I had a great time shooting the party and it was good fun, thanks to Ishani for the oppportunity.
Photos below:
Eric’s 21st Birthday
On th 19th of November we had a nice dinner at Bar Luck in Cabramatta to celebrate Eric Souksai's 21st Birthday with a nice simple and relaxed theme of 'geek tshirt'. He wasn't too strict on the theme but we got some nice shirts from it (surely not from me =D). After the dinner we also headed out to Tang's house where we stayed til about 4am talking shit and playing poker, work the next day was not fun.
Photos from the dinner are below.
Theresa’s 6th Birthday
Photos from my little cousin Theresa's 6th Birthday, just a smallish gathering at the Bankstown RSL club for a buffet dinner.
Doing everything you’re not supposed to be doing…
It's Monday night, 3 days away from my one and only exam and I can't seem to focus on getting any studying done, the whole course doesn't really seem to make much sense, probably due to the incompetence of my lecturer and tutor (okay and my tendency to procastinate). Damn this whole database crap is doing my head in, functional dependencies, lossless decomposition, dependency preservation, b+ trees, joins, 4th normal form, multi valued dependencies, indexes, sparse indexes...argh I don't remember anything. Should have at least rocked up to the tutes, I think I would have at least learnt some of processes needed to answer some of the exam questions. But anyways, enough of my ranting about the stupid subject and my crappy teachers.
I'm gonna write about dinner from last night (which I made, by myself XD).
The dish? Linguine withPanfried Salmon, well in my case it was more Fettucine than Linguine. Picture of the final result below. Verdict? Fairly tasty, but not as good as my Creamy Saffron and Seafood Fettucine from the other day (unfortunately no pics).
The recipe I found from google and allrecipes.com.au and instructions/ingredients are as follows.
Belrich, Jimmy & Winnie’s 21st B’day
On Friday the 25th of September 2009, we celebrated Belrich, Jimmy and Winnie's 21st B'day with a delicious banquet at Kobe Jones as well as some additions like the Dynamite Rolls, level 5 and then the 'non-existent' level 5+ called level 6 by the waiter. Dinner was a 7 or 8 course meal I believe maybe a bit more or less, but a fairly diverse experience.
It was a fun night out followed by a fairly dull clubbing experience at Docks hotel which had a pretty crappy DJ who could barely beatmatch and a small crowd. I can't really be bothered to write much, weather sucks today and it's a long weekend too.
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