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September 19, 2007

music and photos, just the way I like it

At the moment I can’t get enough of some of the live recordings from Bonnaroo. I also just like saying the word Bonnaroo. Even if it is meant to be Cajan Slang it sounds quite Australian to me. This year there was also a swag of Aussies showing the people stateside how music is made. Well two of them did, I am still not sold that the third one makes music. The first two are Xavier Rudd and The John Butler Trio. Both of whom have been nominated for ARIAs as could be expected.

The three live recordings that I am loving at the moment are all available at the 2007 Bonnaroo at Large Hearted Boy

John Butler Trio: 2007-06-17, Bonnaroo (Sendspace link) [mp3]
Regina Spektor: 2007-06-16, Bonnaroo (Sendspace link) [mp3]
Xavier Rudd: 2007-06-16, Bonnaroo [mp3,ogg,flac]

I still have quite a few artists on that list that I want to check out live.

On the weekend Clare and I went to the Acoustic in the Park afternoon at Southank. It was a nice afternoon of relatively unknown local singer/songwriters. We went because we wanted to check out Georgia Potter who delighted us.

Clare’s Shoes

Georgia and then two of the other acts. I can’t recall their names at the moment and can’t find the slip of paper I was writing it down on. Southbank has not posted the names anywhere.

Also went to the farm on Sunday morning and took a few photos. These two are my favs.

Work is still going pretty well but getting quite busy.

September 16, 2007

I am now a Posse Girl :D

Remember that post a couple of months ago at my outrage over the price of the Tori Amos tickets and that I couldn’t justify the $120 pricetag? Reading the paper today and I see a little ad. All tickets for Tori Amos now $70 (well $69.90 + $5.50 booking fee). I raced into my bedroom, loaded up the Ticketek website and that ticket was mine. I am going to be a Posse Girl.

I reckon I was not the only person saying no thank you to the price tag!
I picked up a pretty decent seat to. Section: S11, Row: K, Seat: 183. Pretty similar to the seat I had for Bernard Fanning but on the other side of the stage. I am soooooooo excited.

September 13, 2007

work, socialise, sleep. repeat

It seems like ever since I started working that my social life has been filled up with places to go, people to meet etc. That may have been in part due to Georgie coming home and also not working 4 nights a week.

Since I don’t think I will ever catch up with big blog posts I will do a mini recap – I still have photos from Melbourne to post, namely the warbling Tom Woodward gig from the last night.

Saturday 8/9/07, two parties.
The first party/bbq was a farewell party to a friend from high school, Belinda who has received a 3 year scholarship to Cambridge(yeah that Cambridge) to complete her Phd in something to do with MRIs and modelling. Great to catch up with both Bindy’s family and the girls from high school.

The second party was an interesting hour filled with ramblings, alcohol and photo taking. A couple of people from work and their random friends.

Sunday Arvo 9/9/07
Shakespeare on Oxford.
A free presentation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on a Sunday arvo. How could I resist? Georgie joined me for the last part of the play before we headed back to her house for dinner with her family. Quite a nice afternoon.

Monday 10/9/07
POTN Brisbane night time adventure night 1, Southbank.
Someone had the whacky idea of going out two nights in a row to take photos of the City at dusk/night from two different angles. From Southbank the first night and Kangaroo point the second night. They were both very fun nights with lots of flash war fun. Props to the fast recycle time/flash strength of the 580ex. I could out flash all night long 😀 Still going through photos from this night and I haven’t even started on the next night. All I have left to go through for this night are photos from the break dancers we stumbled upon at Southbank and random POTN crew photos.

September 7, 2007

xxxxx xxxx, Helen speaking

So, I have now been doing the daily grind for 2 weeks or 80hrs and in that time, every time the phone rings at home I instantly think xxxxx xxxxx, Helen speaking. Then I have to pause for a moment and think of what I am actually meant to say. At this moment I can’t even think of what I normally do say, Helen speaking I think, who knows. Even the home phone feels strange in my hand because it is so light compared to the one at work which I spend just a little bit of time on each day.

I am starting to enjoy it though as I get to know the people, the projects and what I have to do.

Georgie and I are off to see Educating Rita tonight at the QUT Gardens Theatre, which should be a very good night indeed, even if the two others we invited had to bail on us…..

September 7, 2007

Melbourne at 12mm

or close enough. One of the fun times I had in Melbourne was with the 12-24mm on my new baby (The 5d was only 2 days old when I took it to Melbourne) lapping up the full frame goodness of been able to get shots like this of a cyclist in Fitzroy.

Or this one of St Paul’s

Some others, click for bigger photos as always

I love this lens way more than I loved it on the 350d and the 5D, I love it so so so much; noise at high iso is extremely limited, it has a much wider dynamic range than the 350d, which I love as it means that I rarely have blown out skies as you can see from the photos above. I just love it.

September 4, 2007January 12, 2008

Riverfire life

Some photos which are not fireworks from Riverfire on the weekend.
We had it all planned out. You know what they say about the best laid plans though. We ended up with Georgie, Mum and I at Cpt Burke Park on one side of the river for the fireworks and Georgie’s parents and boyfriend on the other side of the river as they missed the last ferry across the river. They also had the bubbly that we had been looking forward to, as well as the sushi and quiches that we made that noon. We ended up meeting back at Georgie’s house where we had a supper of the goodies that we didn’t get to eat at Riverfire and we got to drink the bubbly.

The crowd and their camp chairs