Sunday, 22 January 2012

Happy Lunar New Year - Chuc Mung Nam Moi!

It's the year of the lucky dragon! Let's hope it really is a lucky year because don't we all need a bit of luck?!

Photos from last weekend's Victoria St Vietnamese Community Lunar New Year Celebrations (aka Tet).

Had such a blast - so much food haha.

Hai Loc - fortunes for the year

Lion Dancing - great tradition

Can't believe they do this all day haha

Just on and on up and down the street ...

First time I asked to take a stranger's photo. This kid was way too cute in traditional dress ;)

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Cave man! haha

I shall be brief - photos from the Naracoorte Limestone Caves.

Mirror pool - pretty spooky but cool!

Love that Leica black and white!

Just looks like honey dripping from the ceiling (nom nom)

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Road Trip!

So my bf (bff) and I decided to head on a road trip adventure starting in Adelaide which took us along South Australia's Coorong area - the Limestone Coast, to Mt Gambier and then along the Great Ocean Road before heading back to Melbourne.

We stayed at some amazing accommodation. Highlight was seeing the Naracoorte limestone caves which I haven't seen again since a child. The Blue Lake in Mt Gambier was pretty cool and so to was the local meat (nom nom). More on that in another blog post but for now just some photos from the drive - really dry rough country. Had a great time - so much sun!!!


Henley Beach - South Australia


Sunny along the Coorong in South Australia

The Coorong - South Australia

Off Road

Fields of salt: the result of removing native vegetation from the land

Fish shop near the Jetty in Kingston SA

All about the seafood

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Happy New Year!!!

ADL 2012: Adelaide 2012 got it in the first take on NYE. Using sparklers and shutter priority mode on Leica set to 2 seconds taken by my wonderful bf (haha bff lol)

In 2011, I started blogging when I moved to Melbourne. Okay so a little lazy towards the end and didn't get as many blog posts up as I would have liked but I had so much fun in the process. 2011 was great! It had it's challenges of course but hey I had fun most of the time!

In 2012 there are a few more goals I'd like to set for myself.

Keep Blogging!
One being to continue to blog at least two posts per month. My Lecia D Lux 5 will still be the primary camera for the shots included in this blog but think I might make a real effort to include some shots taken with a bigger camera (Pentax K7).

I'll admit I'm lazy when it comes to slugging around a huge DSLR but will try harder to make the use of other cameras that I have access to.

Fitness
I'd like to be fitter in 2012. I really slacked off on the exercising this year - so here's to more discipline and motivation!!! I really don't have any more excuses for sitting around and doing nothing!

Budget $
In 2012 I want to cut back on impulse purchases and really focus on saving for big(ger) ticket items like trips away, furniture for the apartment and making sure I stay on top of all my finances - really get smart about superannuation etc...

Collecting Family Recipes
I started this project in 2011 but really want to commit to collecting classic recipes that I take for granted from my mum, dad and aunties! Get it all together and work on pulling at least a PDF collection of recipes to share with interested parties.

Just a few that I've thought of thus far. I will keep thinking about it all :)

Lonely Heart! Love this photo so much fun!

XOX: Kids were so much fun to hang out with! They really reminded me to remember to have fun and play.

NYE 2012: Achieved using mobile phone screens set to different colours. Again shutter mode on Leica set to 2 seconds.

Stick People: how fast can you draw a stick figure? About 2 seconds lol