Who are we...

I have titled this text, who are we?

Not really sure why I have named this, I am having a pretty strange day, keep thinking who am I? What am I doing with myself? I have had a pretty 'down' day in the office, I am normally a bubbly upbeat person in the office but today that person wasn't around.

It seems that my line manager new somehow what was on my mind. We had a brief but inspiring conversation after work about finding ourselves and understand what our passion is and making that passion something we do in our everyday life. I have always thought being a photographer is my dream and to some extent it is. Photography is my passion, I love every aspect of the art and the science behind it. I feel I have the potential to make this passion my dream but I have been saying this since 2011 - it is now 2015... at what point in your life do you either, stop saying; I'd love to do that one day/ I'll do that one day or actually make it happen. I feel like I have been repeating myself for the past four years and actually got nowhere with it.

I say to people I am a photographer, but am I? Yes I can take a half decent photo with an expensive camera, but lets face the iphone can now take just as good of a shot and most 10 year old kids now have iphones. It is now that I need to decide if that is my passion, my dream or have I been telling myself this for so many years that I have just convinced myself that. I could ramble on about my views and have many arguments with myself but I won't. I will get back to this when I have had some time to re-evaluate my life... well not quite, just re-evaluate my passion!

Shaun Diviney - Short Stack!

Spending a day in the studio with Shaun Diviney from Short Stack was an awesome day out! I should of got more photography shots than I did, but I couldn't help get distracted by the process of being in a studio recording. My goodness it takes a long time! Of course it is completely worth it. Being able to work with Trevor Steel, a family friend of my fathers, was an awesome experience. As a little girl I remember him being my dads rock star friend. Having the opportunity to work with him was a little bit of a dream come true as well as being on the other side of the world.

Anyway, enough about my emotional attachment to this experience, you can see the images below of Mr Diviney, working hard in the studio. Well maybe not the middle image, I believe he may of been taking a break, possibly stretching his arms over the guitar... I'm not too sure.

 

 

The Basement, Sydney

Working in The Basement, Sydney is possibly the best job I have ever had. Not only did the people make everyday thoroughly enjoyable I could not think of anything better to do than get up everyday and set up a venue for some awesome iconic musicians.  Working here made me see you definitely made me realise you get what you put in...

 

My only regret would be not focusing on my main aim. My plan was to use the time to focus on my photography, however it is so easy to get distracted with life and the usual daily routines. I used to work 10-7 most days which meant I should of spent the evening shows using my skills and developing my photography portfolio. 

 

That was happening ever so slightly but looking back it was not as much as it could of been. I have a few images below from The Basement but it would be a much prouder moment if I had a whole range of images to show how much I loved my time there.  

 

 

 

 

Thailand

Okay, so I am currently in Australia and feel the need to type frantically about my time in Thailand. 

These shots sum up the beauty of the country and with the help of my fisheye lens I was able to get full 360 degree angle of exactly what I was seeing to capture these incredible memories. 

 

  

I like to think my experience from Thailand was much more spiritual than most 22 year olds that go backpacking. We came across so many young people who were there to just get drunk and get cheap drugs from over a pharmacy counter. It was quite shocking to see how much the younger generation have no morals or any respect for the country they were in.

 

When we were in Phi Phi, that was the time we realised we did not belong in the commercial islands of Thailand. It was when we arrived in Koh Toh (which is now actually commercial) at the time not many people were on Koh Toh, we arrived and hired a quad bike to stumble across a temple. We met a monk... he asked if we had time for him to show us something, my friend was reluctant to say yes but me being me, replied and said 'yes of course we do'.  This was possibly the best decision I have ever made. We did not leave this temple for another three to four hours later. He taught us the morals of being Buddhist. He taught us how to pray to the Buddha and he blessed us...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tunes For Treatment

Tunes for Treatment is a local based charity that raises money for Leukaemia.  They organise events every month as an opportunity for bands to get together and perform to a crowd of people who make donations tot he charity. It was my duty to photograph the bands and crowds for the website and facebook.  It was an awesome experience working with these people and see how everyone comes together in the music and arts industry in my local town for such a good cause. 

 

Courageous Make-Up

Style of Ellen Von Unwerth