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My new hipstermatic camera, love it.

I love technology!

Ok, so I had no idea you could blog directly from your mobile. This is awesome!

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David

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Imats competition New York

This is the video from IMATS, a makeup trade show that was held in New York while we were there. . My partner was competing in the Fantasy and Prosthetic section of the competition. As I was going to be covered from head to toe and made up to be a hideous monster, I agreed to be the model and it was tonne of fun. I can now honestly say that I have performed on Broadway (the show was held in a warehouse waaaaay down the other end of broadway) We wandered around the exhibits after the judging scaring the crap out of people.

Hello America, we have landed!

Btw, she had a real model for the fantasy section and placed third.

The rest of America

Ok, so I was really lazy once we left Chicago But to be fair, there was so much to see and so little Internet cafes that I just never got around to publishing more photos!

So here is the rest of the trip. These are layouts from a book Im getting printed on our trip. They are the best of the 1700 images I took.

I only took a small instant digital with me, I didnt want to spend the whole trip looking through the camera. It was really liberating and also callenging to go the entire trip with a camera with so many limitations and I absolutely loved it.

Who says you need a big, expensive camera to get good shots. Oh, and the images loaded in reverse order, just to confuse you further!

Paddy Pallin videos

A few short 'Behind the scene' videos I did for the Paddy Pallin Winter and Summer catalogs


Summer Catalog Katerine region NT Aust




Winter Catalog Wanaka NZ

These were put together from footage shot by the models, stylist, etc. The idea was to see the making of the catalog through the eyes of the people making them. They are fun and rough, I tried to make them feel like you were watching someones home movies.

Chicago

Well, if new york was the transition to America, Chicago has been the blowout! With both of us having friends here, the heads have been sore, the morning blurry and the nights long. Nothing much to report here, taking it fairly quiet and preparing for our epic cross country drive. We leave tomorrow and with a new bed spread, pillows and 2 lounge chair cushions ($24.98 for what is close enough to a mattress, how can you go wrong) a camp stove and 3 pounds of Brazil nuts, we are ready to go. Apparently President Obama was in town last night, as was P Daddy, we missed both and were nowhere near them but I figure that we have enter the city with good company. The weather has been cold and snow is predicted so it should make for an interesting start to the trip. the highlight here for sure was our supermarket trip, this place was amazing!! A sushi restaurant, a fresh pizza oven, wine bar and live band, all inside the supermarket!!! it was insane, the photo of Simon and Mariel isn't at a fancy bar, its actually next to the diary isle after we finished shopping, I love it, so over the top and extravagant it was perfect!! Simon has been a legend giving us his bed while we are here and playing the ultimate host, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou for the fresh fruit and vegies, NO MORE TACOS!! well, prob and few more...... damn they are good! Thats it for this leg, will report more from the road.

New York, New York

Well, its been a crazy week so far, im not sure if we've been here 2 days or 2 months. Big new today is that Mariel has taken out 3rd place in the students makeup competition. First place was fairly deserved but the local hack that took out second place needs to be knee capped, Im thinking backhand payments myself!! Mariel is wrapped but exhausted, so a few drinks to celebrate then back tomorrow for the fantasy prosthetic comp. First is a certain for this one, will keep you posted. We are staying in the sheriton in Tribeca, which is a palace compared to our last hotel. Although clean and in East Village, the "quirky" hotel has rooms no bigger than a closet. A bunk bed and not enough room for the two of us to stand at the same time! As cramped as it was, it was fun and like sleeping in a ships cabin, a 5th class cabin, maybe 4th. Statton island ferry, brooklyn bridge, $1 pizza late at night, statue of liberty and more subway riding than I care to think about. The guggenheim, natural history museum and TGI Fridays, just to top it off. We have just about covered all we wanted to in NY and beleive it or not, I am now a converted shopper and have 3 new pairs of jeans to prove it. In fact its hard for us to walk up the street without buying something. Broadway and canal st seems to be the best spots and Tribeca Tacos (a food cart on Broadway) serves the best food I have ever eaten!! I even managed to squeeze in a few trips to Central park to try out the bouldering areas at its south end. There are only 2 spots to climb really, but meeting some locals and climbing with them showed me that NYC is tough climbing. Sharp rock, tough routes and amazingly open and friendly people. In fact I have been majorly mislead, NY is open, clean, safe, friendly and incredibly easy to move around in. Apparently everyone says the opposite in the hope to keep it to themselves, just my opinion. We headed up to Long Island to see Mariels Aunty on Thursday, it was great, NY nuns are tough!! we went out to dinner, the three of us and sister Ilene, to say sister Ilene is a bit scary is like saying the sun gets a little warm. We headed to an italian resteraunt that looked like a set from the Sopranos, wait staff and all. We tried to pay for the meal and the staff said they couldnt give me or mariel the bill because Sister Seamus said she was paying and they were scared of her. They were dead serious and with threats of "smacking our bums off!!" Mariel had to distract her while I snuck around the back to pay the waiter. A heart of gold but a fist of steel!! We are heading to Chicago on Monday, via the rail overnight. I will update again from there and hopefully get some pictures up as well. xx

Botany bay mangrove forest

Wheeling my kayak down to the water in the dark at 5am, I was fairly sure of where to go, but having never been to this area before it was going to be a bit of an adventure. The kilometer paddle across the inlet was silent in the still, predawn. Arriving at the mangroves, i paddle into the forest and watched the sun rise while gliding through an amazing forest totally different to anything I had seen before.

Empress falls

A few friends and myself went up to Katoomba which is 2hrs west of Sydney last week. We had done this canyon and absail the week before and I wanted to go back to try and photograph it properly. Armed with decent camera gear and a massive spotlight and battery, a series of 12 shots for the background and 10 or so shots each for the guys absailing produced the following....

Unwanted Cloud Effect

To all Advanced Photoshop forum users, this is the image i'm referring to.
Thanks.