The theme this year was 1950s, held at the Paddington Town Hall.
Me and my dapper husband.
Spinning!
Google Holiday Party 2010
Sydney
YouTube Sessions & Jessica Mauboy
I met the lovely Jessica Mauboy at the launch of YouTube Sessions. She has a fantastic voice and was quite adorable.
Great Scott!
Alec and I had a fantastic time at a Back to the Future charity screening to raise money for the Parkinson’s Foundation.
Check us out in the DeLorean.
This is heavy!
Welcome Summer!
Sydney is suddenly tropical. Stinking hot days, followed by days of non-stop rain.
I can’t wait till Christmas this year. After last year’s insanity of planning a wedding, this year is looking calm and relaxed by comparison.
Yayyyy summer!
Family outing at Manly
BFFs at Balmain
Poser
Vinzena & Mark’s Wedding, St Mary’s Cathedral
Alec and I were guests at our first Scotalian wedding this weekend, held in the crypt at St Mary’s Cathedral.
The beautiful bride, Vinzena, with her lovely parents.
The happy couple, Vin & Mark.
Outside the crypt, listening to the bagpipe player.
Congrats guys, on a gorgeous, fun, wedding, and what I know will be a fabulously happy marriage.
Sunday Brunch @ Kazbah
Aston Live at TGIF
I had the amazing pleasure to watch the talented classical group, Aston, live at Google.
Birthday in Melbourne: Day 3
My birthday fell on day 3 of our Melbourne trip. We had a sleep in, breakfast in the hotel, and then sauntered off to the Tim Burton Exhibition. I’ve always admired his films, so seeing his artwork on loan from personal collections was quite amazing. I found it entertaining picturing him as an animator for Disney, seeing as his personal style is quite the opposite.
I felt most inspired seeing the exhibition, as Tim Burton has clearly worked extremely hard to get to where he is. For every success he has had, he’s had more than double the amount of projects go nowhere. His passion and skill have taken him to where he is, also his tenacity. It reminded me to be stronger and not give up on my dreams.
Hello giant blow-up scary person.
“Nananananananana BATMAN!”
My favourite quote of the day, overheard in the exhibition: “Did he do Shrek?” Lol.
After the exhibition we wandered around some more on the river banks until the sun went down.
The Yarra.
Very scenic.
As CBD as it gets.
Pretty bridge makes for nice photos.
Baroo?
It’s my birthday and I’ll pose if I want to.
And make my husband pose too!
Another graffiti wall.
Outside the ACMI building – such a cool design.
I lurve you blob!
Raaarrr!
We didn’t exactly see eye-to-eye, lol.
Run, husband!
Blobs make for handy seats too.
And then SHE said …
After much wandering, we had dinner at the very funky Fifteen. I love Jamie Oliver, so was keen to try his restaurant.
The restaurant was excellent. Stylish, great vibe, fabulous service. The food was really great, interesting recipes rather than the stock standard type, particularly for the veggo options.
What is down the stairs?!
Happy birthday to me! (This may have started out as “happy birrhday” …)
Another year older …
One more pose for the road. Happy, well-fed and slightly tipsy.
Even the restaurant had graffiti art …
I’m on a tram!
Back at the hotel – Alec and the frog, together at last.
I wore out my husband …
Thanks so much for the fantastic weekend away Alec 🙂 xox
Bye Bye J-Vo
My dear friend JennJenn is heading off the the Mexico office soon. I’m not really great at telling people how I feel in person, or even showing it through writing. This seems to be surprising to a lot of people as they think of me as a writer, ergo, I must be good at every kind of writing. Also, I’m a prodigious talker, ego, I must be ace at expressing myself verbally. Ba-bow. It doesn’t work that way. Turns out, I’m much better at showing how I feel through photographs.
So for my very dear friend’s farewell, I put together a book chronicling her time at the office over the four-and-a-half years she graced us with her huge presence. In the words of a much better wordsmith than myself, Jenn is the biggest, little person I know.
My friend, I am going to miss you a lot.
I promise we will be visiting you soon. Love you lots.
Freshly Cut at the Gaelic Club
I was contacted to photograph a music event sponsored by Jim Beam – Freshly Cut at the Gaelic Club. I haven’t photographed live music before, and after I had finished, I decided it wasn’t really for me. I did however appreciate the opportunity and was happy that I still managed to get some interesting shots. The three bands I photographed were called Seven Steady, Iron Jack and the Snowdroppers.
Eagle view from the balcony of Iron Duke.
Ahh the fans. This was Seven Steady.
Iron Duke again.
The lead singer of Iron Duke enjoyed singing from the balcony. Risky moves, I enjoyed it!