Photographer's Assistant take 2

You may remember earlier in the year we skulked around Fremantle working as Photographer's Assistants to my lovely daughter - she with my Nikon and me with my iPhone (which incidentally, I am going to be calling my iCamera from now on as the phone function on this nifty little toy mysteriously stopped working about three days after the warranty ended. But, I digress...).

Fast forward to now and we are assisting again, only this time we are a few hours from Perth on a farm just out of Pingelly. Not-so-much farming happening here though, it's more your junk yard type farm. (Think Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome minus Tina Turner).

Our model was one of my daughter's very good friends ,who obligingly balanced atop old trucks in the highest-of-high heels. Me and my iCamera just kind of hung around, snapping away happily.

Good (if a little dusty) times.

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Note to self...

...under no circumstances make grand statements such as "I'm going to take up jogging on my long service leave!" Yes, it's true, I have managed to jog (if you can call it that) twice, which sounds reasonable until you consider that I have been away from work for five weeks now. 

I have, however, been walking. Much more civilised I think, and gives me the chance to stop and smell the roses (and take a few happy snaps).

It's a whole different world out there at 9am. Ordinarily I'd be well-and-truly in the thick of it at work at that time, but out there, in the land of the walkers, all is sunshine and cheery "good mornings".

Hope you get the chance for a lovely long walk this weekend.

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Australia Day 2011

I can't think of anything more Aussie to do than spend an hour or so at Gino's watching the cars go by. Driving up and down South Terrace in the noisiest and flashiest car you can lay your hands on has long been a right-of-passage for generations of, well...let's just call them young men.

We could have sat there for hours, watching the spectacle of passersby. The highlight for me was the motorcycle rider with a blow-up doll riding pillion. And yes, I do believe her mouth was open to catch the wind. Unfortunately no photos of that as I was too busy munching on my Gino's fries to take my camera out (see how I now refer to my phone as a camera...very sad indeed.)

Today is Australia Day here in the land of Oz. Seafood barbeques, fireworks and girls walking around dressed in a bikini and a flag. There is also, of course, a healthy dose of denial about what this date really commemorates. (What could be more Australian than that?)

Wherever you are, however you choose to mark this day, have a good one friends.

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