Haven’t done a Car Plant Series post in a while, so here’s a bit more of the scrap line. Taken a few steps apart, you can see a bit of this on the right of that.

So the feather isn’t perfect, oh well. But it’s still a good shot IMNSHO.

I used to check with people before I posted shots they featured in. Nowadays I tell them after the fact that they’ve had their 15 seconds of fame (due to the economic crisis even fame has suffered a cutback). But I played nicely with this one and checked with M – his reply… “By all means man, post away! I’ve never been one to shy away from gratuitous public displays of affection!” and with that I had a post and a title. Good on ya M.

Jesus I need to get out and take some shots. I’m spending an hour each night desperately combing through the archives over and over, then posting stuff I’m not always super happy with (I’m good with todays shot, yesterdays, not so much).

Previously seen as Vauxhall and Fluffy Dice.

J&K had a great venue for their wedding, the State Library. It was classy, the food was great, and we all had a pretty damn good night.

Long-time Detour viewers will recognise a similar shot ‘The Balcony‘, but that was shot from the other end. (And by ‘long-time viewers’, I mean, ‘no one’.)

The bridesmaids from J&K’s wedding. That’s M on the left, A in the middle (she’s in London these days), and S on the right.

I got some Nik Effects software that plugs in to Lightroom and was playing around with some effects on this shot. The ‘Glamour Glow’ setting was okay, but I kept on returning to the detail in this version of the shot, but I thought I’d open it up and see what others thought. ‘Glamour Glow’ or detail?

One of our clients at work sells agricultural equipment, and in particular, spray equipment. It’s one of those highly specialised areas I never knew existed, and when you get thrown in at the deep end you suddenly realise there’s not only a wealth of knowledge on the subject there’s also a lot of money being made from what appears to be a fairly simple exercise – spraying a field of crops!

Anyway, these nozzles are pretty tiny. About 2cm X 1cm, so the macro came in handy when we needed a last minute shot for a brochure. Love the macro!

Friends, K haz none.

My god, whodathunkit, a shot of a wine glass on a wine tasting weekend. Now there’s some mind blowing creative genius, eh?!

One of the popular local coffee chains is Cibo. Those who like it, love it, and will go out of their way to enjoy it. Me, I hate it and go out of my way to avoid it! I just don’t find it sufficiently flavourful, it’s a bit wishy-washy for my taste buds. Not to mention that I’ve had arguments with them over the appropriate temperature of the coffee – they serve it tepid, I want it hot; they don’t want to ‘burn the milk’, I don’t want luke-warm coffee. So I vote with my feet and refuse to drink their shit. And my friends who frequent their establishments? Well, I was about due for some new friends anyway.

I’m not going to beat around the bush here. This is a ripoff. I could say inspired by, but let’s call a spade a spade shall we?

When I did the swap with Jules, we chatted about local artists. Jules asked if I’d heard of Will Nolan, mentioning he did macro photographs of bottle tops, then printed them in large format. News to me, I said. But when I came upon a rusty old beer bottle cap in the street a few weeks later, I remembered the conversation and decided to give it a whirl myself. Course, king of procrastination here never progressed beyond the intention.

A month or so later I went to the Grad Exhibition and saw a couple of interesting large format photographs. Eventually I read the blurb and learned the distorted subjects were ‘discarded bottle tops’. It took me a while to finally make the connection because I’d assumed Jules had been talking about metal caps while the shots on the wall were of plastic bottle tops.

Skip forward a couple of months more and I’m shooting some macro shit in my lightbox. Looking round for subjects I come across the rusty old beer bottle cap I’d pocketed months ago and decide to finally give it a whirl. And now, still another couple of months later I’m thinking (after much debate) what the hell, I’m coming out of the closet on this one. And here we are.

Curious? You be the judge.

One year for my birthday I want a barrel of wine. Just think how cool that would be. Have everyone over, tap the barrel and then no one goes home til the thing is empty. Kind of like a kegger for adults. But don’t worry, I’ll keep the jello wrestling on the bill – it’s not a real kegger without chicks wrestling in jello!

Here’s C, taken at J&K’s. You can see the reflection of Parasol in his sunnies there.

The day of the wine festival a few weekends back was actually H’s birthday. She turned 21, again. For the 14th time.