Day 127. “ Joy and John”. Well this was the reason for coming to Bali – Joy and John’s wedding party! Beautiful bride, handsome groom, great venue and interesting wedding guests. All the right ingredients. I took lots of other photos with both my Pentax and my other Holga. Did my continuous photo trick. The photos came out really well. We partied to the very end and were the last guests to leave. A brave move, given that we had to get up early the next day to catch a flight home.
128. “Bali Dolls”. A quick photo before we left for the airport. I chose these two Balinese dolls, which resembled a bride and groom. Almost talisman for Joy and John’s marriage. I superimposed a double exposure of an Indonesian god motif over the dolls as a guardian on their marriage. Then off to the airport and home. Back to real life and all the relaxation of Bali lost in a few hours. I am dreaming of humid skies and warm surf. Of riding a scooter with abandonment along roads divided by rice paddies and temples. A place where I felt young and free.
129. “Garden Buddha”. Janet flew off to Adelaide this morning, so I am home alone for the rest of the working week. Picked up the negatives I dropped off yesterday after work. I now have a pile of negatives for scanning. In all the rush I forgot to take a photo until I got home. Thought I would stay with a Bali theme so I photographed the Buddha statue in our front garden.
130. “Me”. I realised today that it is 130 days into the project and I haven’t photographed myself. So this evening I took this shot of me against a wall of a whole lot of photos I have taken.
131. “Photo Collage”. I got all the prints back from Fitzgeralds from my 60 in 60 shots. Fifteen prints and I need to choose 10 for exhibition. I had all the photos laid out on a table so I thought this would be a good shot to compliment yesterday’s photo.
Day 132. “Rus at Tiger Tiger”. I’ve known Rus since the days he worked at Café 130 in Leederville. Now he is an actor in Melbourne, but still comes back to Perth every year to catch up with family and friends. And when he is back he helps out at Tiger Tiger. He made me coffee this morning and I took this photo of him.
133. “Sam and I”. Sam has been cutting my hair for over a year now. She is about to have a baby boy and so this is my last haircut with her for a while. So I took the Holga along and took this photo of Sam and I after she had cut my hair.
134. “Red Tree”. Hyde Park in North Perth has a number of trees who sprout red berries around this time of the year. Janet said they were flame trees and she was right (as always). I took this photo on the way home after we had lunch at Must Wine Bar and then bought a few things at Kartique. Melissa, the daughter of the owner, had found some beautiful old typesetting stamps in India and she gave me a few to try out for free
135. ”New Cabinet”. Full day at work with a Leadership Team meeting. So no opportunity to photograph anything until I got home. We had received a new, multiple draw cabinet from India. I has faded and worn blue paint and looks great against our burgundy coloured wall. It’s a temporary spot and is too wide for the wall, but it looks great there. I am not sure what we are going to hide in all the draws.
136. “Bronte Instead”. I had meant to photograph our friends Matt and Tracy when we went for a drink after work. But in all the excitement of catching up, I forgot all about taking a shot. So when I got home, I took a photo of our other cat, Bronte, instead.
Day 137. “Hope’s Birthday”. Wednesday, 15th December. It was Hope’s birthday today. We were planning on having some people around for drinks at our house, but the week just seemed too chaotic, so we postponed the pre-Christmas drinks to some kind of post New Year celebration. As we had a free night, Michelle (of Pink Zulu et al Fame) invited us around for dinner to celebrate Hope’s birthday. I was a marvellous night. Michelle has a wonderful family and it felt special being part of a family celebration. Joy and John (of the Bali wedding fame) came along and I showed them by Bali wedding shots. Hope also showed us some of the prints from her travels. Incredible photos – she has a good eye. I took this photo of the girls sometime before dinner.
138. “Kitsch Take 2”. I caught the train home after work and then walked up Oxford Street from the station to our home. I passed Kitsch bar along the way and thought I would have another go at photographing the painting on the wall, as the previous photo had not come out at all.
139. “Joy, Hope, Love”. Friday – a major rush day as we were flying out to New Zealand in the evening and it was our office Christmas Party in the afternoon. My new glasses arrived and so I dashed out in mid morning to collect them. On the way I pasted Target and there was a window display with boxes labelled “Joy, Hope, Love”. It reminded me of Joy and Hope (of Michelle fame) and it sort of captured the Christmas spirit, so I snapped this photo.
140. “Palm Beach Chalets”. We arrived in Auckland at 5.15am. It was raining. We did all the normal airport things, collected our hire car and drove to the ferry terminal to go across to Waiheke Island. We tried to find a coffee shop, or café, or somewhere where we could get a coffee and breakfast, but there was nowhere around Half Moon Bay or Buckland Beach. So we caught an early ferry and had breakfast en route. We bummed around Waiheke Island for the rest of the morning, but the rain curtailed most island type activities. After we checked in we spent the rest of the day holed in our Chalet, watching the cricket and sleeping. The photo is of the view from our Chalet. Australia looked like they would win the 3rd test match to level the series.
Post Note: In the previous film, I did not wind on enough for some of the photos. Looks like I went to the other extreme with these last 3 shots...I've only been doing this for 7 rolls of film. Think I would be able to get it right by now....
Day 141. “Casita Miro”. Slept in late. It was still raining. After breakfast we ventured out for a coffee (in the rain) then tried to buy some rain jackets, but appears not to be the season for rain and therefore rain jackets. We eventually bought plastic ponchos that look like garbage bags with hoods. We when to Casita Miro for lunch. They have a great building with interesting sash windows made only of glass. I think these would be great for study in Margaret River. Janet is worried they would leak. The photograph is of the main door of the restaurant (taken in the rain). Australia won the 3rd test in quick time this morning. Still raining.
142. “Wine glass at Sandbar”. Still raining! But with some clear times in between. Slept in again and went to Mudbrick Winery for lunch. We had an excellent meal and a great bottle of Sauvignon Blanc. Afterwards we went into Oneroa, the main town on the island. Still looking for rain jackets without luck. It was starting to clear so we decided to have a sundowner at one of the local bars overlooking the beach. I took this photo of my wine glass as we sat there.
143. “Park Bench and Kite @ Lake Taupo”. The weather was still iffy as we drove from Auckland to Lake Taupo. The double laned freeway soon became single laned country road as we headed south. We stopped in Cambridge for some lunch and found some rain jackets. The weather started to clear. We got to Lake Taupo in the mid afternoon, checked into the B&B where we were staying and went for a walk along the lake shore. There were a number of interestingly carved benches made from local timber along the shore. It was very windy and a number of kite surfers had started launching from a landing near our B&B. So I took a double exposure of the bench and the kite surfers.
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