Fashion Festival Trends - Colour in Your Darkest Day

I love colour, I love it to brighten my winter days & put a rose in my cheeks. At L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival this year the colours were surprisingly out in full force. I say surprisingly due to Melbourne's extreme passion for black, black and more black in the darkest season of them all.

My faves? Bright blues, greens & reds not to mention the crowd's take on colour.

crowd pleaser

bianca spender

Life with Bird

Carl Kapp

Karen Walker is tugging at my heart strings

I ventured off, as you do, to the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival a wee while ago. A little taste test of Karen Walker's SS2011 collection really tugged on my heart strings - particularly the refreshingly yellow a-line skirt and her pretty accessories and floral trousers. She made me want to pack my bags and jet off to Paris for a Spring time rendezvous. Paris Runway 6 was hosted by the lovely Frankie magazine - thank you Frankie!

hello diana

An exhibition of diana cameras at the lomography launch in melbourne. Don't you just love the Olivia Camera?

yes you guessed right, someone actually has a lomo camera tattoo! 

Swooned

I went to the opening of Swoon's latest works at the Metro gallery in Armadale a couple of weeks ago. Her cut out paper art reminded me of the giant paper lanterns at natsu matsuri (summer festivals) in Japan.

create the most beautiful image...in the most simple way

I often have conversations with people about photoshop. For me a moment should be  captured in it's natural way, using your skills as a photographer to make the most of available light & your camera. I believe this is honest & real photography. Simple is best. Time is better spent observing and shooting and this is how I become most inspired and learn to perfect my craft as a photographer. Scott Schumann of the blog the Satorialist ( who I had the pleasure of meeting at his book event) has the same idea, to shoot something and create the most beautiful image in the most simple way. 

shhhh it's another Secret War

Secret Wars continues on with the first semi final for Melbourne. I went along to shoot for laneway magazine and while Scale and Pierre Lloga were going pen to pen the Asahi was flowing & hip hop was all around. You wanna know who's the winner don't you ? Watch my stop motion below to find out...

All the fine horses

In Melbourne, tourists can ride in a horse and carriage around the city. I never really take much notice of them but the other night while walking home from an art show I stopped and watched for a while. It makes me a little sad that these horses have to work so hard in the middle of a bustling city, nonetheless they are still beautiful.