A Travel, Photography and Points Blog
We started day 2 of Open House with putting our names down for the Central Park rooftop tours, then slowly meandered our way to Northbridge for the tour of Alex Hotel. On our way, we stopped by Perth Town Hall and did a quick tour with one of the staff members. It’s a quaint little historic building that is popular for events in the city. I’m looking forward to a close friend’s wedding here in a week’s time!
I had a great time exploring Perth and the surrounding suburbs last year as part of Open House, naturally I was excited to see what 2017 Open House had to offer. I made sure to keep my weekend free in advance. There were definitely some really cool places were visited, in particulate the business and corporate buildings. I thought the residential open house location were a bit limited and lack lustre this year in contrast to last.
I had the pleasure of joining a lovely bunch of girls for an afternoon of gourmet food and drinks to celebrate a dear friend’s upcoming wedding. The bridesmaids did an amazing job of setting up the indoor picnic area and organised a beautiful grazing table. It made taking photos that much easier! The afternoon was classy, relaxing and low key. It’s not often that I would get onto editing photos from a shoot so quickly, but I was excited to go through the photos and share the day with everyone who attended.
It’s been a while since I last shared a blog post. I recently came back from a month away in the UK/Iceland and have kept busy since coming back to Perth. I have a massive backlog of photos from my travels this year which I will eventually get through and share. But in the mean time I just wanted to share the shoot I did recently.
I spent a lovely Sunday morning in Perth a couple of weekends ago shooting for my friend’s very cool side hustle the Re-fashion Project. It’s a really awesome project where she upcycles clothing. Basically buying op-shop items or existing items she no longer uses and refashions them into something modern and stylish. All hand sewn. I had a fun time shooting the three lovely models. All the shots were taken with the Fujifilm XT10 and Fujinon 35mm f1.4 lens, and post-processed in Lightroom.
I’m currently road tripping around Iceland with some friends. The temperature is around 6 degrees celcius outside while I’m sitting comfortably in my hotel room, at a temperate temperature of 25 degrees. I don’t normally post anything on my blog while travelling around (generally I’m too busy travelling or resting) but I’m still so excited from spending a couple of hours watching the Aurora Borealis just at the back of our hotel last night that I have to share a couple of my favourite shots.
Eventhough it doesn’t look as green as this in real life (some camera magic) you can certainly see the lights dancing away in the night sky. We’re only halfway through our 2 week Iceland roadtrip and I’m grateful to have seen the Lights already, hopefully with more to come.
Thanks for stopping by today.
J