Ancient Stone

Hello fellow citizens.

Had a day out with my friend Adam. Hit the city and thought we'd try to get some random shots going. We stopped by this amazingly aged church and i got a few shots from there.

Hope you like them. Let me know your thoughts.

and finally.... while we were in the city, this wall and the pattern on it cought my attention....

I call this...

Squares Cubed

>>>tommiboy<<<

Please please do comment. I really do appreciate your comments, suggestions, ideas and encouragements! :)

Thanks everyone!

Ps. Just so you guys know, i'll be out of blogging action for some time (dont know exactly for how long). Need time to get some new material for the blog, but also using it as an opportunity to focus on other things. Hope to get some material from Malaysia when i head over then in 2 and a half weeks to see my amazing lady. We'll come back together so thats the happy ending of that story. lol

I'm currently doing some editing photos from a photoshoot i did for my brother who's working on his own project...so it might happen that i may post something (from that) before i fly out. See what happens...Keep watching this space ;)

Take Care All :)

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MY QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

-Mencius-

This Red.... That Red

This is specifically for my lady... Amanda. Thought i would make a post dedicated to her. It's nothing much. Keeping it simple.
Took these a few weeks back and thought these would be the perfect thing for her.

This ones my favourite though...

Amanda your an amazing person, wouldnt want to do anything without you. This isnt going to get all lovey dovey, but all i want to do is show my appreciation for your in my life. Its not much, but i hope you like it. :)

>>>tommiboy<<<

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MY QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

-Walt Disney-

Don't Steal My Sunshine

Cant wait to get to Malaysia. I keep saying, i know! But im really keen on looking at some prices for new camera lenses. Not saying that im going to actually buy anything, merely sussing out the options. If anything really good does come up with a really good price tag, i may just make a move.

Mean while...while i dont have the camera ive have used through out the year, my little hand held Canon has been doing the job. Sounds very lame, i know. But its quite surprising to see what it comes up with. They bring out their own feel, and the quality in the photos are still there, but i guess the depth of the photo does disappear. But that being said, i CANNOT wait to get my hand on the normal (Amanda's) camera when i get to KL.

Ive had to use my little camera for the past (nearly) month now so im quite use to it. Switching back to the "real deal" is going to be interesting, amussing and quite the challenge to see how i adjust to better equipment again.

Moving on...these are more things ive been able to come up with. Once i get to KL, ill be doing a few scenary shots, but i think i will be more concentrating on modelling shots ill be doing with Amanda and her friend Nina. Looking forward to it as its been quite some time since ive actually done a modelling photoshoot... but never the less challenging to come up with something that's different yet effective and outstanding in its quality, yet at the same time trying to keep it simple when necessary. Fun times! lol

And finally...i call these the.....

Mint Trees

Hope you guys really like them. PLEASE do comment. i do want to know what you think.

Thanks so much everyone.

>>>tommiboy<<<


PS. Just found out that photos i did for Amanda's blog have been featured on Who What Where Style Stalker. Here's the LINK. Once you enter the page, you'll see a group of photos. Amanda's on the very bottom right corner...they left the best till last. lol

Also another website that has featured Amanda's fashion statement with my photo this week (or last) is Fashionista 101. This is the LINK for that site.

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MY QUOTE OF THE DAY

"You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity."

 -Jason Fried-

Dreaming

I was doing a photoshoot some time ago for Amanda's blog last year (2009) and found a few of these that i though i could share.

>>>tommiboy<<<

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MY QUOTE OF THE DAY

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

-Anatole France-

Sunset

Taken at the Kensington Lookout in Adelaide.

Amanda and i had some great opportunities to do some photoshoots here. Ive already posted some of those photos, but that was a while ago so I'll put the link HERE.

The photos above were taken much earlier in 2009. So they arent terribly new but i still wanted to put them on my blog. Im pleased with the way they turned out.

Hope you like them as well.

Another 35 days till i leave for Malaysia for 3 weeks! Cannot wait to eat the food, do some sightseeing and see what kind of bargains they can offer.

>>>tommiboy<<<

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MY QUOTE OF THE DAY

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."

-Benjamin Britten-

Day Light

I had the great opportunity to team up with my good friend Adam and take some time out for a photography session in the city. This is some of the stuff that i came up with. Hope you like!

PLEASE do comment!

I cropped the above photo to highlight extra the amazing pattern seen in the clouds reflected on the building windows seen in the below photo.

Above is a photo of my good friend Adam.

All of these photos were taken in little old Adelaide, Australia

>>>tommiboy<<<

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MY QUOTE OF THE DAY

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

-Erma Bombeck-

 

Looking Through the Window... Somones Missing

I put yellow cellophane in front of my camera and this is the effect that came out. Looks like a mighty hot day outside.

Cannot wait for February. Ive mentioned it many times, but i cannot wait to see Mandy in Malaysia! Missing her very much!

>>>tommiboy<<<

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MY QUOTE OF THE DAY

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

-Orison Swett Marden-

Merry Christmas 2009!

Merry Christmas EVERYONE!

Hope that this year has been an amazing one and that next year is even better!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

>>>tommiboy<<<

M.M.Melbourne!

Well at the beginning of December i had to pleasure of making a 3 day trip to Melbourne with my best friends, which would include my amazing Mandy.

I did a bit of shooting, but i generally spent my time sight seeing and not taking as many shots as i would like to...so my bad.

When i head to KL and (hopefully) Singapore in the new year, i really want to get some great shots! I do regret not taking many shots when i was in Melbourne!

So Moving on....the Architecture going on in Melbourne is simply amazing! I have one photo which shows how colourful their thinking is when designing something new there.

The rest of the photos are just general things. Thought id share them with you.

This Building (the one im talking about with the outstanding design) isnt even completed and looks amazing!

This is the view had courtesy Amanda's friend who allowed us to stay there for one of the nights. WHAT A VIEW!!!

And the below is the same view at night. I know its blurry, but i think it gives you an idea of the city lights when your right in the centre of it all.

Oh my goodness! It was amazing too see the amount of trams going around Melbourne...left right and centre. It was crazy but very impressive. You miss one tram...no joke, literally a couple of minutes later, another one which would be heading to the same destination would arrive. Impressive isnt it?...well i guess us Adelaidians get impressed by smallest of things.

Once again...there is some pretty sweet design going on here at the Melbourne Train Station! It looks more impressive when you see it in person. The photo again cannot justify how it looks like when your actually there.

So...This is the Eureka Tower (below). May not Look Big (But trust me it is...) but it does give some very amazing views of the city and outter skirts of the Central Melbourne.

The below photo was taken at the Eureka Skydeck! Oh My Gosh...the view (in person may i say) was astonishing! i was GOBSMACKED at how high we actually were. The Photo does not fully justify the amazing feeling you get while being some 88 stories high.

The photo above is me standing at the same spot where the last photo was taken. If it looks like im peacking it...then yes...u are very correct! i dont think ive been so scared in my entire life. I know it sounds sad of me to say so, but im sure you'd agree if you faced the same thing...where you can feel the building move because of its hight!...and then trying to stand right next to a window.
If that was scary...we had the opportunity to go on....The EDGE! Check this LINK OUT! It was AMAZING and scary at the same time! WOOOOOW
I didnt get any photos from my camera of The EDGE because we werent allowed to, so the link gives u great idea of what im talking about.

And this was the pretty view we got on the way back to Adelaide.

All in all... the trip was great. Met many people... ate lots of food and did a bit of shopping! Wasnt much, if at all cheaper in Melbourne hence why i say "a bit of shopping".

Peace

>>>tommiboy<<<

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MY QUOTE OF THE DAY

"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."

-B.C Forbes-