Sarah McLeod, Awesome ex vocalist and writer for Australian band, The Superjesus, performed at The Empress Hotel on Thursday night. Opening her set with a little bit of Superjesus and working her way through her solo stuff, a couple of covers, a little bit of spur of the moment inspiration on the piano to some new experimental (think tribal meets awesome Aussie rock chick) Energy personified, a red wine demolishing machine, Sarah was awesome and had me tapping my little foot with each *number* she performed...
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Here are the photos.... [click and wait, they're biggish - use your arrow keys left and right]
I've downloaded an app tonight [air, for the geeks] called BulkR which is currently downloading 6,816 of my images from Flickr - some I've lost over the last couple of years, so this is a good backup. Original size, too!
Here's a few that have come down so far... some fun moments! Let me talk you through them...
So, the shot above, it's Nathan Pask and me going a little crazy in Jodi's old office late one evening... We had set up our cameras and were taking silly photos - The semi-funny story behind this is that somehow Google managed to get this photo in front of Jodi's boss... he had to deny all knowledge - or something like that. Quite amusing really! Nathan Pask is a very good photographer, you should go check him out
This is a pier in Los Angeles, we were in L.A. for a few days on the way to the snow one year, did the usual touristy things...
This is my friend Louise, or Susan, depending on who you are. This was a weekend down the beach with Disco Stu (from the internet) and Nathan Pask, we had a great weekend including comedy glasses on the sand + cameras. You may just be able to make out that I'm also wearing a Scottish ginger wig, Mr Nathan is in a (?) Pirate mask perhaps? Great weekend.
I think this was our last holiday before Sebastian arrived. M was rather large and it was very hot. This is Greece somewhere, a great trip.
You can see in this guy's glasses that there is a sunny English sky reflecting. That's out at Knebworth - the very first Sonisphere festival, and I think Alice In Chains first outting to the UK with their new front man pictured here, Will DuVall... RIP Layne [nod to fave film, Singles]
And this is Hannes Arch, he is flying in the Edge 540 you can see here... Background look odd? It's the o2 Arena.... London.... Innit.... It was great photographing the Redbull air race, I had to pretend to be a woman named Olly, but hey - these are the sacrifices we make, right?
Thought I should take you back to 1992 for 6:56 seconds... Pearl Jam at Pinkpop - if you can get and watch the whole concert, do it... it will change your life...
Keep on rockin' in the free world... thank Neil... Eddie... Yay for Polaroids...
I was photographing a wedding at the weekend, a second shooter to my friend Gemma at Iris Creations (Images to follow on SimonPollock.com.au my photography site) and, all the while I was thinking "I wish I had a second camera" ....you know the funny thing, I did, but it was the Canon 30D... It still takes a nice photograph, but when compared with the Canon 5D MKII, it really doesn't cut the mustard, and I don't even like mustard!
Do you think we've lost love for our older gear as newer gear has shown us something different, or is there a genuine divide, only a couple of years apart?
I know there's a lot of space between a crop sensor 30D and a full frame sensor 5D, but not so long ago, I was very happy with the images from that 30D, and have a handful of images that I love - but now, I hardly even bother to empty the CF card that comes out of it.. Is it just me, am I alone here? Shot below is an iso 800 image from my old 30D.. Gotta love Billy Ocean, right?
...Or am I just being a bit precious? Or am I trying to justify a second 5DMKII?....
