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Girl with flamenco habanico

The Spanish Centre – Feria de Abril

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The Spanish Centre – Feria de Abril

The Spanish Centre – La Feria de Abril 2014. It was the 12th of April 2014 and this typical Seville Festival was organised at the Spanish Centre, Acacia Ridge. It was a great success as Spanish foods including Jamon Serrano, Quesos and tapas (Patatas Bravas, Chorizo, Gambas al ajillo and more) were on display and available for purchase. There were also Vinos Tintos (Spanish Red Wines), Cervezas and Sangria to wash the food down with. The foosball table got a great work out and so did the dance floor.

Griffith University’s School of Linguistics was present and offering information about their Spanish courses for those who want to learn Español.

But the highlight of the night was when the show started as 3 fiery and passionate Flamenco dancers came out and delivered a spectacular display of traditional Flamenco dancing and singing. Flamenco Del Mar (lead by Marina Tamayo) and their guitarist demonstrated vivid red coloured dresses, castañetas and classical Spanish guitar. They brought the entire club to their feet and stomping their heels, clapping their hands. The party got hot, real hot and it was time for another cerveza. Olé!!!

The Spanish Centre is a social club that promotes soccer, Spanish Foods, Spanish Drinks and other cultures. It is a not profit organisation located at 244 Mortimer Road, Acacia Ridge. The Spanish Centre can be contacted on (07) 3277 1612.

Vivid Sydney 2013

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Vivid Sydney 2013

Vivid Sydney 2013 – I am not really sure how long the beautiful city of Sydney has been putting on the Vivid festival, but I’m so glad I managed to find myself right in the thick of it. It was a photographer’s paradise. Everywhere you turned, people had brought their DSLR’s, SLR’s, medium format camera’s, TLR’s, compact cameras, tripods, tablets and mobiles… Lucky for me, I’d brought two of my favourite lenses – my Minolta MC ROKKOR-PG 58mm f/1.2 and my ARAX Photex T&S 35mm f/2.8mm.

It was a light party and a feast for the eyes. A myriad, no wait – a googolplex! No, not quite… It was a million, billion, gazillion photons all thrown in a synchronised, cadenced, visual cacophony.

I do love coming to Sydney and seeing the Darling harbour and Circular Quay. Sydney in all of your grandiose glory you always impress me, but especially this time. I must thank you for really putting on truly memorable show. Hopefully, and fingers crossed, I will be able to make it to Vivid Festival 2014.

 

iPad vision.

iPad vision.

Vivid Sydney 2013

Ma’ look at all the pretty lights!

Vivid Sydney 2013

Vivid Sydney 2013

Face time.

Face time.

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Puffin’ safety cones
The safety cones be smokin’!
Smoking cones – witches hats.
Planted light sabers
Water taxi…
Touch the light.
I love the light reflection in her glasses.
Fluorescent light bulb made of fluorescent light bulbs.
Bright night cicadas.
Gazing in awe
You can push the light rods.
Light buckets
View onto Sydney Harbour Bridge

Photoshop brushart

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In all honesty, I have no idea what I’m doing. That’s right, totally clueless… I downloaded a bunch of Photoshop brushes and I was testing them out, all 3500 of them and came up with some rather interestingly, obscure and enlightening artistic “postcards”. I call this brushart.

I will add postcards when I get more time, but in the interim… here are a few. If you guys want to send some postcards, I can add them to this post. Criteria is as follows: 800 x 400 pixels, 24bit png’s… Must use Photoshop brushes…

Jurassic 4 - This jungle is making me hungry.

Jurassic 4 – This jungle is making me hungry.

Samurai in bamboo field.

Samurai in bamboo field.

Angry Samurai.

Angry Samurai.

autumn_plants

Autumn feel to this postcard.

blackst

Grunge black scratch.

cool_ice

Celestial snowflake – needs more pink unicorns.

greeny

Dum Bass – green oil on digital canvas.

grungy

Purple Haze.

i_see_you

I see you.

will_you_marry_me

Will you marry me – Brushart postcard of veils.

Rocklea Reds

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In Brisbane, there are two types of flowering trees that stand out from the rest – they are Poinciana‘s and Jacaranda‘s. During my time as a student at UQ (Saint Lucia campus) and a footballer at New Farm Park, I used to have a great appreciation for Jacaranda trees. I loved the subtle and relaxed feeling of the purple flowers – they give you a sense of zen.

Then I moved to the suburb of Rocklea.

Flamboyant poinciana

The firey red – sign of passion.

Flamboyant Poiciana bokeh - pardon the pun

Shot on Canon FL 55mm f/1.2 lens

There is a tree down the street where I live that was flowering late last year. Since I got myself a new (old) Canon FL 55mm f/1.2 lens, I just had to go down and take some photos. That tree, in its flamboyant greatness, screams fire and passion. I took one of the pods I found on the ground and planted 3 seeds, all of which have since sprouted and are now growing. I will be planting one in my front yard to carry on the legend of the Rocklea Reds.

As a side note and worth mentioning here, the exhaust towers for the Clem 7 tunnel were covered in colours representing Jacaranda’s and Poinciana. The tower at The Gabba is covered in purple panels, and the one at Bowen Hills, is covered in red panels. In this article, local residents of the Gabba complained about the “monstrosity” that had been built there. I personally could not have thought of a better way to cover a tunnel exhaust and the idea of the Jacaranda and Poinciana colours is quite cool – IMHO.

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Poinciana boken.


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