Photo-a-Day Week 2

week two

music

sing

money

strawberry

laughter

weather

shiny

I'm having a lot of fun with this project. Some ideas are a bit more challenging than others. Sometimes I'll take a shot early in the week and then find something I like better later in the week. Like the first one here of music. I went to the Johnston St Spanish Festival to try and get a photograph of someone singing but I always seemed to be at the wrong end of the very crowded street at the wrong time.  The best I came up with was a shot of two dj's (well, it is music) working their stuff while I was waiting for the band to come on to get someone singing. But somehow, while I was learning how to Salsa in the street, I pressed the video button on the camera and managed to flatten the battery. So that was the end of that idea.

Thursday was an interesting day. I had to take my daughter to the airport so she could go to Qld to take her big brother to his awards night on Saturday night (I couldn't go as I was working all that day). I was expecting a girlfriend to fly in from Tasmania that day so thought we were off to a real good start as I can do a drop off and pick up at the same time ( I don't have a car in Melbourne so it was a bonus to borrow Bekky's boyfriends car. Thanks Sean!). Well, my friend missed her flight so I thought I'd go to DFO and wait for her but I missed the turn off, so I went home and waited. Turns out she couldn't get another flight, then Sean rang and needed his car, so I quickly returned that and jumped on a tram, only to discover i'd left my wallet with all my money and my myki card at home. So i nervously waited for the ticket inspector guys to expose my fraudulent behaviour. I made it to the city and thought beauty, I'll get some photos while I'm here. Wandered up the mall and discovered the Myer Christmas windows full of little puppets singing. There's my photo! Get the camera ready - no memory card. What a dufus! 

Being the rebel that I am, and having gotten away with it once, I then defiantly rode the tram home  without a ticket. Having thought it was then a bonus of a day as I'd saved $3, I walked in, turned the kettle on for a cuppa, only for it to go 'BZZZT' with smoke wafting out from its nether regions. I'm sure there were other things that happened that afternoon but I've blocked them from my memory.

Music

Sing

Money

I managed to get back to the mall on Friday to get my photo of the singing puppet and I spotted the busker on the piano. This guy used to play at the Caloundra market years ago. I think he's good value so I dropped a dollar in his bucket and snapped away. I ditched the photo of the dj's for this one.

Strawberry

Laughter was a tough one to photograph. This was the last day of the week and I was out of ideas. It's hard to walk up to a stranger and ask to take a photo of them laughing. Bekky was out of town. I didn't have any social events scheduled where I might know people well enough to photograph them laughing. I was counting on my girlfriend visiting as I knew I'd get a shot of her laughing, but her stand-by flights were so mixed up she didn't get here at all.  I went for a bike ride on Sunday (to McDonalds to photograph the Strawberry Sundae) and there was a notice on a pole about a community bbq in the park at Brunswick and the Melbourne Ukelele Kollective (MUK) were playing. I'd seen them once before at the Cornish Arms Pub and I figured they'd be good for a laugh, and I was right. It was hard to get close enough with the 50mm lens but there was lots of laughter. They put on a good show and have a great time doing it. Go and see them if you get the chance. Or maybe grab a Ukelele and join them!

Laughter

Weather

Shiny

I was a bit stumped with shiny, until I was sitting at a tram stop and noticed a whole window of mag wheels glinting in the sun across the road. I jumped up and got my shot but missed my tram. Oh well, there's always another one. And as for the weather? Well, it is Melbourne.

See you next week. I'm off to take more photos.
Deb

PS. Would love to hear a comment or two about which is your favourite photo or if you've done a similar project or if you want to try this one. Or just to say Hi so I know I'm not talking to myself. Go on, I dare you. I'm hoping I'll get a better response than to my postcard request!


week 3

wet

a memory

loud

pink

wind

action

nature