first of all, i love you....

hi everyone,
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my point is....and i do have one

things on my mantle...  fast running out of room 

silver star

i hope everyone had a great Christmas. And welcome 2012! Lots of exciting things planned for this year which i will be sharing here with you all. Also I have a new blog coming soon and photography website! So stay tuned! xx

 

waiting for the sun

Here are some shots from a recent trip to the sunshine coast. Lots of beaches and a day trip to World Heritage listed Fraser Island where we saw dolphins as we ferried over, two dingoes (rare to see) and even a kangaroo with a joey! We swam in Lake Mackenzie, a blissful perched freshwater lake.  And it was four wheel driving right on the beach the whole time,  uber cool and something we had never done before.

The blizzard has delayed our plans

i don't normally blog about books, but I just had to share an awe inspiring book i recently bought. Jane Ussher's, Still Life. Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton, is an unforgettable photographic study of the interiors of three Antactic huts that served as expedition bases for Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton during the early 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton 

these historic huts are an archaeological treasure trove of  beautifully decayed in situ objects of these explorers. one hundred years on, a Emperor Penguin specimen still left on Scott's chart table,  canvas pants covered with expedition grime still hanging over wires and conserved provisions lined on shelves.  it's just an incredible time capsule.

if you stumble upon this book have a look through it, you will be humbled, i promise.

shining through the golden hour

Mirka Mora's words in today's Age  " I love Melbourne. I couldn't leave Melbourne. I could leave Paris but i couldn't leave Melbourne" 
below some photos i took earlier this year of Melbourne's Spring St precinct.
thank you Soula  http://www.soula.com.au/  for inspiring this blog today.

wunderkammer

one of my absolute favourite spaces is Wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities shop in Melbourne. here, my love for curious oddities is nurtured. its like visiting a museum and being able to buy anything on display. looking for a monkey skull? cat shark eggs? what about some caterpillar pills?.... you got it. each visit for me is not only an opportunity to buy something peculiar, but see something i could never have imagined even existed! truly, I'm often blown away  by what these guys gather here. Our world is beautifully strange indeed.


 http://wunderkammer.com.au/index.html
a big thank you to the staff at Wunderkammer who kindly let me take some pictures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities