Rainbow Roses (attempt)

Had a few white roses around the house from Valentine's Day, and saw these photos and got a tad bit ambitious.

Image taken from this website

Naturally, I whipped out my stack of food colouring and decided to give it a shot, because why not.

Sorry for the messy food colouring bottles

 So my brother and I had a go and tried making some :)
Keyword: tried

I also got my hands highly dirty and stained (always happens when I'm within a 1m radius of food colouring)
Photo taken by my brother.

 For the record, they didn't turn out great.
I suppose it might be because
a) I only started on Sunday after they the roses had been cut since Thursday, so they would have started to die
b) Poor conditions
c) I absolutely destroyed many stems while trying to cut them up; (hence the last photo)

Failed stems. LOL. Loud and proud.

So I don't have any 'finished product' photos, because mine didn't exactly turn out right... But next time! I'm determined to make them work.
Maybe not getting the rainbow ones, but at least coloured roses.

I even tried using my biology knowledge of xylem and eudicot stem's vascular bundles but as you can see it didn't exactly help me out much.

Morning - 17.02.14

Woke up this morning and was greeted with these lovely spiderwebs in front of my house.

Been a while since I've seen these.

Quickly rushed inside to grab my camera and took a few photos (using my 35mm)

Unfortunately I didn't have a zoom lens on me so it was quite difficult to take good close-ups

"dat bokeh"

I feel terrible because this one's web was attached to the car so when we drove off it was ruined :(

Don't see these very frequently

Anchorfox

These were taken a while ago, but I did a small photoshoot of some T-shirts for Anchorfox

Check them out here (www.anchorfox.com)

"Roar"

"Village Trance"

Valentine's Day

Yesterday was Valentine's Day and it was by far one of the most eventful ones I've had.

It was just an overall nice day. Watching everyone smile, laugh and appreciate their friends or partners is something that's not shown or celebrated every day.

Many thanks; KS, RA, MM, PT

I, on the other hand, thought that roses were too mainstream, so I figured I'd channel my inner biologist and utilise the things I learned on my Biology Summer Camp.

I decided to give apples and/or messages to people :)

By 'people', I referred to people that are

a) people I love

b) people who are my closest friends (also ties in with a))

c) people who have helped me a lot recently (and who have consequently made it a lot easier)

Some people fell under more than one category.

But either way, despite not doing any work the day before (not even a hyperbole), I think it was worth it.

Some of the messages and apples that I made and gave.
Apologies for the clusteredness of this photo.

The day was a really lovely one. The last lesson (English) was largely filled with singing, laughing, smiling and photo-taking.

The school sold teddy bears this year, which were really cute!

Ms S was also really kind and treated the entire class to ice-cream. She's truly such a lovely person. Confession: I (probably) have the most fun in English class.

They weren't even cheap no-brand ice-creams; they were bulla ones and tasted mighty fine.

Also, side note, kudos to everyone who made it a lovely day, and for SL for making this card/note.

Professor Layton reference; made me laugh.

Yoko Ono, MCA, city

Approximately a week ago I went out with a couple of friends to check out the Museum of Contemporary Art and to just have a day to relax.

Started off by wandering around in the city and ducking into a coffee store with MM

it was like a kid in a candy store, I swear. All the rows and rows of these tiny boxes were so neat that I couldn't resist taking a photo

Later on we met with SL (who was late)

"look at that bokeh"

Before heading off to the MCA, the three of us went for lunch at a nice little Japanese restaurant, because Haruharu was closed (I think.)

I had my first ever cold udon! I also got way too excited about the free tempura flakes ((I still wish I had taken more))

SL also decided it would be a good idea to eat some spicy dish and I can tell you that it was probably not a good idea.
[Also, note: if you ever go to Melbourne, you have to try Crazy Wings]

So then we finally head of to the MCA

Yoko Ono's exhibition: WAR IS OVER! (if you want it). Taken on the stairs leading up to the gallery

Immediately hustled off to the Yoko Ono exhibition and spent quite a long time in there.

Started off by playing a game of chess with SL. We sat there for a long deal of time trying to play, but unfortunately we didn't get to finish an entire game due to time constraints and forgetfulness.

Photo taken by MM. "Play it by Trust"
I can assure you I was winning (it's not like you could really tell who was winning though). I'd really like one of these chess sets at home.

I really enjoyed all the interactive works of art, and this entire wall of notes stuck on (another audience-participant work) was also really impressive and sweet.

"My Mommy is Beautiful"
I found my eyes tearing up when I read enough of these. I thought it was pretty sweet and a great photo opportunity.

Also found my belonging related text for English at the exhibition (which was one of the reasons I wanted to go in the first place), and I'm pretty pleased with it.

"Water Talk"
Another kid-in-a-candy-store moment for me.

It's quite simple, but it works. I find that I try to fit too much into my essay, and it often comes out all over the place, so hopefully with a simpler text I'll be able to pull it off better.

Then head off to explore the rest of the MCA.

Snapped this really neat piece of art and it's now currently my computer wallpaper; ((a reminder not to procrastinate. Ironically, I'm doing just that right now.))

We thought it'd be nice to just check out the Museum's shop, even though we knew it would be quite costly and money-burning.

Found this gem. I read the entire book standing there.

Finally, it was time to go.

One last photo at the MCA before we left. It was a wonderful view.
(slightly peeved that there are a few silhouettes on the left side)

SL, MM and I walked around the city a bit more; went for some really great matcha frappes (I'm in love) at a nice little cafe in the city (which I will be visiting many more times in the near future).

Matcha Oreo Frappes. 10/10

Also had a lot of confusion and uncertainty about whether the frappes had coffee in them.

But yeah! It was a really nice day out and I enjoyed it a lot. Really would like to go to Art Museums a lot more frequently. I like the atmosphere a lot.

Alright, that's all I got.

/man

hello!

Hey!

So welcome to my newest blog.

I figured that it would be nice to blog about and document things that occur in the 'very exciting' life of me (it's the most exciting life I've ever lived so far, I can tell you that for sure) and go about lifelogging or whatever they call it.

It'll mostly consist of special events that occur, or some pictures.

I really want to take my camera around with me a lot more and capture the things around me, especially since the next 2 years of my life are sure to be ones of a lot of change and events which would be neat to capture.

No guarantees about posting, but we'll see where this leads me.

// NB: the posts found before this one are imported from my old photography blog.

Valentine's Day Roses (2014)

Taken with the 35mm f/1.8 on the Nikon D7100