Australia Day

Australia Day isn't usually a thing a celebrate, not because im un-patriotic or anything, but I just didn't realise it was something to celebrate. So for my 'celebration' me and my girlfriend Deanne deceided to go camping as the weather had been nice and hot and dry the last week. So after arriving at the campsite to the sound of JJJ's hottest 100 we set everything up and went for a swim. After returning to the campsite we couldn't help but notice nearly everyone had left.
And then soon enough we were the only ones left in the campsite.
Not bothering to wonder why we continued to chill and cook marshmellows and noodels. But it didn't take much longer to realise why, it began to rain. after retreating to our tent it continued to rain the whole night. The next day waking to a flooded tent.
Wasn't the best of Australia/Post Australia Days but was stilll it totality a good time.
Also on the weekend went for a really chilled skate with my friend Tom, it was good times and found some cool places. Didn't take much snaps but was good.
This weekends shaping up to be an alright one, seeing Shinto Katanan who I haven't seen in ages and I also hear it's Jack Napier's last show, so check it out at Blacktown this friday. And my good friend from Flatline Drama, AJ is having a Birthday partywhich should b sick times ahead.

Here are a few Camp Shots:

And A couple Of Shots from my City Skate, Non of actual skating but this dude was amazing. He was a 'Professional' Busker. Travelling the world busking, all income from Busking. What A life.


And this is just some strange thing I found amusing. Dairy Products Gone Bad???

A Hot Summer

This is gettin fuckin hotter every day, and i live in the mountains, so i feel bad for those city folk. Anyway its currently day 20 something of job search and i have had no luck despite handing resumes everywhere and appling to 5 different places on line. So i went to centre link to find help and now i have piles of forms to fill out.
ahh well
Also went to Boys of Summer on Monday night which was fuckin awsome. was really keen to see Comeback kid and Verse which was good. Carpathian also put on a good show for thier first song before Lloyd the gtarist Popped out his leg, laying on the ground at the end of the opening song screaming at the top of his voice at the sky. The Ambo was called and after about a half hour wait they arrived and he was taken away by which time i had to go. So not many photos of Carpthian this time.

Also im slowing thinking of changing to a different blog site as it is....better check it out http://bmhcphotography.blogspot.com/ ill be posting on both for a while.

Anyway here are some pix from the show

Mary Jane Kelly



Against







Verse







Comeback Kid













Carpathian

Record

Recently decided one saturday that i hadn't seen my good friends from Flatline Drama (http://www.myspace.com/flatlinedrama) in a long fuckin time, So i called AJ from the band and asked wat he was doin the next day. And it happened that they were recording a new song soon to be in Blunt Magazine. So i went down to Electric Sun Studios with the rest of the dudes for a day of recording.
Had heaps of fun, took some casual recording snaps, got some practice for the tattoo expo im shooting in march and did some promos for thier bit in Blunt Magazine. Also helped with some gang vocals for the track and took some Hartly(http://www.hartleyphoto.net/), 'Stay True' Album-type shots and watched the Comeback Kid video which got my siked for seeing them at the Boyz Of Summer Show that was on monday night.
Any way here are some of my favs from recording









And here are the tatt shot practice













And Promos, I used an attachment Fisheye on some of em which was shit because it distorts the edges.

Hopless

I am starting to loose hope in everything and anything. As depressive as it sounds my year is kicking off too a slower start than expected. I still haven't found a job despite my frantic and repedetive attempts to find one and my money is running down fast. It looks as though im going to have to resort to a take away store job, atleast In the mean time, which ive been trying to stay away from. Also no new and or exciting oppurtunities are presenting them sleves, im missing my best friend who has recently moved to melbourne and many other things.
But to take my mind off things me and my family went to see the Star Wars Exhibition in the Powerhouse Sydney. It was a great time and really interesting as i usta and still am kinda the biggest Star Wars Nerd.
I took some pictures but ill post em in my next post...
enough whining, should be shooting Boyz of Summer on Monday with Carpathian,Against,Verse(US) and Comeback Kid(US)!! which im looking forward to. I really love Comeback Kid, missed em the first time out. The only thing im really hopeing for is that Against reply intime to my email i send em to tomorrow and for fill thier promise of puttin me on the door and giving me a door spot.
anyway i recently went to Internal Affairs Last Aus show with 50 lions, ghost town, Iron Mind & Stepping Stone. It was a really fun show, down to earth good ppl, everyone goin nuts and sweating like a mother fucker.

Stepping Stone


Iron Mind



Ghost Town



50 Lions








Internal Affairs




Pete Playin Bass

Thundadome

Recently I shot my first Hip-Hop show in Katoomba. It featured Dialectrix, Thundamentals (both blue mountains groups on Obese Records) and Pegz (the owner of Obese records from Melb). It was really fun, as it was also celebrating my makes birthday at the same time.
A totally different experience from what im use to, Also found it totally alot harder to shoot as there isnt as much varying movement and there is alot more drinking in the crowd. But still fun all the same.
Here are a few of my fav shots from the night.

Dialectrix









Thundamentals





Pegz







"Straight From The Thundadome"