Week 13: Fight Club
I love his expression in this shot! The other thought I had regarding this image was “Nothing soft comes out of the bronx” ala Everlast, but decided to stick with Fight Club
Week 14: Hullo Mr Rabbit
The softness and select focus on this really draws me in.
Week 15: Easter with Yia Yia and Grandpa
Lucas loves to be with people, this week and next week he got to spend loads of time with his grandparents.
Week 16: Road Trip to Bairnsdale
A few weeks ago prior to heading to Newcastle, I had the pleasure of meeting Nicholas and was immediately drawn in by his deep eyes. When we got up to Newcastle, we got to spend some more time with him and his proud and loving parents Hayley and Christian.
The idea has been bouncing around in my head for a little while now, and I think I have finally been pushed convinced to attempt a “Project 52″ – commit to a photo a week for the next year. The tougher option is the ’365′ – one for every day of the year, but I think that will be too much of a stretch with my current going-ons. Of course I could just pull out my phone and snap away (and some images may just be that), but the aim will be to get something solid, to perhaps push my limits, try something new, get creative, process differently, make the mundane imaginative, capture an interesting angle, to create an image that at a minimum, lives up to something resembling my undefined standards.
Of course I have a brand new subject who has just arrived, and will be far less oppositional to having his photo taken every week than just about anyone else I can get such easy access to. A massive plus to all this is that at the end of the project, I should have a wonderful gallery of images that can really capture the first year of Lucas’ life. The moments, the emotions, the changes, the wins and losses. The side benefit for all of you is that I’ll now be forced (and held accountable!) to post here far more regularly, ie weekly, as I first intended.
In order to catch up, I’d best present the first few weeks of the project.
Week 1: Pride
Lucas’ Great-Grandmother doesn’t get the motivation to get out of her house to go visiting too often. Natural light.
Week 2: Blue Steel
I want to play around some more with this lighting, but here is Lucas Zoolander, with showing off his latest look, Blue Steel. Quadras.
Jim and Lauren introduced me to their gorgeous daughter Ava and instantly she turned on her charm. Giggling babbling endlessly in a language only babies can, she sprung her smile on us and blinked her eyes and we were sold!
11.1.11 is a day and a date I will remember for the rest of my life. My wife gave birth to our first child – Lucas James.
He was a few days early, but it was funny. About 6 months earlier we had joked with the obstetrician about being induced on the 11th just to have my child’s birthday as 11.1.11. I didn’t really talk about it with my wife, but our way of thinking was to let nature run its course rather than to go down the induction path he had talked about. As time passed however, the date played more and more on my mind. By the time the 9th or 10th of January came about, I had resigned myself to the fact that we would miss the date, and I was shocked at how disappointed I was. All of a sudden everything changed Monday evening when I got a phone call “You better leave now, my waters have broken”.
The next 24 hours were long, but finally, at the end, I somehow uttered, sighed and exclaimed all at the same time “Its a boy”. The 24 hours after the birth were some of the longest, most fulfilling, life-saturated hours that I can ever recall. Sometime around lunch on the following day I realised my son was not even 24 hours old, and yet I felt I had lived and learnt so much in that short time. The days following that have flown by, as if days were hours and hours were minutes.
Whilst still at the hospital, my wife commented at how restrained I was with the camera, but I felt that it was as important to be living and creating the memories and emotions as it was to be capturing them. Besides I couldn’t leave all the nursing and tending to her, and she wanted a little privacy also (some of the time my restraint was killing me though!)
I did obviously take the camera out for short periods, having it inside the operating theatre and then taking advantage of the large open window at one end of our room at Peninsula Private.
So here is a few of the barrage of photo’s of our newborn son. More than likely this is only the tip of the iceberg and there will be a lot more him – but you figured that anyway didn’t you 
. The rest of the photos can be found here, or by clicking on any of the images.
Cheers
Ash
Merry Christmas Everyone!
With a busy 2010 drawing to a close, this is also a perfect time to extend our thanks everyone for their support throughout the year. Its been a good one, and we are anxiously looking forward to next year, and don’t see it getting any less hectic.
Please make sure you all have a fantastic and safe Festive Season, and a wish you a wonderfully exciting and adventurous 2011.
Cheers!
I was clicking through the vastness of the internet the other day and found some images that inspired me and reminded me of how lucky we are to be living bayside in Melbourne. I’ve mentioned it before, but I rarely get enough time to appreciate the area to its fullest.
Whilst out and about on Monday evening, I was babbling on to the wife about how nice the light was. A few minutes later there were some stunning colours throughout the sky, soft blues and pinks, vibrant oranges and it was all interspersed with an array of clouds. Sure enough she was staring out the window, turning left and right to get a better view as we kept driving.
Fast forward to Tuesday night, and I was thinking I should head down to the beach and see what could be found. The light wasn’t as inspirational as it was on Monday, and the threat of a storm meant the clouds left me feeling a little flatter about the outing than the day before. I went down anyways, got my feet covered in sand and found some of these.
Im a little late, but Spring has definitely arrived and oddly, its bought back memories from Autumn!
Our friends Gaymarie and Matty were getting married, and we were invited to the joyous occasion. We were attending as guests but of course I couldn’t help myself and took along the camera anyway. I made sure I stayed out of the way of their photographer, but wanted to make sure I got some a few shots of their special day.
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So the UCI World Road Race Cycling Championships has been and gone. This was the first time the race for the coverted rainbow jersey has been outside the northern hemisphere and Melbourne and Geelong were proud to play host to this prestigious race. We got back to Melbourne late Thursday night, had a few days to recover and sort out some domestic chores, with just enough time to make it to the Men’s race – the final event of the championships.
