Thursday, August 27, 2009

Portraits from Singaraja, Indonesia

Hi all, and welcome back to regular updates here on the blog. if you didn't know before hand, I have been away overseas this month spending time at an orphanage in Singaraja, Indonesia, in a joint project between, Beyond the Box (Tasmania) and Zions Hill Church at this end, and dMaker International and Mercy Indonesia at their end. In 9 days, I managed to shoot about 3500 photos, which we have culled down to 350 for slides, and probably about 100 images that will be edited and used for promotional purposes by all the parties involved. If you want to find out more about the trip check out the Beyond the Box Blog in my links section. Anyhow, these are a few quick spontaneous portraits of the new kids in my life.Selvi, looks serious, but is really full of smiles.
Olan, was very shy, but funny
Merry had the biggest smile I've ever seen
Lia was always laughing, never frowning
Jimi, and Frans (in the next pic) were always on the guitars, jamming from dawn to dusk
Frans
Firman, is a cool 18 year old, who is a mean soccer player
And Angel was a special visitior who was also staying at the orphange for the week we were there.

You notice, that i say they are always smiling and happy? Even though they were only just starting to learn english, a smile, a wave and an image on the back of the camera was enough to communicate with them and see just how happy they were to have visitors. Look out for some more pics of the scenery and lifestyle here over the next few weeks.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Every body loves cake...

I'm just in the process of doing up some pictures for the finest bakery in Tasmania, Tant Pour Tant.
The photos were actually taken at the end of last year but with so much going on in both our schedules it's only been in the last month we've gotten together to pick out which ones to polish and use as advertising material and pick some to frame in the shop.
Here's a small selection from the edits.....
Essentially the color images are for use in advertising material and on a new website they plan to have up. The sepia ones are all small behind the scenes details that are going to be hung in the shop to give people something to think about as they enjoy their delicious food.

Visit them at 226 Charles St or check them out at
http://www.tantpourtant.com.au/

Monday, August 3, 2009

A few more portraits...

Digging throught the archive is both a rewarding and embarring job. When you've been shooting since college, alot of your work from earlier days just doesn't stand up to what you can achieve now, however you still can be pleasantly suprised by what you find at times.

This post is mainly another lot of portraits to show you what I've been up to since forever ago, and I'll let you in on some secrets at the other end...

A Happy Couple...
A First Kiss...
Tables are set...
Punk Rock Weddings...

And some different ends of portraiture.... Hippie / Horror

Hope you enjoy looking at the second selection, and just in case i don't post for a while, I'm off to Bali for 9 Days from next Tuesday. Check out my photography for this trip @ http://beyondtheboxtas.blogspot.com/

Also from the archive.... Opening 22 October, @ Blue Cafe Launceston, a selection of my farourite music images from the last 5 years.... I'll preview it a bit more onece I return.

Cheers - Scotty