MLai - Reflecting my Life

Yesterday afternoon / evening, after work, I headed into Circular Quay on the way to the Rocks to meet up with the parkour guys and snap up a few more shots armed with the 50mm. The Rocks Markets by Moonlight is on every Friday evening this month and last night, Paris Wells and the Potbelleez performed. After that, a nice walk along the harbour where I snapped a few shots of the guys I was with. Photos:

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So today and tomorrow, EA games hosted a launch party for Mirrors Edge outside Customs House in Circular Quay. The parkour guys (all from around Australia) were hired to perform each day, and several promotional pieces over the last few weeks. More about the parkour inspired game at http://mirrorsedge.com.au

So I took out both the fisheye and the wide angle with me. The stage was set up already and the performance was kept to a small scale. I would’ve preferred to have seen some work around Circular Quay. It was more of a documenting day. The photos:

Not having fisheye shots all the time is slightly more pleasing to the eye. Finally I can get some rest before tomorrow.

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Monday night was a late night after going out to dinner for a friends birthday.

Last night ended up being another night out catching up with a mate of mine over dinner… and today… left work early and shot for … about 6 hours. Met up with the parkour guys at UNSW and had a great session I would say. Used the fisheye the whole day today which is a change and I’m not 100% if its good or bad, but impressed with the overall images. I do have to say that some of them are a bit soft and not as sharp as I’d like them to be.

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Bought the D200 off my brother on the weekend and just in time for some high shutter action. I think I was a bit too trigger happy and shot quite a few in burst, and the results are below.
Week and weekend was a bit slow. Work is back to its usual self, but now with proper deadlines.

I’ve been wanting and finally have what I’ve viewed as quite a necessary rule in working on projects where deadlines should be set and should be adhered to. We’ve lacked that a bit here, but things are progressing which is good, and its keeping me going.

The weekend involved a good rest day for my body before a good long session at Pyrmont. Photos are from after class and although most aren’t deemed as parkour, they are somewhat relevant to your preparation and only tackling certain movements when ready.

Lets hope the gifs work as well…

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Not that I’ve got any photos to show for the trip on saturday - left home at about 5pm, so the light conditions weren’t the best - and my friend was shooting that day - showing him the in’s and out’s of photography. I did take just the one shot:

Maybe my mate has a few photos to show, I did see a few which looked pretty good. Come to think of it, possibly they should make fisherman as a sculpture.. I think it’d look pretty cool.

The rest of the weekend was just kicking back. Didn’t turn up to parkour class, but rather found some interesting areas around home and a few things I need to work towards. Currently working at home, I’ve got some sort of allergy with my eyes. Didn’t feel right to drive to work today, but its been a good day of programming at home.

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Good class this week. Not sore, which is a good / bad thing but at the moment its good - at least I can walk this week. Weekend involved the beach, sleeping in and parkour. Just a few shots of the guys after class.

The instructors having a meeting after class to discuss how better to improve the classes:

Everyone is always willing to give a hand - considering the cold, cold water below..

The difference in height when aiming for a precision and an arm jump:

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Turned up to classes today for the first time in a while to actually participate. This is just all a part of my new plan to get back into shape and focus a bit more on parkour and parkour related photography.

A few quick shots of what happened after class.

Quite a scorcher today. Body is aching a bit too much to be able to do anything right now.. and possible not even for the rest of the week. It was a good session.

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A lot has been happening in the last week - change of internet providers, voip, getting glasses, work and photos. This weekend, just got back from a wedding - had another one yesterday. So it really has been a long week, and possibly this week might be a quieter one I hope. I was working on these yesterday and just thought I’d put them up. These photos were taken in Evry and Lisses in France - the birthplace of Parkour. The traceur in it is Rhys James - a parkour practitioner here in Sydney, who I consider one of the best practictioners here in Sydney. check out http://www.sydneyparkour.com/ and http://www.parkour.asn.au/ for more information.

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So I had an hour to burn, so I installed a free RAW image converter and also a photo resizer onto my EeePC. Its VERY limited since they require 1024 resolution.

Here are just a few photos I grabbed from the RAW images I had.

Yes the last one is of the couple I found… I’ll give thanks to the actual photographer when I get the time.
That is what Santorini looks like =P

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The week has been quite long and work is just going a bit insane. The next version of my app is due out this week, and theres a few things I still need to sort out yet. Uni has been a bit of a bore, with an assignment due this week, then mid semester break before another 2 are due. Highlights of the week would have been a work colleagues birthday on friday - I’m not the youngest in the building anymore, Maroon 5 concert and yesterdays wedding.

Tasty little cupcakes from… http://www.babycakes.com.au/

Here is the new gallery feature of wordpress 2.5 - I hope this works!

It looks nifty, but I think there still needs to be some fixes that need to be addressed - like having the full size image in the second window that opens up since I’ve already resized the images myself!

Keeping with what I normally do:

I wasn’t allowed to take photography gear into Acer Arena, but there were several hundred cameras in the place. They were pics I mustered up with my Ixus 75. I thought this was also pretty cool - since I haven’t seen it before - the sea of mobile phones:

A couple pics from yesterdays wedding - Athol Hall was the location for the reception - Athol Beach was where these pics were taken - just a wonderful day and lovely weather.

Daylight savings is hurting me so badly right now. I’m sure its really not daylight savings’ fault, but I’ve got a terrible headache right now - currently I’m at working, supposed to be doing the uni assignment which is due tuesday - and I’ve just been slightly distracted, but I should get back to it. After this week, I hope things become a lot less hectic.

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