Waxlyric

The Veggie Patch Diaries

waxlyric — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:43:15 +0000

A few months ago now I began a personal project with my wife to live a little more sustainably and try to do our small part in maintaining a better environment and healthy lifestyle. With a love of freshly grown organic produce our decision was made, to grow our own! We were not out to live completely off of our garden, but more so to take advantage of our subtropical climate, large backyard and attempt to reduce our weekly green buying.

The past couple of months we have been busily constructing our raised garden beds, prepping soil and utilising various composting methods (of course along the way giving the gardening reference section at our local library a hiding as we’re no experts at this).

Somewhere along the way I decided to create ‘The Veggie Patch Diaries’, a subsection of my website devoted to the documentation of our garden’s trials and tribulations. As I write this we have just began thinning out our newly sprouted radish seedlings which have made it to tonight’s dinner table!

Stay tuned for more on ‘The Veggie Patch Diaries’… coming soon!

17 Weeks

waxlyric — Wed, 01 May 2013 03:50:30 +0000

Canon 5D MkII, 24-70mm L, 1/400 @ f/4.5, ISO 100

Polaroid 600SE, 150mm Mamiya, 1/250 @ f/5.6, Fuji FP-100C

Portrait of Céline at week 17 of her pregnancy on both digital and film cameras.

Early Morning Surf Check

waxlyric — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:07:28 +0000

Danny, Rocky, Tait & Lotti early morning surf check, Northern NSW.

Sammy & Benny

waxlyric — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:24:55 +0000

A Sunday funday with my nephew Sammy & Benny down at the local skatepark. So stoked to see the little guy trying to be just like his dad… sessioning skateparks is in his genes!

Inner City Servo

waxlyric — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:18:51 +0000

Nestled between modern high rise apartments and businesses of the CBD, hidden behind the facades of some of the last original remaining remnants of a bygone Brisbane, would you believe lies a private service station complete with old rusty jerry cans and a fully funtional fuel bowser. I imagine Rock’N'Roll George pulling in for an oil change and top up before cruising the streets of Brisbane in his ’52 FX Holden back in the day.

Each side of the retro fuel pump is leased by two separate car rental companies and is used daily for convenient, mind you ‘premium priced’ refuelling of its inner city fleets.

I originally visited the site over ten years ago then with my trusty old film slr, though since have never returned thinking it would have most definitely met its demise like so much of the other CBD’s early heritage structures. Recently strolling casually past the roller door with my camera, I was able to slip on in to capture a few frames with the kind aid of an employee with a key.

Here’s to the inner city servo and lets hope it stands to see another 10 years!

The Road to Cherbourg

waxlyric — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:10:55 +0000

Last week I headed out to Cherbourg, north west a few hours from Brisbane to introduce an exciting new project I’m fortunate to be involved with, in teaching mobile journalism to indigenous youth. The project is in its early beginnings so I look forward to sharing more with you as it is rolled out. In the meantime here are a handful of photographs from the road trip out west!

Quiksilver Pro 2013

waxlyric — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:11:28 +0000

The world championship race has kicked off again for 2013 with 11 time champion Kelly Slater up against a super in form current world champ Joel Parkinson yesterday at Kirra Beach. Kelly managed to snag the victory with an almost perfect ten on a screamer of a barrel, didn’t think he was ever going to come out. Here are some photographs from Tuesday’s day of competition at Gold Coast’s Snapper Rocks!

Joel ‘Parko’ Parkinson

Adam Melling

Julian Wilson

Kelly Slater

Mick Fanning

Matt ‘Wilko’ Wilkinson

Bede ‘Durbo’ Durbidge

Snapper Groms

Father & Son

Friday Downtown

waxlyric — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:12:49 +0000

Southbank, Brisbane.

Part I – Switzerland

waxlyric — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:44:37 +0000

As promised here is part one of an ongoing series I will be posting over the next month or so from our recent travels abroad. The following images were shot entirely in the Swiss Jura region neighbouring France and the nearby picturesque town of Neuchâtel, one of my favourites!

Project Distribution – Polaroid 600SE

waxlyric — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:01:01 +0000

On our recent return to Switzerland I was fortunate to have received a very thoughtful gift… an original Polaroid 600SE (Aka. GOOSE) kit complete with three Mamiya press lenses (Merci vielmals Roswitha & Fredi). The camera has quite some history backing it, once belonging to Roswitha’s father when he worked as a professional photographer for the Prince of Liechtenstein.

Yesterday I was able to test out the capabilities of this beast over at the skateboarding offices of Project Distribution. I was so stoked with the crispness and tonal detail of the final images (shot on peel apart Fuji FP-100C) and really now looking forward to introducing this camera into my current workflow. Being a huge supporter of film I think it will compliment nicely some future photographic endeavors… Welcome to the family Goose!