Melbourne: Day 14

Day 14 was recovering from the party and cleaning up - boo!

I have some random photos that I'm going to tuck onto this post, just so they have somewhere to live!

If you checked out my new home for my photo series you may of seen these guys in my 100 strangers project! I was planning on taking sooooo many photos of cool Melbourne peeps, but I chickened out and took pretty pictures of sidewalks, gardens and shop windows :p

For dinner we went to Yong's which I was a little scared of because it sounded super healthy but turned out to be one of my favourite meals from my trip :) 

I ordered the faux kingfish platter which I gave a 9.5/10

Emaya got a curry which by all reports was super yum

And our entree of calamari mushrooms was sublime!

So next week I'm going to wrap up my Melbourne posts and hopefully I can keep up my blogging momentum and not fall off the face of the earth! *fingers crossed*

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Woofstock

Ben and I headed to our nearest local town, Eumundi for woofstock! Auto correct keeps telling me to change it to Woodstock but that wouldn't be near as fun to say outloud. When we arrived the event was quite small and Ben and I looked at each other with pleading eyes of fleeing but we stuck it out and I'm glad we did because we got to watch some fun awards like doggie talent show and best dressed! I'm also quite proud of myself for tackling my fear and approaching strangers for photos. Since I mainly took photos of their dogs, I'm only going to add Rocky and his lovely owner (in matching black hats and white ensembles) to my 100 strangers project :) Two down - 98 portraits to go!

One of these poodles (damn my poor memory!) Claude took out the award for best talent with impressive dance moves :)

No awards for this little girl but I think we can all agree cuteness to the max!

Rocky and his Mum -  Rocky took out second place for best dressed :)

And Chino took out top prize - I was speaking with him mum and she told me she hand sewed his entire outfit!!

It was funny to walk through the stalls (100% aimed at dog owners) and be asked if we have a dog and then have to admit we didn't. We didn't go quite as far to say we only had a cat but hey I'm sure a dog friend will be in our lives at some stage - just doing some early research :)

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Suburbia

I first found out about Warren Kirk through thimble's blog post and have since been following him via his flickr account. He captures these perfectly imperfect snapshots that are filled with charm and nostalgia and retell so many aspects which I love about Australia and our suburbs. 

Today's post is 100% dedicated to Warren as I adventured around Golden beach, a sleepy suburb in Caloundra filled with many a tale. I also got to start on my 100 strangers project with the amazing Naomi! When I shoot weddings I have to approach strangers frequently for their photos, it's nerve wracking but I think I'm getting slowly better - this project will hopefully dwindle that fear down even further.

When I approached Naomi she was worried about not looking good enough for the camera so she suggested I take the photo as she looked into her mailbox :) I then asked if I could take a photo of her house, after getting approval I ran across the street and before I was over, Naomi yelled back to me "would you like me standing in front?"

She said I made her day but honestly she made mine :)

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