Thursday evening, my friend Shannon and I took the train into Brisbane to photograph all the pretty lights of the city together. It was a beautiful windy and cool evening and we had a ton of fun riding the train and chatting, walking about and snapping photos of each other with the city as our backdrop. The photos of me are by Shannon (thank you!) and the rest I shot.
I love this beautiful canopy of flowers down in Southbank....
We popped in at a 7Eleven (classy, right? They're everywhere here!) and bought drinks... Shannon had brought Tim Tams, so she had to try a
Tim Tam slam.
Regardless of if it worked or not.... Tim Tams are always amazing.
I love that I've already found people to be my crazy self with... and they aren't running away (yet.) :)
So... we also had a moment where this couple behind me parked their stroller with their child right by us and then walked to the other end of the bench... and then, came back a few minutes later and thanked us. Apparently we had our first Australian babysitting gig and weren't even aware. I find it so hysterical that Shannon captured it... and my face. Because this is how we felt....
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This has been a full week. Different morning classes, lectures, chores, activities and our very first art focus days.
I'm on the photography track on my DTS (if you hadn't already guessed) and so yesterday, the photographers all met to talk about our goals and schedule for the next few months. The two YWAM staffers leading our team encouraged us to write down three achievable goals for the next few months, having to do with our photography and the relationship of God within our art.
Then our assignment was to create three photographs that represented those goals. A touch abstract but a nice creative challenge.
I will do my best to share all three with you over the next few months, but here is my first one and how I am attempting to reach that goal.
At home in Ohio I am constantly pinning fun techniques or things to try, but I rarely get around to them. Here... I have the time and the purpose to work on them. There are some really beautiful (digital) double exposure compositions on the internet and I've always wanted to try my hand at some.
So, one of my goals was to create a series of digital double exposures with a common theme, thread or story. I'm not sure what that is exactly, but I had some fun playing around with my technique in Photoshop yesterday... something I haven't done in ages!
My beautiful team-mate and friend Julia was kind enough to pose for these.... (I'm still refining my technique, but I'm finding this quite fun and a good chance to think outside the box)
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