Min Wye Photography

I can count with my 2 hands the number of times when Brisbanians come out to celebrate an event together.  To celebrate the Brisbane River, River Festival is held every year around September and it is kicked off with a 30 minutes fireworks display from 3 bridges(Good Will Bridge, Story Bridge and Victoria Bridge) along the Brisbane River as well as the iconic “Dump and Burn” which features an F-11 fly across the Brisbane River which as its title says, dumps its fuel and burns it. Heaps of people, cramped up along the Brisbane River = very hard to find a good spot to shoot, I had to make do. Pictures!

Wheel of Brisbane

The Wheel of Brisbane, built and was open on the day of River Fire. It is our version of the Eye of London, feels like abit of a rip-off but meh, its quite an amazing sight to see either way.

My View

Unfortunately, I arrived to the scene 5 minutes late watching the F-11 fly through shrouds of tree. Thankfully, after abit of shoving and squeezing, I landed myself a pretty sweet spot next to the man-made beach with an open air view of the sky.

Fireworks

Out of the 200+ photos i took that night, with the lack of preperation and experience with fireworks shots, I landed with a record low 3% succesful shot rate……6 pictures and thats just mediocre shots. Quality pictures….none(its a crime that I take photos, I know)

Heart shaped fireworks

This was probably the highlight of the crowds(mainly girls) night. Heart shaped fireworks!! I swear everytime that thing went off, every girl in South Bank screamed and even with my half deaf right ear, it was startling….but it wasgreat cause it served as my indication to turn over to get the shot. Its my favourite picture of the night although not technically the best.

Got Milk?

After being stuck in the jam out of South Bank, we ended the night with some dinner and dessert at our usual…..

3 Monkeys(Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Speak no Evil)

Friday workday blues….This weekend is a busy one.

I have yet to decide whether to go for a movie tonight with the gang with this money-saving thing im trying to get going. I can watch a movie with them for 5.70aud, or I can go dancing at SouthBank for free. Decisions, decisions. Its going to be pretty busy in SouthBank with RiverFire preperations going on.

Which im probably going for with RuiMin if she can make up her mind :p Its gonna be great, a year ago at this same time, I was kicking myself for not having a dslr. Hopefully this year, I will be able to produce some interesting pictures(will post them up here). Besides that, Ive gotta find a costume for Kits party! Its an Alice in Wonderland theme. I think the easiest character to go as is Jack of Hearts….but without dressing up as a card. Might drop by at Sacha’s workplace to grab a costume, apparently Alice in Wonderland themed plays are the craze now.

Kits party will be a blast with the interesting theme. I wonder what she has cooked up for decorations. Its another good opportunity to pull out my camera and be trigger happy =D

TGIF :p

So, as the title says, this is the second reincarnation of my blog. Perhaps blogging isnt made for guys, we have so little going on in our heads. Maybe thats why at least 70% of the blogs i come by are written by girls.

Anyway, since im already posting, here are some pics that i thought were really nice from my weekend away at Byron Bay with my family.

Most Easterly Point in Australia

Byron Bay is in New South Wales, 2 1/2 hours drive from Brisbane and is best known for the Most Easterly Point in Australia.

Byron Bay Lighthouse

I must have taken a good 200+ photos while I was there and I cut down the list to maybe 10 ok photos. Gotta improve my ok ratio shots. The weather on the first day was quite fantastic, with blue sky and sprinkle of clouds that really gave alot of depth to my photos.

A couple watching the sunrise

This was taken at around 6.25am, when the sun actually started to come out. The clouds that morning(and day) were not in my favour, which just gives me another reason to come down here again!

seafood feast...

And of course, as we Asians love our food, what better way to end with a feast =)