Caught this photo as the jets flew by.

River Fire Dump and Burn

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to shoot the wonderful and energetic couple, Katherine and Lloyd. We headed down to Dutton Park at an old abandoned lot where an old biscuit used to sit.  Heres a sneak peak of one of the photos from the day.

I will post a couple of my favourite photos when Im back from New Zealand =D

It is 2 days away from the 2009 Sydney Salsa Congress, one of the biggest salsa congresses in the world. I will be shooting the event and you can find me at the photography booth selling/organizing  the performance photos or waiting to be asked to dance :p

Either way, come say hi or keep me company between your workshops or social dances =)

Here are the links to the rest of the photos for the Bravo Pre-Congress Party:
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 1, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 2, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 3, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 4, here

Next up, Latin Energy with a Mambo routine.

And Latin Steps with another breathtaking salsa routine.

There is one more performance which I have not posted because I felt it deserved its own post. I will post it in the next few days.

While waiting, if you havent seen the previous performance photos:
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 1, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 2, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 3, here

Rio Rythmics performing a Zouk routine.

Groove Brazil’s Zouk routine.

Part 4 will be up tomorrow.

If you havent seen the previous performance photos, catch up! at
Bravo PreCongress Performance Photos Part 1 here
and
Bravo PreCongress Performance Photos Part 2 here

Next up, a Bachata-Tango routine performed by Latin Energy.

Lastly, Juan and Caitlin, Salsa on1 Australian champions from Latin Steps, performed a salsa routine

Part 3 tomorrow. In the meantime, if you havent seen part 1, heres the link:-
Bravo Pre-Congress Performance Photos part 1

Ive chosen my favourite photos and split them into 4 posts.

The Salsa Divas from Latin Steps performed first with a ladies styling routine. Here, we have Amanda(a frequent here on my blog) and Caitlin.

Smooth Latin Groove performing a Zouk routine.

Angelo brought his smooth and cool team to perform Samba de Gafieira. Incidentally, last year during the Sydney Salsa Congress, I almost got my face smashed in by Angelo.

I was propped up shooting from the tip of the stage when Angelo performed a move where he slides into the corner(towards me). He noticed me only at the last minute and narrowly missed me while I totally didnt see him.  My close face-smashing encounter with Angelo from Groove Brazil.

I will be posting up the rest of the pictures over the next couple of days leading up towards the Sydney Salsa Congress next week.

Side Note: I attended Mafie Zouker’s first workshop of six weeks last night and it was really amazing. The content is amazing and his style is just unbelievable.

and the best thing about the performance, Duncan didnt take off his shirt =)

On Casablanca night(also known as Sunday night), Tony Lara took the stages to play his best tunes for us Brisbane people and hosted a highlight way-too-friendly dance competition. 6 “Jack and Jill”s and 1 “Jack and Jack” took up the challenge and brought out their sexiest moves. Words simply cant explain it, so I will let my photos do the talking:

Getting ready to start the competition, they listened to the song.

Juan and Khosro really getting into it.

It was tough competition with lots of style

lots of dipping and….

The kind of stuff that gives Tony Lara nightmares for nights to come. I will spare you from the rest of their photos

They were obviously confused and me being a regular at the skating rink, I explained to them that there were 2 places to skate, north side(which is the train line we were on) and south side(inaccessible by public transport, where they were trying to go). They heard me out and logically, they would stay on the train to head north side to skate instead of south side(lack of transport?). But for some unknown reason, the girls were quick to get off the train although they were on the right track to their destination much to the guys(and my) surprise.

Is this how women react to change? is that how they react in other aspects of life?…Stopping their journey to re-evaluate all their options and does that make them bad decision-makers?

Alot of girls I know are indescisive by nature about everything, food, clothes, men?…This doesnt neceserily make them bad decision makers per say as they will take everything will be factored into consideration. “This stock is going down, how about all their subsidaries, are they affected as badly?”, “This house is nice, but for the price we are paying, is the neighbourhood safe for our kids in the future?”

I actually believe that makes them very good decision makers when it comes to educated ones. Although, when you put feelings into the equation, everything becomes a catch 22 and it turns into ”Why didnt that guy ask me out? Am I too fat? or is it what im wearing?”

and although those girls who decided to get off the train werent quick enough to get back onto the train, I hope they managed to catch the next one….