The photo of the convoy are in my online store. Off the menu.
All these images have also been given to the The Cancer Support Group, so you might see them around on their site…
What to check out the photos from the convoy!!
What a day in the convoy
The weather was fantastic, the bikes were great, the trucks where huge and the music was LOUD!!!!
Well done to everyone that put on such a great event. The crowds lined the road as we road down and around the streets of Canberra, and I even go to do some work. 🙂
Photographing Angry Anderson and the gang from Screaming Jets and Rose Tattoo.
Here is just a sneak peek at one of the shots of Angry Anderson doing this thing. 🙂
My first post for 2015 – The Cancer Support Group
The last month I have been on holidays, and when I say holidays, I really mean relaxing and taking it easy.
However, as January is just about over its time to start getting on with business, but before I do, I will be attending The Cancer Support Group convoy, which will be held tomorrow. It will be a unique experience for me as I’ll be actually attending as an attendee, and not the event photographer. ha ha ha
I will be a fantastic day out riding with some old, and new mates. It is also a fantastic way for the The Cancer Support Group (http://thecancersupportgroup.org.au/) to gain some valuable funds, for what is a terrible disease that takes thousands of people every year.
I was talking to a friend the other day about this convoy, and he was trying to decide if it was worth attending. Now my words to him were.
Is it worth giving away 50$ to ride 38km with other riders…. No… It is worth giving away 50$ to help families with cancer. Hell yeah
Which kinda raises an interesting point. Not everything in life has a tangible and quantifiable value.
- Can you put a dollar figure on the smile you see in your child’s eyes on Christmas morning?
- What about the last moments of life!
- As you watch your love ones slowly deteriorate as cancer ravages their body, is the medicine that brings comfort to them in their final days worth the money?
- What about the value of memories?
- Memories that are captured at a point in time and are there for a lifetime?
Photographs to me, are those memories. Photographs that capture the memories and document the history of life are one of the most important things as we grow old and our actual memory fades. We can, at any time, look back at these photographs. Photographs that bring out emotion, feeling, smells, tastes, while kick starting our minds back into an active state where they remember the moment when the photo was taken. We remember the things we were doing at that time, how we felt, and the people and activities that surround that moment in time.
Participating in this event tomorrow, is not about riding and hanging with my mates, it’s not about watching awesome old-fashioned Australian rock bands at the end and it’s not about getting a super cool T-shirt, Stubby Holder and a mad flag for my bike.
It’s about making a difference!
The Emeralds Calendar Launch
The Canberra Raiders Cheer Squad, The Emeralds, had their official calendar launch the other day and I was lucky enough to be invited along as their official event photographer and what can I say…… It was a great night…
It was full of dancing, singing, music and a whole heap of fun. It started off with the juniors of the squad doing their thing and later moved onto the seniors with lots of fan fair and energy.
All the images can be seen and purchased at my online store – click off the menu on the left of this screen. 🙂 Note as there are minors in the images you will have to use a passcode to access the site. There is a clue on the main page or request the passkey and I can send it to you.
As the sunsets over another day we look forward to tomorrow
Days end and days begin… what makes them different it the way we look at them…
Some days we have shit days and some days we have great days… but what makes up a good day? or for that matter a shit day?
I look out over by backyard and see this view… It is amazing in all aspects… but it is a view that we all see and we all see must about every day of our lives… but why is it that we do not see it?
Most of the time we walk around with our eyes shut… There is soooooo much beauty in this world that we take if for granted… We just walk through our lives not looking around and as some would say, not smelling the roses… lol
Here are my roses. 🙂
