Melbourne Loft

I’ve been amazingly busy over the past few weeks doing photo and video shoots for the Private Room.   I have days and days of editing to do now.   I love this shot below.   It was taken before a shoot last weekend in Sydney where the models insisted on doing some push ups to make their muscles pop for the shoot.   I was in charge of the wardrobe and the stocking over the head of model 2 probably gives away the theme of the video.  I can’t wait to watch the final edit. 
If you haven’t checked it out yet….  the Private Room now contains well over 200 videos and 180 photos galleries…  and still under 20 bucks a month!   What are you waiting for???

I’ve just arrived home after a couple of weeks away visiting Sydney and Canberra.  I went to Sydney to have my annual performance appraisal with my boss up there.  I also got to catch up with a couple of old friends and did a couple of photo shoots with some models there.   It was a pretty busy time.  And then I rented a car and drove down to Canberra.   The trip took almost 4 hours (about an hour longer than usual) because I took a few wrong turns getting out of Sydney.
In Canberra I was training some new staff there and doing some system configuration for some new contracts we have picked up there.  It looks like I’ll be there again next month when they go live.  But I have one more trip to Sydney to do next week.
I underestimated how cold it would be in Canberra.   I spent my nights hiding in the warmth of my hotel room…   in the grips of the National Geographic channel.   If ever I was to subscribe to pay TV it would be for this channel.   During the week I learnt all about Chernobyl and Con Air (the US Marshal air service that couriers prisoners around America).   I LOVE the National Geo channel.
And now it’s nice to be home for a few days!

This is currently my favourite place to eat in the city.  Gopals is the vegetarian Hare Krishna joint on Swanston Street.   It has actually been my fave place to eat for the past couple of years.  I particularly like the desserts…  and can you imagine my surprise when I saw they have installed a whole new dessert cabinet.   My favourite is the trifle with fresh fruit mixed into it…   followed by the apple crumble and the slices.   I usually over eat when I go there…  but the food is so delicious I can’t help myself.

You can find Gopals upstairs at 139 Swanston Street in Melbourne…   just opposite the Town Hall.

I am loving Melbourne to bits right now.   I just finished my 5 day mini break from work and spent the time wandering the streets of the CBD.   I’ve noticed that the Autumn season has been very slow starting.   It’s almost winter and usually the streets are clogged with the leaves from the trees by now.
I came across this group who are protesting over the chicken battery farms and the animal cruelty that still exist in Australia.   These guys are travelling Australia for 6 months with the human cage to demonstrate the conditions for the chickens.   So see more about their cause check out this site.

Well here it is!   I have turned This Week in the Loft into a more bloggish style of area so that I can post more often and in less time.   Rather than wait for a bunch of things to talk about (and forget half of them) I can post during each week.  Won’t that be fun?
And I’m going to start with my 5 days off work and on shoots.   I spent my 5 days shooting 5 models.   2 of them cancelled and one was replaced.  So I ended up doing 4 shoots.  2 here at the Loft and the otehr 2 in a hotel in the city.  It’s a shame the sun didn’t come out beacuse I much prefer doing photo shoots outdoors.  Here is a shot from one of the shoots.   I am REALLY happy about how my camera is performing at the moment.  Those tips from Tyson have really paid off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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