Moé Moé Rabu

With the Easter long weekend, it was time for a short break from all the anime of the Spring season and was time to get out and get some fresh air. Heading out to the city on a cold, drizzly day, man new discoveries were awaiting to be uncovered. Many new places for photography and many delicious foods, but more importantly, the discovery of new friends. Today I made not just one new encounter, but two! Yes, today I got the chance to meet up with two fellow HongFire members, icie and Windbell. Windbell is actually from Singapore and has come down to the land of Oz for a holiday and has dropped by into Sydney to meet icie and myself.

Despite the random changes in the weather, it was a great day out as I got to know the people behind the names but as well as getting some figure photography done. Having done figure photography for a while, I also passed on my knowledge to the pair but I was also surprised myself that I knew quite a bit, but there is still much much more to learn. So I hope that what I have taught them will help in their future projects of figure photography or photography in general. But also, at least they now know what i go through when I have a number of eyes on you whilst photographing figures in a public place.

Also to list a few things from today:

• I probably did enough walking to cover 2 months worth of exercise.
• Chocolate pizza is deadly if you try to eat it by yourself.
• Carrying so much equipment in rainy weather sucks.
• Public transport is still expensive!!
• SCREW YOU RANDOM SYDNEY WEATHER!!!!!

In the end it was a fun day and I’m glad I didn’t bother telling work that I wasn’t available beforehand. It was great to meet the friends that I have made online through both HongFire and through blogging. New encounters bring along wonderful things and I hope to one day encounter them once again. But right now I feel like this:

Of course this is also to the fact that driving home in a torrential downpour of rain on the M4 going at 100 km/h requires an insane amount of concentration so that I could stay alive. Anyway, below is a sample of some nighttime photography (unedited as I can’t be bothered at the moment) that I took. Some of the figure ones didn’t turn out, but majority turned out extremely good. However I MAY have to redo them, but I’ll see.

Regular Spring season anime posts will resume tomorrow night when I’m feeling less dead.