BRINGING IN THE NEW YEAR!

January 6th, 2010

As most of you already know... I spent Christmas at my parents place on the Sunshine Coast, doing the usual stuff, getting spoilt by Mum, surfing, stand up paddle boarding, watching movies and catching up with friends and family.

This year however, my time at Mum and Dad's was a little bit different than usual as I was able to entertain and hang out with some really good friends of mine who are practically family to me, my good friend Dan and his better half April who were up in Queensland on holidays, all the way from the big smoke of Sydney City.

Dan is better known by his alias of 1OVAKYND to which he haunts twitter but better yet takes amazing photographs! I have been friends with these 2 for years, and it was nice to introduce them to my parentals so that faces could be put to names, but also show them around where I grew up, giving them a bit of an idea why I am maybe the way I am?  We shopped for unusual gifts, hit up shopping malls and cinemas, sussed dodgy retailers, surf checked and showed them where locals go.  I kinda wished the holidays werent on, so then we would not have had to deal with the crowds, but then again, we would all be working our million or so jobs and hobbies!!

Its about now that I have to make mention that they definitely arrived in a limo of sorts... just a really small limo... let me introduce you to Dan and April and their tiny chariot!

 MR BEAN..?

We had been meaning to shoot my new gear for a while now, but kept putting it off to hang out, and talk about anything and everything, drink coffee and those 'red devils'... but after leaving the cinema on a rainy Sunday afternoon, we realised we only had a couple of hours to shoot it as they were leaving the next day...

We quickly loaded my van with all the gear and headed off down to my local beach.  The weather was terrible and surf was messy... but in usual EVENING fashion this was perfect for my style and better for Dan to mess around with the photos a little and emphasize the clouds in the background.

As we were setting up Dan and I was super busy when everything went quiet... only to notice that April came back to us saying 'careful over there', to which we notice she was completely wet from head to toe and had been hit by a wave... it was one of the funniest things we had ever seen and one of those 'you probs had to be there moments' but either way men... take note on how to make a woman be quiet... send em to the edge of a rock shelf ;)

Heres the final products of the NEW EVENING FOREVER RASHIE photoshoot... hope you dig... as I know we are really stoked with how they have come out!

 SURF'S UP!

April was telling me how she calls Dan, her PTB - otherwise known as her PART TIME BOYFRIEND. Between his work, photography, computer, iphone, apps and twitter, she doesnt really get to see that much of him when he isnt working on his monitor tan!  I dont think I would be much different so we decided to stick to what we do best and shoot some photos with us on our phones... me in sitting in the back of my car to which you will often find me sifting through stock and just hiding from the sun and the real world! Dan doesnt stress too much, so I shot him 'casually' leaning on the front of my car, then shot him messing with my mums christmas lights out the front of their house... dont tell her we messed with her lights but ;)

Heres the final products of the NEW LAYLA TEE and NEW EF TEE photoshoot... I feel they fit both Dan and my personalities perfectly... they are also pretty awesome photos!!