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Backstage Group Exhibition at QVB

Curated by new young Sydney based production agency six wolves.
On now at the QVB in Sydney, that's the Queen Victoria Building for you non australians and one of the shopping centers to go to as it is in one of the most beautifull buildings in Sydney ( after Strand Arcade )
So check it out, on till the 12th September, first reports in is that it looks great, they printed the photos really big. will post some pictures once someone sends in some shots ( Isaac ? )

360 Degrees, back at parents place

back in the pool at my parents place in Javea, so a full circle, well second full circle , the first one would be getting back to Hilda's place

on the ( Spanish ) road again

beautiful country side Jac's has a go at driving, yeay, she got up to 5th gear blue sky, open road and sunflower fields. I opted for the smaller regional roads as opposed to zooming down the freeways, figured we would get to see more this way, and I'm glad we did We saw that there were some heavy storms near Murcia with severe flooding ( and this is the roughly the direction we are driving ), so was wondering if we would hit the storms, but we are skirting it the whole time, and got not one drop of rain, just sunshine and great  scenery so no storm for us check the red earth ( and insect riddled windscreen ) we arrive safely at our destination, but next morning when we plan to go to the local markets this just rolled over was impressive

Riba De Santiuste, Spain ( on the road again )

Wake up in the morning to this view, we left our little place at Suances in the late afternoon, and drove till midnight ( we had an hour dinner break ) to arrive at this little town about 200km north east from Madrid very dry, but I talked to one of the local guys and he tells me they still get enough water in the winter time to survive summer Evan checking out the outside of the Casa Rurales we rented for the night and I check the details on the inside

view of the castle from bedroom window view of the town from the other window bedroom turns out we are on the Don Quijote's route town square with the all important water fountain blown away by the beauty of the surrounding countryside, but also the similarity to the Australian landscape Casa Rurales  ( holiday rental ) bridge leading to the castle, and check the contrast in colour of the landscape when it is near a water source what a great location and you could be forgiven for thinking I've snapped these pics in the outback, well, it's outback Spain just awesome, I need an open check book from a wealthy magazine so I can come to places like this with a team to produce some fantastic fashion images view of the town, with Jacqui in the foreground taking photos of the sunflowers closer look at the castle, although we would have liked to get up closer it was closed, plus we need to drive another 5-6 hours to our next destination and I love my sunflowers ok, time to hit the road

Glassed balconies at Comillas

Have noticed this a lot in this region, all the beautiful glass and carpentry work on the balconies, love it little sanding and repaint, and then I can see myself sitting there reading a good book
so pretty newer version
I want one :-) one without windows ( the odd one out ) tiling at the entrance of one of these typical buildings

Gaudi's El Capricho at Comillas Spain

the main reason we returned to this cute historical seaside village with beautiful iron work, it was one of Gaudi's first works, drawing this design at age 31, so clearly still early and before he really adopted his modernist approach
sunflower tiles, hello . . .  awesome ! ! I want :-) I was really impressed by the frame work on the windows, and the ceiling in every room was different, and yes, lots of details to see the frame work in the attic
gaudi chic

Lunch at Comillas, Spain

This is the same spot we were at a week ago and the tide change is astounding, here's the pic at high tide. I'm not quite at water level yet, and where Jacqui is sitting now, if it were high tide, she would be soaked, so it illustrates the tidal difference, so when you have surf competitions, it really would make a big difference as to the waves breaking on the sandbanks or point breaks woauw, so similar to Long Reef
and that's the wall the kids were standing on and got splashed by the incoming waves.
And this is the spot were I just slipped on a mossy rock and really hurt my hip to protect my camera from smashing on the rocks
Did not even know there were any rocks on this beach, as you certainly could not see it at high tide

Donkey race at Cobreces, Spain

On our way to Comillas, as we drove through Cobreces, there were a lot of people standing around a green paddock, so we just had to stop and investigate. getting ready, there was a lot of commentary going on, all in Spanish, so we did not really know what was going on, but one thing that stood out was that the donkey's kid are at their side the whole time, even during the race
spectators line up along the street, and an awesome blue sky day getting ready to go and they're off being Spain, I assumed it was just going to be an all boy's affair, but no, there is one girl in the race as well oh this is so funny, there's carnage everywhere, basically this race seems to be more about entertainment for the local villagers than the actual race and then you get donkeys chasing and mounting other donkeys , all to much delight of the crowd. lots of clapping and cheering
carnage on the other side as well keen to know why the baby donkeys are in the race as well And the girl wins ! !

Sun is back out at Suances

what I see a lot in this part of Spain is all these new developments on the outskirts of the old town, and not a lot of old people. So parcels of farm land around town redeveloped for new housing and new families. But not loving this repetitive feel to it all anyway, after 3 days of rain nice to see the sun out at Los Locos beach do a bit of bird watching, and damn, if this does not remind me of Warriewood beach, or even the south coast

The very small waves at the Suances rivermouth, and this all changes with the tides as well Local santa justa beach just up the road, and the chapel built into the rock

Barcena Mayor, Cantabria

we followed our nose inland and discovered this little historic town and am loving the old style of carpentry incorporating river stones in the construction of the houses


I'm always impressed by how things were built pre electricity there's a slight fuzziness to these pics because there was just a constant drizzle of rain today so they got big solid planks of wood for a wall, evenly spaced, and then filled the gaps with rocks, some rendering, and voila, you have a solid wall India on a walk and Evan and this area seems to be dotted with villages like this, although Barcena Mayor was at the end of a road, and from there on it was national park, where there supposedly are still some bears roaming the woods