one shoot, two pom's down.

As promised to Kyte, I waited early on the corner of Flinders on monday morning, mochachino in hand and a piece of toast in the other, fuelling up for the photoshoot ahead. We were soon on our way to the scouted location, a modern mansion on the outskirts of the city. When we arrived the stylist and hair & make up artist were busy titillating the male and female model’s looks so we set to work on lighting the first shot (the stylist, Amber was actually very recently on the show Project Runway as a contestant whom I had actually seen on foxtel when I arrived just a few weeks ago!) The shoot went really well…and all the better for me as the 1st assistant kept disappearing on the job so I took up the slack which looked good on my part ☺ Kyte had loads of info to share and was a really helpful with advise which was refreshing as a newbie in the ‘real-world’. one top tip; lies & fibs will work wonders at getting you a jobs…and so in this new light, I’m no longer a newbie, from now on I’ve been ‘assisting for 2years’ fact.

About this time I had also had abit of a spring walk down the beach and decided that I wanted to look into photography on boats! I had emailed a few places and people and got a response from Jeff, Captain and owner of the Lady Cutler, Melbourne Showboat. I went to meet him on the boat one cold morning and we had talked about me becoming their official ship photographer on selected cruises. The boat can be hired for various events, but I was most interested in the club night & corporate cruises to make abit of extra cash. I also went for a last-resort job interview for ‘santa-photographer’ over the christmas period, but after being called back, ended up giving this one a miss! I got offered a job in a photography studio called Verve portraits too, but it was a full time position and I wanted more time to assist photoshoot’s on a freelance basis; after the Kyte fashion shoot I was hooked on the assisting role, paid or unpaid I didn’t care as long as I was involved! It was a risk to turn down these two full-time position job offer's as these would have given me financial stability, but where is the fun in that aye, I didn’t feel like the job hunt was over yet, there was still more out there.

I was excited that a fellow £10 Pom was on his way down under too, my que-mate and tent buddy, Jamey T! He arrived to Melbourne with a lost bag and nothing but the few things he had on him, but that didn’t put us off going out on a big one to celebrate in the city. He had sat next to Dj Fergie form the UK on the flight over who had hooked us up with guestlist for the friday night at an awesome little club called Brown Alley (585 Lonsdale Street) where we drank pot’s and partied until 7am the next morning, ending up with macker’s on the tram home! two pom’s down, thirteen to go. good times.