Buddha's Birthday vegetarian food festival 2008
On the weekend... I found myself at the Buddha's Birthday festival in Darling Harbour. I was there for the vegetarian food fair ofcourse!
The Chinese Garden Forecourt was filled with hungry families and volunteers from BLIA (Buddha's Light International Association) and IBAA (Fo Guang Shan Nan Tien Temple).
Here are some of my snapshots -
Buddha's Birthday Festival 2008
Saturday 10 - Sunday 11 May 2008
Darling Harbour
For more information, visit the official Nan Tien Temple events page: http://nantien.org.au/en/news/News_View.asp?NewsID=13
May 07, 2008
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April 26, 2008
tools of the trade
I created this today for my Blurb (which is still in the works), so thought I might as well share it here.
My current camera gear:
Canon EOS 350D +
Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 Lens
Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens
Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Lens
Canon IXUS500 +
Canon WP-DC800 underwater housing (not pictured)
April 21, 2008
Auburn Baladna Pastry
I've made my own baklava at home plenty of times. While it's fun mixing and matching different nuts, syrup to pastry ratio and wacky shapes, nothing beats walking into a baklava pastry store. The huge display here offers more varieties of baklava than you can imagine.
Here's what I ended up with:
The long ones in the back-right are lady's fingers cashew baklava... these are crispy, buttery and not overly loaded in syrup. Splendid. The round disc of pastry with cream has been an all time favourite of mine... the soft fluffy cream balances out the sweetness so well. Ah, and my second most loved baklava would have to be the king's crown of long kounafa pastry which resembles a bird's nest full of whole pistachios. It's pure heaven.
Auburn Baladna Pastry
150 South Parade, Auburn
Phone: 9649 2324
April 16, 2008
On the red carpet with Keanu Reeves!
Last night, I was at the Sydney premiere of Street Kings... here are some of my paparazzi shots:
Check out my Photoshop lighting render skills... haha
[Edit 16/04/2008] Just found out that she's Jamie Wright aka Ms Bondi Blonde... and the guy is Nathan Sapsford (whoever that is!) [/Edit]
April 09, 2008
Skip to the Weekend Skirt
This might be new to some of you, but occasionally, apart from eating, thinking and photographing food... i like to sew. With bits of fabric from The Remnant Warehouse, Spotlight and the ribbed elastic from K-Mart, I made this over a few hours last Saturday.
I'm calling it the 'Skip to the Weekend Skirt'. I love the flowery checked pattern on the cotton... this was an impulse buy from The Remnant Warehouse. The silk slip was a luxury thing which hiked up the raw costs of the skirt.
Anyway... so, I wore the skirt on Monday and loved it :-)
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