Hello 2008 - Im back
Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, and believe or not, they’re already selling Easter Eggs at the supermarket, so have a great Easter as well.
Firstly apologies and thank you to all those that tried to or succeeded in contacting me over the past few weeks. I have finally returned all calls & e-mails, if you haven’t heard from yet me yet drop me a note or ring b/c your message has gone MIA.
I took a break with my family and got away from Sydney for a few weeks. Since I know a number of relatives and friends read my blog, and for past and future clients to get a bit of a feel to my personality, I’m going to indulge myself with a few snapshots and comments from the past few weeks.
All images taken with my pocket sized P&S, love the ease of use & quality it delivers.
I’ll start of with new years eve dinner at the Italian Forum at one of our favourite restaurants Sapore by the fountain.
I’m the one on the right 
This was followed by a light rail ride into Darling Harbour to see the fireworks.
We were right under the action and the noise started to scare the young one.
A couple days later we loaded the car & headed north, first stop Coffs Harbour where we did the tourist thing.
That night we went to the local carnival where the kids had fun on the rides and I played with the pre-sets on my camera. I like these, straight out of the camera, no post processing.
Eventually we reached our destination, beautiful Burleigh Heads where the view from our 18th floor room would have been fantastic if it hadn’t been for the weather.
This sign was up for the first few days we were there, heart breaking.
However Queensland didn’t fail us and soon the weather was fantastic and we headed of to the theme parks.
Here is a photographers tip, never store your camera next to an icy cold drink bottle, the lens tends to fog up.
And the boys did what they loved doing.
Should also mention thanks to my brother for lending us MIO that did a fantastic job at not getting us lost, unfortunately, this model is not designed to avoid traffic.
Another gorgeous day, another theme park, somewhere in there you’ll find my sons.
Now for some reason the girls wanted to stop into a certain hotel with an Italian sounding name that is apparently the bees knees. What better place to refresh ourselves with coffee and milkshakes 
Finally on our way home with a stopover at a great little place called Forster.
Part of the “Great Lakes”.
I spend one morning baiting hooks with live worms.
Not pleasant but the end result was worth it, both boys caught their first fish.
If you look carefully, he jagged this one by clipping the gill, the bait it still on the hook 
When I threw this one back in, the young one got quite upset. He wanted to take it home and put it in a bowl to keep it as a pet.
That’s it for now, next time you hear from me I’ll be updating the blog with some fresh images from the most recent event I’ve covered.
Have a healthy & safe 2008.
PS: For those readers that live in or near New York, there is a 4 year old girl that they are desperately trying to find a bone marrow match as she has been recently diagnosed with MDS leukaemia. My mate & great photographer Christos from Long Island is supporting this little girls cause by publishing testing locations & dates as well as rallying people to come in for a swab in an attempt to find a match.
Click on this paragraph for details.