Melbourne Laneways Part 2

Part 2 of the Melbourne Laneway posts see us take a trip from Hosier Lane through China Town to Croft Alley. Croft Alley is full of some amazing street art it also plays host to a unique bar, the Croft Institute. I found this video, which I though I would share, about some of the work that I have feature above.

Video found via The Croft Institute

I hope you have enjoyed my little tour through Melbourne's Laneways. If you were interested in I have uploaded some more photos from the night on my flickr or check out The Pietographer's blog

Suzie x

Camera // Panasonic Lumix LX5

Location // Hosier Lane & Croft Alley

P.S. I just stumbled upon Lucy from The Design Files interview with Lucas Grogan. His mural is featured in Hosier Lane. If you were interested you can read the interview here.

Melbourne Laneways Part 1

Recently I went on a photo adventure with my boyfriend and a couple of other people. Our little adventure took us through the laneways of Melbourne. For those not familiar with Melbourne, our laneways are well known for hidden bars and street art. I really like the first two shots, the first one, in particular, you can see the collaboration between different artists, which I think is great.

There always seems to be debate surrounding street art. What do you think of street art? Is it graffiti or art?

This is the first part of a two part blog series of Melbourne Laneways.

Suzie x

Camera // Nikon D3000
Location // Hosier Lane Melbourne 

Much Love Monday

Joining in on another Much Love Monday. Things I am loving at the moment: The Jezabels new album (I have previously posted about them here) Spring time, catching up with friends and family, photo adventures.   What are you loving? To join in this week's Much Love Monday head over to Anna's blog.

The photo above was taken on one of my recent photo adventures through Melbourne's laneways. I will be sharing some more photos later in the week.

I hope you all have a great week.

Suzie x


Camera // Panasonic Lumix LX5

Bridge

As I have probably mentioned before the reason I love film photography is that you never know how the image has been translated on the film until you have it developed. 

This is one of those shots that encourages me to keep taking film photos.

Suzie x

Ducks

There is nothing more relaxing then sitting by the river and watching the ducks paddle past. I am also liking the differences in the colour of these shots, they were all taken with the same film but the results varied.

Suzie x

Camera // Pentax MZ-50
Film // Rollei Creative Edition Crossbird

Cupcakes

I have actually decided that I am going to do a regular themed post based on the recipes I like. I remember making cupcakes when I was little with my Mum, which used to be quite fun. My friend at work loves making cupcakes and she really is a talented baker.  She has actually inspired my first "grown up" attempt at making cupcakes, which I made for my sister's birthday. I made two batches one were vanilla and the second were chocolate. I used Nutella icing on both, which was delicious (just beats eating nutella straight out of the jar).  I have to say they turned out better than I expected. However, I do believe I have a long way to go with my cake decorating skills.

If you were interested I used my friend's adapted version of Nigella's Cupcake Recipe. 

Here is the recipe for the Nutella Icing

Ingredients

About 40g Butter

2/3 - 1/2 cup of Nutella

1 cup of Pure Icing Sugar

1 tbl milk

Combine butter and nutella. Mix in the milk and icing sugar until the icing sugar is combined.

Suzie x

Paris...My favourite things

I have done a guest post about "My favourite things about Paris" over at For the easily distracted... If you were interest in seeing the full post and other guest blog post you can head over to Rhianne's blog here. 

After going through my photos for this post I am looking forward to going back to Paris one day. Have you been to Paris? What are your favourite things about this beautiful city?

Suzie x