Today's focus was a rather hastily called concert for a Surfers Paradise event. There were a few other things too, but mostly it was about getting on a bus by 1.30pm, heading to the Coast, playing, packing up and coming home again. Love my pastimes!
As luck would have it, it was a beautiful SE Queensland sunshiny day and although I knew we weren't going to have a lot of spare time, I took the cam just-in-case. (Given that I have to also lug along two large instrument cases and a kit bag...it becomes quite a haul to add anything else.) The concert was right in the heart of Surfers Paradise, part of a food festival of sorts (though we didn't get to sample the wares...rarely do, we jobbing musician-types). But it sounded like people were enjoying themselves.
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| The buildings are bigger in Surfers |
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| How veryGC |
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| Ibis! Oh, and other things |
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| Bumping in... |
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| Essential for the rhythm |
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| Paradise Towers (yes, with a little edited 'nostalgia' trickery...) |
A nostalgia moment. One of my early casual jobs was in a vet's clinic across the road, and that part of Surfers also was the subject of one of my high school photography assignments...when I was just starting out on this habit of looking at life through a lens.
But yes, concert done, fireworks blown (I've never sat under the trajectory of fireworks before...such is the life a an amateur musician...) we hopped back on the bus and home.
Now, it's off to the north coast tomorrow for the uni open day and maybe we'll swing by the Ekka again. We'll need it.
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 28-80mm, 3.34pm-3.39pm]
