Hazzy Bee goodness

The whimsy of Hazzy Bee's art never fails to make me stop and stare - and get my camera out. I'm happy to say one of my pics is now on the Hazzy Bee website http://hazzybee.com/art Hazzy Bee sometimes works with Akisiew  (http://akisiew.com/) on murals and I love their collaborations.

Taking photos of street art is often difficult with a variety of intrusions like power poles, street signs, cars, trees, rubbish buns, dumped garbage, large items awaiting collection and so on.

The there's the weather - too bright, too dark, too many shadows....

 And let's not forget 'user error' like batteries dying, leaving the memory card back home in the laptop, smudges on the lens, etc

The boot of our little car is filled with tripods and 2 milk crates for ladder purposes. The crates take up 90% of the boot space! We've revised our idea to take 3 crates after Mox told us one of his worst falls from stacked up milk crates.

It's great when you capture something well. I often find myself cheering for other people's photos when they've done such a great job. Good pics and great street art  just inspire us even more :-)

Update on Akisiew - see her gorgeous new work at http://www.arthousecoop.com/library/2444#page-slide_1

More art please!
J in JAM

Graffiti in the sunshine

800 photos in 3 days?


Wonderful weekend. Weather and street art-wise. 

Big City Freaks mural detail, Chippendale

From Friday we started the hunt for a suburb we haven't hit before - Chippendale. We had a few ideas about where to look and there certainly was a rich vein of graffiti gold to uncover. 

Stencils and paste ups in Chippendale

More Chippendale plus Enmore on Saturday and Enmore and St Peters Sunday. We found plenty to photograph.

 Lady Munchkinio pointing out one of her felt ladies which has been painted over.

The result of all this hunting is a mind whirring with images of street art and feeling blown away by the creativity this city has to offer.

Street artist Mox's London Museum of Natural History stencil.

Highlights? Chatting with Lady Munchkinio and Mox about graffiti. Successful hunting of pieces we'd seen on Flickr. And finding more MIM (iLL) cats.

Stencilled cat by MIM (iLL).

Soon we are off to Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast for a week so no graffiti hunting for a week or so.


Cheers,
J in JAM