Shot with Marinella yesterday, a girl I’ve been wanting to shoot with for a while now. Super photogenic, and she’s a great graphic designer too! We ended up only taking a couple of shots, and decided to eat at Brooklyn Boy Bagels and talk shit instead!
Ved at work.
His new LED light set-up.
Nico’s Maserati.
Golf’s look tough without their rear bumpers!
Still smiling.
As if introducing himself for the first time. Kato-san touched the car, then went straight for the fender!
Kato-san freaking out at the low and loud planes that fly over Heasman Steering.
Got him!
Toyo RPRSNT!
MotorEX 2015!
The King of Kustoms! George Barris!
Ty’s amazing Liberty Walk M3.
Love the green wheels!
My dream, but in black with an RB26.
Toyo RPRSNT!
Movie Car Mania!
Had an awesome day yesterday tagging along with Ved from Selectnine who was filming and shooting the SUNUS Motorsports LB M3 and a meeting with Mr Liberty Walk himself, Kato-san for Heasman Steering.
Kato-san arrived at Heasman Steering direct from the airport, meeting and greeting the Heasman Steering crew and having in-depth suspension related discussions with Brad Heasman. He was also given an all access tour of the Heasman Steering facility.
We then headed off to MotorEx. Nothing beats set-up day. No crowds, just the true enthusiasts getting their cars ready for the show. It feels like such a privilege! Andrew Spira intriduced me to living legend George Barris too. George designed the 60’s Batmobile (which I grew up watching on TV). AMAZING!!!
SO EXCITE!
Oh man, looks so good in black (previous models were white).
The controller. I’m using Reef Crest mode and at 30% power it’s perfecto!
The MP10 is tiny inside the tank as the motor is on the outside (which also keeps the heat outside of the tank)! Such a smart design.
As you can tell. I’m totally fish geeking out lately! My MP10 wave maker arrived in the mail today! What a relief! It’s been over a month (ordered and paid for it on the 11th of JUNE!). I’m so happy with it (corals are going to be happy too!).
Corals in the mail!
Perfect distraction whilst acclimating corals!
The 2 tiny orange hammers started opening up right away pretty much!
Got took delivery of 2 small bits of a orange hammer in the mail today from 100% Reef Safe in QLD. They were packed really well, with a heat pack and a couple of chupa chups even!
Yesterday I had a great catch up with Simmy. We were meant to shoot a little too, but instead we got smashed, and all I have on my memory card is photos of her cats Luna and Diego! HAHA!
A few more corals from Aquaristic. A small orange torch and a green leather (as I miss the one in my old tank!).
Get Arty on the deck, cause the sun was just too nice.
Krystal.
Krystal’s got a really distinguishable and unique style. This piece inspired by my aquarium!
Krysti’s painting is off to a killer start. Such a mature painting. I love it.
Man painting is hard! But hey, not bad for day #1 right?!
Spent the day getting arty with 2 arty farts, Krysti and Krystal. Mad tunes, good vibes, such a rad arvo and I’m truly happy to be painting again. It’s been over 15 years since I’ve painted. I’m painting a portrait of Krystal, it’s not right, yet, but I think I’ll get there in time!
Had a fun shoot with Hannah today (our 2nd shoot, our first amazing shoot here). Lighting was so on and off. Sun, no sun, sun, no sun! I struggled a bit, but we had fun, so all good!
The full set is up here: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/girls#/hannah-1/
Hammers are puffing up more and more by the day! New one from this morning on the bottom right corner. Gold tip hammers on the cards!
Morph is also getting bigger.
Small star polyps.
Normal/larger star polyps. They had opened up completely but got pretty grumpy when I took them out and cut off a bit which was hosting an aiptasia anemone. I like how they move with the flow though, very nice.
Sea water storage. Something I should have done ages ago!
I stumbled upon a guy on Facebook, Adam from Aquarium Excellence, who delivers natural sea water around Sydney. He also sells a big variety of drums of all shapes and sizes. I ended up getting a 220 litre food grade drum delivered to me, with natural sea water. His hose was long enough to reach around 1/4 of my house to my laundry! So cool. I now have so much fresh sea water which will make water changes a breeze! I could even do 80% weekly water changes and not dose a thing from now on! Such a luxury! And in an event of a tank crash (touch wood it never happens!) I have plenty of ready to go sea water.
He also sells corals so I bought some green star polyps (GSP) off him. One piece had a pretty big Aiptasia (pest anemone) on it. I thought about keeping it, but then I remembered how quickly these things spread so I took the coral out and broke off a fair bit of the GSP to make sure he was gone for good!
I also took delivery this morning of 3 x small Nassarius Snails from Darren at Reef Secrets in QLD (I got them to keep my sand bed clean). They came overnight (with another hammer coral too) and everything was packed super well, with a heat pack and all snails made it (they buried themselves into the sand bed right away!), and hammer is opened up already!
Photos of the tank tomorrow, not sure if I can capture the snails in a shot as they’re under the sand bed, but I assume they will come out for food!
Photos from yesterday’s shoot with Make Up Artist Lily are now up!
Lily got in touch about a shoot a week ago. I’m meant to be shooting her friend Mazza in a few weeks from now, but Lily beat her to it! The girl was bubbly as, quite awkward… but funny! Once she got warmed up she didn’t want to stop!