A Date with Dainty

A couple of weeks ago I got to team up with Dainty and try a bit of a different style of shoot that was new to both of us. We wanted to get a editorial feeling shoot with a kind of lazy Sunday/girl next door look, with a slight boudoir style to mix it up. We shot in Dainty’s apartment in Hiberian House in Sydney, which is an amazing building with so much character, and her apartment had so many amazing things inside which really added to the photos.

The second part of the shoot we teamed up with Paris from Paris Floyd Intimate Apparel, and she brought some of her beautiful garments over for us to shoot with. Guys, if you want to make your lady feel special or ladies if you want to treat yourself, go visit Paris and check out some of her amazing creations www.facebook.com/parisfloydintimateapparel.

It was a great shoot and thank you Dainty and Paris for being great to work with. Below are a few of the snaps from the shoot and you can see more of my work at www.takenbytim.com.au

Abandoned Tooths Brewery - Mittagong Maltings

I stumbled across this location while browsing through another photographers photos and fell in love with it and knew I had to go there. With the Dunlop Factory at Alexandria finally being made unaccessible (they now have dogs in there for those who don't know) I needed a new run down, abandoned location, and then the old Tooths Brewery in Mittagong pops up.
   Mittagong is in the Southern Highlands and really didn't take that long to get to (approx 1-1.5hr from Sydney) and has loads of countryside to stop off at on the way, it's good to make a day of it.
So myself and two fellow photography nerds ventured down there, and had absolutely no troubles finding the site, and were happy to see there was no obstacles that posed a challange to get in (you can actually drive your car in there if you want!) And straight away we were impressed by the huge building that loomed in front of us.
   Not only is there one big building, but there are two big buildings, plus one smaller building, plus a small house all on the site! One building is pretty empty but has some nice natural light and some beautiful structural beams, the smaller building still has some sort of heavy machinery in there (from what I can guess was used to make doors and windows, as there are still loads lying around the building) and then the third building was easily my favourite. It has three sections, one section with an upstairs area (steps are still sound and not sketchy at all) and all chains and machinery tracks, huge fans, wood and lots of interesting things in there. Then the second section is a basement like area with rows of columns and has some lovely light down there. And the final section is multi levels (where the top is still easily accessible) and is surprisingly intact. The floors, stairs and general structure is stunning, it has been abandoned for 20 years now and its still standing without any problems.
   One thing thats also nice and a bit different to your normal abandoned sites is the lack of graffiti. Don't get me wrong there is still graffiti, but if this was closer to the city, there wouldn't be a blank wall. And some of the graffiti is hilarious that looks like a 14 year old got dads can of spray paint and sprayed quotes they got from movies. There are also some darker graffiti telling you to jump, or enter hell here, but they are more laughable then scary. And I must also admit, this place I thought would be scary and a bit uncomfortable, but it wasn't at all. People walk their dogs through the grounds and we ran into several other people shooting there as well. I wouldn't advise going alone though just incase you did fall or hurt yourself, as its a big area and no one will hear you there, so take a friend, or at least a phone!
   So below are a few snaps (haven't finished sorting them yet) but thought I would get them up as some people have asked about it.
 
 If anyone else knows of any more abandoned sites like this (or Dunlop Factory or Glebe Tram sheds) please share with me as I love these kind of things and they are not easy to find!