Mark Greenmantle Photography

I’m in between shoots tonight, taking a break at The Melbourne Hotel before heading to the Hi-Fi new bar again. It opens tonight. Things are going well with my new client and I am finding them brilliant to work with.  I spent half of the afternoon shooting branding at The Hi-Fi’s new Vinyl bar and chatting to the creative director of the advertising firm I am working through.  It looks like I should be getting work shooting a lot of the gigs there in the next year. =]

Later tonight I will be back to the usual gig at 299, Saturday Trash is on and I will be battling the hoardes that frequent the venue. The venue itself has been cleaned up a great deal of late….

First though, food… in the midst of West End and the options for good food here is near endless, not always cheap but I do need to eat somewhere other than Indian Kitchen. The food there is damn well addictive. =]

They’re back!!! Once again zombies are about to take over Fortitude Valley for another night of madness. Club Blink has a zombie theme again tonight so I can safely assume I will rock up home tomorrow morning half covered in fake gore and with two full CF memory cards of undead undead undead. The hoard of living dead will arrive online at http://greenmantle.biz/BLINK once the images are processed.

I also got to grab some fashion shots in the CBD while visiting Faith Nightclub last weekend. Pictured below is Jess in a corset and some killer heels. Sorry, no brands to divulge, we were just aiming at an overall look to go with the great architecture at the top end of town.

Both as a time saving action and to allow me to change my main website pages from where-ever I may have net access, I am moving most of my main website across to this WordPress blog.  If you had linked through my pricing, terms and conditions, about or links pages for anything, expect those links to break in the next couple of weeks. Eventually nearly all of my site will operate off this WordPress blog platform. 

In other news, scroll down to the blog roll and check out what Chris Weeks has been shooting at the Spirit Awards. http://aphotocontributor.typepad.com/
Chris has been my fav shooter for quite a good few years now. He might often chide me for shooting Nikon instead of Leica and Canon but is advice over the years has always been brilliant, fair and well worth keeping in mind.  His main site is at www.chrisweeks.net and that is your ‘goseeums’ for today. =)

Mostly of late I have been sticking to just my nightclub shooting. It’s usually fun, certainly keeps me on my toes, great for networking with new people all the time and the challenge of capturing quality shots in fast moving nightclub light just strangely makes me feel good. Here are a few of my recent works:

DJ Spiderbaby takes a break in Club Blink – Friday 13th

I became somewhat obsessed with this lighting effect at Club Blink – Friday 13th

Jesse Dracman of Devilution at Club Blink – Friday 13th