Vibrant colors – Tesselaar Tulip Festival

[untitled] – V’s Flickr, 29 Sep ‘07.

I’m down with a bit of a sudden flu right now, not too sure where it came from. Good timing, very very good timing indeed Z.

On with a few music plugs before I begin on the actual post.

#1: Jazzology Half Hour (done by Jazzology Australia) offers wonderful jazz podcasts, and I’ve been listening to them for the entire day. Give them a go if you’re open to trying new stuff.

#2: I was having a look through the music library last night, and Sophie Ellis Bextor came up. She’s my current favourite now : ) Have a go at this playlist on imeem.

Anyway, on with the post : )

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Tesselaar Tulip Festival; trip organised by Monash Photography Club, of which V and I are members. Well, V became a member because paying for both trips (zoo and this) cost the same as becoming a member, so the MPC president Adrian thought that it would be easier to make her a member as well. What can I say, he’s a great guy.

Well it took awhile before we reached the place, and it looked every bit as good as it was on the website.

First glimpse.

V busy snapping away with her K750i.

Here’s what she took : )

V and me; one of the few snaps where I’m actually infront of the camera.

The ant’s view; V’s suggestion.

The odd red tulip among a sea of yellow.

Dunno what these flowers are; orchids?

A look at the big picture.

Bite-sized windmill; we had to wait our turn to take photographs with the damn thing -_-

Scraping the earth off our shoes; this is what happens when you wear shoes with nice little grooves.

Buying a few tulips home; 5 stems for $5!

Getting to choose and cut it yourself.

Baked potatoes and a debriciner hotdog, yum.

We were there during the Food, Wine and Jazz weekend, so there were stalls selling food (we got a small bottle of sauce from the Chilli Factory; potent stuff and it was labelled 10+++/10), free wine tasting if you produced your entry tokens, and..

What’s a jazz weekend without some jazz music? The Moonee Valley Jazz Band were performing while we ate; really good to see them enjoying themselves in their music too : )

Another MPC member kerfern took way better shots with his Panasonic FZ50, here’s a few.

This one’s from skyline of MPC

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Tags: Australia, Melbourne, Photography, Tulip Festival, Victoria

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