Saturday 22 December 2012

Melbourne Cup Day Line Up, Part 1

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

Racing Fashion at Melbourne Cup

All images are Strictly Copyright to Racing Fashion Australia and Steb Fisher.
These Images Cannot be reproduced in any manner.

As I am having trouble uploading to the Racing Fashion Australia site, I will slowly put the full Melbourne Cup Day line up onto this site.
I have the pleasure and honour of shooting at Flemington/VRC and due to legal reasons, I cannot sell any images to individuals or third parties.  Please honour this as I make very little money and do it for the love of showcasing all attending the races.



For the full line up, click here.

Friday 21 December 2012

Doomsday! Are we there yet?




With Yesterday looming Doomsday, 21.12.12, there were all sorts of predictions and prophecies of Meteors, Volcanic Eruption and even Zombies. You could even bet on it, well whoever did, did not win!!!

One of the biggest shifts in my being is having the ability to use paradigms and live after a near death experience. I am been petrified of things in my life and now simply I do not care about anything because I know about the place after life. We should never be scared of living.

Maybe the world has come to an end and we simply do not know it?? I know a hypothetical, but for there to be life there must also be death. This is as simple as beginning and end.

There are so many books of ways of living from Ekhart Tolle, The Power of Now, The Secret, Celestine Prophecy which is a novel it has brought allot of awareness away from strong religious views of scaring us into doing the correct thing where ancient Egyptians were petrified to leave there beloved Home for the fear of the God Ra. We are now looking into fulfillment on different levels. This cannot be found in material goods or number of friends we have or how many dollars. It is the feeling of how satisfied we are sitting or laying with ourselves within.

Can you lay or sit with nothing around you and leave your consciousness to stillness and be satisfied. My answer within myself is my own satisfaction, and we all find different levels of what satisfies us. I have basically been on POP detox since Spring Racing Carnival only posting what I have to when I have to. I have taken a big step back from Social Media and not daring pick up a magazine or watch pop culture. This detox has been amazing.

I have found that when I pop onto my facebook account I look at the images on my site and see that I am leading the life that looks like an 'OK' magazine or my own 'Who' weekly. There is no way my life is as interesting or intriguing as the pictures I lead you to believe. My greatest achievement today was to coax my 2 year old into eating some eggs for brekkie.

I look at social media such as Facebook and it is a handy tool for people to stay in touch and have a glimpse of what people are doing. I have come to the conclusion that everyone is way more fabulous, eating way better food, drinking the most amazing cocktails in the most fabulous cosmopolitan place ever. (Oh, and wearing fabulous clothes, why don't we see the PJ's?) We are all writing our own stories of what we want our lives to look like. We are building the house for people to see the shelter that we dwell in, although there are only very few that see behind the doors. These are rarely the facebook friends we meet at engagements to cheers and catch up with latest 'Facebook' news, these are the friends that know my life.
They know what my children look like, where I keep my hats and shoes. They know my star sign and the way I laugh when I cannot stop.

Sometimes the familiarity of Facebook takes over the identity of the individual. Unfortunately of late some very dear friends of mine have grown apart and I have been devastated.
I am transforming my life to detox pop culture all together in my life with a limit per day for posts on social media and what truly interests me. I am not going to listen to ridiculous garbage about what gossip comes up, if I like a dress or a hat, I will like it and simply not occupy my mind with it any further.
I do not need material possessions to make myself happy. Yes, when I go to the races, I will dress in my favourite clothes and wear make up and have my hair done, but this will not define me as a person, this is simply what I choose to wear.

Anna Mott, shooting for Racing Fashion by Monte Coles, theloupe.org


I am choosing to see yesterday as the end of the world, Yes! The end of a funny little fickle world to me! I am choosing my new world to give more to myself and more of myself to my family. I love writing, and that is it a love and an outlet.

I am not preaching to say this is what you should do. It is not!
Maybe you should look into your world and see what you are looking at.
Choose to look at what you want to see. The beauty is we are all individual, we don't have to like the same thing. I actually embrace when someone is really different to me, because they are not a carbon copy. Totally boring. I love to meet people from different backgrounds with different stories. There is no right way or wrong way, we don't all have to agree, we are allowed to have our own feelings and thoughts and not 'like' what everyone else is liking.

I laugh at how many people are totally adoring my 'cherry' bike right now. Seeing I am 40 married with a couple of children, people think it is bizarre for a mature woman to be using it as a form of transport. But everyone loves it and tells me. Now if I was 20, young and hot on the bike with every male thinking I was fabulous on the bike, the poor cherry bike would be hated.

Don't Hate the Bike! Look at why you would dislike the bike???

Anyway, a bit too much philosophy for the end of the world.

An old proverb my grandma used to say was,
“Believe nothing of what you hear, and half of what you see.”

I am just thinking where does that leave us with facebook?


Friday 14 December 2012

Quiet on the Racing Fashion Front! Why?

This week, my husband and I were given the devastating news this week that one of horses had been terribly injured on Monday with track work.  Danzylum.  He has brought us so much joy and happiness and great times not just together but with many people.  He fractured his leg on Monday.  He is now 9 and really I thought that we had given him a great run and wanted him to spend his days now in a paddock.  Unfortunately, we have some other owners in the syndication and it was correct when they knew he had more in him.  He came 2nd a couple of weeks ago only to be beaten by 1/2 a nose.
I was in terrible shock on Monday, just floating around not doing anything.
The horse has been in hospital all week, and yesterday has been operated on to save his life.  We are hoping everything will go to plan and he will survive.  He will spend the rest of his days in a paddock grazing, as do the rest of our horses.  Most people think that allot of horse owners are callous and cruel.  But without the horses being bred for racing, there would be allot of people out of work not to mention allot less hat wearing.  If you love your 'Fashions on the Field', be aware that you are doing it at a race course where horses are racing and the first rule of Racing Fashion in my mind is to know you are at a track.
Be mindful that you are there for the fashion, but when I hear comments about people not having a clue about anything to do with racing, I just wonder???  But that is me, there are no hard and fast rules for you, only what I see.
We are receiving 1000s more photos for the Racing Fashion site and they are going to be coming thick and fast.  While Magic Millions is racing toward us.  We are just reflecting on Spring as Summer hits us.  Remember that Magic Millions is a mid Summer Carnival.  This is on the Gold Coast, show you can be more flashy and glitzy than ever.
I like classic Race wear to my style, but that is me.  Let us embrace everyone's individual style and welcome that we are all individuals.  Enjoy. x


Racing Fashion

Racing Fashion

Racing Fashion Mildred Elwood

Racing Fashion Amy Jones

Racing Fashion Anna Mott

Racing Fashion

Racing Fashion Joanne Donovan, Dapple Grey

Racing Fashion Effie Cliff wearing Philip Treacy

Racing Fashion Jennifer Hawkins

Racing Fashion Rebecca Share

Racing Fashion

Racing Fashion 

Racing Fashion, Hat by Philip Treacy

Racing Fashion Jeannie Todaro

Racing Fashion

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Friday 7 December 2012

La Dolce Vita! x


















































































Sometimes looking at something beautiful can be just as sweet as tasting it.  Like a newborn baby, when you see baby clothes.  Cute curls in little girls hair, my boys big blue eyes with blonde locks.  MMMM all so sweet.
This is all eye candy to me, as I loathe the taste of sugar and sweet chocolate.  I will eat delectable edibles such as a very rich dark flour less chocolate cake with frozen zablionie. 

My home in Melbourne is filled with Romance and frou frou, so far from the Far Northern Queensland helms where a tea party sounds fabulous until you are struck with the heat and you would much rather spend you hours sipping daiquiris of the lychee and mango kind poolside.

For my baby shower, petite finger sandwiches, custom cup cakes and macaroons were my guests menu, with antique cups with matching saucers.
Just love these shots of sumptuous treats, eye candy as well at mouth watering.

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