Each week that passes, I’m starting to feel more and more under pressure. Life just isn’t what it was 2 years ago, and I’ve only myself to blame. My PhD is already 1 month overdue, but thankfully, I’ve set myself a target of September 30 to submit which I honestly believe can be done. But [...]

I’ve been sitting on my wedding website for a few months now and I’m finally ready to take it public. I wasn’t sure that I actually wanted to do any wedding photography seriously, but I’m feeling quite inspired about it right now so I figured it was time. So go check it out, www.lakshalperera.com, tell [...]

Scissors: TICK Willing Participant (me): TICK Enthusiastic Amateur Non-Hairdresser: TICK Boring Saturday Afternoon: TICK This is the end result! Soph gave my extremely versatile, yet increasingly difficult to manage hair a chop on the weekend. She’s never cut hair before, and after her first attempt, I could see why. I decided that I didn’t particularly [...]

This is a tiny little sample of an 18000 pixel wide image that’s going to grace all 6 panels of the debut album from one of my favourite local bands, The Dawn Collective. The album is going to be called “Save A Place For Us”, and having listened to it, it’s an amazing, mature masterpiece. [...]

I took some promos for a local prog rock band Earth Mechanics a couple of nights ago. I had this grand vision of taking some really desolate, badly lit photos at a local dry cleaning joint (of all the places to choose!), but alas, it didn’t happen. It was damn near freezing with strong winds [...]

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This is one of those soppy lame posts most people will hopefully ignore, but it’s quite a lovely landmark occasion for me. I was immensely lucky to photograph one of the three bands on my “bands to photograph before dying” list. The wondrous, beautiful and exhilarating Sigur Rós. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do [...]

I checked out the most confusingly named band in the world, The Music, last week at the Metro. I loved their first self titled album, hated the 2nd one, “Welcome to the North”, and am slowly working my way into their latest release “Strength In Numbers”. I was expecting a pretty killer show (I’ve got [...]

I managed to get a bit of a write up in a magazine called A Fine Line, published by the lovely people at The Dwarf. I had to contribute a little photo essay and include a couple of photos. I didn’t pick my favourite photos, but the ones that would probably turn out best in [...]