50 things you may not know about me
I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time (even though it is entirely self indulgent and not related to my photography business at all). How many of these did you already know?
I have a second business called Bitter Banksia, as a florist!
I studied a very expensive Advanced Diploma of Photography after high school for 3 years.
I lived my first 5 years in Healesville in the Yarra Valley.
I was born on Melbourne Cup Day (1st Tuesday of Nov), DURING the actual Melbourne Cup race. This was such a big deal in Healesville then that I made it into the newspaper.
Despite my tenuous connection to a day full of animal cruelty, I’ve been vegan for 10 years.
I’ve owned my little apartment on my own for nearly 5 years, which is the longest I’ve lived in one spot aside from my childhood home.
I am not tall - 160cm on a good day.
I’ve only ever driven Toyota Corollas, across the three cars I’ve had in my life. They just keep going!
I ran a half marathon in 2024. These days I’m more of a 5k runner but would like to do the Melb Marathon Half Mara in 2027 and beat my last time (considerably).
My current favourite hobby is watercolour painting.
I love to swim in the ocean.
My deathrow meal would be saucy hoisin sesame noodles with lots of veggies and tofu puffs.
I’ve been in bookclub for 3 years now, this is our 4th!
My favourite book genres are romance and chick-lit.
I’ve owned some form of camera ever since primary school (thanks Dad).
The most famous people I’ve photographed are Malcolm Turnbull, Dan Andrews, Guy Sebastian and Eskimo Joe (probably all within the same year).
I’ve only been overseas twice, and not since 2012.
I have a ’35 before 35’ bucket list I’ve been working on for most of this year.
I’m obsessed with Pinterest.
My happy song is Dancing Queen.
My all time favourite bands are Anberlin, Death Cab for Cutie and A Day to Remember.
I’ve been seeing a psychologist since mid 2024, and it’s easily the best thing I’ve done for myself.
When I was 12 I auditioned and got in to the Australian Girls Choir, but I lasted one rehearsal because I found out we had to wear a dress for the performances and I cried.
I was also in an audition-choir in high school that I liked a lot more than AGC, best time of my school life.
My favourite TV shows are Glee (unsurprising), How I Met Your Mother and Suits.
My comfort TV show is Masterchef, specifically the Aus seasons 12 and 13 - I watch them on repeat in the background whenever I’m working at home. Ask me anything about those seasons, ha!
The last year has taught me I am absolutely more of a cat person than a dog person, always thought I was 50/50!
I’ve been doing singing lessons for the last 18 months.
I can’t reverse park (but I CAN reverse parallel park?? (Mostly))
I can’t touch my toes.
I can’t swallow tablets.
My favourite flowers are tulips, sunflowers and delphinium.
When I was 10, my school took us on a camp to Adelaide. We went to Glenelg beach, everyone was jumping off a ledge superman-style into the sand, so I did it to impress my crush, but I was dumb and landed on my butt. I passed out, had to be taken to the doctors with my teacher to check my bruised-almost-fractured butt bone and my Adelaide-based aunt and uncle had to come pick me up.
After high school, I took a gap year where I worked in fast food basically full time, built up some savings then spontaneously spent it all to go to London for 3 days in my first month of uni. #yolo
My favourite foods are pesto gnocchi, veggie dumplings, tofu puffs and roast potatoes (not all together).
My coffee order is a soy latte, but at home I just have instant coffee (shhh).
I hate hate hate hearing my voice recorded.
I was the shyest kid ever in school (but I also really liked having the last word? Which made me speak a bit more often..), photography is the thing that’s really brought out my extroverted side as I grew up!
I have a really really deep down goal to write a book.
I’d love to live in New York for a month or two, before I’m 40 (or after, but 40 is just the next round number).
I have a really good sense of north/south/east/west direction.
I’m really bad at planning things.
I’m kind of an early bird but I am absolutely not a night owl.
My first concert ever was seeing Shannon Noll play at Eastland.
I really love pigeons, possums and bats.
My favourite colours are all fruits - lemon yellow, apricot orange and watermelon pink.
I would rather be too hot than too cold.
If someone says ‘draw something’, I always draw a tulip.
I wish they made vegan Peanut M&M’s.
My favourite Pokemon is Munna - pink, round and covered in flowers?! Duh.
This was actually a lot harder than I expected - will be interesting to come back to this in 5 years time and see if any have changed!
Let me know if any of these surprised you, and I’ll see you in October for the next blog!