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I’ve been looking forward to this wedding ever since we “Skyped” our first meeting. Me in the office, Cool couple in Japan. Now they are back and it’s their big day and i’m on the road to shoot it. Excited

Cupcake day is upon us again, it’s the day we open the gallery and you can come and buy some cupcakes with all the money going to the RSCPA to help out little and big furry and not so furry animals

Sally Alps from Alps and Amici will be judging our first ever cupcake decorating competition. We are looking for the most creative cupcake.

All the details are below

Judging

There will be two ways for a cupcake to win

Judges Prize

Judging will take place at 10am with Sally Alps selecting her favourite decorated cupcake. Winner will be announced on Monday the 16^th of August at about 6pm

Public Vote

All the entries will be displayed in the Photobat gallery and people coming by can cast a vote for their favourite. We will also put pictures of all the cupcakes in the Photobat Fan page so that people who can’t get in to the gallery can still vote. The image that has the most “likes” on it in the Photobat Page Gallery combined with the amount of votes entered at the photobat gallery will be the winner. Voting will close at 5.45pm and the winner will be announced on Monday the 16^th of August at about 6pm

Entry Details

Entry by $2 donation per cupcake up to a maximum of two entries per person. All money will be donated to the RSPCA. Plus if you have some spare cupcakes you can donate them to the cause and we can sell them to raise some more money.

Prize Details

The winner of the judge’s prize and the popular vote will receive a goodies bag filled with things from our supporters and suppliers.

Entries By

Entry time: Drop off Monday 16^th between 8am – 10am

Winner Announcement

Announcements of the winners will be made at about 6.00pm in the gallery with the winner being contacted by phone.

Competition Terms and Conditions

This is fun, so we want to keep it simple. In saying that we must say that the judge’s decision is final. For the public vote, the images must be “liked” in the gallery on the photobat fan page, any likes on personal profiles are not able to be counted.

One of the things that we wanted to do on our trip to Vanuatu was to get some sense of the life of the real villages, not the ones that have the tourism angle happening. One of the fundamental parts of Samma Village is their school. We made two visits to the school of about 40 students. The school recieves no funding from the government and is supported by christian organisations from foreign lands. More on the man who founded the school and also the rest of the village in later posts.

We spent a little time at a village called Saama, it is located on the top side of Efate about 40 minutes drive from Port Vila. There are more photos to come from the village itself, these images are from the Chiefs (last image) chicken farm. It is encouraged for the men to stay and work in the village, and if possible to create some money. The chief is leading by example and has set up a chicken farm up the hill from the main village. It is only in start up phase but there are a heap of chickens running about and strangely, a cat. It seems that the cat does not each the chickens only the rats who try to get the eggs. He does love a treat of coconut, which is fed to the chickens in these photos by Irene the chiefs wife.