Noah is growing up so fast and has become the cutest little boy ever.
He loves bubbles and he loves hugging the animals when his parents are not looking (he apparently has an allergy, but I’ll get him over that in no time!)
He loves to play ball and he loves it when I take photos of him – as long as I let him see them afterwards. When he asks for something he says “Pleeeeeeease!” (Perhaps you had to be there?)
Here were some of me letting him throw grass all over himself and giggling along with him – I know, I am the best Aunty in the world!
I love taking photos – I always have.
One of the first things I spent my pocket-money on was a little camera (the long thin types)
For my 16th birthday I was treated to a Samsung Film Camera – it cost R999 ($100) (18 years ago that was a lot of money, especially for my parents) I still have that camera and I will never part with it.
Last year I treated myself to a Canon and I am still loving every second of it (even if it spends more time in the closet than out in the field)
I take hundreds of photos, share them online and then store them on my Hard Drive.
Nobody ever really gets to see them and enjoy them.
I have recently mounted a few of my photos into frames which are now displayed on my wall along the staircase, but those 13 photos are a drop in the ocean compared to the thousands I have stored.
A few years back I saw the Photobooks and fell in love with the idea of having a stylish coffee-table-style book filled with photos for people to browse through.
I made myself my first book with my Thailand photos and loved the idea so much, promptly made a second book with all my day to day photos.
I have recently completed my Europe Holiday photobook and will send to print when I have some spare cash. Next I will begin work on “Through the Eyes of a Princess II”
What do you do with your digital photos?
I love taking photos – I always have.
One of the first things I spent my pocket-money on was a little camera (the long thin types)
For my 16th birthday I was treated to a Samsung Film Camera – it cost R999 ($100) (18 years ago that was a lot of money, especially for my parents) I still have that camera and I will never part with it.
Last year I treated myself to a Canon and I am still loving every second of it (even if it spends more time in the closet than out in the field)
I take hundreds of photos, share them online and then store them on my Hard Drive.
Nobody ever really gets to see them and enjoy them.
I have recently mounted a few of my photos into frames which are now displayed on my wall along the staircase, but those 13 photos are a drop in the ocean compared to the thousands I have stored.
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| Hard Personalised Cover |
A few years back I saw the Photobooks and fell in love with the idea of having a stylish coffee-table-style book filled with photos for people to browse through.
I made myself my first book with my Thailand photos and loved the idea so much, promptly made a second book with all my day to day photos.
I have recently completed my Europe Holiday photobook and will send to print when I have some spare cash. Next I will begin work on “Through the Eyes of a Princess II”
The design work is fun because you can do anything you like! I use some of my photos as backgrounds, make a collage, frame them, drop shadow them, add scrapbooking looking embellishment images… the list is endless.
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| Terrible Cellphone images – sorry! |
The books are professionally bound and the pages are glossy and thick enough not to tear very easily. A scrapbook album looks lovely but it becomes bulky and the embellishments and paper can get torn so easily.
What do you do with your digital photos?
I like this photo because it shows my true passion: Photography
I feel more comfortable behind the camera than in front of it
Challenges Remaining:
Day 18, Saturday: Tell a story from your childhood. Dig deep and try to be descriptive about what you remember and how you felt.
Day 19, Sunday: Five of your favorite blogs and what you love about them
Day 20, Monday: Get real. Share something you’re struggling with right now.
Day 21, Tuesday: A list of links to your favorite posts in your archives
Day 22, Wednesday: Rant about something. Get up on your soapbox and tell us how you really feel. (a pet peeve, a current event, a controversial topic, something your husband or roommate or neighbor or boss does that really ticks you off)
Day 23, Thursday: Things you’ve learned that school won’t teach you
Day 24, Friday: Your top 3 worst traits
Day 25, Saturday: Something someone told you about yourself that you’ll never forget (good or bad)
Day 26, Sunday: Something you read online. Leave a link and discuss, if you’d like.
Day 27, Monday: A letter to your readers
Day 28, Tuesday: Only pictures
Day 29, Wednesday: Five songs or pieces of music that speak to you or bring back memories. UseGrooveshark or YouTube to include them in the post
Day 30, Thursday: React to this term: Letting Go
Day 31, Friday: A vivid memory
Travels:
Some favourite places:
Photos with my new camera:
For the past 3 – 4 weeks I have been working ridiculously long hours that I can’t even think straight anymore.
As in 12:00 midnight, 1am, 2am. Seriously.
The other morning my boss phoned and gave me yet ANOTHER deadline for 1 October and I almost lost it.
I was so upset, that I put the phone down, I could feel the anxiety squeezing my heart and pushing my blood pressure closer to that heart attack.
That day I was a bundle of stressed out nerves. That night I had a scary realisation: If I died that night and Peter asks me at the Gates of Heaven if I died happy, my honest answer would be no.
I haven’t spoken to my brother or his wife in ages to hear the latest news about my nephew. (my Squishy is in hospital for a week with pneumonia)
I have hardly spoken to or seen my friends.
I haven’t watched/stalked/listened to One Direction (see, this is getting serious)
I am currently have 29 days worth of work and only 6 days in which to do it. I cannot work past 2am. and even after 3 weeks, I think that has to stop as well.
Last weekend, my parents and I went for lunch at a beautiful place called Blandford Manor. Beautiful old Manor house with a restaurant/pub who’s tables surround a calm lake complete with 4 geese and 2 goslings.
It was a gorgeous Spring day sitting in the sun relaxing and snapping away with my camera.
Mom took a turn with the camera and after making me pose like a model, is convinced she can be a photographer! We had lots of laughs posing and taking fun photos. The sun thought it was doing me a favour and kept creeping into my photos. (I wanted sun flare last time, not now!!)
Sunburnt, tired, but happy. It really is about the small things in life sometimes isnt it?
Last weekend, my parents and I went for lunch at a beautiful place called Blandford Manor. Beautiful old Manor house with a restaurant/pub who’s tables surround a calm lake complete with 4 geese and 2 goslings.
Anticipating a trip to Zoo Lake for a bit of a walk and relaxing day out in the sun, I fetched Tee from the Gautrain station and off we went…. Only to realise that turning “left” was an impossibility.
Eventually we did what any intelligent girls would do – and stopped and asked the problem. Turns out the ANNUAL Jazz festival was taking place today and we had picked that one day to visit Zoo Lake.
Change of plans and off we went to Melrose Arch shopping centre for some brunch and a bit of flower shopping.
We then made our way to a park we had never even heard of and got down to some serious photography practice. (for me, Tee was my model)
I wanted to experiment with Sun Flares as I have been reading alot about how tricky this form of photography is.
After a bunch of test shots, I began to figure it out and snapped some decent shots.
Then we started messing about as usual and got a few comical shots too!
2 hours later, wind-swept and weary, we made our way back to the station and headed off home.
I promise not to bore you, but here are a few of the shots I snapped today and yesterday. (The graininess is purely because I reduced them alot in size, otherwise they take foreeeeeeever to download) These were all my favourites and I just couldn’t whittle it down any more than these 17!
Thank you to Tee for not complaining too much – I will make a willing model out of you yet!
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| Action in motion except the people in the middle! |
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| How beautiful are the shimmery petals? |
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| So natural! |
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| Love this one! |
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| Love the halo of sunlight |
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| Who knew the wind would help me so much for nice shots! |
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| Trying something new |
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| This was fun |
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| The silliness starts! |
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| Ying and Yang? |
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| These hats were an awesome buy! |
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| Giggling over something! |
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| See no Evil, Hear no Evil and… SPEAK no Evil (fitting for us both) |
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| Love the washed out background |
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