Photo A Day Challenge ~ Day 15

While I was adding more clothes to the clothes line outside, Tilly & Darcy wandered outside to see what I was upto.
Darcy hopped onto her skooter, and proceeded in showing me what a ballerina on a skooter looks like (can you just imagine) wish I'd gotten more photos of her doing this, but she had other ideas after I took just the one photo of her...

Anywho...
Tilly was doing her own thing... I wasn't quite sure what she was up to so I decided to investigate.. and hid behind their cubby house to get a glimpse of what she was up to without disturbing her...

Our next door neighbours had their two grandchildren over, and Tilly was peeking through the palings of our fence, watching the boy which I'm sure is just a little older then Tilly.

The little boy was playing on the ground with his cars and making car noises... and Tilly just stood there, peering in even further whenever the boy moved out of sight.

Photo A Day Challenge ~ Day 13 & 14

I took this photo of Angus & myself because he has started this quirky habit of using the tag from his blanket to soothe himself...
My little man has been quite grizzly the past few days, and so I've put it down to him getting his first tooth...

Usually he'll only rub the tag near his nose or play with it between his tiny lil fingers, but just lately he's resorted to chewing on it as well...

But what's even stranger about him doing this is that his big brother used to have this exact same habit ( playing with the tag and ruffles of his baby blanket) when he was a baby.. neither of my girls showed this trait at all.




NOw for this photo... I was wanting to experiment with long exposures and sparklers...
When my son found out what I was wanting to do, he jumped in and volunteered straight away..

Task completed... got my long exposures... but then while Zach was fooling around with what was left of the last sparkler, I quickly changed the settings on my camera and snapped this one up of him... I quite like the play of light and shadows on his fave here.

Photo A Day Challenge ~ Day 12

Angus ~ Aged 7 1/2 months old



My baby boy is growing up...

It was a beautiful warm day, not as humid as the last few other days... so all the kids and I headed out for some fresh air.

While the eldest 3 played & rode on their assortment of wheels, Angus and I went and sat on the lawn and watched on...
Of course when ever I'm in the backyard I usually have my camera with me.. So when Angus decided he could sit all on his own... I quickly tried to set up my camera to take this shot.

Unfortunately though by the time I'd checked all my manual settings... the harsh sun made it's appearance through the clouds.. I wasn't sure how long Angus would sit on his own, so I took this shot while I could..

Photo A Day Challenge ~ Day 11

A game of backyard cricket with my eldest 3 children...

Watch out of the ball Muuuuuuuuuuuuuum!!

Tilly had requested a game of cricket... so out we all went. Tilly actually hit her 1st long run, and had to abandon her princess heels... which was almost the end all be all of the game..
Next was Zach's turn... and Darcy had a mean ball heading his way.. I literally almost copped it square on my telescopic lens, so I quickly put the camera away to join them properly in the game...

Photo A Day Challenge ~ Day 10

I was reeeeally lucky to snap these two shots... walked out with my camera at just the right time :-)

Moments before stepping outside... I could hear these two antagonising each other, and mercifully teasing each other. What i'd expected to see wasn't what you now see here before you!

Unfortunately the momentum didn't last too long, and they were back to their usual antics.

I'm not sure how to explain what kind of relationship these two have.. they are very much the same in their temperaments, hot wired, and equally just as sensitive. So when the two of them pair up, it's forseeable that they'll clank heads quite often ...

Summer Special 2011

I've been wanting to offer a special for quite some time, but with other commitments, both photographic and non-photographic, I haven't had time to put one together until now.

So without further adieu... We have a Summer Special!

The best time to photograph these sessions is between 5-7pm so as to capture the warm summer sunlight, anytime before this and the sunlight is at it's harshest, there is always the option of doing a morning session.. if you're prepared to get to your location between 6-8am.
Personally I prefer the evening timeslots :-)

So anyway, head on over to the link below, or at the top of this page, there should be a tab named Competitions & Specials, just click on that!

{{ CLICK HERE }} for the Summer Special

Photo A Day Challenge ~ Day 9 {Family}

It was quite hard to choose just one image from yesterday as I also had a mini photo session with my family.. minus me of course :-)

So below is a collection of photos of my family... Meet the "Brand Family" !