Cliche

"Never compare your journey with someone else's. It's a marathon with no finish line. Someone else may start out faster than you, may seem to progress more quickly than you, but every runner has his own pace. Your journey is your journey, not a competition. You will never "arrive". No one ever does."

I found this quote on ILP and straight away it appealed to me - I love looking at other photographers' photos - oohing and aahing over them, but I also love the style of photos that I take, and let's face it, I am not a professional by any means, but I think I do okay and get better every time I get my camera out. Well I hope so anyway!

I learn something new every day. (how cliche is that LOL)

Little Miss C....

My niece is a cheeky little thing! I hadn't seen her for a couple of months - they were meant to come to Evan's birthday but Miss C fell over just before they were coming and split her right eyebrow open, which required glueing, so I haven't seen her since just after Christmas! She is a pure delight! And her little curls are getting curlier!

Miss C has the darkest eyes I have ever seen - they really are that dark!

I love the above shot except for Layla's thong in the background!!! I could have cropped it out I suppose but it was late and I couldn't be bothered!

I was really pleased with this shoot, my sister is fortunate enough to have beautiful polished boards and loads of lovely light (very jealous!) so it made my job just so much easier!

Miss C is one of those little kids who is allergic to absolutely everything, and I take my hat off to my sister for dealing with this so well! Miss C is very lucky to have her as a mum, as am I to have her as a sister.

A few of my favs from today at the park

We are fortunate enough to live about 2 minutes walk to beautiful parkland (lake included!) so off we went with all the kids in tow (any excuse to take a photo!)

Pippa running towards the lake!

In the background is our local MCH Centre & community centre.

Evan telling me he is much much taller than me!

Layla trying to hide behind a stick!

Pippa just because!

More of Layla.....

I finally got Photoshop CS3 !!!!!! YAY - haven't had much time to have a play but just a few shots I played with of Layla.

More of Pips....

Evan

Just a few snapshots of Evan from today!

Just because.....

For Kelli......

Hot day = fun photos!

I got to point my camera at some gorgeous little girls today - they were having fun in the backyard with stones and dirt, after having devoured chocolate cake with m&m's.... no that is not blood on their faces!

I love these ones especially.

Just some shots.....

Most of these are SOOC - the only post-editing is auto contrast or greyscale.

Hey, who needs photoshop!! (I do, I do LOL) The trick is to take a good photo to begin with..... well I tried!

I must also mention that I *ahem* accidentally had the camera on the lowest image setting - basic and small - as I was just doing some basic other stuff and forgot to change it back, so the quality of them isn't that great, but you get the idea!

A nice shot of Layla - including her Nutella-smeared mouth!!!

Depth of field..... or something similar!

I got a bit artistic tonight and experimented (practiced!) some depth of field shots. They didn't turn out too bad!

f/11 ss 3, f/l 180mm, ISO 100, norm exp, auto w/b, taken under tungstan light at night







f/22 ss 7.1, f/l 190mm, ISO 100, norm exp, auto w/b, taken under tungstan light at night

Not bad for some old glass candle holders I had just lying around gathering dust! Only the first one has been greyscaled. No other post-editing.

Anyone got a spare $38k???

Cos this is how much I want to spend on my next photography course!!!!!

Wishful thinking I know.........