Sweet little Ella

Oh she made my heart melt...she also made me work very hard to get her off to sleep but when she finally did, she gave me the most gorgeous photos. So here she is 10 days old.....K and A I have no idea how you will choose your favourites as I am still struggling...lol. I could have photographed her all day.

Enjoy your sneek peek........

Been a while....

since I shared some of my boys. We have had a lovely time lately. Liam has well and truly settled into school and is now bringing home readers to read at night. This is very exciting for him and something special as they don't start readers till 2nd term. He also turned 5 on easter Saturday. We had his party the week before and he was convinced that on his actual birthday he was truning 6 because he had celebrated his birthday with his friends the week before...when he turned 5...lol. Took some convincing but he did finally accept that he was 5.

Ryan hasn't been too well lately and after a series of blood tests over 2 months we have no found out that he had Glandular Fever. We had no idea...poor boy. He is now on the long road to recovery with lots of rest....and no homework lucky him. We are still making him do his spelling, though just not everyday.

I am loving having the 2 littlies home with me during the week though I am sure Conor would rather be at school with his brothers. We have been shopping and having coffee's and playing at the park.

So I will finish with some photos of the boys. The one of Liam was taken on his birthday during his special birthday photo session which I am now making a ritual for the boys on their birthdays.

I just need to get one of the big boy...who runs whenever I get the camera out lately.

Little baby Aiden

This sweet little boy is the youngest of one of the playgroup mums. I finally got to take his photo over the weekend. He is just tiny. At 2.5weeks he is still not the size of my smallest bub at birth. I tried my new wraps out with him and they have now been christened....in fact everything was christened.....lol. He was wide awake for most of the session and loved having a chat with me.

So here you are M and J a seek peek at your beautiful little boy.

First Prize

Over the weekend was the Royal Canberra Show. Now each year my Mum enters some of her wondeful artwork into the Art competition. This year she convinced me to enter some of my phtos into the photography section. I thought what the hell and chose 2 of my favourite photos right now to enter. So the show rocks around and I don't hear from the organisers so I assume that I didn't get anything.

Mum was sitting the exhibition on Sunday so I thought I would wander out and see the competition and have a coffee with her. WELL at about 11am on the Sunday morning the phone rings and it is mum all excited and I though Oh wow she won something how cool....BUT no it was me!!!! Both my photo won first prize in their respective sections. Colour Portrait (Tynan without the writing on it) and B&W (the gorgeous Lucinda). Well I will tell you that I did kinda hyperventilate. I was sooooo amazed that BOTH had won. So I go out to have a look and not only did I win my sections BUT Mum got a highly commended for one of her paintings.....and so did my Mother in Law. What a day it turned out to be.

a dress, an alley, a ruin and a river

Very early on Saturday morning, (and I do mean very early, it was about 6am) me and my camera joined two friends and their cameras and one very brave model for a bit of fun. We did a photo shoot that is very popular in America and Europe and is slowly gaining popularity in Aus too. It is called a Trash the Dress. Now we used Veronicas(photographer) wedding dress for the shoot.

Now I know you are all thinking we are crazy...I know Brendan still is, but let me explain the concept to you. When you are getting married and you are having your photos taken the aim is to get lovely photos whilst keeping the dress in pristene condition. You would therefore sacrifice some gorgeous photos just because you may get some dirt on the dress. Well we don't care what happens to the dress because we are going for the perfect photo instead. To quote we are " pushing the boundaries of creative photography" If the dress gets wet well so be it. If it gets mud stained so be it. If we get awsome photos it was all worth it. We went to grafitti alley on Bunda st and then up to the ruins of the Stromolo Observatory and then ended the day at/in the Cotter.

So I think you can see from the photos above.................IT WAS SOOO WORTH IT.

I am sore, tired and I ache all over. I ended up in the river with our model all to get the perfect photo.

Would I do it again????

Hell yes!! enjoy looking at them :-)

The Challenge is over

Now don't get me wrong I have really enjoyed trying new things but it started to get really tough at the end. The boys didn't want a bar of me. I was even sick of taking self portraits. So this is a few of my faves from the second half of the month. I am deternined to keep trying new things and brancing out from my norm.....just not everyday of the month.

Gee the month is half over already....

Firstly happy new year to all my readers. I hope the start of the year has been kind to you. I thought I should do an update on what I have been doing. I am taking part in a photography challenge where we have to take a photo a day for the month of January. Now for me I am trying things that I have wanted too or have been to scared to do...like sunflares, silhouettes, arty farty stuff you know what I mean. So here is a few of my faves so far. It has been alot of fun, though Tynan features an awful lot in the photos as he is the only one willing to be photographed unless I catch one of the others at a good moment.