365+1 {Week 3}

Week 3! Talk about busy! Plus the Internet was down for 3 days, so I DID fall behind a little! And I DID cheat on one of the themes...! :) Don't forget to keep up to date with specials and comps by following me on Face Book!

{15} 15/01/12 "Four" SO I was going to go the easy option, and just use my daughter who is 4 years old, and then I spotted my tic tacs... The kids and I had to polish off a few of them to get the correct number- but just goes to show that I suffer for my art! :)

{16} 16-01-12 "Grey" = Lucy! :)

{17} 17/01/12 "With a Prop" This is the photo I cheated with. I had to dig it up from an old shoot, but it fit with the theme so perfectly! Plus this day was in the middle of 3x 12 hour shifts and I didn't have time to even LOOK at a camera!!

{18} 18/010/12 "Sharp as a ..." Well obviously sharp as a tack! Another shot I've always wanted to try- wasn't totally happy with it- until I realised that the water balloon was in the shape of a heart!! Awww...! :)

{19/01/12} "Negative Space" Always thought of taking a photo of our lights, and here they are!!

Negative or 'white' space= "The space around and between the subject(s) of an image" (from good old wikapedia!)

{20} 20/01/12 "Masculine" I wanted to take a photo of Jaxon flexing his 'muscles' for this shot, but he was far too shy and wouldn't have a bar of it. Yet he'd let me draw a fake moustache on him and pretend to play with it... go figure!

{21} 21/01/12 "Geometric Shapes" I love bubbles- even at the age of only-just-twenty-something! No matter how sooky a kid is, bubbles always end up getting the best of them....! :)

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Rodeo!! ~Noosa Show~

I'm going to have forewarn you straight up that my next few blogs are a little out of order- but I HAD to post the photos from the rodeo before our day at the Noosa Show! You can all have a laugh (my mother did, so you may as well too!), but I've never been to a rodeo! And although some said it was small and dodgy, as a newbie I was gobsmacked! The power in these beautiful animals was intense, but what amazed me even more was- what on earth would possess anyone to get on the back of one of these animals?! :)

Despite the freezing cold weather, we met up with a some good friends of ours, got ourselves a seat up on an embankment and settled in. But once it started, I just had to get closer! Towards the end we were probably a little too close... and 3 bulls in a row charged the fence where we were front row (which is why there aren't many photos of bulls- we were too busy dealing with freaking out kids! Ok and us too!) . We almost got squashed by a rodeo clown who did the big dive over the fence to get out of the way of these massive horns! There were a few incidents- one guy was tossed up to the top of the fence by an angry bull, and there were a few odd kicks that connected- but nothing too major. The kids had a blast- the younger ones in particular were right into it yelling and cheering, and the older ones ran around enjoying each others good company!

I must say that I'm now hooked, and I will definitely be at the next rodeo! See you there!

All good things must come to an end...my little monkey snuggled up with Ma- ready for home!

Fathers Day Antics

Sunday 4th September 2011- Fathers Day! It started off raining and windy and horrible, but the weather soon fined up and held that way for us to have a great day. After the pressie giving (of course) all 4 of us took off down to Alex for a maternity photo shoot. The kids ran amok on the beach, while John helped me out. Once that finished, it was our time! :)

We had the kites in the car, and the hill we were on was PERFECT for kite flying! We had them both out as far as they would go! We had plans of stopping along the Maroochy river on the way home, but we were sidetracked...

By pure chance, we came across the Fathers Day 'thing' happening at Cotton Tree. And by even bigger chance, we found a nice close car park- so we had no excuse but to go in! We went on the big slides, made all sorts of 'sand' art, checked out the animals and some of the displays, and  listened to some great musicians. Such a great day had by all, not to mention a BIG day- the kids slept the whole way home (I have to admit I even drifted off for a bit!) :) Thanks to John and the kids for a great day- hope you had a good day too John!





My Favourite shot of the Day! Only to be followed by......................



 .....this! Kaylee has to 'wipe the kiss off', Jaxon's cracking about having to kiss his dad for so long while I got the shot, and John- well, that's just him! :)





My New Lens! :)

So it was my birthday almost 3 weeks ago, and I was spoilt rotten. But it didn't stop there. My lovely family topped it off with a brand new lens that I received today- and I don't think I'll ever be able to use any of my other lenses again- I'm totally hooked! And just in time for a beautiful Maternity Shoot this weekend- hoping that the rain holds off! Thank you my wonderful Family! :) 

Rainbow Photography is GO!

Good morning (or evening depending where you are)!! I'd like to announce that Rainbow Photography is up and running!! After lots of mucking around, I'm going to give it a go (in between Nursing!). You won't believe how cheap I am either! So go to my Page Rainbow Photography, click like, and message me! If you like what you see, don't forget to tell your friends to "like" as well- help get a small business off the ground!

Australia Zoo Part V: The Final Frontier

So here it it. The final installment!! All the photos that haven't fit in to the previous themes. Including ones of the kids (and JBV!)! They had a ball. Even though they drove me crazy! Jaxon had a map, and wanted to see particular animals at particular times- even if they were always on opposite sides of the zoo! I don't know how many times I had to explain to him "we'll get to them... we are going to follow this track and see all the animals along the way, and we will eventually come to the dingos...". But 2 minutes later... "Ok, I wanna go see the dingos now.."! Aaargh! I can see why my parents used to get so frustrated with me at places like this- because I was exactly the same- just like every other kid! :)

We've got the passes that give us unlimited entry until Nov 30, so JBV took the kids to Bindi's Birthday last weekend as well (while I was at work!!) so we've already got our moneys worth! But there's a few more 'special' events coming up that we'd normally stay away from, but because the tickets are free, we plan on going- Like "Steve Irwin Day" and then of course the new Safari section opening in September! We'll make SURE we get our moneys worth!! ;)

Australia Zoo Part I
Australia Zoo Part II: Where Crocs Rule (and lizards too!)
Australia Zoo Part III: Birds of a Feather
Australia Zoo part IV: Furry Friendlies

and Remember to check out these photos and heaps more in better quality HERE