365+1 {Week 2}

If I can manage to get a photo up everyday after the last week I've had- I have no excuse not to get one up every day for the next 352 days! I have been flat out! But it's been nice- even though in those spare minutes I've had I have been absolutely buggered- I've made myself go out to find the photo of the day (even though that couch looked mighty fine!). Which meant that the kids and I got to spend time together- and with the heat wave we just had, it usually meant it was time spent somewhere near water!

{8} 8/1/12 "Ripple" I've always wanted to try these droplet photos- and I can't wait to experiment some more! While I did capture some 'better' photos, this one fits better into the ripple theme!

 {9} 9/1/12 "Float" There was no question what we were going to photograph when I told the kids about this topic... Off to the little blow up pool out the back- filled with water bombs!

 {10} 10/1/12 "10 Steps" The idea here was to take a photograph of something '10 steps away' from SOMETHING- it could be 10 steps away from your computer, from your work, your school... anything- I went with 10 steps from my backdoor. I thought it was going to be another flower photo, but how lucky was I to get this baby?! Goes to show what may be just outside your door if you took the time to look...!

{11} 11/1/12 "Light and Dark" I took this photo somewhere out the back of North Arm, not planning on actually using it for the topic- I just saw beautiful rays beaming through the clouds on a lonely tree on a hill. And it came out pretty average (for want of a better word!) so I played around with it and came up with this to fit the topic! As a commenter on my FaceBook page said "Color is a perception, which when removed, can reveal the depths of a shaded world." Not sure if it's from a prior source or not- but it fits this beautifully!

{12} 12/01/12 "Feminine" On another afternoon spent cooling off by the river, I struggled to find something feminine about my 4 year old daughter! She's such a tomboy! Until I spotted her one weakness- fingernail polish! 

{13} 13/01/12 "Making Tracks" Back to the river... well it WAS 35degree+ days we were having! I went down aiming to photograph tracks in the sand- from birds, dogs humans... and got a few too. But then we found this old race car in the bottom of our bag of sandcastle building supplies. The kids made a huge built up race track, complete with a centre 'lake'!

{14} 14/01/12 "Salty" Many things crossed my mind for this topic, but when you live metres away from something this beautiful (and salty!) why wouldn't you photograph it?

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~Competion Winner~ Miss M!

Well, the competition ended months ago, and the winner had finally received her completed disc! Taran is a great supporter of Rainbow Photography, and with the subject of the photo shoot to be her beautiful almost-2-year-old daughter, I was really looking forward to it. Trying to get a time that suited as both however proved difficult- and when we finally got together the weather was shocking! We finally hit the jackpot with a beautiful day down the river a couple of weeks ago, and caught some wonderful images. So these photos are a combination of 2 different shoots! When I present a client with their DVD of completed images- I always try to include a couple of fun and candid shots as well as the 'it' shots. Shots that other people may look at and think is 'akward' or odd, but actually mean something to the client- a memory. Like Miss M 'planking' when she was actually trying to peek over the edge of the jetty. Or the photo of Miss M trying to reattach the flower she picked because she had been told not to pick the newly planted gerberas! Photos are memories captured in time, so I think it's important to include these kinds of images!Thank you Taran for your support, thank you Miss M for your compliance! Congratulations!!