Updating some family pics

All of us. confession time, this is the first proper family photo we have had done, terribly embarrising :-) Thank you to Sarah, of Sarah Jay Photography for the gorgeous shot

Paddy's year 12 formal

My baby boy

He's growing so fast my 15yo.

End of footy season haul, Paddy best and fairest and payer of the year and Joe best utility (he missed out on runner up best and fairest to Paddy by one point, not bad for a kid who was out with a broken arm for 9 weeks and a smashed up face for another game. I was pretty proud anyway :-).)

Today I had the pleasure of photographing a pregnant belly, love round tums, love that there is life growing in there and I just love the way the dad-to-be is looking at the mum-to-be, love pure and simple.

Monthly photo club challenge, wet wet wet.

Each month our local camera club does a themed challenge, this month's wet wet wet. there were several terrific entries with our president Peter being the winner. Info on the camera club and photos on the website here http://capturedimagesnaracoorte.jimdo.com/

Lately I've been

Playing with my camera, not blogging much (not hard to guess that one) FBing more than  I've been blogging, watching the boys play lots of football (4 boys 6 games on Saturday) missing my DH who is away travelling the countryside, waiting for my new toshiba tablet to arrive (woo hoo) not doing any craft whatsoever and generally living a busy life(don't we all).

 Joe and his gorgeous pal Georgia, such a cute pair of kids (and just friends)

 Sarah and her sister Kimberly

And I really want to try and do this again this year without the dismal fail from last year. I made it two to three days in last year and just got too busy to finish it. I still have the album ready to go. Last year I used templates over my photos, edited etc, this year my word is going to be simplify, pictures and words and maybe a bit of pretty paper thrown in for good measure and that's it. I'll see how it all goes, and then there is always next year if all else fails,lol.

Yes there is work I should be doing

But my oldest sons new kitten is sooooo cute I couldn't resist sharing these quick couple of pics. Meet pickles, his adorable little lap warmer.

Camera bag/actions giveaway

Wouldn't either of these prizes be awesome to win???

http://florabellacollection.com/blog/2011/03/25/florabella-theit-camera-bag-giveaway/

A hodge podge of shots

Well still no creative mojo so you have to bear with me with photos for the moment. I'm quite sure
Santa bagged up all desire to create things from paper and took them back to the North Pole with him. Maybe the Easter bunny will bring it back for me. Hope fully, I have too many dollars worth of crafty goodies sitting here gathering dust,lol. 

 Playing with water droplets, not perfected yet but still a fun thing to do.

 The super moon which I didn't think was very super. Maybe if I got out a little earlier I would have been ok but by the time I got outside that night after a busy day it only looked like a regular moon. I was going to give it another shot the next night but it has been cloudy ever since. Guess I will have to wait another 18 years or so for the next one, hehe.

 A pretty in my back yard

 And this is how I filled in my time while the youngest was playing cricket (have to stay awake some how,lol) this little beauty flew by just as I was about to photograph the kids and I thought he would make a more interesting subject than boys all dressed in white.

As you may have noticed I have been playing around with watermarks. Not sure which one I like best but I think I may just go back to susy's snapshots. Sue FitzGerald photography sounds a bit pretentious as I am not yet a photographer in the professional sense although I suppose anyone who takes photos is basically a photographer, I mean what else would they be??? sue fitzGerald Captured moments is ok but sounds too much like a business name so I'm thinkin' susy's snapshots it is...Any opinions???

Tired of babies yet

Not me that's for sure but I think he might be,lol.

Photography Giveaway

Check out this awesome giveaway at the savvy photographers blog, fantastic.
http://www.thesavvyphotographerblog.com/ 

More piccies

Today I got to take lots of piccies, lots and lots of piccies to be precise, I filled up three memory cards, whoops. I started off the day early with cute baby Rye, love it when friends have babies and I get to have a baby  fixes, love me some baby cuddles. After a quick session there I raced down to the lake to meet up with Sarah, my photo buddy from the caves a few weeks back and her gorgeous family and there I got a girl fix with her two little cuties,lol.

Canvas giveaway

Anyone who has read this blog will know how much I love Rita from coffeeshopblogs free actions, well today she has gone one step further and is giving away a gorgeous 16x20in wrap canvas from colorinc. There FB page is here  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Color-Inc/190322407656875?sk=app_4949752878 and Rita's blog is here http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/ So what you waiting for???go enter.
As a post script I am going to add that it is a little embarrassing that I don't know how to add a hyper link in the new form of blogger. It used to be so easy now when I do what I used to do it doesn't work, maybe i should read some instructions, hmmmmm?

One more

Same shot in colour and soft black and white. Look at those adorable lips. I love baby lips, so soft and perfect. Now I have things to go do before heading off to a meeting tonight, this computer is such an addictive thing.

Have I ever mentioned

Just how much I love babies, new ones especially. I love the way they smell, they softness of their skin, the noises they make, even when they cry. So imagine how happy I was today when a friend allowed me to photograph her 9 day old baby, so beautiful and fresh. So without further adieu meet Stefan.

Now I realise I have a lot to learn in the baby photographing stakes but hey, I'm so willing to learn, especially if it means I get to have lots of snuggles.

The banned band cat.

Meet Mr Whiskers. Paddy decided that him and the guys he jams with needed a band cat and that that band cat should live at our house...Big mistake...there are already two cats and one dog here, more than ample for a husband who wanted no pets at all, so you can imagine his reaction when he came home to another kitten in the house. i must add that he was one very cute kitten who took and instant liking ot sleeping on my shoulder and following me around every step I took. Me attached, never. Any way Mr Whiskers, now renamed Patrick has gone to live in another home and I will have to find something else to practice taking photos on.

But he is cute isn't he???

Seamus' first game of cricket for 2011, and all I can say about it is bring on the footy season. I actually think he may just agree with me too. Watching cricket is fine for the few minutes your kid is doing something (I'm talking the few minutes out of hours and hours) the rest is akin to watching paint dry. I know there are many cricket lovers out there who would have me drawn and quartered for that statement but heck I've watched snail races more interesting. At least with a good game of footy there is always something happening. Thankfully none of the boys have shown any interest in the game beyond school boys so I tolerate it while it is on for their sakes. Good coffee and chatter always gets me though,lol.

Playing with frames and textures

Playing

With Rita's newest action velvet cream available  http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/2011/02/coffeeshop-velvet-cream-pspse-action.html What do you think? Frames are hers also.

Bool Lagoon

Ok, right at this moment I really should be tucked up in bed, so tired, but I thought I would quickly put up some photos taken today our at Bool Lagoon. a  local wet land area (that is actually wet for the first time in years) It was pretty windy and the clouds didn't lift and give us great light until it was time to leave but still had a great day. Thanks to my photo buddy Sarah, good to have some one to talk camera to(someone to talk photogrpahy to who's eyes don't glaze over when you start talking f stops :-)Teeny tiny things, pulled out my extention tubes but it was quite windy and I was hand holding, fun still though.