Best of 2012....

Happy New Year 2013 to you all.  Another one down hey, boy time does fly.  At the end of every year.. well I think it started last year, but you get the drift... I select my top ten photos for the year.  Boy, is it a process...a good process, but a hard one.  For starters you get to come across images that you had completely forgotten about, and it is a joy to rediscover some of them.  Then you come across some absolute shockers that should not be in the system and taking up precious valuable storage space, so you get to do a cull at the same time.  And then you have to try and whittle down all those hundreds of images down to your favourite top ten!..That's the hard part!!.  So hard in fact...that this year I couldn't do it!  Nup...absolutely, totally and utterly impossible to select just ten!. (I secretly hope that may be a sign that I'm getting better) So...here are my top fifteen photos of 2012...


'Missing tooth'

'Koo & Mitch'

'Rainbow Region'

'The Shed'

'Fields of Gold'

'Franks Hat'

'Doofy Doo'

'Do you love your Sister?'

'Slip n Slide'

'Lola and her Mummy'

'Announcement'

'So happy together'

'Love at sunset'

'Aprils Eyes'

'Best Mates'

Aglow....

His ears are glowing
Funny little Finny!

Beth & Chris...

I think it may be love....

The eyes have it.....

Well hello there.  Jeez, it seems like it's been a lifetime since I have been back to this little space of mine...I miss it, I really do.  I miss documenting all the little bits and pieces of my family life, my loves and my memories.  I must confess I have been a little preoccupied lately...OK, I'll admit it...I've been obsessed! (see, there I said it!) with my
i phone, instagram and facebook!.  Wow...that feels really good to have that out in the open!  But the thing I have missed the most since I have come into the world of high tech gadgetry, is my camera.  I mean my real camera..the one that I was determined to master before I got slightly, oh Ok, extremely, sidetracked!  I have regressed in the knowledge and confidence that I was gaining with my beloved Canon.  But.. what is the point of getting to the end of a year and the start of a new, if not to take stock of things that you want to change, and perhaps gain, as life steadily rolls on forward?  'Exactly'..(I hear you all collectively sighing)...SO, I endeavour, once again, to get back behind the real lens, and try, try, try, to find the confidence I want to have in my photography, and the commitment to being the keeper of these memories for my children and for myself.  This is my pledge for the coming year.  Now, when I falter, which I do...(I know you know that..I just said it anyway!) Can you guys please give me a good ole kick up the backside, and set me back on the right course...OK?  thanks.




My task for this little session, which she actually a little bit more than half heartedly (just a tad more!)participated in, while the wind was whipping her hair around her face, was to focus on her eyes.  Nothing else...no composition, or metering, or anything too technical, just simple eye focus.  Don't you love how you can see into someone when the
camera truly focuses into their soul?  Beautiful....

 

 

 

 

On the beach and up a tree, are her happiest places to be!

Instagram...

Oh for the love of Instagram!
I have a new hobby.   Ok, Ok, I know I have far too
many hobbies...but this will be the last one...promise!
Instagram is such a fantastic easy little program that
can make the most plain photo look like a work of art.
Seems as though my phone is constantly joined to my
body these days, I am using it very regularly to capture
those little memories, rather than grabbing and setting up
the Canon.  Of course it will never replace my adored SLR,
but I now seem to start with the phone...and then if it is
even more photo worthy...then I grab my camera.
It is fun to muck around and see how you can easliy
manipulate a shot into something pretty cool......


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lot of photo processors are now printing in instagram sizes,
and I think there is also an online site that prints your instagrams
into collage posters...I'll have to investigate that.  How cool
would it be to have a collage at the end of the year of all
your instagram pics!.  So...just like my photography
obsession...Instagram is coming along for the ride!
and if you would like to follow me on instagram, my user
name is sentimentality !

Engaged.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Troy & Rebecca on their engagement.  Troy popped
the question while they were on holiday in Thailand , and they
are both over the moon !.  Their happiness is infectious, and it was a
privelege to get to do a quick shoot with them...
( even with very short notice, and shite weather)
The beauty of this couple is they know how to
have a good time together, they laugh with one another,
and at one another....I think that's pretty special...