A Hand To Hold

Quick write-up for Thursday's picture, done on Wednesday (this is starting to become the norm!) as I'm out early again on Thursday. So ready to have a quiet day at home, wish I could!

Evie and Kendall holding hands:

Rhi and I took an outing one day to the Botanic Gardens at Mt Cootha with Evie and Kendall. I managed to get several shots of Kendall in various outfits, and a couple of the two bears together.

After posing the bears how I wanted them, I used my macro setting and zoom lens to snap just the bears hands 'held' together.

Jacaranda Blossoms

Good morning! Today my mother and I are going for a picnic in ithe park with my older brother and the three children. It should be a lot of fun, and there may be the opportunity for some nice photography.

Jacaranda blossoms on a clear day:

Ahh, I love Jacaranda trees so much, and of course now that it's proper Springtime, they're all starting to bloom, and the grass around each tree is gradually becoming a sort of lilac purple as it is covered in fallen blossoms. The original reason for taking this photo, back in 2008, was to show my purple-loving friend how gorgeous the Jacarandas are since she had never seen one.

A definite with the macro, I would also have fiddled slightly with the aperture and shutter settings on this one.

Best Of Friends

Good morning world. The sun is shining, the clouds of yesterday have wandered off and I don't have time to do my washing as I have a morning appointment every Friday! Oh well, such is life, hopefully tomorrow will be clear instead of stormy.

Kendall shows Evie the sights:

A friend and I both got Build-a-Bears at the same time, Kendall's mine and Evie is hers. I wanted to get these two kneeling and looking somewhere interesting, but they wouldn't have stayed up so I got the next best thing - kneeling together and cuddling on a park bench.

This photograph was taken using generic settings, no flash and some amount of zoom, and is part of the Teddies series.

Rain rain, if you're going to stick around, make it good! The local roads are beginning to be affected by the flooding, the water in my swan pond is now up as high as the gazebo, and my front yard resembled a swimming pool. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to have a small play in the mud; if the waters continue to rise the creek near me may flood over the road.

Tiny little blossoms:

While at Alma Park Zoo one day with my family, I managed to snap this shot using mum's friend's Canon PowerShot S3 IS; pretty sure I used the super macro to get this one.

Life And Death

It's been warm and sunny today, and I have new shoes! Plus I managed to convince the bank that I am me, even though I gave the wrong access code when I called to get my authentication code reset (because I had no idea what it was) so my crafting supplies are on their way as of tomorrow! Once they arrive, I'll finally be able to use the new dies I got for my Cuttlebug.

Little purple flowers at the bus stop:

After hitting the shops, the weather had cleared up again a tiny bit so I walked to the bus stop, and just before it, in the garden, were these little purple flowers. There was a mixture of healthy flowers and dying ones, and I was lucky enough to capture this photo (for today's Project 365 photo) with one of each!

To get this one I once again had to lie down in the middle of Logan Central, and I experimented with my camera on various settings. I angled the camera up to the flower in the crazy-bright daylight. I was actually aiming for a lot more off-centre than I got - turns out the traffic going past on the main road really knocks these little guys around a lot!

Unfortunately this is one of the photographs I've had to edit - first I had to remove a lamp post from the edge, and then I had to do a small crop to trim off a bit of road that made it onto the shot. Still, I'm fairly happy for it, especially considering the sun was so bright I could barely see what I was doing.

Emergence

Sorry I missed yesterday's posting! I did begin one (which I'm posting now), but I was so exhausted last night I couldn't finish it in order to post it.

Goodness me! I have been "on the go" since 8 this morning when Erica picked me up. I've scrambled along the edge of a slope, chased some ducklings, had a wander through my local area and walked the streets of my city in a Reclaim The Night march. I'm beat!

A floral cocoon releases the budding blossom within:

On a wander about my local streets, I spotted these beautiful flowers and couldn't resist stopping to take a photo. Taken on macro setting, this is one of the shots I've made small edits to. Because the original is a lot more blue, I applied a filter (to change the colour of the lighting) using Paint Shop Pro to snazzy this one up a little.

Summer In Bloom

Last night I was so exhausted I zoned out at the laptop and then went to bed before posting anything. Technically I did post my first post on Wednesday, though, so it still counts.

Jacaranda blossoms hanging from a tree:

Jacarandas have long been my favourite tree, and when I found out a Swedish friend who loves the colour purple didn't even know what they are... well, I just had to go get a few photographs. This is one of my favourites. To take this, my camera was set to macro.