A trip to Slaughter Falls

We ventured out to Mt Cootha on Saturday up to Slaughter Falls. It was sooo lovely and had forgotten how nice it is to get out into nature. I took the camera of course :)

Here are a few pics of Chloe as Vannah was not in a photo mood :)









More pics on my flickr stream

And the winner for the worst photo goes to...

ME!!!!

And here is the proof:



The photo above is my attempt at getting a photo for Savannah's passoport. It was an absolute disaster. What they ask of an 18month old is just rediculous but hey. Looking at the camera, no smiling, mouth closed just one of those things is hard enough let along all of them. I have submitted their passports this morning so fingers crossed they get approved. I am so nervous!

More pics...

A few pics that I absolutly love of Chloe in her Pettiskirt that you would have seen in my last post...





And a few pics taken today with my new camera...

Home and on the same page

My husband arrived home from his work trip to LA today and I am sooo pleased to have him back as are the girls.

It was wonderful to have lovely cuddles and chats. It is also nice as we have been able to finally have an indepth chat about the move to the US and we are both on the same page about it. We are very excited and have decided we want to persue this and make it work. So next step is to organise for us all to go over and check it out for the final decision and to look around and find somewhere to live...

Oh and so excited my gorgeous husband bought me back an early mother day present. A new Canon EOS 50D DSLR and a 24-70mm 2.8 L series lens. I am in camera heaven :)

Lucky I left bread crumbs...

or I may just have never found my blog again :)

Been a long time since I last blogged and it sure has been busy around here.

I have been emursing myself in a new found love for photography and photo editing and finding this a great way to create and let that brain of mine to stay a ticking.

There are way too many pics to put up right now but will add a couple of my faves as well as link you to my flickr stream so you can check out some more. So here are a couple of recent pics:

Ok I really could keep adding more but that will do for now!

What have I been doing?

I have been a bit MIA on my blog of late. So where have I been and what have I been doing???

I have been a little sidetracked with my camera and learning the ins and outs of using it and also getting a grasp on more of the PS CS4.

So here are some of the photos that I have taken and been working with. All of the photos I have put into storyboards created in CS4 so that I am not bombarding you with an image heavy post :) The first two storyboards I am getting printed on 20" x 20" canvas' to hang in our house and can't wait for them to be finished. The last two are photos from my first session that I did on manual mode, still soooo much to learn but enjoying every moment.

A few more conversions to share

Some photo editing...

Here are some edits of prints that I have been playing with...

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Pettiskirt

I picked up one of my pettiskirts from Princess Ratbag on Friday and since then I have not been able to keep it off Chloe. Who can blame her it is sooo cute. Although an overcast day today I just couldnt turn down the chance to take a few photos of her in it.

The many faces of Chloe:

A challenge for me

I am teaching myself how to use photoshop CS5 at the moment and having so much fun so I am going to try and challenge myself to take more photos of my gorgeous girls and family and have fun with that. Here are a couple of photos I took yesterday :)