ITS BEEN WAY TO BUSY

Well howdy.... I really have not had time to even think much in the past week or so, with indoor netball, christmas, weddings and portraits.... But I have had a little time to play in photoshop and really its only been a little, I am trying to do some templates and collages and I am slowly getting there, here is my first go.....

OMG I have been so lazy in updating this

I have been really busy with lots of work and lots of netball, so have not had the time to put up blogs.  Anyway here is a quick post of pics over the last month or so....

 Abigales parents wanted some xmas feel shots for their xmas cards, she looked amazing and mum loved the photos.

 These lovely girls where a dream to photograph, the funny thing is that their mum went to school with my partner, such a small world.

 Another stunning family, I first meet Pania when I had the chance to photograph her wedding as part of my training.

 Lil Sophia at about 10 days......

 Sophia now about 2 months.

 My girl....

 Parents about to be, this couple where just lovely, although a bit shy. 

 Civil union for Rebe and Rach... what an awesome day....

 tania and Mac... wow... such an awesome couple... so nice to work with.

Taking advantage of the nice Welly weather

The weekend just gone 2-3 Oct 2010 was just amazing.  A friend of mine went out to see the seals at Red Rocks and I did think bout going, but really just ran out of time.

Any way I did have to meet up with her later in the day in Island Bay for a meeting with some clients, and as it was at Island bay I figured that my partner and 6 yr old might wanna join me.

My daughter loved it at the beach, playing with her dad in the sand.

By the time I got to them though she was ready for mummy to take some photos of her, here are my favourite two.

A star in the making

Today was a shoot with my daughter..... and as much as I can talk about how pretty she.. (i'm her mum so I am aloud)... I have decided that I just wanna put up pics....

Cute Hannah - What a Star

Hey hey,
I had the best photo shoot on the weekend, a lovely mum of one and one on the way.

Hannah is a right little star, she loved getting dressed in a number of out fits, and each one brought out a personality.

Big thanks to her grandma as well for helping out on the day.... you're awesome.

Mum and Dad are not sure what the sex of baby is at the moment, so we decided that 'baby' was a good start.... :)

Friends and Friendship

mmmm, I hear you say, whats that got to do with photography... well it could be not much but its not. (3 of us are into photography in a big way). Anyway this is about thoughts as well.

I am very lucky to be part of a rather tight group of friends, and every now and then we go a little off track. Sometimes we forget what we have in each other and what our friendship means.

We are all so completely different but that is what makes us.

We all meet through our job, as I guess alot of friendships do, and that was nearly 10 years ago, we have been though alot together, from sad times to happy times, three of the most happiest to date are our trip to Rarotonga as four girls having a good time (thanks to Sharon for the trip) the marriages of our good friends Corina in Wellington and Louise in Rarotonga, where Sharon and I where bridesmaids, and Corina was our life saver do alot of the things that we where not able to do on the day.... and of course the births of our children....

Any way here are a couple of photos that portray our friendship, I think these show what we have and how we have it.

Just as a sign off, I wanna say a big thanks to my girlfriends, you're awesome and I love u all so much.... and I am sure we will have a lot for more happy moments and hopefully a lot less sad ones.... xxxxx

Been Busy

Heya

Well I have been really busy of late, sad huh, with family and netball, I have not been out.

Last night I made an effort to go to our camera club interclub battle with four other clubs from the Wellington region, and the last time we won was at least 5 years ago, and although we only got 3rd, we did really well. I must say we have a number of brilliant photographers in our club, but one really stands out, he is Brent, his images are amazing, last night he got two top marks for a couple of his images, and they truley where amazing. Anyway it was a great night held by all... Big thanks must go the wonderful ladies of the committee for the awesome array of food and drinks... and thanks to the committee for the running.... cheers

I Love the Rain... but I miss the Sun

Again the rain was upon us..... but they that did not stop myself and a friend from heading out to the beach to see what was around.
We found rocks that had the sea water crashing on them, and with the high winds, the water looked awesome.

So off to the shore we went, we layed down on the ground and shot from low down so that we could get the best angle, it was really nice… unfortunately you will have to wait until later for the pics as they are still in the camera, I got a lil busy afterwards. The funny thing was that while we where sheltered from the wind and rain in a big part form a rather large rock, was when we got up to go back to the car there all these people looking at us and it was not until we step out of the shelter that the full force of the wind and rain hit us, but of course to the people watching us, they could not see how much shelter the rock was giving us, they just thought we where idiots I think.

Anyhow as I was laying on the ground in the wind and pissing down rain, I thought back to my last overseas trip and thought I wanna go back. Here is a selection of images from that trip.

Rarotonga......

Guess WHAT! its raining again.............

Go figure huh... a couple of nice days and now is pissing down again. Oh well who cares. I plan on going out again this weekend not sure where to though at the moment, I have a preggie shoot to do this weekend also and wedding photos to process from last weekend, so I am guessing my outing this weekend will not be a long one as I have other jobs to process.

Anyway no doubt I will put some more piccies up a lil later, but until then here is a nice one for ya.

PETONE BEACH - WELLINGTON NZ

I had a rather busy weekend, on Sunday I had netball training for 2 hours and decided a needed a break as I was a little angry... so off I went to the place I feel the best (other than home) the beach... and Petone was the closest one to where I was playing netball.

I decided to stay in one part of the beach and to get different shots of the same thing... Anyway I hope you like the beach as much as I do.

Loving My Camera

Well good morning/afternoon to you all... its rather cold here in Wellington today, on my way into work this morning it was 2 degrees C.... burrrrrrr. But it is an awesome day the suns out and the sky is blue... purrrfect bar the coldness.

Anyway yesterday Sunday the 11th July, I got out of bed and thought ohhh lets look out the window and see what kind of day we have, as I have been biting at the bit to get back out with the camera, well mmmmmm I could not see 5 metres due to fog.

My partner thought it would be a good idea for me to get out... mmmm sure it was just so he could watch sports on the telly.

After getting dressed and braving the cold... lasted 2 mins outside and decided it was much nicer inside. Decided that I was not that much of a wuss, so in the car with Camera Backpack and Tripod I went.

Over the hill to a lovely place called Eastbourne, only 10 mins drive from my place. I found a nice posie to park the car and off to the beach I went. The sun and light was just lovely, early morning just glorious, but it was damn cold.

Out with the camera and I played with all my manual settings, M, AV and TV... I got this camera in May and I am loving it, the manual functions are also great, it has brought out my photography, although I have always said it is the person and not the camera and I still believe this, but to make that photo just the wee bit better figure out how to use your manual settings.

A Little Different

Well this feels a little like AA.... that or confession... Its been a little while since I was here last, I was hoping I could do a little write about once a week, well I just blew that out of the water aye. Over the last couple of weeks I have not been out to take photos, instead I have been busy at home photographing pregnant women, and trying my hand a something a little different. Below are some preggie shots and the something different as well. Anyway see you next week.