Winter Weather

The winter cold has started, with clouds covering the sky most evenings.  Tuesday it cleared a bit, making sunset wonderfully soft over Melbourne.

 

By Wednesday evening the dark clouds were back.  I love it though, makes me think of evenings cuddled up with a huge mug of steaming hot chocolate, rain dancing on the windows while watching something suitably romantic on tv…

 

**Update on my daughter:  The tests came back clear, so the lump seems to be a cyst of some sort (sorry, all the terms just flew right over my head).  It will have to be removed, so we will be seeing the paediatric surgeon in a couple of weeks.  Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers.

Joy of new life

I haven’t been able to post much (or take many images) over the last two weeks.  My mother came to visit, but she is a bit ill, so time for myself was a little in short supply.  In the middle of the visit, Michelle called to ask if I would like to take some photos of her pregnancy.  Time was a little in short supply, since her due date is this week!  I was ecstatic to have the opportunity.  She is such a glowing, beautiful mother!

So here are some images of her and her gorgeous little girl.  (This was my first maternity shoot.)

 

Hopefully we will get back to our normal routine from this week on.  Just one more hurdle.  We found a lump in my daughter’s throat last week.  The long weekend made all the doctor’s appointments a little problematic.  The blood tests were done, we are going for a scan today.  Hopefully nothing serious.

Gondolas on the Yarra

Time is a bit on short supply here at the moment.  My mother is visiting from overseas, so the blogging ended up being pushed down on the priority list.  By next week I should be posting more regularly again.

I was late for class last night, because my train got cancelled and I had to wait for the next one.  Running over the bridge on the Yarra, I had to stop to capture the gondola coming past.  It just looked so awesome!

Can you imagine floating serenely down the river watching the lights of the city?

So at the end of class it was time to run back to Flinders Street Station

And wait for my train…

Fix It Friday – iHeartFaces

This week’s challenge is an image of a gorgeous girl, though a bit dark. 

I played around a bit with the settings, changing the crop, exposure and so forth.  Aren’t her eyes striking?

I then tried three different versions, using some of Pioneer Woman’s actions on a slightly different crop.

Sunshine	Old West	Old West & Vintage

 

 

Hope you like the edits.  Be sure to check out more on iHeartFaces.

I hung the moon …

“Experimenting, I hung the moon from various branches of the pine”

So what would you imagine from a brief like that?

Night Time on South Bank

Our assignment was a night time shoot.  We got a brief, then had to walk around for an hour trying to get an image to fit our vision of the brief.

Of course I took the chance to take some extra shots of the area!

The light reflections looked so much like trees in autumn…

Some teenagers were playing (exercising?)

Weekend Workshop

This weekend was our class workshop, so the days were long, but filled with information.  On the first day we went to Selby, learning to use natural light (and any other available light).  By the end I had a ton of fun, learning so much!

Sunday was a first for me, using studio lighting.  We had to model for each other.  I was blessed to get a gorgeous classmate!