Weekly Photo Challenge – Windows

I decided to go quite literal with this week’s challenge, although I was debating going another direction, hasn’t it been said that Eyes are the Window to the Soul? Well I have plenty of images of eyes but decided that for once I would show windows, all but they last are on wonderful buildings in…

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Friday Fiction – Like a Moth to a Flame

A continuation of sorts from last week, same character, but many years later They always said she had the worst taste in men, she was like a Moth to a Flame for the bad boys. She had always managed to get herself out of too much trouble, until now. Now, they were suddenly flocking to…

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Letter F – Topic is Fun or Flowers

So this week’s challenge for CFFC is Letter F – Topic is Fun or Flowers. Yes I have flowers, and I had fun capturing them, but I also had lots of fun in the studio with my new camera, with Film Noir (Yep see Emilio I can do Film Noir too!!) Actually, all these flowers shot…

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In the Studio – Film Noir

Film noir has been around since the 1940’s… A style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace. The term was originally applied (by a group of French critics) to American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson…

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Share Your World – 26th September 2017

What is your favorite outdoor activity? You do know I own a camera or two right?Ok, So I’m not big on the whole exercise thing, but you would be amazed (and occasionally so am I) on what I will do for a photo. Then usually complain like hell afterward about how sore I am! I love to…

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Regular Random – Hot Pink Gerbera

My Daughter recently received these flowers from her work colleagues (She is transferring interstate), how could I not spend five minutes with these lovely flowers. It was also 5 minutes spent practicing with the new camera on manual focus using the Sony a7ii MF Assist and Peak Reading function. Not too bad for an old…

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Monday’s Musings

What to do with an empty nest? For the first time, I have no children at home. My Youngest has moved interstate and as she was driving her car up, my eldest daughter went with her to share the driving and help her set up in the new house. Not to mention enjoying the sensational…

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Friday Fiction – Waiting to be saved

Feeling a little bold after the 20 Day writing challenge and scoffing at my own whingeing about not writing more short stories, I have embarked on a journey to perhaps share some of my short stories, that have til now remained unpublished. Some are linked, some are not, but all have a particular piece of…

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Layered Rock and Timber

I have not one but two series for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge – Layers. Firstly this old timber bridge I photographed last weekend, so many intricate layers of timber to make this exquisite (yet falling down) railway bridge. Next is the amazing layers in these rock formations, found in Heathcote, Victoria (AUS). Make primarily…

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In the Studio with Chey Ann – Steam Punk

Warning! Contains Nudity

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