This week’s challenge is the simple things, according to the Girl who Dreams Awake, it is the most simple things which are often the most beautiful and she is right. Fresh cake and berries, simple dried flowers and wildflowers and animals, family and pets. So often it is too easy to take these things for…
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52 Week Challenge – Week 35
This week’s challenge from The Girl That Dreams Awake is From Above, this is one of my favourite angles for taking a photo, and I don’t use it as much as I would like. It’s quite difficult to take a good landscape photo from above a subject (unless you are on top of the mountain…
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Week 34 of this 52 week photo challenge is Movement, Movement can be a very tricky thing to capture, without the blur that signifies the actual movement, and I’m not a big fan of blur. I do like to capture the ‘feel’ of movement, the brain can fill in the blanks, so most of these…
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52 Week Photo Challenge – Week 33
Week 33 of the 52 Week Photo Challenge by The Girl Who Dreams Awake is Rain! How fitting for this time of year and I have the perfect picture. I shot this on Saturday in the studio with one of my Models, Hayley. That’s it for this week, one shot only……I generally do not shoot…
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This week’s challenge is shallow depth of field, from The Girl who dreams awake. I have so many images I am still going through and sorting from our trips away, however with so many wonderful expansive vistas before me I seldom shot with a shallow depth of field, so I went hunting through the archives…
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After a bit of a break we are back with the 52 Week Challenge by The Girl Who Dreams Awake, this week negative space. I have three images all so stark and so very different, but all using negative space to highlight and embrace the single object. Sometimes it’s good to have a break, life…
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I just wrote that and felt a certain sense of shock, week 30…..how did that happen? Just like I cannot believe it is March already; where are the days disappearing too? Back on track………..this week’s challenge by The Girl that Dreams Awake is ‘in the distance’, so I hunted through my archives to find some…
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This week’s theme from the girl who dreams awake is Beautiful Colours, after last’s week’s pity party (sorry about that, but thank you everyone), pretty colours indeed needs to be the post for today! So, so many beautiful colours..last year I was all about exploring B&W and this year I am yearning for colour again…
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Another 52 Week Challenge – Week 28
Warning this post comes with a rant…….
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52 Week Challenge – Week 27
This week’s theme from The Girl Who Dreams Awake is Architecture, I have just visited two amazing places this weekend where the architecture was wonderful, I am not normally one for buildings, but sometimes you have to make an exception. Royal Exhibition Buildings – Melbourne Montsalvat – Eltham This place was built in 1934 and…
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