So this is the shot. My first attempt at photographing a semi clad person. Here is totally lit by natural light for a big bay window. It came out ok, I think. Well he is happy with it at least.

Since then I have been very fortunate in being selected to have some of my images displayed in Gallery Raw, in the Hunter Street Mall. Opening night this friday. Yah! Sure there is always two sides to a coin, the downside here is that some people are unhappy that i had so many images selected. But I am proud and happy. I'll be flabbergasted if anything sells, I think the shots are either a bit personal or too obscure to be seen as wall art by the masses. Again, I am very happy with my achievements and delighted that Gallery Raw exists and is available to enthuasists like myself.

In dire need of a break from the coal face, I wangled a week off. With an RDO at the exit end I now have 10 GLORIOUS days off..........but what is a girl to do with 10 glorious days off? Well if today was an average day I shall in face have 10 glorious exhausting days off!!

Shuffling cars, mothers and loads of washing gave way to an afternoon birthday party for a beautiful one year old Eliza. 165 images later (oh I should have shot in jpeg not 21mp Raw) I am still converting to jpeg now. Downloading took FOREVER, but did give me a chance to get some dinner into me and some washing up done. I had hoped to upload a photo or two to flickr tonight, but I don't think that will come to fruition now.

Tomorrow I will have my first ever attempt at shooting a semi clad person with my flash/softbox combination. MMMMmmmm I THANK HIM for being my guinea pig. I don't really hold out hope for great images, but Rome wasn't built in a day, apparently!!

First day of another 3 day weekend for me. There is so much I need to do and so little of it will be fun! I'm still de-shitting. Removing things from the house that I don't use or don't want to see. I'm nearing the end of this process and down to the really fiddly bits. My interest has wained. I know the result will be good, but the process is bad! I'd prefer to be out with the camera taking a few snaps, but this mess won't clean itself up! There are piles of 'stuff' everywhere. 'Stuff" i don't want is all going to vinnies. Even though I thinned out the wardrobe and drawers after the Vic fires, I reckon I can do another cull today. Storage is the big issue. I have none left!!!

Monday will be interesting. I'm going out to take some pics (going on a shoot sounds so pretentious) with 3 mates. We are heading back to the old Ward 21 ruins. I'm driving the Laser in.......so I'll pack a few shovels for the trip!! There has been a fair amount of rain and the tracks might be a bit harder than normal to traverse, but we'll give it a go. I'm happy to walk in but one guy is bringing a portable lighting setup and doesn't fancy crossing the collapsed bridge with his gear. Dunno why? It is only about an 8 foot drop into the water!!

Here's a pic I took last trip there.

I wonder what, if anything, will be left standing this trip.

Now I'm going to try an add a photo....

this may or may not work!

First Blog

Well I have finally succumb to the modern age and have my own blog. God I hope someone finds my ramblings interesting. I expect most will revolve around photography and whether the taken shot should be transformed into graphic art by computer manipulation or if that is anti art.



Might throw in a recipe from time to time too and probably a few links to my flickr or redbubble pages to whore my images about. There may also be a fair few entries where I whinge about the workplace and managements inept action........ even though it is so easy to criticise when not having to make the big decisions or pay the bills every month. There is probably a thousand valid reasons for never publishing this blog, but I think my ego wants me to hit the orange "continue" button.