*it has been 5mths since my last....... post.*

So I've been busy... for 5 mths?!!! Yes, OK, I'll upload some of what I've been up to... soon...
Christmas came and went, New Year came and went, Stella's birthday, Yes, she turned 2 on the 5th January, I can't believe it either!! Lovely day, lucky little thing had 2 mini parties, a family one on the Monday, and a friends one on the actual day.

MC and I went to Perth for a dear friend's 40th, and that was a fleeting trip, OH, but the night before we went to Perth, I caught up with an OLD mate!!! Yes, went to see Kenny Rogers in concert at the Festival Theatre, and yes, it's the second time I've seen him perform! He hasn't lost it that's for sure!! Red eye flight to Perth the next morning, after a rather large night out... see when I went to the concert, I expected (silly I know) that my husband might go back to our hotel, and catch some shuteye, as he'd been pretty busy, well, wasn't I wrong!! He found a couple of mates that he knows, and stayed on at the Strath for a few ales... when we (Gemma, Erin and myself) finished at the concert, we headed back there for a couple ourselves, and to my surprise, there was MC, boozing away! So, we joined them... until about 2am... then caught the 6am flight to Perth... I think we should've done a Leo (Haarsma) and put our tickets in our pockets at the airport boarding gate... whilst we slept there the night!! We made it to Perth, in time for Cyclone Bianca to stir things up over there!! Fortunately she went back out to sea and fizzled into a puff of wind, but it looked hairy for a while...

Levi's birthday was the day after we got home, and happened to be a student free day, so that was good, it was a relaxed day, with him enjoying his presents at home for the day!

Fast forward to now.. when I remembered that I hadn't updated the blog for a while... oops. I shall entertain you with some images... tomorrow... when I am not so tired... :)

Tooroo for now!! (promise it will be less than 5mths til the next post)...

{Twinkle Twinkle Lincoln Lights!}

OK, so I've always wanted to take a photo of Port Lincoln at night from Winters Hill. Last night, on the way home from Camera Club, Tiff, Laura and I 'happened' to have our camera's in the car and did a slight detour!! I think these are OK, I'm happy with them, I think I've got a couple of ideas for next time I am up Winters Hill at night to try though!


I took about 6 photos, but the best were these two. I think there's another one with a twinkly star in the top right corner, but it was just too much DARK!!


I do love the longer exposure shots - I think the bottom one here was about a 30 second exposure, and the top one was 15 seconds.

Next time I'm up there I'll be sure to have the tripod, instead of resting the camera on the stone wall that goes around the carpark!

{Lake at Sunset}

Laura, Tiff and I ventured out to the lakes towards Kapinnie a few weeks ago to experiment on some 'long exposures'... wow, I learnt a whole lot of new information that night!!! Here's a few of my shots from the night.







Hoping to do this again sometime!!!

RAW!!

Has it really been this long since I've posted here?? Oops, clearly I'm not a true 'blogger'. I'll improve, surely. Can't get worse can I!?

Ventured into RAW today- after communicating with a pro, Philipa Smoke from Sweet Chilli Philly Photography and asking if she shoots in RAW at all (probably a silly question to ask a pro, but hey, I had nothing to lose!), she informed me that she always shoots in RAW, it's the only way to go - so I grabbed the camera, worked out how to put it into RAW mode, and went outside where I had some small people playing! Here's what came out of that!!

{a little bit of flare}

Lens flare that is. I stumbled across this action on PS... threw it on this photo that I'd done a bit of editing on... and voila. I think it really tops it off.

{She turns 7...}

Luka turned 7 yesterday - She had a friend sleep over, no party this year!

We gave her this gorgeous pettiskirt, she just adores it. Hardly taken it off since yesterday morning. I got it though Kym White, a friend who has this business.

Here is the cake... she requested this which was so easy to make... had to be with a 15mth old clinging at my legs wanting to be picked up! lol



Cake time!!

Dreamy being a 7yr old - you can imagine anything!!

Cummins Community Bank Airshow... 11/4/10

This even was brilliant. Once again. Our kids had an absolute wow of a time watching the planes, soaking up the atmosphere.

North American Trojan

RAAF Roulettes - just awesome
Dave Benson, opening and closing act!