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That's my girl...

Portraits are my least favourite photography genre, I need a lot more practice, fortunately I have a couple of quite willing models to help me out with that...

Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
1/125s
f/1.8 
50mm
ISO200

sixty to sixty-four...

60: a supportive community to help with troublesome assignments

61: Monday night babysitting

62: no-one having been hurt at the next door shop's hold up yesterday morning

63: no "accidents" at school! yay!

64: children moved by books (R, Once, Morris Gleitzman)

That one, right up the back...

Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/200s f/1.8 50mm ISO 400

Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/200s f/1.8 50mm ISO 400

Today was my first day at the shop, well, first trading day in any case! There was still a lot of cleaning and tidying to do so I got stuck into that whilst R very ably attended to our cash till and customers. Had a chance to talk with the "neighbours" and some of our customers so that was nice.

Look forward to another couple of days in the shop this week; tidying up our second shop on Sunday and the following week we'll have TWO trading locations!

Day One...

Our first trading day; we've had some stock issues, ie things ordered and not delivered so it's been a bit hard to have nice, full displays. We do however, have nice signs and fresh produce.

 The fridge with stock and signs! Eek - those stickers need to go, we don't stock that juice for starters...

The displays across the front of the shop; I think these need to move, I'm not liking this stock being in the window...

More display bins...

Today's photos courtesy of R on her first day as a "check-out chick".

Look What We Got...

We just took over the management of this shop; tomorrow is our first trading day so today R and I went with D to see the shop for the first time and give it a bit of a clean up.

 This is what the shop has looked like when closed for at least the last couple of years. Nice display isn't it? It's been changed; those display bins now face out of the shop when the shop is closed, a revolution in merchandising! (Or just common sense?) The stickers and signs from the windows have all been removed too, people can see in unimpeded.

 The shell of a shop; there is a lot of potential here. There has been no signage whatsoever in the fridges, infact, D told me there was 6 months worth of out of date dairy stock in the bottom of the fridge. Who does that?!

The price signs in the picture were put in place by D last week, there were none before that. Apparently there were also some dubious pricing practices in place. Look at all those walnuts (on the left of the shelf above the bins) so many walnuts! They were on sale from the wholesaler... so quick, buy up, don't worry about it you will sell them or not! Oh dear...

I love unusual little details like this. This mail delivery slot is in the bottom of the door, literally 10cm or so off the ground. I'd bet that really bugs the mail deliverer!

This was how we left the shop; display bind facing out, we didn't have any stock to put in place this afternoon. The bread crates were not ours to remove (unfortunately).

There is a lot of potential here; I want to put blackboard signs along the front of the display bins, that's a start.

Feathered and Friends

There are a couple of pairs of Crimson Rosellas that have been visiting the pine trees in the front of our yard the past few days.

Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
1/400s
f/5.6
300.0mm
ISO 400


We also had a visit from some wonderful friends and all had a great time...

Secrets and Hugs

Giggling Girls

Messy Treats...

Riding Buddy

Clearly motion is not my forte, that said however I will make the excuse that it was late (after 7pm) on a cloudy evening so the light wasn't great, I abetted that by standing under a tree and the photos were taken on fully auto "sports" mode because it was starting to rain, I needed to hurry! Surely then, I cant be held responsible for their quality?

We picked this bike up for R from a lovely freecycler who had bought the bike for her daughter years ago. Long story short, it's a bit rusted from being laying around but it's barely been used (the little spikes are still on the original tyres,) the gears were a little stiff but a bit of oil and it was off! We'll have to work at getting  the rust off both our frames and get them polished up to look pretty but other than that great FREE bikes!

So, I went for a short ride with R this evening, having to take my husband, D's, bike as mine has a flat tyre (again, I'm not getting far in a hurry but it will soon be all sorted.) O>M>G>>> His seat is HARD! Surely the difference between mens and ladies bike seats can't be that great? I think I'll have to get him one of those air cushion seat covers, I guess it wouldn't hurt for me to have one too, whilst I'm there you know?

Here's R trying not to run me over!

The Bandaid

For your viewing pleasure; a dodgy phone photo! It's an important one though, Djr's first bandaid. :) He didn't NEED a bandaid as such but when R got a cat scratch and needed a bandaid Gran only had Wiggles bandaids (bought for Djr.) So, when Djr saw R's Wiggles bandaid he very much wanted one, what Djr wants, Djr gets! A Dorothy bandaid, four Dorothy's dancing across the sticker on his hand.

Too cute.

Let's Play!

After a rough day in our household the children have cleaned up their bedrooms to property inspection standards; what a nice change!

Of course, immediately after cleaning up they started building okay spaces within their rooms again. Liam's room (on the left) is almost completely covered in sheets and Rhiannan built a "changing room" under her loft bed. We're going to redesign the "changing room" space tomorrow so it is a little more functional.

Tonight, they have just informed me, Rhiannan is having a sleepover in Liam's room.

Specs: Canon EOS 400D; no other specs as it's two photos in one. These were tricky photos to take though; our hall light is out so I had to shoot into the light in their rooms from the dark hallway. All in all, well, you can see what the photos are of!

My Gorgeous Girl

“It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.”

- Anonymous.

Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
1/250s
f/5.6
50.0mm
ISO 800

Shared Secrets

R wanted me to take some photos with Djr; here are the best of them...
Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/250s f/4.0 75.0mm ISO 800

 Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/250s f/4.0 75.0mm ISO 800

Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/250s f/4.0 75.0mm ISO 800

 Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/250s f/4.0 75.0mm ISO 800

Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/250s f/4.0 75.0mm ISO 800

By this time Djr had just about had enough of my camera for the day so I didn't get a re-take of the following two; I wish they weren't so burnt out (silly, I should've realised as I moved to the back of where R was sitting) they show the cheeky side of Djr so perfectly.

Shhh - it's a Secret...

For a while, a couple of months ago, R's best friend would came over R would say to me "can we go to our secret cubby house thing down at the river?" Off they'd go and they'd be down there for hours sometimes (always with a phone for safety.)

This afternoon R said "oh, I can show you our secret thing. It's not really a cubby house." Then as she showed Djr and I this secret place she said "It's not even really that secret, people fish here sometimes."

Now I'm sharing the secret with you. I never really had a "secret place" as a child so I used to climb trees a lot (in particular a large mango tree in our Far North Queensland backyard) to escape the world.

Did you have a secret place? I'd love to hear about it...

Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
1/250s
f/4.0
75.0mm
ISO 800

Teenage Dream...

I have fond memories of swinging from this rope swing as a teen.

'Twas a tough day for photography today; R, Djr and I walked around the River Walk this afternoon. Between 2pm and 6:30pm it rained three times (enough that we had to take shelter under picnic gazebos or leafy trees) at all other times the sky cleared and clouded over innumerable times. C'est la vie - excuse the grainy (high ISO,) dark, multi-light photos for today. (Excluding this photo, which honestly, I don't know what I did playing with it in the editor but I like the resulting colours...)


Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
1/4000s
f/5.6
240.0mm
ISO 100