Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
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.
Fear not...
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. ~Erik H. Erikson
Pay It Forward - 2011
EEP! Pay what forward? What am I going to pay forward?
The most recent Pay It Forward I'd seen was at A Peek Over the Fence and I held onto that post in my browser and let it sit in the background of my web usage over the past couple of days and this (very early) morning I finally came to a realisation that the old saying "you get what you give" is spot on, I can't expect to get much from blogging nor from the blogging community if I'm not blogging consistently and not participating in the community. So I'm going to do it, straight in at the deep end, head first...
My Pay it Forward gifts are likely to be of the paper/card kind; perhaps a set of gifts cards, thank you cards or note cards or maybe I'll stitch something, 'though that is an art that requires a lot of time and dedication on my part (I'm easily distracted) and yields little in the results department.Let's wait and see what the year brings...
(Fingers crossed now surely someone would like to have something made by me?)
The most recent Pay It Forward I'd seen was at A Peek Over the Fence and I held onto that post in my browser and let it sit in the background of my web usage over the past couple of days and this (very early) morning I finally came to a realisation that the old saying "you get what you give" is spot on, I can't expect to get much from blogging nor from the blogging community if I'm not blogging consistently and not participating in the community. So I'm going to do it, straight in at the deep end, head first...
"I promise something handmade to the FIRST 5 people who leave a comment here.
To be eligible, you must repost this message (and comment here to let me know you have), offering something handmade to 5 other people. The rules are that it must be handmade by you, and it must be sent to your 5 giftees sometime in 2011. Ready, set, GO! (C'mon, you KNOW you want to!)
My Pay it Forward gifts are likely to be of the paper/card kind; perhaps a set of gifts cards, thank you cards or note cards or maybe I'll stitch something, 'though that is an art that requires a lot of time and dedication on my part (I'm easily distracted) and yields little in the results department.Let's wait and see what the year brings...
(Fingers crossed now surely someone would like to have something made by me?)
Sunday, January 16, 2011
I Want to Ride My Bicycle
Not much to be proud of here as far as photography goes but proud of myself for dragging my butt of the lounge to get out on another bike ride. Dad brought my bike back with the new cranks and pedals on Saturday but I don't deal well with neither heat nor humidity and I wasn't even going to ride this evening until my friend Jaime (check out her blog, She Will Have Her Way) asked how I was going with Map My Run's 30 miles in 30 days challenge.
As the site name suggests it's a runner's challenge but Map My Run is also great for planning and mapping walks and bike rides. (For the purpose of the 30miles in 30 days Challenge, Jaime recalled the correlation for a marathon to bike riding is 42:130km. 30miles = 48.28km so I figure the equivalent of 30miles running would be 149.44km, or 4.98km per day. Disclaimer: my maths is TERRIBLE so I could be completely WRONG, if so please do let me know!)
Today's ride was 11.39km so that leaves me 138.05km to pedal between now and 30 days from now (end date: 14 February. (Four weeks at 34.5125km per week = 3 rides per week of 11.5km, so I will have to revise my route a little, take more frequent shorter rides or maybe a couple of longer rides.)
Jaime introduced me to Map My Run on 8 January and I thought I could easily walk the 30miles in 30 days. I'd kind of put it out of my mind but have done two walks to a total of 14.52km, leaving 33.76km to walk before 6 February.
Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
10.0s
f/5.6
39mm
ISO 400
PS: Remember how I said today's photo was nothing to be proud of, far from ideal shooting conditions under our carport (flouro light) in the dark and let's just say my hands were not very stable, here are the first two shots I took by comparison (the photo I used for this post was taken with the camera balanced on bricks with my still very unsteady hand stablising it.)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
And Hope Remains
To close out the week a photo taken by someone else of a terrible event that will mar the history of our great nation, that has equally enthralled and horrified us as the news on all of our televisions and radios was filled with disaster and devastation. This is the railway bridge at Grantham where up to 30 cars were crushed in show of the violent strength of flash flooding, many bodies were expected to have been found in the metal graveyard the waters left behind yet today's news tells us that none were found. The numbers of missing people are dropping, thankfully much more quickly than the numbers of bodies found is rising.
This week I have been all at once thankful that I didn't live in an area likely to be affected by these floods and regretful that I didn't live close enough to be able to personally help someone who does. Many people have lost everything they own, some have lost even more; family, friends, loved ones.
Today the cleanup began in earnest in Brisbane, the Aussie Spirit shines on, strong and bright as strangers become friends and lifelong bonds are no doubt built amongst rubble and sludge that will be remembered long after it is gone. Meanwhile in Central Queensland and Northern NSW many roads are still closed by flood waters and in Tasmania and Victoria further incidences of flooding are seeing more people evacuated from their homes.
I'm grateful that in times of need Australian's band together; I hope that we can remember that even in times of relative safety and surety there is always someone in need, always someone who needs a helping hand, a real genuine hug or just a smile from a stranger across a busy room.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Not Yet Autumn
Thursday, January 13, 2011
I can see a Rainbow...
Today I bought Dawson's first "own" sets of crayons and pencils. Beautiful bright colours but a strange range; deep blue, red, peach, orange, light green, deep green, deep blue, brown, yellow, violet, light carmine (that's pink for those not in the colour know). I've never seen a set of children's crayons before with neither black nor white and with two shades of green.
In any case he loves them and that's the main motivation for buying them.
Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
1/8s
f/5.6
49.0mm
ISO 400
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
How to Enjoy Ice Cream
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Little Birdy
Birds are one of my favourite things; as long as I can remember I've been fascinated by them. I have a collection of these little blingy feathered birds, this one is special, as well as being one of my favourite things, it reminds me of one of my favourite people. ♥
11:40pm tonight I thought "oh crap! I haven't taken any photos today!" So, with no further ado here is a craptacular fully auto photo. How crappy is full auto though, the focus is on the clip rather than the bird... Oh well, a lesson learnt in any case; take the time to use your own settings!
Specs: Canon EOS 400D (full auto.)
Sunday, January 9, 2011
South Steyne
Disco Garden...
How cool to have disco balls hanging from your trees? These balls are part of the decorations for Sydney Festival. They look so amazing all strung up in the massive figs.
Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/125s f/8.0 55.0mm ISO 400
Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/100s f/6.3 55.0mm ISO 400
Specs: Canon EOS 400D 1/200s f/5.6 55.0mm ISO 400
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Sandstone, how I Love Thee...
Friday, January 7, 2011
My Gorgeous Girl
Find the Sunshine
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
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
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