Samuel Dear Bathtime

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Well, Sam spent the first 6 months of is life screaming through bathtime and now he loves it so we felt it worth blogging now that he loves baths!

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Happy Meal

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Ok I don’t usually endorse McDonalds products, but everynow and then there is a very cool toy that comes in the happy meal!

 

Take one happy meal toy… (it shoots out discs as shown**)

Add one seemingly innocent boy…

And you get some hilarious expressions!

 

 

 

 

 

 

** discs are now all lost!

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Ben & Sarah’s Wedding

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Ben & Sarah were married on the 16th December 2006 in Menangle. The Wedding had a great vibe and they left plenty of time for photo’s so we had lot’s of fun!

Sarah rang a bell from the old house where she was getting ready as a signal that she was ready to head down the (very long!) aisle.

The Ceremony was held in a marquee at the bottom of a beautiful garden.

OK so obviously this photo requires some explanation… The property where Ben & Sarah were married is surrounded by a dairy farm and so the flies were out in force. I spent so many hours removing flys from the photo’s that when I came to this one with a fly on Ben’s tooth I was fed up and stuck a whole lot more flys on!

Flies weren’t the only thing Ben had to contend with!

I love this image – it really catches the essence of a Wedding Day – all the joy, love and beauty.

Can you believe we dragged this old lounge our in front of this heritage listed dairy! Thankgoodness the image turned out to make all the effort worthwhile!

One of the photography locations was at Camden River. We had some fun with the footbridge…

Fortunately Sarah tried to do a runner AFTER the Ceremony!

The Bridesmaids were so much fun, they jumped in this Dairy and mooed!

This is one of my favourite shots of Sarah outside the Dairy

Capturing a quiet moment in a very busy day!

‘Domestically Challenged’ was the theme of the Reception Speeches and so this red vacuum cleaner couldn’t help but make it into a photo!

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Creative Suite 3!

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After the long awaited release of Photoshop CS3, I finally was able to buy Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 Design Premium which includes everything I need to continue updating my webby and creating advertising for Vibrant.

When we opened the freight box, Naomi said about the box below “You’d think it would be bigger with the amount of money you spend buying it!” ha!

 Creative Suite 3

Coming from a design background, I really appreciated the pretty box design!

Adobe Creative Suite 3

Ahh… a thing of beauty!

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Mcdowell’s at the beach

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Our good friends the McDowell’s came to visit and we had to show them our local beach! I took a few ‘happy snap’s of them there…

Sun setting over our beach, a few surfers making the most of the usually flat surf…

 

This one of Hannah is gorgeous!

 

Josiah is always very affectionate with other kids!

 

 

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Sunrise… fizzer #1

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Im not very good at getting up early to photograph sunrises so I colluded with my friend Dee Kramer (local landscape photographer) to motivate me. The few times I have been up early to photograph sunrises:

1. There has been no sun at all
2. There has been no clouds to make the sunrise pretty!

This was a case of 1.

It was raining, miserable and yet we still stayed for 30 mins (I guess we were optimistic that something better would eventuate!)

so tell me… where is the sun? I couldn’t even tell where it was supposed to be!

 

We both had expensive weather-proof solutions… umbrellas! Dee doing what he does best…

 

 

 

 

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Edwina & Rob

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This is my gorgeous sister Eddy and her man Rob. They wanted some pics so we just mucked around in the backyard for a while. We started out pretty quiet and got progressively more silly!

 

 

Naomi started throwing pegs at them to loosen them up a bit and the results speak for themselves!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My Family Shoot

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Sarah and Ben came down from QLD for easter and while they were here we couldn’t pass on the opportunity to pass them a camera and get some shots of our family together! I think Sarah halved the life of my camera with the amount of photos she took! (she took some great ones though!)

These plus others now exist in a large frame on our wall!

 

 

 

 I took over the camera and shot the following…

 

and this one was taken in very dark light! (you’d never know!)

 

I love these silhouettes

 

 

 

 

 

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Rose cannon!

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This is so cool! I came across this on a wedding photography forum…

It is a handheld cannon popper filled with fragrant rose petals that shoots up to 10m into the air and drifts down smoothly! Id love to shoot a wedding with one of these going off!

Can be ordered from here. (internationally)

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Josiah’s 2nd Birthday

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Our Gorgeous Boy turned 2 today! We had to wake him up to get him involved in his own party!

His day started (as usual) with a healthy dose of Thomas the Tank Engine.

We presented him with the cakes just after he was woken up – he wasn’t impressed!

My first bike… with my favourite person (Papa) in tow!

Not so sure about the helmet!

Aunty Eddy stole my bike!

Lovin my mama!

First day in a big bed and last day with a bottle! Night!

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