Why hello there

hello hello,

I have a few exciting opportunities coming up in the very near future. One is photography 5+ families at Onepoto park for minisessions (eeekk). After posting Julie's pregnancy session it gained interest from her friends so she being completly fabulous organised this experience for me. She is even so amazing she let me do a practice run with her stunning children.How 'm going to keep limited to the timeframe is super hard for me to fathum though!. The next super exciting experience and privilage I will be having is to photography my beautiful friend Ninette and her lovely finance Andre. They will be having a session before they jump ship and marry in their homeland-South Africa.

 

I have been such a slacker at studying at the moment (but practicing daily non- the less) and I found out about the free extention of 6months to a year- that is a weight lifted off my shoulders and less pressure which is fantastic. 

 

I have had a fantastic past week with spending time doing photography, having a Canadian thanksgiving dinner, partying with lovely people and then having a wonderful roadtrip to see my beautiful friend Amber who was over from Australia for the weekend. Here are a few whots from the week that was xx

Pregnancy Beauty

 

My best friend Julie is absolutely glowing with her 4th baby on its way! She was a good sport as I popped her out on the deck with props in hand and luckily my odd photo concentrating facials entertained her to know end- as did her beautiful children running all around the place. They got in on the shoot also- Leah and the twins make my heart swell. I was also so super duper lucky to have my sis back to help me wrangle Avera while I concentrated on the job at hand- I now understand why people have assistants!

Kia Ora> Arrivals!

Waiting .... waiting ... waiting..... with such anticipation my baby sister walked through the arrival gates at Auckland Airport. It has been 5 and a half months since she left on her spectacular O>E with her partner Gus. We missed her more than she can imagine but she had a wonderful, life changing time and has deffinitly caught the "travel bug". Here are a few shots from her first day back in N.Z.
P.S:
Isnt she stunning!?

Guess What???

Just a quick note, go ahead and have a click on a photo on the post- the small albums are enlarged and look even more effective on a black background.
P.S
Can you see that the lucky bamboo shadow actually looks like a Chinese Dragon?

It feels like Summer

 

 

 

 

 

My oh My I have been a very slack tart documenting on this blog, apologies.

I have been taking care of my wee poppet who has had tonsilitis and a horrendus gastro bug at the same time- so not fair! The gastro bug has practically wiped everyone out pretty nasty. I am very much looking forward to next week- having *touch wood* health and hapiness in the household. My younger sister/ best friend is coming home from her Overseas Adventure next week and we are beyond excited to squeeze her. You may notice the little gorgeous button in the third photography, Avera had a wee play date with our little friend from daycare Lulu& her lovely mama Judy, I just couldnt resist getting a few snaps of this beautiful girl. I can't wait to in the future get a snapshot of her infectious smile, she is just stunning.

 

I have also been plodding along with the Photography Institute- not working hard enough though- I really do need to get these modules out. The assignment was all about Depth of Field and the relationship between ISO, Aperture and Shutter speed.I got a 90% ( they say 9/10- but geeez 90% sounds waaaay better!) for my this assignment which I was very happy with, there was paperwork also but this was my submitted piece....



 

 

 

Auckland Zoo

Today Avera experienced her first ever trip to the zoo. The zoo definitly is on my top ten fav list of "where I'd like to be". She had an absolute blast, she especially liked Burma the elephant who stomped by us on his daily stroll with the zoo keeper. Here a few of my favourite shots from today.

 

On a side not, I was super excited the other day to win the LoveKraft facebook photo competition. It was run through a prop buy and sell photography page and I won $15 of prop vouchers from the lovely  LoveKraft.

Forced Perspective

In a moment inspired by Pin-interest ( yes for some reason I can't get my mind around that its called pinterest) and a technique of forced perspective I created this image. With the help of my sister holding the flower and my niece holding a ballet-esque pose we made this together -team effort!

perspective

Out of clutter,

find simplicity.

From discord,

find harmony.

In the middle of difficulty

lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

 

 

I have been trying to declutter my belongs ( somewhat unsuccessful), my mind and my art. To gain a little perspective sometimes horrible things happen and it really makes us step back and start to appreciate things we may be taking for granted. One of my best friends suggested a super therapudic way of achknowledging our blessings by writting down 5 important points routinely.

such as :

14th Oct 2012

* I love inspirational words

* I adore my dad/ vera's popa

* I appreciate and love my grandma/ vera's great grandma

* I love the connection two strangers who are mothers can have.

* I love sparkles.

Here are some sparkles that I love.

 

 

 

 



ALOHA!!!

The sunshine has been magical, as has this week. Cutting back to work three days a week has been good for my mind, body and soul. I feel productive, more energetic,  I even feel like I am being a better mama, photographer and a wife. I whipped out my first assignment and it promptly got marked by my lovely tutor and got 8/10 - 80% if you please- here's hoping this will be my lowest score *fingers crossed.* but loads of constructive feedback so feeling good.

Heading to the Diwali festival tomorrow arvo to take some shots- should be super cultural and vibrant- can't wait!

Little shout out to the aunty mole who moved to Aussie recently, we love and miss ya.

candid shot of vera in fits and giggles over the hair dryer

 Spring has Sprung

Getting into the swing of things, prioritising and appreciating. xxxx

As Excited as a girl with Fairy Bread!

Why so excited you ask??....
Yesterday I enrolled into the Photography Institute and will strive to obtaining a Photography Diploma with these folks! I am beyond excited! and also a little scared!

On other news, I will be adding a few pictures to my nature and family photos, so jump over and have a look. xx
Lisa.

Horray!

Goodbye to the Lemon Laptop,
Hello brand new van dangled-dedicated graphics-sparkly white-laptop!
Very excited to get the ball rolling again after what has been a super tumultuous couple of months. I have also learnt that my creativity and motivation stems from my happiness, hence a bit of a gap lately. In time I will learn to embrace this "in good times and in bad" and keep consistent.
Thanks to those who still follow this blog I truly appreciate your support. xx

sometimes life is'nt fair

Sometimes life is'nt fair, and sometimes it does not inspire me to create. This has been the case for the last fortnight. I have been a miserable quitter.
My computer went to the shop to get fixed and took forever and it still is lousey.
Then Grant got unfairly fired from the horrid company he has so loyally worked for for 11 years.So we are financially up the creek without a  paddle.
Then I get so disgustingly ill with a chest and sinus infection ontop of the Flu ( for those who call their  'colds' flu, I want to bop you in the head, I literally had the flu)
Then my baby got ill with a cold, tonsilitis and conjunctivitis.
Life dealt us a crappy card and Ive thrown in the photo challenge towel.

*sigh*

my computer seems to be falling apart at the seams. soooo its off the the shop to get fixed asap, may have a brief break in posting depending on when it will arrive back in  my hot little hand.xx

Week Two

Phewf ,

what a busy week- working and catching up with very special people. Have had many moments through each day where I had wished I had my camera on me- such as a sibling meeting her brand new baby sister for the very first time, Grant working in his shed and Avera being completly animated.To be continued..