I am back for 2014

I have not had a blog post for ages, for this I am sorry.

There is no real reason, I would like to be able to say that I have been busy and important, that is only half true. The busy bit J there is a lot of stuff happening around me that I have no control over and it has stressed me out, my work load has increased, my pay remains the same ***sigh*** and my free time is limited or taken up with family time.

I was thinking about why I stopped posting so often and it is really such a simple and silly reason….my Google Chrome has stopped spell checking, I have looked at my settings and I can’t get it back. I am the world’s worst speller and my grammar is almost non-existent.  I have gotten very lazy with spelling since spellchecker, lulled into a false sense of security that my mistakes will be caught by the computer before I go public.  I have put on my big girl pants and remembered what it was like before spell checker and proof read my work. (Then I will google words that don’t look right)

I was going to try and make up for not being a good blogger and write a really long post with a heap of the photos that I have missed sharing over the last few months, but I will not bore you I will make a promise to myself to do a better job in the future.

I will share a few positives that have happened

In the January challenges in our Flickr group, I got a first place in the winner challenge with my Noise photo. The brief was take a photo where the viewer can ‘hear’ the noise. 

Hear the noise

I also got second place in the weather challenge.

Rainbow over Old Woman Island

I think my most exciting news for this year is my first ever lightning photo – technically it was last year as the photo was taken on the 27 December 2013, that is only semantics really. I was so excited to be in the right place at the right time although I have been to this lookout about 4 times before in waiting for a storm it has never been the right time.

I will be a better blogger starting today, pinky swear.

I have a wedding to photograph this week and one next week, so life will continue to be busy but busy good.


Bonus photo because I love it

A huntsman on my bedroom wall

Musical Instruments

One of Daughter #2's friends is a very talented musician, before #2 left to go overseas she asked if I would take some photos of her instruments as she is looking for some artwork for her bedroom wall. It was her fathers suggestion that she take photos and get them printed on canvas.... Pommy Chick is a much better musician than photographer. Her exact words 'I am crap with photos'.

It is not as easy as it looks to get photos of musical instruments, PC's favorite is the french horn and this is a shiny brass instrument as is her trumpet and flute. My favorite was the violin...although she doesn't play it.

All the instruments that she wanted photos of....in the bright light of the window. There is many more instruments that she didn't even want photos of 

Her dog Rocky wanted to play with us, he was a poser

Her second favorite clarinet 

Flute 

French Horn up close

French horn Pommy Chicks favorite instrument (at the moment) 

Saxophone 

This Sax is in need of a bit of love and attention, PC saved it from being thrown out

It is very hard as a photographer to avoid a reflection in shiny objects...I did well on this one

My favorite the violin, when it is played well I could listen for hours.

Pommy Chick was asking #2 what wine i drank so she could give me something for my time, we refused to tell her. Pommy Chick will be repaying me by being a model for me some time soon. I have a location and an idea in mind for her.