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A Life in the Making

photography

The light in my office in the mornings is magical.  The sun bounces off of the pink sandstone house next door to us and its impossible not to want to capture its orangy-pink gorgeousness. Of course, it did mean I had to have a chocolate meriangue for breakfast, but I had a bit of a studio...

Edit

ISO 125 61mm f/5.6 edited to increase brightness, sharpen and add a bit more colour     Straight out of the camera   Editing can never make a bad picture good, but it can take a good picture and make it much much better.    

Focus

    I am trying to maintain some semblance of structure, some regime to our days so that my children, house, the bills get some of my attention. A small attempt has been made to differentiate "working" from the rest of the day, so that everything can get a bit more focus. It would be fair to say...

Colour

I am currently in love with this yellow and teal colour combination. I get into these phases where I crave colours, like my eyes ache without them. Yellow has been in this category for awhile, but other than the play table I have not been allowed to paint anything else *hands on hips and looks...

Capturing Childhood

“Instructions for living a life.  Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”    This quote from Mary Oliver has been up on my About Me page for some time... I have always felt it captures the essence of why I blog and take photographs with an almost obsessive urgency. It is how I try and liv...