Photo Finish

The ABC has a new photography show Photo Finish and they're hosting a competition where the brief is to submit an image that includes a camera lens in it.  Um... I think Profile Picture meets the brief!  I don't normally like entering these competitions as they are popularity contests, but the prize is some mentoring sessions with Andrew Quilty which is an awesome opportunity.


If you feel like voting for my work please click here.  Voting finishes on the 29th (my birthday!).  
Thank you so much and wish me luck!

bats

I'm on a mammoth mission to edit my backlog of personal snapshots and file them by date order before wedding season kicks off (September 1st for me).  And I just came across a few photos I snapped of some bats from my hotel balcony while I was in Sydney to see the Annie Leibovitz exhibition last year, so I smooshed them together and here we are....  


I like bats.  Sometimes they fly over my house and that makes me happy.


Ps. I couldn't think of a witty title on this Sunday evening so I went with.. bats.  Creative huh?


Pps. smooshed is a technical photography term

location scouts

The boys and I went on an adventure on the weekend.. We were using my foggy memories on a foggy day to try and find the oak plantation near Harcourt, and amazingly, we did!  I scouted a couple of locations for my next series actions. while the boys fell/jumped in muddy puddles.  I sure was glad I packed a change of clothes...

R's trousers are actually a cream colour.. can't you tell?  

milk men

I'm catching up on my personal snapshots and made my first animated gif with this series of my R and a friend's bub from a year ago.  Pretty fun!  I made it in Photoshop CS2 and found the how-to tutorial here.


Ps. hers is the milk stealer ;)

film love

 

 

 

One of my most favourite things is getting films back from the lab!  I've had three films floating around for a while and finally got around to having them developed, and these are a few...  They were shot at the Melbourne zoo, Altona beach and Bendigo with my good old Canon EOS 500 35mm and Diana cameras.

chaser.

Today's sunshine was about to go to bed when I noticed this beautiful/amazing stream of light hitting the bathroom mirror.  The golden hour was about to end so I had to work quickly!  No time to make myself look presentable or set up a tripod, I just grabbed my camera and aimed at the mirror hoping I would get something in focus.  I only got about 5 minutes shooting time (if that) and was lucky that a few worked, these are my favourites.

Ps. the sunset put on quite the show tonight, I only had a chance to snap this photo on my phone..