Week 10!!

Wow - it's been 10 weeks since I started this crazy project and whilst I love doing this - it really is a crazy project!!!  But I am still succeeding in taking a daily photo which is brilliant!.  Sometimes it is really hard though and often I get home and start stressing about the fact that I haven't taken a photo yet for the day and have to create something - but at least i'm still going.

Monday 10th Oct - Day 71 - Sequins

Today was a bit disappointing - I took some self portraits at dance but they just didn't work out the way I wanted - we had a dress rehearsal in our feathers and we didn't have much time so taking the photo was all a bit rushed and I cut one of the girls heads out!  So I then had to get creative when I got home (at 9.00pm) - my next subject for the Photo 5 comp is Sequins in Low Light so I thought I would start experimenting tonight - I have decided I am going to make a sequin glitter ball and hopefully light it with glow sticks - that's the plan.   I have started sticking the sequins onto a paper lantern - but I thought I would test out how dark it has to be to take the style of photo I want, the sequin ball photos aren't quite up to scratch yet so I took some others instead.  This is just a bunch of sequins lit by the TV - pretty cool hey - will be interesting to see if my actual concept works or if I just end up using this photo for the comp.

 

Tuesday 11 Oct - Day 72 - Texture

I worked on the coast today so finished early which was great - I decided to head down to a different part of Brisbane Waters to go for a walk along the water and went seeking out this boat storage area.  There is a park that has about about 20-30 tinnies stored up against these posts and this was my favourite boat.  I like the texture in this photo and how it shows the wear and tear and love of this boat.

Wednesday 12th Oct - Day 73 - Sydney

We had a conference in the city today which was a nice change, after the conference finished one of the girls needed to do some shopping so we headed up to Pitt St Mall.  This was taken looking directly up - I love the angles of it - pity it was a cloudy/ raining day - but I love all the different types of buildings in this photo. 

Thursday 13th Oct - Day 74 - Sunrise

The sunrise was spectacular this morning and as I wasn't running too late for my train - I ducked down to ny local park and took this on my way to the station.  It's the only photo I took today as I got busy and forgot the rest of the day - so it will have to do. 


Hope you've all had a lovely week
Donna

Week 7

Monday 12th September

Back to full time work today - it was hard getting up at 5.30 this morning but I am finally well and looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. So today's photo is of yes more flowers, but Monday's are a bit of a crazy day for me as I go straight from work to dance and don't get home til 9.00pm so the only chance I really get to take photo's is at lunch.  I found this huge Azaela tree on my lunchtime walk and I like the way I framed this shot.

Tuesday 13th September

Working at Gosford today so sleep in -whoot - I ended up walking today as I didn't start til a bit later and getting parking is an absolute nightmare - and as the sun was shining and I need to lose about 10 kilo's in the next month I figured I should get my butt moving.  I kinda knew what I wanted to photograph today and hoped they would work.  Along the water front at Gosford is a row of beautiful palm trees so I spent quite awhile on my way home taking different shots of these trees, Palm Trees are hard to photograph and of course I was playing around with all the different settings that I am still trying to get my head around - I think I need them tattoed on my hand so that I remember!!  Anyway my fav photo is looking up at the blue sky with the leaves surrounding me, 
again I like the framing of this shot! 

Donna xoxo
Hope your all enjoying the sunshine also

Donna

Day 21 - Beach

Sunday - the sun is shining, the water is sparkling and despite the fact I have a stack of jobs to do around the house, I'm out of the house for a long walk on the beach.  One of the things I love most about living on the coast is the fact that the beach is so close to me know, I am a total beach bum, I love the sand, I love the surf and try to get there as often as I physically can.  Today I decided to go for a longer drive (20 mins as opposed to 10) to visit Kilcare Beach - in the 90's many a NYE was spent partying at this beach and I thought it would be nice to go somewhere different,  I should warn you this post is photo heavy!

After about 3 hours of aimless wandering and over 200 photo's later, I had walked from one end of the beach to the other, the surf was pumping, there was lots of people out with their dogs, the fishermen were catching giant fish and the weather held out until I got back to the car which was great!  

Being at the beach and listening to the surf is like my form of meditation, and having this "me" time was good for the soul as I could experiment with my photography and think about a few things that are playing on my mind, however it still would have been nice to share such a beautiful day with someone else (the disadvantage of not having many friends on the coast).  The only bad thing was that the surf was riddled with blue bottles so I only got my feet wet once - the water was beautiful but I don't like stingers so spent most of the day walking the soft sand, which after yesterday's post is probably a good thing, my calf muscles are killing me as I write this post. - Donna