100 Days Down

Day 98 - Sunday 6th November - Bokeh

Hungover today - I went and hung out at an old friend's house last night as I was feeling a bit hypo after the performance and we ended up having quite a big night - no surprises there - but boy am I feeling it today.  Also Summer weather has finally arrived and it is stinking hot - whooo.  I did attempt to start cleaning up around the house today and I found my old SLR Camera which had a 30mm lens attached to it - I was excited to find another lens which I can use and even more excited to discover that my BOKEH kit works with this lens- hooray - so today's photo is my first experiment - can you see the little butterflies in the light in the background - hopefully i will have some time soon to go out and take some more.

Day 99 - Monday 7th November - Easy Money 

As mentioned previously, monday's are a bit hectic for me and today was worse than usual.  to the point that I was actually in bed almost asleep when at about 11.00pm I remembered that I hadn't taken my photo for the day.  So this is a bit lame, but I did a market research today at Erina and got paid $100 to talk about buying Coffee for an hour - so today's photo is my easy money!!!!

Day 100 - Tuesday 8th November

How exciting a third of the way through - these are my vegies for dinner for the next few nights, I thought i would be fun to set up a photo and as I'm still on my Health Kick I decided to use the vegetables rather than buying M&M's as was my original plan to celebrate 100 days so far of photography - here's to 265 more!!!!!!!

65 down - 300 to go!

Day 65 - Tuesday 4th Oct 11 - Footprints

The beginning of October means that daylight savings starts in the Eastern states of Australia.  HOOOOOOORRRRRRRAAAAAAYYYYY - this means I get at least an hour of daylight when I get home - makes such a difference to my general state of mind. 

Today I went to the beach for a walk after work which was just brilliant - it was another glorious sunset and whilst it was a bit cool, it was still nice to have my feet in the sand and listen to the waves.  I love this photo of all the footprints on the beach - just shows that everyone is out and about and enjoying the longer days and small amounts of sunshine we have been getting.  I got hacked on the other day for the number of flower photo's I've taken so far but wait til the end of summer, I reckon I'll have just as many beach photo's as I intend on spending a fair bit of time heading to the beach over the next few months!

Day 66 - Wednesday 5th Oct 11 - Cake
I have been really good and eating super healthy for a few weeks now - but we had a new girl start at work this week and she baked for us now this was not just any cake but the most divine chocolate cake ever!!!  

So I blew the diet today and ate this delicious slice of cake.  I thought it would make a good photo with my coffee mug - It's not too bad but you can't really see the detail in the cake, I should have played with my AV more - but I was super keen to eat it!!! 
Anyway back to the no chocolate thing after today as that cake sat in my stomach like a brick all day!!


Day 67 - Thursday 6th Oct 11 - Spaghetti 
Tina picked me up after work today which was nice and as she rang me early I knew we would go out and I would hopefully get a good photo of the kids - which we did.  Now I have to share a little story about my family and the relation to this photo.  

Every year for as long as I can remember, as soon as the family sits down to eat Xmas lunch - one of my aunties is guaranteed to grab the camera and start taking photo's. For year's and year's we have hacked on her about this as she seems to time it perfectly every year and it is now a running family joke if she doesn't.  

Anyway - for some reason, I seem to have this fascination of taking photo's of kid's eating food which I think is quite ironic considering how much of a hard time I give to Aunty Kerry.  I don't know why but I love how messy kid's are when they eat and how much they enjoy their food.  


So today's photo is of Miss Jemima Ann eating Spag Bol - it was taking with my snap happy so the lighting isn't that great and of course I just missed the best shot of her smiling with the spaghetti hanging out of her mouth - wasn't quite trigger happy enough for that one.  

I know it is not the most flattering photo ever but I think it is brilliant - especially considering it was taken with my point and shoot!

Days 26-28 Friendship & Food

So it's nearly a month since I started this crazy project and during the week I totally struggle with it, but on the weekends I love it as I get to take photo's of my friends and favourite things.  I'm writing this post Monday afternoon and I'm going to group the whole weekend together as I didn't actually take that many spectactular photo's but they are all a bit of fun.

Friday Night (26th August 11) was girls night - every couple of months all my old high school girlfriends get together for Indian Dinner and copious amounts of wine.  Not many of us still live in the area but we always try and meet up in Hornsby as it is kinda central (except for the Queenslanders) and most of our families still live in the area so we all have somewhere to crash after a few vino's!!!  I am so blessed to still have a wonderful group of girlfriends who know you so well and who you can pick up a conversation with at any time no matter how long since you last saw them.  Tonight's dinner was in honour of Stacey visiting from Qld and also to plan our 40th Birthday Adventure - yep it's looming and we are going to go away for a weekend to Party.  It was lovely to see everyone and we had a brilliant night, laughing, sharing stories about our families and love lives, and planning our weekend away and of course a few of us ended up partying at the RSL afterward (that's 3 weeks in a row for me and I'm far too old for this lifestyle!!!).  Today's photo is of 3 of my closest friends, Tina - my bestie, Sasha and Tracy-Lee taken at the RSL during Pre-Dinner Drinks.  I did take some photo's of all the girls but they are really crap - hopefully Tina's worked out better than mine did.

Saturday (27th August 11) - I woke up sick - not just hungover sick but bronchitis/ tonsilitis kind of sick - I had no voice and felt like crap with a filthy cough.  Tina and I had stayed over at her Brothers house and after a few hours playing with the kids trying to get the motivation to move, we went out for breaky with her sister in law to her favourite cafe.  This photo is of my gorgeous coffee - isn't it pretty - and some pineapple juice to soothe the throat.  It was a crappy photo so I put some effects on it to make it look better - however I didn't really take many other photo's as I spent the entire day on the couch and had a super early night to try and feel better - so this is it for today.

Sunday (28th August 11) - Spring is coming - you can feel it in the air which is brilliant as I HATE winter. I was up early for a Sunday which was good - still feeling average but decided to treat myself to a yummy breaky of french toast, strawberries and coffee, I downloaded a new app on my phone this morning which let's me take crazy action shots and had a bit of fun playing with it - hence the double photo, how beautiful is the sky - both of these were taken on my front verandah - I bought the coffee pot for $2 the other week and I love it, especially now it's warming up I will be spending most of my weekend mornings (when I'm home) eating breaky out on my lovely verandah with my music pumping in the background and a good book or magazine - such a great way to start the day.  The rest of my day was super productive but I didn't take many more photo's - I did however, clean my yard, got rid of loads of weeds, painted a door and had a wicked dance rehearsal.  I also got to talk to my bro, sis in law and niece who live in Scotland which was nice - Eadie (my neice) is soooo cute - it makes me a bit sad that they are so far away and we miss out on getting to cuddle her and watch her grow but thank goodness for Skype - at least we can see each other these days and hopefully when they return at least she will know our faces.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend also.

Cheers Donna

Day 17 - 17th August 2011 - Indecisive Slump

Today it's Wednesday - Hump Day - Actually I should rename in Slump Day – don’t know what is wrong with me this week – maybe it is my looming birthday, maybe my lack of job satisfaction, maybe the annoying cough I seem to have developed – but I am in a complete slump this week. 

Yesterday I was motivated enough to write my “to do” list but today everything seems unachievable – I guess you just go through these phases. 

Being in a slump makes it hard to take inspiring photo’s – I haven’t even made it to dancing this week which is my favourite thing to do each week – so now not only am I in a mental slump but haven’t had my weekly exercise endorphin’s either. 

I am also indecisive today - I took a few photo's none of which really make me that happy - but two out of the three are things I want to work on. 

The first is the entry way to my house - following my post yesterday I tried to get a decent photo of what I want to fix out the front but it was raining and there is a fence in the way so I couldn't get a good angle.

The second actually worked better than I thought (it's was easier to read before I posted it!) On the way home today it was still daylight so I went over to the other side of my suburb to take a photo of this sign - it is the history of where I live and it was taken with my point and shoot - it actually worked better than I thought.

The third is a photography challenge that I want to improve on over the next 12 months - Food Styling and Photography.  This is my dinner - I made Honey Soy Chicken which should last me a few nights.

Let's hope tomorrow is a brighter day - dq