On top of a hill
These photos were taken in Byron Bay, on the NSW north coast of Australia. Byron Bay is the most Eastern Point of Australia. The day that we went up there was miserable, drizzling and blowing a gale. For those that have been to the Byron Bay lighthouse you will know that there is very limited parking here so we had to hike up a fairly big hill to get to the lighthouse. When we got there the SES were there rescuing someone who had gone over the rail to retrieve his hat and had fallen half way down the cliff face. Thankfully he was ok but it was a major operation to rescue him!
As you can see, not a good place to fall!
Byron Bay Lighthouse
Lighthouses are always a good tourist drawcard. They are usually (for obvious reasons) situated on top of a scenic lookout, so they make good photo opportunities. I took photos of three different lighthouses during our two week holiday.
Fingal Head Lighthouse
Point Cartwright Lighthouse
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Cloud Nine
Blue is my favourite colour. I love the clouds in these photos they look light and fluffy, how clouds should look. I can imagine what paradise must look like by looking at these. I feel warm just looking at them. Although they are taken on a cool autumn day, it had rained for two days before and for two days after aswell. The photos that I took the day before were bleak and grey but you would never know that by looking at these.
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What love is
What love is? These are my two girls, love is two sisters sitting on the beach together having fun!
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The Rocks
I spent a lot of time in the holidays at the beach taking photos of rocks and water. I am working on my long exposure skills at the moment. I always have a picture in my head of how I want my photos to look but when I am shooting or look at them on camera I often feel disappointed that they aren’t the same as the picture in my head. Because I shoot in RAW the images always need processing and it is often not until I am processing them that I am happier with them. I was pretty happy with how these look, still improving but I will get there. Let me know what you think?
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Beneath the Rays
This photo was taken at Point Cartwright, Mooloolaba Qld. I really wanted to stay longer and play here but the weather was closing in, it was getting dark and a storm was on it’s way. If I had’ve been prepared I probably would’ve had a go at going down on the rocks but my husband was having kittens that I stayed as long as I did anyway.
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Happy Monday!
Just keep telling ourselves that, we might believe it! In our house we call the Monday blues, Monday-itis. My son Dylan had Monday-itis this morning so I printed out this cute little picture for him to take to school to cheer him up. I don’t know if it is really cool for a 9 year old to have a cute picture of a bunny in his bag but I hope it works.
For the adults here is a picture that I took on a recent trip to Marcoola on the Sunshine Coast. My husband and I spent a couple of days up there without the kids, celebrating our wedding anniversary. It was really just an excuse for me to spend some time on my photography because Anthony spent a lot of time sitting waiting for me. This photo was taken on the beach at about 9pm, the tide was coming in and it was a beautiful warm night. I spent a lot of time in the holidays working on my long exposure photography. I really love taking long exposures, it gives the water that silky smooth look.
I’d like to hear peoples opinions on my photos, I suffer from a common artists ailment called lack of confidence. What do you think? Like or not?
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Happy Anniversary!
Today is Anthony and my 11th wedding anniversary, this time 11 years ago I was getting all frocked up to go and get married to my best friend. Our wedding day was a beautiful day that we had planned meticulously. It really was perfect and everything that we wished for.
Eleven years and four children later we have had our ups and downs but we are definitely still very happy and still best friends. When Anthony and I were married we were so excited to be getting married, excited about what the future held for us, who knew that future would hold two little boys and two little girls?
I am a big believer in fate, that everything happens for a reason and I believe that I was meant to get on a plane to Christchurch to meet my soulmate. We were together on tour for 7 days but we knew then that what we had was something special. Anthony was unlike any boy I’d ever met, he was so nice and such a gentleman, opening doors for me and being so caring. He even carried a hanky (and still does!) no boy I’d ever known carried a hanky!
We have been through a lot in our 11 years as husband and wife, the birth of our children and raising them is something that we do completely together as a team. Anthony has always been my rock, being by my side through thick and thin. Supporting me in any venture that I undertake, although I haven’t always been easy to live with he has never given up on us. I am grateful to him for all his love.
Happy Anniversay honey 
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I Lub You!
I am constantly kept entertained by my almost three year old, Sienna. She has a great command of English and is very easy to understand. The youngest of four, she has grown up very quickly with the older three to learn from. Being the youngest has been good and bad, she is an extremely independent child, “I DO” is something that I am told constantly. She will very rarely accept help from me to do anything which can be very frustrating for me, especially with things that she really can’t do. She is so stubborn and it is often easier to let her try and wait for her to ask for help rather than try to fight her over it.
As the youngest, of course she has perhaps gotten away with a lot more things that her older siblings never would have, that is partly our fault for being slightly more relaxed with the fourth child and partly the other kids, they tend to give her what she wants to shut her up! There is a fairly large gap between her and the others, five and a half years between her and the twins. It took us that long to get over having them before we’d consider anymore! Being as stubborn as she is there is nothing that Sienna thinks she can’t do, so if she sees the other kids climbing ladders, riding flying foxes, playing footy, then so can she!
The relationship that Sienna has with her older siblings is a beautiful one, they love their baby sister and boy does she love them! Lately she has been telling everyone “I Lub You” in her little girl voice, it is beautiful. She goes through each member of the family and tells them she loves them, she also asks do we lub her too? Sienna has a special relationship with all of the kids, she is close to each of them in different ways, they dote on her and even though at times she can get a bit nasty with them, they never hold it against her.
The boys are particularly protective of her and look out for her wherever we go, Dylan can often be found pushing her on the swings at the park and making sure that she is safe. If Sienna ever wants anything she always goes straight to Aidan, she knows he will get it for her and she and Savarnah love to sing and dance together. She sure has cemented a place in all of our hearts but I am particularly touched by the special realationship that she has with her older brothers and sister. I hope that it continues through the years as they all get older.
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Willies and Millies
In our family we have two boys and two girls, the boys have willies and the girls have millies. I am sure that every family has a name for ‘it’ but in our family the girls have a millie. I like to rhyme things so when the kids said well if the boys have a willy what do the girls have, the first thing that I could think of that rhymed with willy was milly. This was way back when the kids were little but the name has stuck so Willies and Millies they are!
I had a pretty interesting conversation with my boys tonight, they were sitting watching tv and an ad for the show Bones came on, she is currently pregnant and was about to give birth. Aidan is not a big tv watcher so he doesn’t watch a lot, Dylan is never one to pay attention to much and even if he does wonder he never asks questions. Aidan is always overly curious, asks a lot of questions about everything. I try not to give Aidan too much information because who knows what he will do with it. So trust Aidan to pick up on the woman giving birth on the television and ask how do they get the baby out?? I have never discussed the biology of child birth or infact how the child got in there in the first place with them. Not because I am a prude but because it is a long story and I doubt whether they would’ve got it before now anyway.
Of my four children I have had three of them by caesarian and Dylan my oldest was born naturally, so I have experienced both ways of child birth. When we were expecting Sienna we knew that she would be born by caesarian and the twins knew that was how they were born because they were so early. So it isn’t as if I misled them to think that was the only method of childbirth, that was just an assumption that they made which I never corrected.
So we’re watching this and Aidan turns to me horrified and says how is the baby going to come out if she isn’t in the hospital? Will it just explode out of her tummy if they can’t cut it out first? What the?? So of course the long and short of it was that I needed to explain to them that there was infact two ways that a baby could get out of it’s mothers tummy and exploding out was not one of them! . This is where the milly comes in………..of course Aidan thought that it was GROSS that Dylan came out of Mummy’s milly and Dylan was just shamed out that he was the only one that came out that way So it is just as I feared, I have given my younger son something to taunt his brother with, no doubt for the rest of his life!
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“Witches Brew”
This is a photo that I took at Hastings Point, on the Tweed Coast just over the NSW/QLD border. It is a lovely part of the country if you should ever find yourself down that way. I call this ‘Witches Brew’, it could also be rocks poking out of the clouds perhaps? It was taken just after dusk, the wind was blowing a gale and it was freezing. I didn’t get to spend as much time there as I would have liked, it is hard when the kids are waiting in the car and you are under pressure. But it is an interesting shot I think. One day I would like to go back on my own and spend a lot more time there.
Hastings Point Lookout
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