I'm done...

Sorry to say that 365 is no more. On the negative side, I have had endless trouble with Blogger crashes and not being able to upload photos. But on the positive, my business is booming and just don't have enough hours in the day to devote to this.

I will still post occasionally and I'm still keen to check out your posts so I'll still be around.

It was fun while it lasted and I feel like I have made some new friends as you've all let me into your daily lives.

Take care all.

On a parting note, here are a few of my latest (fingers crossed I can get these to upload).

Day 121

Kissy, kissy.... My gorgeous Godson

Day 120

My grandmother will turn 95 in a few months. She is without a doubt one of my all time favourite people. She is strong, loving, compassionate, funny, supportive, devoted, warm and kind. And I could go on and on in praise of this very special person. My Nan has always been there for me and I know she has made my world a better place.

This is a photo of my Nan ~ Elda Gertrude ~ and was taken, I'm guessing, in about 1913 or 14. She is here with her big sister.

Now this is one of the reasons I love photography so much. I can only hope that someone will look back at one of my photos in 93 years and have a reason to smile.

Day 119

Well it's not wide-angle because I was running around today and didn't get a chance to pull out the camera until about 8pm. It's close-up, but it's not nature. Can you tell what it is?

ETA: Julie was close to right with her guess. I turned off all lights except one small desk lamp which I aimed at a CD. I tilted the CD slightly until the colours looked good and then took some shots. It was hard to get focus in the near-dark and I had to use a really slow s.s. but I thought the OOF ones were cooler than the sharp ones.

1/25 @ f/2.8 ISO 1600

Day 118

Oh, I'm feeling the need to get out of my rut. I'm boring myself with nature close-ups. I'm off to find the wide angle lens that hasn't been on my camera for about 12 months!

Day 117

A trip to the zoo seemed like a good idea for today. And it was. Although it's still raining we had a fun day and even manged to stay pretty dry. The only problem was trying to shoot and not get the camera wet - so most pics were from the indoors exhibits.

Day 116

It's been raining now for days. I shouldn't complain because we've been in a severe drought here for a long time. But it's SO boring.

Anyway between showers I ran outside and had a play with some raindrops on leaves. This one was an experiment - deliberately OOF. Looking at it through the viewfinder the raindrops sparkled like diamonds. When I focussed, it lost the magic. So I unfocussed and shot.

Day 115

This one was taken a while ago but I just wanted to show you where I woke up this morning. My friends live by the water and I stayed with them last night. I didn't have my camera with me (shock, horror!!) so I dug out this shot taken from their private jetty.

Day 114

I was running around all day today and didn't even touch my camera. So here's one from a couple of weeks ago. Playing with late afternoon light.

Day 113

Well not a very exciting post to celebrate getting my camera back. But what can I say, it's raining.

Bored, rain outside, foggy window inside and lamp light ~ this was the result. At least I made myself laugh :)

Day 112

Well they have promised my camera will be back tomorrow. Yeah, I've heard that before. So another old one. This one is from the beach a few weeks ago.

Day 111

Ahhhhh my camera is not back yet. I'm not coping very well without it. I really need to get myself a back-up camera!!! Another of the never ending series of "side of the road" photos.

Day 110

Hopefully the last of this series from the side of the road. I should get my camera back tomorrow. It's been frustrating not having it. But I did take some Holga pics that I can share as soon as they come back from the lab.

Day 109

Yet another side of the road photo...

Day 108

Another from the side of the road...

Day 107

Doing the 365 challenge has certainly made me take more notice of the world around me. Yesterday I was running about 20 minutes early for a session in a lovely suburb overlooking a National Park. I managed to fill that 20 minutes (and could have happily spent at least another hour) playing at the side of the road. A wonderful mix of blackberries, ferns, grass and wild flowers.

More to come in the next few days. I wont be taking any new shots as my camera is going in for maintenance/cleaning (ahhhh sand ~ the penalty for my love of shooting on the beach).

1/200 ~ f/2.8 ~ ISO 200

Day 106

Well, I'm on a roll with the beach theme. So here's another one. The golden sun reflecting off the wet sand late this afternoon. I did a fabulous maternity session at the beach ending with some silhouettes against the sunset. The light was sensational.

1/650 ~ f/5.6 ~ ISO 100

Day 105

At the beach again this morning.

1/200 ~ f/4 ~ ISO 100

Day 104

Self portrait...ha ha

I'm trying to make the most of the beach because winter is on the way. I'm not a fan of the cold. This is from my early morning walk today.

1/200 ~ f/5.6 ~ ISO 100

Day 103

I have been playing with an action made and very kindly shared by Tammy.

Here's a photo from the other day. I was supposed to be working so don't tell anyone I was at the beach with K & J (LOL).

#1 Tammy's Urban Vintage Action

#2 Robyn's High Key Portrait Action

#3 SOOC