B&W Photo Challenge - Day 4

Well today is the 4th day of my photo challenge, a black & white photo every day for five days. Once you upload you then get to nominate someone else to play along, and on this day I have nominated Marcella Dondio Wyatt  

Well we arrived at the desert after a very colourful drive up the highway, passing many Hot Rods & Street Machines heading to Bright.  What a sight, heaps of great old cars too.  The Little Fart's Old Fart would have been in his element sitting back and watching them all go by.  Obviously she didn't have to do any running, although I did wonder if she wasn't a tad distressed as we headed in an unfamiliar direction to that she was used to.

Well, with another day of the Photo Challenge clicking over it was time to peruse suitable objects for the daily post.  Whilst considerably smaller than a Magpie, I did notice out of the corner of my eye a darting shadow sweeping the Little Fart from above.  A closer inspection proved a diving family of Willy Willy's distracting the Little Fart from any ideas of climbing the 20' gum tree up to their nested babies.  And they were a long way up!  The Little Fart trotted off happily to explore, whilst the feathered family kept their eyes on me, keeping an eye on them.  A tad difficult I might add with them all the way up that huge gum tree.  So, with trusty clicker balanced by it's neck strap above my head, I swayed as I imagined being on the bow of a ship, tossing gently in the sea as I tried to focus thy trusty clicker whilst keeping her steady.  A hearty feat as I managed but a few, and settled onto greener subjects.  And purple-ish ones too.

I figured these would be easier, but the zoom kept teasing me with fuzzy focus, and I was not being terribly impressed!  It was a beautiful sunny day, plenty of blue skies above and I was working up a sweat.  I loved the colour contrast, and the difference in the petal colours when the light direction changed.  Feeling I needed to add more choice I wandered over to the vegie garden with it's rustic and former front yard gate.  Ah, just perfect.  Rustic says it all, and I was really happy with this shot.  Look on and see what you think.

So here is my upload for Day 4.

Clickity Click - Happy Days!

jw

B&W Photo Challenge - Day 3

Well today is the 3rd day of my photo challenge, a black & white photo every day for five days.  Once you upload you then get to nominate someone else to play along, and on this day I have nominated Hannah Watt.
I happened to be driving to the desert to take the Little Fart on a long awaited holiday, when I came upon this across a paddock.  It was a warm day, there was a dam in front of the tree, the bottom half of the tree bushy and alive, and the top half sprouted out with bare dead branches.  And in these branches were all these birds, perhaps Ibises or something Storky??  Anyway, the Little Fart thought her holiday was going to be very short lived and she was in for some excessive exercise chasing the Six up the highway, but then I pulled out the camera!  This was such a great sight, but even before I got to the tree I spotted some Starlings sittings on a barbed wire fence in front of the dam.  There wasn't much time to think about that, I barely managed to set the focus before they flew off.  But hey, I got plenty of the preening little feathered friends, so how good was that?  Check these out, the first one is the one I have uploaded into the challenge.
So here is my upload for Day 3

Clickity Click - Happy Days!
jw

B&W Photo Challenge - Day 2

Well today is the 2nd day of my photo challenge, a black & white photo every day for five days.  Once you upload you then get to nominate someone else to play along, and on this day I have nominated Stacie Sinclair.
So here is my upload for Day 2.

 

I went down to the creek with the Little Fart to get a few photos, and found a pine tree on the bank.  It had lots of cones not yet opened, and some well spent.  The breeze was nothing like yesterday, so no problems there.  I played for a bit, and upon editing the youngest youngling said this one and three others were the best ones to upload....................... But I only need ONE!  Ok, whatever!  So, here it is, nicely detailed with plenty of back light, sharp needles behind and even some little spider webs on the front.  Only one photo I needed, but who can stop at one?  Therefore, check these little beauties out.

Single Pinecone

The Old Steam Machine

Pinecone Different Angle

Barking Up Gums...

 Barking Closer...

Creeky Weeds

The Little Fart

All these were taken just down the road, and I find it interesting that the park can become so much more when you look at it this way.  I am really loving taking photos again.  And I must say, the Little Fart was well and truly knackered after trekking up and down the bank to the creek, then attempting to chase the wood duck, who wouldn't have a bar of it............ bad pun, sorry!

Needless to say, she hit the sack a little earlier than usual.

I'm off to the desert tomorrow to visit them there desert dwellers, so who knows what kind of photos I'll have to share.  I do have to pass the Hot Rod Show, so there's every chance something shiny and red will end up black & white!  Until they hey..

jw

Long Time Gone...

Well it's been a while since I managed to get a post up, so tonight I thought I'd make (another) start.  Lots have happened in the (OMG - years) since I last posted, but for now I'll just get some posts up, then I'll update later.

One of my good scrappin' friends has been playing with her camera (a lot more than me) of late, and decided to give me a swift kick into today with a Photo Challenge.  "Oh Heck!" I thought, I haven't clicked for ages.  So, to be involved you must take a photo a day for five days, in B&W or converted to such, upload it to (the Challenge site), and nominate someone to join in for 5 days - IF they want to.  I am not a part of the group, so I'm putting mine up on my "In Your Face" page, and here.  I will try to nominate five people, but it will be more of a challenge to actually get the photos.

Alas, I ventured forth in the trusty Six, packing a fully charged camera, and the Little Fart.  Whilst we ventured forth to farming lands far across the paddocks, with the trusty Little Fart at my side (by my side, right behind me, somewhere, over there, up ahead of me, across the paddock, in the chook house (she wasn't really in the chook house Frankie...), I searched for suitable subjects.  I got just down the drive when I spotted the lovliest spider web, and off I went.  So, whilst I have been thinking about what to take, I ended up with a months worth of photos, for which I can only use ONE today.  Then I have to start again...  Did I have fun?  Oh my wordy, lordy yes I did!

Now how do I convert?  Thy trusty keyboard ran a marathon of strokes as we searched and played, and finally got it done.  I'm sure I could have done a better job, used better light, moved the trucks with my mind, frozen the bees in mid air, but that would only be showing off and I was way too busy dodging flying Little Farts zipping through the long grass around my feet.

For Day 1 I have nominated Tahnee Benson.
My photo is of a bee collecting pollen from a PINK Bottlebrush.  I don't think I can remember ever seeing a pink one before, which was amongst some red bushes, and it looked awesome.

Whilst I love the simplicity of this photo, and was most appreciative of the bee keeping still and the wind not blowing it off the bush, you have to see the colour one!

These are some of the other B&W photos that I took, and I will use these to scrap and for some other projects.  There'll be no double dipping now!

So that's me for Day 1. With a bit of luck I'll have more to share over the next four days!

cheers

jw

Welcome Back!!

Oh my goodness, where has the time gone?  My poor Blog has been abandoned all this time - all work and NO play.......  I guess a lot has happened since I opened the shop, least of all the extra grey hairs under my fab new colours!  I only ever had one grey hair, and I attributed that to the Blokey Man!, seemed appropriate.  Well, lets see if I can give you a "reasonably quick" update, maybe using my labels as a helping hand..........

Boys
Youngling #1 left school to take on an apprenticeship in Commercial Cookery, focusing on the pastry side of things.  This meant lots of weekend work and he had to give away the soccer, which was a sad thing.  He did manage to get his motorbike license, and ventured forth to work each day on the Blokey Man's thumping black "Dinosaur" - which he's had forever!  Acquired with the profits of labour, the Youngling purchased himself a new Yamaha trailbike ("we're a Yamaha Family mum"... remember?).  A bike to defy face altering speed of light power-banding technology.  Riding that thing is like sitting on a G-string according to the Blokey Man - how he knows that I don't even want to think about!

SO, with the bike comes bonding, blokey bonding, in the bush with 250 other blokes (and the odd shiela according, once again, to the Blokey Man).  Along tracks, through mud, up hills and sideways around bends.  The Youngling's father and pseudo uncle of all things new and shiny in the shed, accompanied the Youngling, and sent him colourful blessings of "just go, we can't keep up with that!!!".  I purposefully left out the colourful bits because I don't have the Blog Authority to use that kinda language ........... anyway, it seemed the only thing stopping the Youngling was running out of fuel.  Ironically the same thing stopped the Blokey Man & Uncle Bling, but their fuel was stored bodily and a tad uncomfortably atop the well restrained throttles of their rides.  Alas, bonding proved most successful, and the grins were full of well embellished stories of the day.

During his time at the Cafe the Youngling has worked with many different people, watching many of them leave to venture onto other things.  With this in mind the young fella has contemplated moving on.  We are yet to see where this will take him, but for the moment he's still kitchen bound.

Youngling #2 has seen 3 Colleges during his senior years, and this year tackles his year 12 studies.  With his choice of career still undetermined I am beginning to wonder if he's using all his spare time to introduce Social Stuff into the curriculum as a career choice!  The social butterfly is well networked amongst his peers, and I'm sure he's grown another 6 inches since I saw him last!  The Blokey Man and his Mother are most nervous about the impending legal coming of age of this fella, now only a couple of months away.  Perhaps the saving grace is that he is still at school,........perhaps.

This year we have a school trip to Italy to look forward to, well for the Youngling at least!  I only wish the Blokey Man was going with him to re-connect with his heritage and become more traveled and worldly.  I just had visions of like that add where she pushes him into the waters of abyss in Tasmania and he comes out like a stud - only this is Italy and if that was going to happen I'd have sat him on a sling shot and sent him years ago!  So, Italy, a partnering role in the THT Festival Queen ball, a bit of basketball, indoor soccer, pre-season soccer already started, volleyball later in the year, clocking up more hours for his licence, and god knows how many more deb balls and 18th's and parties............  this Blog is going to take me a tad longer to finish than previously anticipated - I think I'll have to do it a bit at a time.

Whew, part one down!

stay tuned,

there's more,

.......lots more.