Daily photo challenge - week 21 is complete

Week 21 is done and dusted......

26.5.12 - morning dew

25.5.12 - old school

City News October 1977

Auckland City Harbour News May 2012

24.5.12 - golden light

23.5.12 - Dominion Rd

22.5.12 - dinner out on a Tuesday night

21.5.12 - choices

20.5.12 - autumn in Laingholm

Daily photo challenge - week 20 is complete

Week 20's theme was autumn.

In true autumn style the elements (the two-year-old kind and the weather)

played against me this week.

We went to Cornwall Park and I had visions of 

Sarah playing in the gorgeous leaves.

Instead she wanted to tidy up by picking the leaves up off the path 

and putting them back in the garden.

What kid goes to the park to tidy up?!?!

(Photography 101 - never work with kids)

The weather meant it was too dark by the time we got home in the evening

to play outside (Sarah with her toys and me with the camera).

I had visions of autumn photos I wanted to attempt 

but it just never happened

..........maybe tomorrow - the day after the autumn theme.

Here are this week's pics.

19.5.12 - Lens to lens 

- at Motat

18.5.12 - Multi-tasking

(Eating Daddy's fried rice and stealing a chip 

while he's not watching his plate.

Now that's sneaky.)

17.5.12 - Never far from reach this week

(the joys of the change of season means colds x2)

16.5.12 - autumn rain

15.5.12 - "I'm a big girl"

14.5.12 - Open wide

13.5.12 - Toot toot!

Whizzing by at Cornwall Park on Mother's Day

(Click here to see more pics of our Mother's Day visit
to Cornwall Park)

Daily photo challenge - Week 19 is complete

Here's a look at our week....

A child's imagination,

 A few special words,

 A trip to the city,

A couple of signs of winter

and 

Fun at the playground.

12.5.12 - Sarah decides her family needs afternoon tea too

11.5.12 - Special words in Sarah's Porse book 

written by Wendy

These words made my day.

xo

(Click on the pic to enlarge it and read the words.)

10.5.12 - Winter goodness

9.5.12 - Rainy day in the city

8.5.12 - Arty

 (Just playing with the camera settings)

7.5.12 - Winter comfort

6.5.12 - Swinging around

Daily photo challenge - week 18 is complete

What did I learn this week???

I really should take my camera just about everywhere.

Murphy's Law says the days I didn't take it

there was a great photo opportunity 

that I missed out on.

The days I did take it .....there was nothing much to capture.

I also learnt that equipment does matter.

Oh well....

Here are this week's pics.......

Click here to see a few pics from the month of April that didn't make the cut

5.5.12 - moonlight magic

4.5.12 - sitting still - only for a moment

3.5.12 - reflections

2.5.12 - anyone for a party?

1.5.12 - Mika only has eyes for mummy

30.4.12 - Puppy love

29.4.12 - mid air

Daily photo challenge - week 17 is complete

Another week done and dusted.....

Another week of new challenges.

On April 24 I hit the road to work a little early 

and made an early morning stop up Mt Roskill.

I wanted to try and capture the amazing sunrise 

that had been blinding me 

as I drove to work the previous week or so.

The Mt was deserted 

(except for Tamati Coffey and 

the Breakfast weather crew doing their thing)

and I had a great time playing with settings and compositions. 

Shame I had to stop taking photos and go to work.

I figure that considering the lengths I went to to get these photos

I'm allowed to post more than one pic

...so I'm posting three.

On April 25 I headed to Waikumete Cemetery in the hope 

of capturing something of the special day that is 

Anzac Day.

I'm posting three pics for this date too......

just because.

28.4.12 - looking back on holidays past 

and thinking about Raro in three months time

27.4.12 - backyard beauty

26.4.12 - unexpected house guest

25.4.12 - We will remember them

25.4.12 - Poppies

25.4.12 - Remembered

24.4.12 - Morning glory

24.3.12 - Mt Roskill's crosses

24.3.12 - Straight and narrow

23.4.12 - "Cup of tea" with daddy before bed

22.4.12 - Artist in the making

Daily photo challenge - week 16 is complete - SHAPES

This week's theme was shapes

A tricky one.....

I felt like time was often against me 

and I struggled with theme related ideas.

So this week's pics feel more like 

"a week in the life of us" 

than anything else.

And it was a good, fun and busy week

with a couple of special milestones in the mix.

21.4.12 - Happy 2nd birthday Sarah.

20.4.12 - A classic

19.4.12 - Count the fingers - 

That's how many years Brian and I have been together.

Happy anniversary!

18.4.12 - The shape of good things to come

17.4.12 - The shape of yumminess!

16.4.12 - On a spider hunt in the bathroom

15.4.12 - "Look Mummy, Look!"

Daily photo challenge - week 15 is complete - HOME

This week's theme was home.

I had lots of ideas for this theme....

some worked, some didn't, some I din't get to try.

It certainly did make me stop and think 

about what "home" is all about, and what it means,

how important it is,

how everyone's home is different and how it feels to be home.

Home..........and a few other things from this week:

14.4.12 - climbing trees at Browns Bay

13.4.12 - home - our piece of Laingholm paradise

12.4.12 - home made

11.4.12 - 12 minutes past home time

10.4.12 - Henry Atkinson keeping watch over Titirangi

9.4.12 - Home is where the heart is

Tim and his 7-week-old son Mika

8.4.12 - A welcome sign that I'm almost home

The famous Titirangi roundabout 

dressed for the Titirangi Festival of Music