My boy the sheep and a sunset

Sunset on Christmas night. DH bought me a new tripod so I had to try it out. I love it.











A quick snap from the Kinder Christmas play. Chris made a very cute sheep.

Lavender

A shot from my garden tonight. It's not real sharp coz of the wind, but I really like the purple against the green.

Dave Surfing

This weekend we went camping with the people from my husband's work. I was too slack to get up at dawn to take photos of the sunrise over the beach, but I did get some photos of one of the guys surfing. It really was too far away for my 70-200 lens, but I wasn't going to wade out into the surf and they weren't coming in any closer. As you can see by the wet suits, even though it's summer down here, the water is still cold.

Mainly Pelicans

These are some photos I took a few days ago. The colour is pretty bad, especially in the first one. Getting the exposure right on the pelicans was trisky - I think some of the white feathers are a bit blown out. The last one is a mother swamp hen (or a Pukeko - a my Kiwi DH would call it) feeding her chick. I deleted the first two coz the colour was just toooooo bad, I'll repost them after I re-edit.

dots, chalk, celophane and a red balloon

I took these for a Canon competition recently. You were sent these four hings in little boxes an you had to take a photo that in some way used each thing (including the boxes, but I couldn't think of one for that). So here are my entries. I didn't even make the finals or anything, but I was pretty happy with them. You can check out the finalists on www.canon.com.au/photo5/

How can something this pretty be a weed?

Down by the river these Pelargoniums are growing wild. I know they are a weed and should probably be removed, but they sure do look pretty.

Changes

Well as you can see I have made a few changes. Now I just have to fix my header photo. I have been so slack up-dating this blog. I have been taking photos, I just haven't had a chance to edit them and up load them. Here's a photo from yesterday. Now daylight saving has started here, it doesn't get dark til after 8:30 pm so we have been going out for walks after dinner. The kids love it and it gives me a chance to take sunset photos, now I just need some spectacular sunsets (and a new tripod and some graduated ND filters).