oh snap!

Oh. My. God. I received my three new lenses today amongst a stash of flash cards and a couple of new batteries and I am absolutely thrilled. I decided to go with a 50mm f/1.4, 85mm f/1.8 and a 100mm Macro f/2.8 and I have left the 85mm f/1.2 for a later purchase once I have really earnt it. In the meantime I am sure my alternate choice will be just fine . . . . . . because of these babies I took this afternoon. I am so overjoyed with the quality of the images I produced just on the first run with the 85mm this afternoon. My favourite is the first one of my little fluffy girl trying to sleep while I kept rolling on the floor trying to get a great shot. She doesn't seem as pleased as me that mummy has a new toy :) Actually she seems quite bored LOL. Its going to take me a while to get used to all three lenses. With the larger apeture of course comes more light so I need to be more perceptive with my natural light surroundings and work accordingly. Having shot only at a max of 4.5 for the past 3 years is going to make it a lengthy process I bet. I better start reading up a bit more . . .

first post

So here I am. A new blog for my photography. There are so many photographers I am admiring at the moment, internationally. I can only hope to aspire to their portfolios and hopefully this blog is just the first step in educating while also promoting what I have been told is an inate talent that should be embraced and nurtured - so here I am. I will be sure to come back soon and update regularly and perhaps give an overview of how I came to be here but for now, here are a couple of recent (and not so recent) photos that have caught my eye and are among my favourites right now.

This is an image of the Busselton Jetty taken in December 2006. The colours were this vivid and the ocean almost translucent. We will be back there next month so expect lots of photos of Busso.

I came across this only the other night as I was archiving and backing up my photos and I really like it although I'm not sure why. Perhaps because I was following the player (incidentally my step-son) as he fell on the ground and the angle almost amplifies his pain as he loses the ball. Perhaps not the most technically correct image - but one I like.

My favourite subject. My nephew who is growing up way too fast. This was only a couple of months ago and its his latest habit of sticking out his tongue and I think trying to see how far it stretches. He can actually touch the tip of it to his nose. A very handy quality for a little boy :)

Here he is again, almost one year ago to the day that the "tongue" photo was taken. I'm a sucker for black and whites.

My first wedding that was just last month. It was my brothers wedding and although I wasn't going to take photos I ended up taking a heap of them. This is my favourite I think. The mix of light and dark and the defined features of the bridesmaids make me want to study the picture. Or perhaps its just an overexposed image that my amateur eye likes.