Archive for Travel

Loving my DSLR!

One of the best things I love about my DSLR is the ability to take shots in JPEG and RAW to edit them once I’ve downloaded them. Because I’m still coming to grips with the higher functions of the 40D, the post production editing software has proved very useful. I love how with the software [...]

Two weeks on the Devil’s Island

It’s amazing how quickly two weeks can pass – especially when you’re having fun! The year has passed pretty quickly for me and has brought along with it a whole heap of changes for me and for the people I choose to spend my life around. But for at least six months, I have been [...]

Reflections on a winter’s day in Te Anau

It’s coming up to the second week of August and all I’ve been hearing for the last few weeks is “OMG it is so cold today, I’m so freezing!” More often than not, it’s coming from Queenslanders as well. I genuinely feel for the folks south of the border because with day time highs of [...]

Run, fat girl, run!

The problem with jetting away somewhere for a 3 day holiday is that you always seem to be rushed. Or maybe it’s just me who wants to be able to fit in ten days worth of holiday into around 48hrs in a strange city. The only way I can possibly do it is to be [...]

52 Blessings – Week 19

What a whirlwind weekend! I’ve been planning for weeks to head off to Sydney this past weekend for a get together with a few “awful women” and celebrate three years of All For Women. We had a lovely lunch in the Parramatta Park and then headed off for some dinner, complete with mini cupcakes, washed [...]

A few days in the Barringtons

Conditions weren’t overly favourable for outdoors photos in the Barringtons but I did snap a few when it did happen to stop raining.
My most frequent subject was our resident peacock – he just loved to show off and made us felt more at home because his frequent calls reminded us of the cats [...]

This is why we need our "wild" spaces…

A few years ago, I had a wonderful opportunity to tour South Australia and Victoria with my partner, his friend and my sister. We flew into Adelaide, hired a 4WD and spent the next two weeks travelling through to Melbourne, stopping in at Kangaroo Island, Warrnambool, Werribee and Melbourne city itself. Photography is one of [...]

Taking photos at 100kph

Earlier in the year, we were fortunate to escape to the tropics during winter. Cairns is a place I’ve always wanted to visit but the dreadful summers that we got in central Queensland as a child was enough to put me off going up that far for my summer vacation. But the winter is a [...]