sports

Not the actual sport itself, don’t be silly – that involves exercise and in this heat, who can be bothered – no, sports photography. I’ve been a bit excited by my latest shots and I’ve been looking into pro kite surfing photography and am kinda liking a lot of the shots I’m seeing. I want to get closer to the action, i.e. in the…

blimey

Its hot today Over 40 according to my thermometer thingy. Not as hot as I’ve felt here, but close.  Hot enough to make the grass too warm to walk on.  Probably hot enough to fry eggs on the drive, not that I would, detesting eggs like I do. Gonna go out to take some pics at Point Peron after dinner, hopefully get some nice…

kite surfing

a few minutes drive from where I live there’s a little shallow sheltered cove where the kitesurfers like to play. I havent been there to take pictures for almost a year, so I figured it was about time this afternoon.  I left it until almost 6 so the light would be better and the breeze nice and strong.  When I pulled up in the…

hip to the beat, daddy-o

I got a new iPhone app today I don’t normally brag or share about apps cos, well, its a bit passe, but this one is waaay cool Hipstamatic Its an old school camera simulator with different lens and film choices and its brilliant. so many cool options for taking photos with the iPhone 🙂 It might have a crap camera relatively speaking, but the…

10 things

I was kinda nominated to do this by Lauren ages ago although the full nature of the nomination shall not be mentioned as I have blokey blokeness to be maintained 😉 **hucks a haybale onto my shoulder before going off to raise a barn** (not really, I don’t think the City of Perth would be too happy with either hay bales or barns) So…

sunsettage

Jay burned her hand picking up a pyrex dish from the oven with an oven glove that had the heat resistant properties of a wet tissue and has been stomping around with her hand packed in ice all evening. So when the sunset started to look promising I suggested we go to the beach and get some air and chill for a bit. Speaking…

Back in the real world

Got back to Perth on the 3rd of Jan and it was bloody hot coming out of the airport, especially as I’d been in either air conditioned comfort or the freezing UK air for 3 days. Was nice to get back home though and one of the first things I did was to skype the kids. Poor Henry, being small, burst into tears when…

New Years Eve

NYE was the last day in Oz for my kids – the flight out wasn’t until 2am (yeah, I know..) so we had a full day to have fun. We drove off to Mandurah for a walk, a play in the park, an explore and a coffee – its only a 30 min drive and its quite pretty on the board-walk. The kids had…

family time

After the wedding, we had a chilled out day, my parents came back to our place for a few hours to see us before they flew back to the UK. We sat about, chatting, replaying wedding memories and watching the kids play. Very cool. The next day, my mum and dad flew back to England and we went out for lunch by the beach,…

busy busy

sorry for the brief hiatus in blogging activities – I’ve been a little busy.. I went to collect my kids from the UK on Friday – taking Malaysian Airlines flight to the UK via KL.  I arrived on Saturday at 5:30am, jumped in a hire car, navigated snow, drove to Suffolk to get the kids, then to Kent (where there was a lot of…