At the beach

Its summer in Perth.  Well, not just here, the whole of the southern hemisphere too, but I only live here – the other places can blog about their own summers. Anyway, summer. Its getting pretty warm too, as you’d expect – mid to high 30’s already.  Now last year I had time to go for walks on the beach in the mornings and was…

last pics of 2011

First up – I want to wish everyone who comes to this blog my very best for 2012! May it be amazing for all of you. Ok – here’s the last of the photos from 2011! The girls wanted to try out their new boogie boards and as the wind was blowing pretty strongly, the ocean was likely to have a few good small…

Photos and Stuff

Yup, it’s one of those random ‘here’s a load of photos’ posts. Well, I have time off work what do you expect??!! We’ve had a pretty chilled out week so far, not trying to catch up with friends too much and mostly catching up on family downtime.  We’ve bummed around the house, scoffed picnic food 3 days on the trot (well, why wouldn’t you?…

They call it stormy Monday..

Yesterday evening it clouded over and went all grey and dreary. Usually that means that the sunset is nothing special, just a warm glow, often a thin blue line of cloudless horizon for the sun to peak through just before it sets. Well, last night I thought it was going to do the same, so I stayed in and pottered about a bit. I…

The tale of the kite and the moon

It’s been a while since I went down to Safety Bay and took some shots of the kite surfers – winter isn’t the best time for them to be out (we only get that reliable sea breeze once the daytime temperatures start to hit the high 20’s) and I’ve been busy with other stuff. I had some time yesterday whilst Jay was doing some…

Photo Sunday

It’s been too long since I went for a meander with the camera.  I wanted to take some kite surf shots today – it was supposed to be windy with storm, but as it turned out, it was only windy for a few hours and then nothing. Still as a still thing playing sleeping lions. And then it got really overcast too. I really…

iPhone 4s

I took delivery of a new iPhone 4s the other week as I was out of contract and had the opportunity to upgrade for next to nothing. Yes, I’m a sad case and I know the arguments, Samsung, Android, blah blah. But I don’t care – I’ve had my 3Gs for 2 years and save for a couple of minor IOS updates that were…

moody and dark

Sunsets.  They’re always good for the soul. It’s good to gave a colourful close to a day – it’s as if nature is finishing the day with a poetic full stop. Well, thats all fine and dandy, but the internet (and indeed my own photo collection) is full of shots of sunsets.  They happen every day in millions of different places around the world…

Abstracts

I had a few minutes before dinner the other night, and as the light was lovely, I thought I’d pop to the beach to take a few shots.  Well, I missed the best of it – the sun goes down so fast here – you really have to lie in wait for the golden light, if you see it, you’re already too late.  Ah…

Fathers Day

It was, a while ago now, I’m a few weeks behind with my posting, fathers day in Oz. Jay and the girls wanted to take me for a nice lunch out and a mooch around Kings Park in Perth to look at the spring flowers.  I still get confused.  Having grown up in the UK, the seasons and the months are 180 degrees apart. …