WEEKEND PRAM PUSHING

This is what I saw over the weekend. Despite being late in the afternoon as well as being cold and windy, the sunshine drew the people outside. Small pockets of people stood huddled on the beach and children zoomed around on their scooters, chasing the last hours of the school holidays.

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Images taken using Canon 5D Markiii//50mm 1.4
Fuji 800Z and IlfordHP5

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MEMORY KEEPING

I love reading other Blogs, they are a constant source of inspiration and eye candy. One blog in particular is a big favourite and watching her journey into memory keeping with photographic story boards and soft cover books has encouraged me to organise my family photographs in a similar way. Similar to Ronnie, I am going to organise my memories into seasons using Artifact Uprising and I am going to be particularly interested with observing how my abilities regarding visual story telling and layout evolve over time.

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Images taken using Canon 5D Markiii//50mm 1.4
Fuji 800Z

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OUR SLICE OF SUNSHINE

I am obsessed with the pizza slice of sunshine that carves itself into our living room during the afternoons.

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Fuji 800Z

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CITY STROLLING

Little boys don't walk. They hop, skip, jump, run, bounce and dart from left to right and they don't like to wait around for too long. So I had to shoot from the hip and this is some of what we saw walking from the Powerhouse Museum back to Central Station on our day out.

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Fuji 400H & IlfordHP5

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NOT FRUIT CAKE

As a kid I can remember attending several Baptisms and my favourite part of the day was always when I finally got to enjoy a slice of the cake which I had been stalking all day. They were usually covered in cloudy-like-tufts of sweet white buttercream icing and it was usually harbouring a vanillary sponge cake or a dense chocolate mudcake underneath. Only once had I been let down, I had innocently thought it was a vanilla sponge cake with chocolate chips and it turned out to be fruit cake. Fruit cake.

On this day Vinnie cried uncomfortably during most of the ceremony and she fell asleep minutes prior to getting her head wet, she howled seconds after her little head became soaked. Paddy was beautifully patient with her crying and his calmness made me calm. After the ceremony Matty was in his element as he started up the BBQ, and Paddy kicked off his formal attire to play with his friends. They ran around the salty oval chasing, kicking and passing the beloved football. The rest of us soaked up the wintry sunbeams as we sat on a patchwork of assorted picnic rugs. My favourite part of the day was when we shared lunch together and finally cut into that cake.

P.S. It was cream cheese frosting + chocolate fudge cake.

P.P.S. Thank you to my beautiful friend Angie, for capturing the first image xo

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Images taken using Canon 5D Markiii//50mm 1.4
Kodak Portra 800

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CREMA DE LA CREMA

His hands lay bricks and they also make a good coffee too. Liquid gold crema like this makes the corners of his mouth lift and I just love watching that first dollop of milk rollercoaster into the coffee cup. 

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Fuji 800z

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AFTERNOONS BY THE SEA

We are pretty lucky to call a day like this "winter". The sun was shining hard all day, the breeze was crisp and the salty air was light and fresh. Today we saw a pod of 15 dolphins mucking around behind the breaking waves, the more playful ones put on a show and were riding waves parrallel to the shore line. Days like this remind me of how lucky my family and I are to live here.

  
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Images taken using Canon 5D Markiii//50mm 1.4
Fuji 800z/Ilford5

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