An amazing adventure....

Sometimes I forget that the title of the blog was designed to reflect the purpose of this blog which was not only to take good photo's but also to chronicle the amazing adventures we get up to....

Last Sunday we decided to go up to Whangarei for the day which while not the most glamorous of holiday destinations it was heaps of fun and certainly an adventure..

We saw an amazing waterfall, went flying through a forest on a flying fox, balanced on wobbly bridges and played at a whole new park.  That's a pretty amazing adventure in our world and while they may not be the best photo's they are a little glimpse of our adventure...

Week 23

Another busy week with not much time for photo's out side of the weekend.  We did have a good time over the long weekend and got loads of photo's but I am being very restrained and sticking to the one photo per day...

Here is this week's effort....

8 June - Best friends heading off to a sleep over....

7 June - Dressing Up

6 June - the most patient cat...

 5 June - Working

4 June - A cup of tea for the Queen's birthday

 3 June - Kitekite Falls

2 June - In the city

Week 22

Another busy week and I am really feeling the impact of shorter day with the sun well and truly gone down by the time we get home most days.

I have been making the most of the morning sun and grabbing opportunities where they pop up - dropping my eldest daughter at Grandma's in the morning, playing Sylvanian's with the girls and bath time.

Here is this weeks effort...

1 June - Badge of Honor

31 May - Morning Dew at Grandma's House

30 May - Cold Mornings at Grandma's House

29 May - Catching the Sun in Beechwood Hall

28 May - Bath Time and trying to play with different exposure levels

27 May - Swinging

26 May - A beautiful gesture from my beautiful girl when she (completely of her own voilition) put the helium balloon she had just been given at a party on her great, great grandma's grave

And finally, a quirky one for the week - here's a pukeko I took a photo of who in his reflection bears a striking resemblence to an American Bald Eagle...

Week 21

I started out the week well, spending the day at the Alberton on the weekend (photo's from Alberton) and getting some great shots of the girls but then the week kind of slipped away from me. This week has been frantic with late nights spent at the office and then even later nights working at home, balanced out by another late night at the end of the week for a bit of play at our industry awards ceremony.

I did manage however to take a photo each day (no small achievement this week) and with a healthy dose of post editing I am pretty happy with most of them.

Here is this week's effort...

25 May - Just a drummer in a rock and roll band...

24 May - Awards glam

23 May - Working Late

22 May - Driving to Work (literally out the window of the car)

21 May - Sunrise from the deck...

20 May - Light, light, beautiful light

19 May - Party daydreaming...



Alberton

Today we took the kids to the Alberton (an almost 150 year old historic home in Auckland).  I used to love visiting when I was a kid and happily it was just as good visiting as a grown up and the kids loved it too.  It  also provided great fodder for photo's too so rather than choose just one, here are all my favourites...



Week 20

This weeks theme was Autumn and I actually managed to get lots of themed photo's this week (and even a throw back to lens flare!).  An extra great accomplishment given we were exiled from our house for the week and holed up in a hotel while our rotten kitchen floor got replaced!

The thing I am loving the most about this challenge is all the weird and wonderful places I end up on the quest for a picture.  On Mothers Day I decided after lunch that what I would really like to do was get a great Autumn photo so kids in tow we set off for Devonport.  On the way a cemetery caught my eye with the most amazing Autumn colours so we all stopped.  I stepped in and there was a sudden gust of wind and all the leaves lifted off the ground - it was surreal.  It was the most rich place - full of colour and energy which was so at odds with the broken head stones.  And while I couldn't say the kids were quite as moved by it as me they did get over being scared when no zombies appeared like they do on Scooby Doo!

Anyway, here's this weeks efforts....

18 May - The Duck Pond

17 May - Autumn in the Suburbs

16 May - Wet Autumn Days in the Park

15 May - Guess who got the big bed??

 14 May - Driving Home on the Harbour Bridge

13 May - Mt Victoria (Devonport) Cemetry

12 May - Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner!

Week 19

Winter and all the photographic challenges it brings (along with never ending building, tummy bugs and visitors in our house) has been making the photo challenge difficult.  Belinda in an effort to give us all a pep talk gave us a list of reasons not to give up - the thing that really resonated out of this was that at the end we will have a record of what we did for every day of a year - that is pretty special and not often you can actually do that!  So onwards and upwards...

I spent most of my week in search of photo's of the super moon and as you will see by my lack of photo's of said moon I was not very successful!  It turns out the moon is very hard to photograph and made 10 times harder by clouds that seem to apear every time I get the camera out!  I had almost given up on Thursday when I saw the moon glowing so brightly that I decided to head out to take a photo of it over the city (back to the over bridge Photogs).  Turns out the overbridge is a very scary place by yourself at 10.30pm and despite the moon shining brightly the whole drive there as soon as I arrived it went behind a cloud and stayed stubbornly until I decided it was just a bit too scary and ran up the road.  Not surprisingly as soon as I got back to the safety of the car the moon came back out from the clouds.

11 May - Game Time



10 May - The Elusive Moon

9 May - New Bath!

8 May - Learning to Write (love the concentration)

7 May - Tooth Fairy Time

6 May - Under The Bridge

5 May - Getting Fancy