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Team Up Thursday Week 10

Theme: Half 'n Half

To say Claire stumped me with this week's theme is the understatement of the century, but after I had clarification from her as to exactly what she meant I really started to get into the idea. Claire has been the PERFECT partner for me, she stretches me and makes me think about things. My themes are the easy ones, our weeks off so to speak, hers are the true test of our photography :0)

After a long chat with my mother in South Africa about the theme (yes I do spend my life talking photography lol) her creative genius was the inspiration behind the shot I finally chose.

Amazingly enough Claire also used a mirror to conceptualize this theme and I love the way her mirror cuts the photo in half as opposed to the face as with mine.

Other bloggers taking up the challenge:
(I have only linked in to one participant in each partnership, you should easily be able to navigate from there)
Kirsten & Marcelle
Corey & Berta
Megan & Melody
Joanne & Rose
Cat and Shayne
Helen & Tanya
Lynette & Stefanie

Photo's that didn't make the cut...

My first idea was this rose with only half it's petals left

Prize Winner - Flower

Team Up Thursday - Week 9

Theme: Laughter

Recent research has shown that laughter can make us healthier and so my idea for this week was to try and capture it. I have since discovered that is isn't as easy as is sounds and I now have lots of photos with really grotesque expressions :0) I certainly never gave any thought to the way our faces can contort when we laugh and capturing the perfect moment can be really tricky.

Below is my capture caught of Megan and her best friend during Meg's birthday photo shoot, I must say I do love this one.

Claire's photo below is wonderful and captures the theme perfectly, you can just see what fun Skyla is having, such a happy moment.

Prize Winner - Abstract

Another winner last night - LOVE photographing fireworks, one of my favourite things to shoot as EVERY shot is guaranteed to be different.

Prize Winner - Night

Am beyond excited.....I have recently started competing in a photographic challenge on a regular basis just for fun and to learn and I just WON my first category - Night with this photo below.

Shot on ISO 200 at 10secs

Team Up Thursday - Week 8

Theme: Milk

This was Claire's idea and I confess to being truly challenged. I tried a couple of things this week with milk and even considered phoning the farm on Megan's school to ask them if I could go in and photograph the cows, however time ran out and I felt a little sheepish (not that brave yet lol) so below is what I ended up with :0)

Milk is for me wholesome and good and what could be more fitting than Nick enjoying his afternoon glass of milk out on our terrace - look at those chubby fingers, you can see he just LOVES it :0)

Claire's photo is EXACTLY what I would have LOVED to achieve - WELL DONE partner, think you need to let us know how you achieved that shot, it is OUTSTANDING

12th July Challenge

The idea behind this challenge is to carry your camera with you through the day and shoot 12 shots on the 12 day of every month....nice record at the end of 12 months...so here goes.

Woke up to not such a beautiful blue sky this morning, not cold at all, just no blue skies

Today my camera is going to go everywhere with me as I try to capture the moments of my day

Started the day making the children's school lunches, try to include a sandwich, fruit and small treat every day, being inventive can get tiring :0)

After dropping the big children at school it was home for breakfast for Nicholas - he loves this particular cereal as the evidence down his vest shows

Monday is housework day for me and I think these two are some of my most treasure possessions - in fact I spend more time with them then I do some of my friends lol

Nick and I had a friend for morning tea and a quick play

Catching up with friends and family on facebook once Nick went down for his morning sleep - gotta LOVE technology!

I have this quote in a very strategic place on my landing wall and I walk past it at least 6 times a day, it is a good reminder and when I am feeling a little low it ALWAYS picks me up

Waiting near the farm at Megan's school during the afternoon school run, I love it here, it is so pretty and I feel very privileged to send my daughter to a school with a working farm.

Afternoon tea and a photo shoot on our terrace....photo shoot for this weeks TUT challenge so couldn't show the results here, but could show my gorgeous new hybrid bizzy lizzy's ;0)

Potatoes all scrubbed and ready on the sideboard waiting to be turned into dinner, one of the things I enjoy about this challenge is getting inventive to show different aspects of our life - will make an interesting record for future generations me thinks.

My fav time of day when Si gets home, love watching him interact with his children - it is a very noisy but very happy time of day (don't look at the mess, it is the end of a long day with a two year old lol)

And so ends another 12th of the month in my life, next month should be great fun because Megs and Phil will be on summer break.