I Heart Faces - Sun Flare

This weeks I Heart Faces challenge is Sun Flare. I don't usually do too much sunflare type stuff, so this is quite new to me. I enjoy this image I captured of a maternity session because of the light hitting the baby bump, like a little gift of light for baby. It's peaceful. I am off over to the site to see some, I am sure, fab sunflare shots.

The yellow brick road revised...

I know I am a terrible blog neglect-er or is it neglect-or, well I know it is none of those at all but I am quite neglectful of this blog! So here is a sneak peek where we were not off to see the wizard, but off to seek out some crazy urban Christmas shots. No beaches were featured in the making of this shoot!
More coming soon!

I Heart Faces - Autumn Beauty

I painted April's face and took this about 2 weeks ago, this was the image I had in my mind so I am glad it turned out the way I 'saw' it :o) It is not really autumn-y per se, however, I am living on a sub tropical island and I think the colours fit the theme :o)

I am looking forward to seeing some real autumn faces for this weeks theme, check them out HERE

The book is here!

Remember this resulting in this? Well the book is ready! Mine is already in the post!
Thank You I Heart Faces!
Click on any of the squares to view and/or order the book, there are a ton of a m a z i n g faces in there :o) If you click this link you can get free shipping too!

What, no humidity!

I have been a bad, bad blogger, what can I say, but oh well. I have been too busy out taking photos (biz and personal) to worry about blogging, life is busy, something had to fall to the wayside and it wasn't going to be photo taking or my family!

The weather has been lovely, almost San Diego-esque, of late. However, along with the weather change, my allergies have gone crazy...coral dust maybe? There was a typhoon by the Phillapines, so we did have one weekend of rain and wind, so no photo shoot that weekend...

Apart from that no crazy hideous dripping humidity. Great for my electricity bill and for an early morning photo session...in colour...

and black and white!...

More soon...
I keep thinking that there must be some kind of mistake. Surely this weather cannot really be. I think that Sunday was one of the loveliest days. So lovely that I was at Araha Beach three times. First at 7am for a photo shoot...
Then to walk the chihuahua we are looking after, along with Harry! What a sight, a chihuahua and a pitbull!
Then, got a phone call from Annya that she was in the area, gathered the kids up again and off we went again. This day was too nice to not be out.

Annya's son...

What else...
April is enjoying being a Junior in Girl Scouts. Both the kids love school and their teachers. Albert is still gone with the wind. Got myself a fish eye lens so been having fun with that. I only waited 13 years to replace my old one that broke!
The seawall (with texture added)...this photo also won me a little prize! Better than a kick in the teeth hey!

Here's my friend, Candice's (AKA Mermaid lady) daughter posing! Ha ha...

(also see the sunset silhouette photos above)...

Kay and Chad get 'romanticle'

Remember, this sneak peek? Well, here are some more images from that session...
It was funny, because when Kay and Chad got married in Bali, the photographer kept saying to them, 'get romanticle', so we had a good laugh every time I told them to get romanticle during the shoot. They did a very good job of it, I might add!
We had some crazy fun!...

Some BW moments...

With some sunset silhouettes providing the icing on the cake!...

I played around with this one a bit and added a texture, I love the result...
Kay and Chad, thanks so much for all the fun, I hope the States is treating you well :o)

I Heart Faces - Excited

This week over on I Heart Faces it is EXCITED week, as soon as I saw the category I knew the photo that represented excitement for me...

This was from a shoot a while back and it all started off with nice clean clothes and calm expressions, until that is we came to the beach area and those kids saw the ocean and it was all over (but just the beginning for me heee heee). They had so much fun, I had so much fun, it was a great morning of high energy excitement. I seriously ached for days after with all the bending and moving around. Look at the clouds in the background, about 10 mins later there was a massive thunderstorm, but by then we were long gone!