Day 161 in a Year of my Life

I am alive :D

I am grateful for like-minded photography friends who are in for a good old fashioned belly laugh.

A great night was had by all tonight .. even though the sunset shoot fizzled due to clouds and rain, we all walked to a nearby Malaysian/Thai restaurant and had dinner together.  I had a lot of fun.

I hope to be posting photos from the weekend by Monday night and it's even possible that by the end of next week, I will have my work area in some kind of order, and ready to actually work in, so it's possible that I can spend some quality time working on my blog.

I have a big babysitting day planned with my little Chicklet tomorrow, so now I need to sleep so that I have the required energy to fulfil my duties!

Nite all.

Day 160 in a Year of my Life.

Having a fabulous time.  Taken heaps of photos!  Met lots of people.  Drank two bottles of wine and ate the teeniest, tiniest dinner ... two fresh prawns, one slice of smoked salmon, four cubes of beetroot, 4 cubes of capsicum jello vinaigrette and a couple of lettuce leaves = $22.00.  The wine dulled the pain though :)

Today I am grateful for laughing hard enough to get cramps in the ribs and have tears streaming down the cheeks.

The Nikonian is sleeping so soundly .. no movement and no sounds ... I think I need to nudge her to see if she is still breathing!

She is ... whew!

Nite all.  

Day 159 in a Year of my Life

A drama filled morning, with the train 2 hours and 15 minutes late, because power lines were down just south of Bundaberg.

Especially stressful for Adoring Husband because he didn't want to leave me alone at the station without knowing whether the train would turn up or not.. but needing to be at home by 7am to let the painters and plumber into the house.

It all worked out in the end and I arrived at Nambour Station at 10.15am where the Nikonian picked me up and brought me back to her home.

She kindly spent some time teaching me some Photoshop techniques and then we decided to head up to Montville for lunch and to visit 'The Master' at his gallery ...

http://www.naturesimage.com.au/page/86685/

Three hours later, we decided to scrap our photography plans for the afternoon and head home to cook dinner.

The day may have started out pretty stressfully, but has ended on a most enjoyable note and I'm feeling happy and relaxed tonight.

So relaxed, that I'm having an early night in preparation for our big trip to Brisvegas tomorrow.

Sorry, no photos to share today, but watch this space over the next few days!

Today I'm grateful for a safe and very pleasant train trip down south, with extremely friendly and helpful staff on board.  All is forgiven :D

Nite all.

Day 158 in a Year of my Life

Whatever happened to that 'to-do' list that I was going to make?

Soooo ... it's 10pm and I haven't made my list and I am only half packed.  I leave at 5am tomorrow.  What does this equation do to your stress levels??

I've always said that I do my best work under pressure!

So I'm off to do my best work and I'm going to leave you with the winner of the 2013 Macquarie Photography Prize ...

'Feed Me First' by Chan Kwok Hung

I gasped in awe when I saw it and I aspire to this level of photography!

Today I am grateful to have 5 days of photography fun and Chicklet delight ahead of me, and I thank Adoring Husband for holding down the fort and taking care of our psychotic dogs, and Helen the lovely layer, while all the building and mayhem continues around our house.

Nite all.  

Day 157 in a Year of my Life

Today, I am grateful for 'to do' lists, because that's what I am going to have to do tomorrow.. make a 'to do' list so that I know what to pack for my trip away.

I know I should be grateful for more important stuff than that, but I'm tired and so is my brain.

Psychotic dogs are even asking to go to bed!  That's my sign.

On that note, a follow up photo from yesterday's beach cricket shot.

Game Over

Nite all.

Day 156 in a Year of my Life

I have spent the evening playing in photoshop and time got away from me!  I can't believe the time, so I will simply share one photo tonight.

A photo that I took this afternoon after I left Aussie H's place.  We had happy hour there and then I rode down to the beach where I found a game of beach cricket in progress - just before sunset.

Today I am grateful that the Easter break is over and that a lot of the tourists who were here for the fishing classic have left town.  It should be a little quieter now, just the way I like it.

Nite all.

Day 155 in a Year of my Life

No sign of the eagle today.

As I was riding home this morning, after my coffee by the river, I stopped at the lagoon and was thrilled to hear the familiar sound of Fairy Wrens ... which I have never heard at the lagoon before!  Usually, I have to ride to the other side of town and down a dirt track to find Fairy Wrens.

So I crept around with my camera trying to spot them.  Twice, I spotted a female, but she hid behind the dried twigs of a dead bush, so I couldn't get a clear shot.

Now that I know they are there, I am going to spend a bit of time at the lagoon for the next few mornings to see what I can come up with.

In the 15-20 minutes that I was there, I saw Fairy Wrens, Willy Wagtail, Sparrows, Water Fowl, Shags, Noisy Friar, Peaceful Dove, Top Notch Pigeon, Two varieties of duck, Grey Egret, White Egret, Ibis, Peewee, Kookaburra, Butcher Bird, bees, 3 varieties of dragonfly and wasps.

The lagoon is full of flowering lilies too.

I quite like this one, but wish I had better focus on the wasp.

I just found this one on Facebook and I like it.

Today I am grateful to be living across the road from a very healthy lagoon and I look forward to adding to the list of living creatures that I discover during Autumn and into Winter.  Just imagine what Spring will bring!!

Nite all.