Third Anniversary

Well it is three years today that we moved ourselves to Victoria. Here is a photo of Wayne's gold finds to date. We also made one of the most valuable avatars in history for Wayne's use on the gold forums.

Swimming

I took the kids swimming at the local outdoor pool this morning and they had a great time. Beautiful summer weather today.

Pink Petals

I have been doing some exercises with my camera experimenting with depth of field. These were my favourites out of the 58 photos that I took.

Sunset finish to Sunday

Thought this was a pretty sunset to finish off the day.

Mount Tarrangower

Today, the kids and I really needed a change of scenery so we headed to Maldon and up Mount Tarrangower. Here are some photos of the poppet head that we climbed and the view from the top. You can see how dry the ground is as we come into the fire season.

Christmas 2009

The cat was pretty unfazed by it all

Christmas has been a bit of a mixed bag this year. Emily suffered all night with a tummy bug so I was up emptying the bowl several times during the night. So we were all feeling a bit tired and a bit seedy by the morning. Kids were up at 6.00am and ready to open their presents. I managed to hold them off until 7.30am when Wayne got up. They loved all their presents and were kept entertained until we went out to lunch at 12.00pm. Lunch also had it's ups and downs. The food was delicious and the queuing for everything not so exciting. Poor Em hardly ate a thing and was not the best person to sit next to while dissecting King Prawns. She's such a sweetie though and didn't complain. Here are some photos of our Christmas Day.

Ferret fotos

I went next door and took some photos of the neighbours ferrets. Very cute!

Santa's Apprentice

Chocolate Christmas Tree

Here is a photo of the lovely and yummy Christmas Tree that my boss Shioban created and constructed for a Christmas present for us. It came with the cute chopping board and wrapped in cellophane with a gold bow. I was very impressed.

Telephoto lens today

Second day out and very impressed with the telephoto lens for bird photos. These were all taken at Lake Weeroona

First day out for the new camera

Armed with my new Canon 450d and very little knowledge of how to use it, I set out to do some hands on learning. Here are the best photos from today. I took 288 and here are 10. Any comments welcome regarding how I could have improved my technique. I only took the 18-55mm lens today. Tomorrow I will do a similar thing with the 55-250mm so check back soon.

Lighting of the Christmas Tree

I took the kids out tonight to watch the Town Christmas tree being lit up. There was carol singing and ice cream and some great things to take photos of. No kid ones sorry, they had icecream all over their faces.