Wednesday, October 8, 2008
...out with the old and in with the new...
and be totally amazed at how i have managed to move everyone and their junk, the office and studio, mikes hoards of stuff and create a new blog to boot!!...
...well, i did have some help...thanks babe...:)
Sunday, October 5, 2008
...i will miss the snails...
but i was out-voted in the election to move back to suburbia and a purpose built office/studio and 4 minutes from the beach, 3 minutes to schools and 1 minute from a bus to the CBD...
so we are on the move and hence the office will unfortunately have to close for 2 weeks from today 6th october to monday 20th october...with telephone contact to clients we are expected to see during this period...emails may not be answered until we are up and running with an entire new system (and new blog!) so please call us on the mobile at any time 0427 773 503..and sympathise with me as i move 6 kids and their collected junk and the entire contents of the shed containing mike's "just in case" stash!
see you on the other side...
Friday, September 19, 2008
brett and jos...sneak peek...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
...mick's pix are a hit...
this little fellow was a page boy at rob and shaynees wedding...still super cute...
benita and her assistant from the parade...the food was divine ladies...thanks ever so much!
the lovely young bride-to-be won a hamper and we thought it deserved a congratulatory photo...
hard bod and handsome mattie and uber sweet and totally gorgeous kaylene...thanks for a wonderful dinner you two divine people...fantastic end to a busy sunday...
this is evan and his baby girl...also soon to experience pixel magix marvellousness...
and then the world stopped spinning and gasped as super stars in the beauty industry, cat and jaci from living beauty day spa, luxe hairdressing and dare boutique arrived and caused an instant sensation with sweet smiles and glamour goodness...you go girlfriends!...
but wait...the girls are back in town...
then we chatted to a warm and friendly grandma who was a minding a little walker while mum watched the fashion parade...
three expos in one year is definately our limit...so we say farewell to seeing you on a lazy afternoon amidst crowds, limousines, flowers and cakes and please call and say hello on a more personal level...we now have confirmed dates all the way to the end of 2010, so if you were thinking about us and thinking it is too early to book - it is so not!
...and we have more incredibly exciting innovations (how on earth do we top the magix booth you ask?...) for next year and beyond...send us some lovin'
here's to a sellout 08/09 season...see you on the other side...:)
...donnelly river dreaming...
the first thing the hits you in the face when you arrive is the large contigent of emus and kangaroos - old, young and scatty teenagers - that are incredibly friendly and in abundance...
"walk this way...talk this way"...(80's melodramatic guitar fades out)
donnelly river in its former life, was a timber community, with a mill and school, and the old homes and buildings are a photographers dream...please God, keep the spring light and blossoms and leaves and goodness for just 2 more weeks...
i could almost hear the cogs turning in mikes head when he spotted this...
the old mill is officially out of bounds...but we always carry bolt cutters as a matter of course...
there are so many 70's locations just screaming for some polaroid loving...
persuading the kids to take time out from freely wandering to pose was difficult..but that is why mr peters creameries made drumsticks...lucy took a little more convincing than normal...
ka-chow...
daisy, of course, knows the drill...walk, turn, pick a flower, smile...
this would have to be my fav shot of the day (...oh, and its mine...) for many many reasons (are you freakin kidding me?...look at the door and the wall and the angle and and...) but definately because i have finally been able to capture one handsome young man...
you are literally surrounded by the magnificent karri's - its so quiet and surreal at times...
we continued our meandering and found even more 70's icons - my view...
as is often the case...i turned my back and he was gone...hey babe - fathers day!!!!...
daisy fell in love with the huge swing...
and the rockin boat thing that nearly tipped her over...
but i drew the line at letting her on the slide of death...i'm sorry there are no images of the kids on this horror - i was hiding behind a tractor tyre with my eyes closed...
ok all you gen x kids - remember this see-saw - no handles, no safe height, no soft sand??? just one long plank of fear...
i dragged the kids away - forgot my blood pressure meds so there was no possible way they could remain - and we went to inspect the old school house...father of the year was already there and snapped this pretty tree...
the balcony and beyond was so pretty...
all too quick light was fading and we had a long drive home, so we broke the news that we were heading home...unimpressed is an understatement...
so we bribed them with a few more bog laps around the town to wave goodbye to emus and kangaroos and my heart skipped a beat when we discovered this little corner and all was well the universe (well mine anyway...)
if you have kids and like sunday drives, we can not recommend this settlement enough...show them how life was when you were young and free and life was as safe as timber cottages with camellia covered verandahs...