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Cath xx
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Blooming Delicious
One of my clients Donna called me up the other day to ask if I could come to her house and photograph some chocolates she was making, apparently Donna has just started a small home based business making Chocolate Bouquets. I had a mental picture of what I thought these would look like, but nothing like what they were really like. Donna makes the chocolates and then paints each one by hand which takes hours and hours of work.
Her house smelt like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, (or at least what I thought it might smell like since I haven't actually been to Willy Wonka's) but I can say that the temptation was too great for me today as it was supposed to be my second day of a 2 week "no sugar" health kick. Well, I can start that again tomorrow!
In the mean time here is a little blog header that I whipped up for Donna in my digital kitchen tonight. LOL.
Her house smelt like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, (or at least what I thought it might smell like since I haven't actually been to Willy Wonka's) but I can say that the temptation was too great for me today as it was supposed to be my second day of a 2 week "no sugar" health kick. Well, I can start that again tomorrow!
In the mean time here is a little blog header that I whipped up for Donna in my digital kitchen tonight. LOL.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Little Noah's first Photo Shoot
I have been looking forward to meeting little Noah and his family for almost 4 months, after his beautiful Aunty bought his parents a gift voucher for Christmas. When I dropped off the gift voucher to his Grandmother's house I was met by the nicest lady and I knew that the rest of her family were going to be equally as lovely. I was not wrong. Carol and Con are such a nice, friendly couple....and little Noah is a cutie. He did not cry at all during our shoot, what a little champion.
Carol and Con live across the road from a beautiful park with a huge lake complete with ducks and all. ( I even saw a Pelican, I don't know what he's doing there but he looked happy enough). Anyway, they chose to have their family portraits taken at the park, which was a good call as there were some dark clouds looming above for a while and then the heavens opened up and it started to rain so we took the shoot indoors.
Here are a couple of the photos from their session that I thought captured their personalities well.
Carol and Con live across the road from a beautiful park with a huge lake complete with ducks and all. ( I even saw a Pelican, I don't know what he's doing there but he looked happy enough). Anyway, they chose to have their family portraits taken at the park, which was a good call as there were some dark clouds looming above for a while and then the heavens opened up and it started to rain so we took the shoot indoors.
Here are a couple of the photos from their session that I thought captured their personalities well.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Thomas the Tank Engine
Ok, so that is misleading. This post has nothing to do with the "real Thomas" but the very next best thing. My youngest child Benjamin is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Bulider, and pretty much every animal alive. I had been thinking about taking him for a ride on a very special train at the Zig Zag Railway in the Blue Mountains just west of Sydney for a while. But I knew if I didn't make time in my schedule for a family day we would never go. So today after weeks of talking about it we did it.
Ben was so excited. Ever since I told him we were going to see a train just like Thomas he kept saying "I want Thomas, I want to ride the train, I want Thomas" You get the drift. So we packed up the car with a picnic lunch, forced one of my teenage children to come for the trip (she went kicking and screaming, but at least she came. Apparently ice-skating with friends is more fun than family day! LOL) and headed off for the 1 1/2 hour journey stopping at the same bakery that my family always stopped at on the way up the mountains for some delicious meat pies.
When we got to Clarence, where the Zig Zag railway is, Ben could hardly contain himself with excitement. He was running up and down the station looking for Thomas. When he finally heard the sound of the Steam Engine chugging along the tracks he looked a little tentative - I don't think he thought it was going to be so big, after all the Thomas train he sat on in the shops yesterday was only about 5 ft tall! We embarked on the train and went on a very exciting journey for young Ben, a journey that I had been on before as a child, and one that my daughter Cassandra (the unhappy teenager) had been on also with her Nanna. Isn't it funny how as adults we give our children the same childhood experiences that we had.....kind of like sharing our past with our present.
Anywhoo, needless to say Ben was most upset when we finally finished our journey back Clarence Station, he cried for "Thomas" for about 5 minutes until he drifted off to sleep in the car. When he awoke were were in Mt Wilson, another place I used to visit with my Mother and Grandparents. In fact this place was one of my Grandparents favourite places to visit and since I am planning a photo shoot for my family there in a few weeks time I wanted to find the locations and check out the status of the Autumn leaves. We had a beautiful picnic in the park and took a nice walk around "The Avenue" looking for some nice locations. It was a beautiful day, and in the end I think the unhappy teenager might just have had some fun along the way!
A very rare shot of me with Ben
Ben was so excited. Ever since I told him we were going to see a train just like Thomas he kept saying "I want Thomas, I want to ride the train, I want Thomas" You get the drift. So we packed up the car with a picnic lunch, forced one of my teenage children to come for the trip (she went kicking and screaming, but at least she came. Apparently ice-skating with friends is more fun than family day! LOL) and headed off for the 1 1/2 hour journey stopping at the same bakery that my family always stopped at on the way up the mountains for some delicious meat pies.
When we got to Clarence, where the Zig Zag railway is, Ben could hardly contain himself with excitement. He was running up and down the station looking for Thomas. When he finally heard the sound of the Steam Engine chugging along the tracks he looked a little tentative - I don't think he thought it was going to be so big, after all the Thomas train he sat on in the shops yesterday was only about 5 ft tall! We embarked on the train and went on a very exciting journey for young Ben, a journey that I had been on before as a child, and one that my daughter Cassandra (the unhappy teenager) had been on also with her Nanna. Isn't it funny how as adults we give our children the same childhood experiences that we had.....kind of like sharing our past with our present.
Anywhoo, needless to say Ben was most upset when we finally finished our journey back Clarence Station, he cried for "Thomas" for about 5 minutes until he drifted off to sleep in the car. When he awoke were were in Mt Wilson, another place I used to visit with my Mother and Grandparents. In fact this place was one of my Grandparents favourite places to visit and since I am planning a photo shoot for my family there in a few weeks time I wanted to find the locations and check out the status of the Autumn leaves. We had a beautiful picnic in the park and took a nice walk around "The Avenue" looking for some nice locations. It was a beautiful day, and in the end I think the unhappy teenager might just have had some fun along the way!
A very rare shot of me with Ben
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