Day-30 Something Beautiful!

Well day 30 has arrived, which means this is the end of my photo blog until next time. I have absolutely enjoyed it. I only know of a few people who actually took the time to read through each blog and now feels like they know me a bit better. The funny thing is I was going to plan to do this blog on my own to help me use my camera more often, but great minds think alike right Libbee and Becs. It's been an awesome experimenting time. I am sure when the new baby arrives my camera will be working over-time.

Some pics that I took on our Piha scenic bush walk that I thought were just beautiful... Here they are...

Piha Beach in the distance.

Close ups

I love taking pics of the sun through the trees.

Keri Keri Beach in the distance

Day-29 A great Memory!

I always love seeing daisies. It brings back so many memories of when I was little. I don't know if kids still go outside these days to play with all the technology keeping them busy. When I was young we would always find a whole stash of daisies and make necklaces. Then it didn't matter to me that it wouldn't last because it would die. It was just the fun of collecting and making something from scratch.

Not the most outstanding flower, but there always seems to be an endless amount of them.

Day-28 Your Favourite!

I have taken so many photos since having my camera, but I thought of having a look through the earlier photos that I took when I just got it. I still didn't really know how to use it then and was just snapping away. Also funny enough I didn't know how to use it in auto mode so these pics I took in manual mode.

I can see you...

Love the big cuddles...

These were taken on our favourite bush walk. Log Race Track! It is a road you you turn off while driving on your way to Piha Beach. Since we were going out and we were way more fit than we are now we use to be keen enough to do this walk every Saturday. It is a good 2 hour walk to Keri Keri Beach. We love the scenery throughout the walk. It also depends what time of the day you go. The oceans and the mountains just look so beautiful. The rest of the pics of this walk will be in the next two blogs.

This was our first bush walk with Levi. Clearly he didn't walk that much and poor daddy had to carry him most of the way. There are a lot of steep bits as well as downhills. But we survived it and loved showing him our favourite walk. I guess when the kiddies are old enough it will be the one thing we will be doing very often.

Day-27 Made you Laugh!

Cool dude!!

With Summer coming up really fast we've been trying to convince this little Mr.2 year old to wear his sunglasses that his grandpa bought for him ages ago. He has always been anti sunglasses. It made me laugh because he will totally wear daddy's pair, but absolutely refuses to wear the ones that are small enough for him. We will just have to keep trying to convince him to wear them. He prefers to wear his own ones on his neck. REALLY!!! LOL He is just too cute...

Day-27 A simple goodness!

Mmmmmmmm

I have a husband that is obsessed with Grabone. Use to be TradeMe! LOL but oh well. I got a good deal out of this one. Why would I ever say no to Butlers Chocolate Cafe... We made it a day and went to Sylvia Park on Sunday. And had a lovely little family day.

Chocolate Brownie and a hazelnut truffle

Hot Chocolate, so good.

Have no idea what this was called but it had chocolate mousse in the middle. Not allowed mousse, so just ate the cake.

We spent way less than we would have by getting it off Grabone. Have to say we felt pretty choco full after all of that. Heheheheeee. YUM!!!!

Day-25 Something you consider a triumph!

Well we set ourselves the challenge to do a bit of motion photography... Mmmmmmmm I missed out on the night trip to the bridge at the motorway to taking shots using shutter speed with the girls. So I set up my own little challenge at home. Me, my camera, a mini torch and my trusty tripod. I did a few shots really not worthy of posting because I was still experimenting and had no idea what I was doing. I set the the tripod up in my passageway and started off just playing around with the setting on the camera using it in Manual mode S. I did a few 15 sec shots and then tried out a few that were 30 sec. I had a bit of fun.

15 sec attempting to do a heart, looks more like a fat peach.

15 sec pretty good at attempting to do a circle.

30 sec I love this one. Looks so organic and I love how I have kinda disappeared because of all the motion. 

I consider it a triumph... Learning how to use the setting on the camera is a challenge in itself. But finally figuring certain things out and with them working the way I want it to is a total bonus.

Day-24 Something you cherish!

Well when I was young I spent a lot of those years at my grandma's place. There were a lot of little antiquie things I wish I could keep forever. She always had glass display cabinets full of glassware, and just stuff. I loved her house because there were so many old things. I remember those years like they were just yesterday. Both my parents worked when we were really young, so Ma(my dad's mum) looked after us(Geraldine & I). Nothing wrong with that.

This is as close as my camera would allow me to get to show you the detail of the top. Old and fading...

Held it in my hand to show how tiny it is.

This is a tiny Coca Cola bottle I took one day from Ma's house. I know, how naughty *Smacking my hand* I don't exactly remember when I took it, but it was a loooooong time ago. It is something I cherish a lot. I keep it in my jewellery box. I have always been thinking of making it into a charm for a necklace, but then I am too scared I might loose it. It is the one thing I can feel and look at that instantly reminds me of those fun young years... Thank you Ma!

Also when I was young I use to collect and safe keep just any old thing. My mum can tell you all about that. I guess that's why till today I still collect and keep things, but this time in cute jars or tins.
Back in the day I had this 'purple case' that would hold all my precious things like my diaries, letters, shells... I think I found the case when we lived in Cafda when my dad was the caretaker at my mums work. They always had a day when you could just have a rummage through and keep old books, records, suitcases, just things that other people no longer wanted. Well I found my beloved 'purple case' and to this day still have it.

My 'purple case'

I still have the key to lock it.

Just a bit of rusty detail.