Day 20: What's The Buzz?

Day 19: Fun On The Slide

Day 18: The 10 Minute Black & White Challenge

Whilst trawling around on the net, researching and learning about anything I can about photography, I came across some photography forums that had different challenges. Out of the many challenges that had been completed, I chose the 10 minute black & white challenge. Basically its designed to open your eyes to shots that you wouldn't normally take. For the challenge you could walk, run, drive the car, etc etc from home for 10 minutes exactly and then stop wherever you were and take a photo of something there. I decided to drive for 10 minutes out of my suburb to take the photo. It was quite a good challenge, so good in fact that I'll do it again soon but in the opposite direction.

Day 17: A Feisty Autumn Day

It was a gorgeous autumn day and I was nervous as all hell. I had organised my first photo shoot with one of my best friends and her family, and even though I was taking photos of people I knew I still was quite nervous. To try and overcome this, I arrived at the park where we were doing the shoot early, so that I could use my own boys as guinea pigs and get some ideas as to what kind of shots I wanted to do. Jack & Lewis were absolute little terrors and didn't want to do what they were told, which made me start to think that I was totally out of my depth. My gorgeous wife was of great help and comfort, and with her fresh perspective I saw shots that I wouldn't have even thought of. After getting acquainted with my surrounds, Kell and her family arrived. We hopped straight into it, and her kids were totally amazing which made it that much easier to get gorgeous shots. Overall I was quite happy with the way things turned out. It was definately a learning experience.

Day 16: Easter Send Off

Today we saw Easter off with a BBQ at the park with Megs's family. It was really nice and relaxing watching the kids having fun, whilst at the same time kinda sad to see Easter end. I've had an absolute blast these past five days off and am sad to see it end, and go back to work.

Day 15: Exploring Dad's Garden & The Surrounds

This morning I decided to take the opportunity to explore a little bit in Dad's garden, which is always full of interesting things with him being a nurseryman. There was lots of flowers and other interesting things in his garden that it's impossible to choose a best photo or a favourite. They're all unique in their own way, which is why there are lots of photos in this post. Yes I suppose I could eek them out over a period of a week or a month but then how am I/you meant to see whether I am improving or not.

Day 14: Happy Easter !!!

What an awesome morning it was today.  Today was the first time that we held an Easter egg hunt where Jack & Lewis truly understood the hunting for egg concept.  We'd decided to share in this moment with my parents, which just made it that all just a little more special.  It was kinda surreal creeping outside in the early hours of the morning with Dad to put out the Easter eggs for the kids.  Here I was doing the exact same thing years later, that he'd done for my brother and myself when we were kids, and now here I was doing the same thing for my kids, and with my father.  It was truly a special day.  Happy Easter everyone :-)