Beyond Snapshots

I get asked a LOT by friends, family and clients about taking photos and recommending places to learn. I am primarily self taught having taken classes in photography at highschool, uni and tafe over the years but most I have learnt myself by reading, practising a lot and trial and error. There are some great books out there to read and learn the basics but you can learn a lot by reading online, for FREE! Check out this site which is set up by two female photogs to teach people how to take great photos themselves....

.... and here is my entry for their competition to win a GORGEOUS red (my fav!) bag from Epiphanie... photo from my January photo a day series of my youngest in a bit of a red mood having an outdoor bath.

2010 - already!

Well 2009 most certainly flew by. I had a good year, it was very busy for photos especially heading towards Christmas as the Perth weather warmed up and people got moving out and about. Personally, I tackled the greater portion of a Graduate Diploma in Education this year which was incredibly interesting for me as a parent and nice to be back studying again despite the overnighters to get assignments in on time. 2010 will be spent finishing the one year long practical component unit and the ATP in term 3 - NOT looking forward to that one bit and may put it off another year. I'm in no hurry it was mainly for my own personal interest that I decided to do it. My three kids all grew about three inchs and for the most part it was the first year of having all my children at school but although I had more time I just crammed it full of more work and study. It was fun, challenging and tiring in equal portions. I also missed my kids.
2009 saw several beautiful friends of mine go through some extremely challenging times. Some I was able to be there for and others I wasn't although my heart was always with them. It was hard emotionally watching on from afar yet there is nothing you can do to really change anything. I hope 2010 sees good health and happiness for all my friends and family.

For the summer holidays I am going to attempt a personal project taking one photo every day. In reality I take photos several days a week and usually hundreds at a time, but this usually isn't of my own family. I have a little point and shoot Olympus that I take the happy snaps of my family life with nothing flash just capturing the memories and then once or twice a month I drag the gear out and take some photos of the kids. For January I plan on taking at least one half decent shot every day - simple just one photo of my life that makes me smile. I will post them here in batches. Pretty sure it won't be every day that I post but I will at least take that photo every day.