Days 149 - 151, 28 - 30 May 2012

Hello!

I'm actually posting the last photos of the month on the last day of the month, it's a miracle! This is the end of the fifth month that I have been taking a photo a day. Seven months to go... or will I just continue forevermore???

Day 149, 28 May 2012 - The weather today
The weather started with a clear blue sky in the morning, but I didn't capture that properly. Then I would have no idea what the weather did all day, although the wet pavements when I left work in the evening indicated it had rained. I caught a picture of the sky on our way home in the evening, and it was worth the wait.

Here are my other two photos from the morning. In the first one, the sun is peeking around the side of a building up the street.

And here is the second.

Both of these photos are looking up Ann Street in Brisbane from the corner of Creek Street.

Day 150, 29 May 2012 - A number
I've been wanting to photograph this number for several weeks. Today's theme was perfect for it. And the subject was perfect for me to try out my new iPhone app "Marble Cam". 280 Adelaide Street, Brisbane.

Day 151, 30 May 2012 - Your personality
My personality? What? How do I capture THAT in a photo? LOL! I drew a doodle and water-coloured it.

I'll leave the interpretation up to you. ;-)

:-)
Michelle

Days 142 - 144, 21 - 23 May 2012: Canberra

Hello!

I traveled to Canberra for work this week. It was a bit chilly down there. I survived. Lucky I own a woolen overcoat.

On my flight down, I saw this:

It was late afternoon. The clouds were very interesting for the whole trip. I loved these wispy ones. This was getting close to Canberra and I was about to switch my phone off again.

Driving from the airport to my hotel, I saw this:

It was such a pretty sunset. When we drove past the Australian War Memorial, I saw about 10 photographers lined up on the steps with their cameras looking back towards Parliament House. They would have got some awesome shots this evening, the light was magical.

Day 142, 21 May 2012 - Where I stand
Where I stood was in my hotel room, out of my shoes, and about to unpack my bag.

Day 143, 22 May, the theme was PINK. There wasn't any pink to be found this day. I was in a work conference all day and at a work dinner all night.  What I did find was FROST, on the car, in the morning.

That slowed us down getting out of the carpark on our way to breakfast. :-) It was about 2 degrees celcius (35F) by 8am.

Day 144, 23 May 2012 - Technology
Before I get to my technology shot, here is a little view of Civic in Canberra.

I love these buildings. They have such straight lines and feel so ultra-modern, stark almost. But the streets are clean and quiet, and there are trees. In summer they have gorgeous flower pots hanging along the street.

Most of the trees had lost most of their leaves already. Winter is only a few days away!

And here is my technology photo, at the airport on my way home.

The tarmac. Oh, the sunset was gorgeous. I was itching to get outside and check it out, but I would have missed my plane!

And here is a tiny taste of the awesome sunset. Unedited pic from my iPhone.

Those two little specks of light are the moon (above) and Venus. Pretty hard to capture on an iPhone, and my camera couldn't cope with the reflections on the plane window. I had my phone pressed against the window to get this one. That line at the bottom of the picture is the plane engine.

I hope you enjoyed my little work trip.

:-)
Michelle

Day 128 - 7 May 2012

Hello!

The theme for 7 May 2012 is Someone who inspires you.

I had a think about this. I know a lot of people will choose celebrities, or people they don't know but who have done amazing things, or survived amazing events, but I wanted to choose someone who is close to me and really inspires me daily just by being themselves, not by circumstance.

I have two people who inspire me, all the time, every day.  My two daughters are the lights of my life. They are clever, they are brave, they are kind, they are generous, they are fun, they are musical, they amaze me, they make me laugh, they make me want to do better, they make me want to be their role model, they fill me with love. (And one of them just got me to dance in the middle of writing this post).

This photo shows one of the things that inspire me about these girls. They help each other. They protect each other. Even when they are fighting with each other, if they feel that someone else is being unfair, they will stop their own fight to protect the other. Their love for each other is inspirational.

On this day, we had an amazing, spectacular sunset. The previous night's sunset was subtle. This one was the exact opposite. Instagram was FULL of Brisbane sunsets on 7 May, it caught everyone's eye. I am sharing the progress from beautiful silver sky to bright orange. None of these are edited, so you get to see what my iPhone camera saw. I was TOTALLY wishing I'd taken my big camera to the park with us...

These four photos were taken over about 20 - 30 minutes as we walked home.

 When the clouds turned silver, I was already in awe.

 Then they went a little orange and I thought this may be all the sunset had to offer.

 And then THIS happened. It was brighter than this looks. BRIGHT pinks and oranges, and the clouds were leaving purple shadows on the clouds above, and then behind that the blue sky.

My Instagram photo is this one. I boosted the colour a little to show what I saw with my eyes.

And because I've already added a million photos, one more from this day. Coco the spoodle.

:-)
Michelle

Day 127 - 6 May 2012

Hello!

The theme for today is You, that is ME. :-)  Lucky you, you get to see another photo of me...

I think I'm getting better at self-portraits on the iPhone, what do you think?

On 6 May we were blessed with a beautiful, subtle sunset, which I will also share. I was walking the kids and the dog down at the park when the sky went a beautiful pink. I boosted the colours slightly, but this is pretty much what it looked like.

I love that the orange and pink merged into the deep dark blue of the evening sky.

:-)
Michelle

Day 124 - 3 May 2012

Hello,

The Photo A Day theme for 3 May was Something I wore. I had ideas of taking photos of piles of clothes, or telling a little white lie and finding something glamorous to photograph... but the reality was that I spent the day racing around after my kids in my blue jeans. :-)

I also took a photo of our strange sunset. There was a little patch of blue in the distance. The clouds were really interesting to watch.

:-)
Michelle

Days 111-113 - 20 to 22 April

Hello!

Woo hoo! Caught up!

Day 111, 20 April 2012, Something I drew
I'm not an artist. I'd like to be. But I'm not, yet. I could have drawn a stick figure and been done with it. I decided that I would try to draw "something". So while my little one was at swimming lesson I played around trying to draw a lotus flower.  I have drawn a few more since this one, and they are getting better.

Then I decided I would draw another and colour it. Not so great, but worth the practice.

And then my 4 year old wanted to do one of her own. After trying for herself, she asked me to draw the flower for her to colour. I think she did a great job.

Day 112, 21 April 2012, Bottle

We had another beautiful sunset. As I passed the war memorial, the traffic stopped long enough for me to take ONE photo.

Day 113, 22 April 2012, The last thing I bought
Other than the groceries, I haven't bought much lately. I did recently get a few stamps and dies (my indulgence).

:-)
Michelle

Days 107-108 - 16 to 17 April 2012

Hello!

I'm playing catch up! I went away for work this week, and everything else fell behind.

Day 107 - 16 April 2012
The April Photo a Day theme was flower. I captured this bougainvillea while I walked to the train station in the morning.

I also saw some amazing clouds that day.

And a beautiful sunset.

Day 108 - 17 April 2012
I travelled to Cairns on an early morning flight. The theme for the day was Something I don't like. I didn't like leaving my family for work.
Brisbane Airport:

In the air:

Cairns International Airport:

Cairns Esplanade at sunset.

My hotel room:

The room and bed were huge. I stayed at the Holiday Inn. I'd recommend it. Let's take a closer look at those pillows.

Ooh, and to my delight, the "soft" version were feather pillows! I miss my featherdown pillow when I travel, so this made me feel right at home.


:-)
Michelle

Day 95 - 4 April 2012 - Someone who makes me happy

Hello!

Day 95 is Day 4 of Photo a Day April with the theme - Someone who makes me happy.

I happened to be walking behind my scooting daughter and snapped this shot. She makes me happy.

When I bought that scooter for her, I chose one that is solid and strong (up to 100kg weight limit) because I thought it would last longer if her friends decided to start jumping it or doing other stunts. Walking along behind her, I wonder if maybe her feet will get too long for it before she grows out of wanting to use it, LOL!

On our way home that night, there was a beautiful sunset. I took a moment to capture it when we stopped at the shops.

I was lucky that the sunset was in the perfect position for me to capture the silhouettes of the palm trees.

:-)
Michelle

Day 70 - 10 March 2012

Hello!

On Day 70 we attended our nephew's engagement party. The party started at sunset. The view from their backyard was so beautiful for a couple of hours with the changing colours of the sky.

I had a terrible discovery after taking all the photos at the engagement. I had reduced the quality of my photos in my camera down to lowest quality to take some card photos, and had forgotten to put the quality up again. I had more than 24 hours (and about 150 photos) of low quality photos! So disappointed! I should have realised when I couldn't take a decent photo of the AMAZING moon and stars, argh! Oh well, lesson learned.

:-)
Michelle

Day 54 - 23 February 2012

Hello!

Today's photo is one of our many magpies that live in our front yard.

He's all puffed up, he must have been feeling slightly chilly. :-)  I just noticed he only had one leg down, too. Maybe he only has one leg?

One day, in the far away future, we will renovate our roof. I'll have to remember to send people back to look at this photo to remember how bad is really was, LOL! Our roof is actually "white", but the white has worn off most of it over the past 37 years of its existence. Just one of the many renovation projects we have on our list...

Two other photos, because I can't resist sharing our amazing clouds and sunsets lately. First the sunset photo. I got lots of these. Spectacular colours and clouds. No editing again on the sunset, I can't improve them.

 Doesn't this cloudy sky look fake? If you painted it, people would tell you it didn't look real.

I did edit the clouds - just changed the levels a bit, if I remember correctly.

:-)
Michelle