Merry Christmas

Today I went to visit my sister Marion.  She has the most beautiful Christmas tree and I wanted to try to take a nice photo of it. It was a lovely visit with my sister Sue as well and this is the photo I took... well one of many.

Merry Christmas to you.

Playing with water

hi there,
today I met up with the Friends in Focus group and we played with some water droplets and also soda water on flowers. I learnt lots about how to do things like this. Here are some of the shots I took today.
This first one is beaded water on a piece of glass with the daisy underneath and if you look closely at the droplets you can see the daisy in them.

with this next photo I have taken it with the usual settings on my camera and you can see the flower is dark and the sky is showing. In the following photo just by changing the settings you get to see the flower and white behind where the sky is. So different by just changing a few settings.

In the next 2 photos there is a small aquarium set up with a flower held upside down in it and then added soda water which causes the bubbles around the flowers. Such fun can be had with a few simple supplies and some help from a friend.

Thats all for today and as soon as I get to edit my photos from our family get together's, I will add them here too.
have a good week
Andrea

Fireworks

While in Busselton the Show was on and they had Fireworks. I had just been reading up on taking photos of fireworks so decided to have a go. It was a small show so there wasn't a lot of width in the display but here are some photos I took.

Not too bad for a first try.
take care
Andrea

Orchids

hello again,
Here are a couple of pics of the Spider Orchids I saw while in Busselton.

Wildflowers in Busselton

hi there,
Graham and I went to Busselton for our 10th wedding anniversary on November 2nd.  While there we went out to a bush area and walked through some bush tracks. There were a few orchids and a lovely flower called a Blood Flower. I really loved this flower. here are a couple of photos of it.

I will come back tomorrow to show a couple of the spider orchids I found.
have a good weekend
Andrea

Honeyeater in the garden

hi there,
I was visiting our friend Gus's place last night and there were lots of birds in the garden. This is one that I managed to get close enough to, to get a decent photo.

Enjoy your week
Andrea

Skye and her bones

Hi there,
This morning as I walked by a basket of clothes that Graham had been searching in.... (yes I am a terrible wash person. I wash the clothes but they don't always get put straight away).... I trod on a bone that had apparently been buried in the washing. Skye loves her bones but as most dogs do she likes to bury them. Its usually in the pot plants but every now and then she decides a basket of washing is a better place.
This is Skye looking like she has enjoyed her bone.

This was just a lucky catch of Skye licking her lips...
have a great day
Andrea