"Stung-ed"!

Jordan showing his eye - "Where the bee hit me"! He got 3 stings last Wednesday as did Joel, we were having a look at a tree that had just fallen near our place. Turns out he's allergic, he ended up with hives all over - that was a little confusing for him - "I haven't got hives its just a rash" he told us! He thought we were meaning bee hives! So he missed out on kinder, he didn't want to go and it was probably for the best, he was very swollen, itchy and quite grumpy.







Jordan painting earlier last week. Normally we paint outside but its been too hot. Makes for a colourful floor thats for sure. I had to laugh though, I told him to be more careful with the paint, then splattered some everywhere myself! He said "Now Mum, please be more careful you just got paint on my foot!" Ooops! He actually splattered some on my camera!



The camera had a bit of a rough week actually! He got me here too!





The exif data for the bath ones will only be on the middle one at Flickr (click them to view) because I de-noised the other two in noiseware which saves as a new file, but was the same for all of them, ISO 1600, f 1.8, 1/125s. Yeah my bathrooms dark! Although I love shallow DOF, I would have liked a slightly wider depth of field on the last one to get his hand in focus as well but I had no choice, there wasn't enough light! The focus on the bubble rather than the boy in the middle one was intentional in case anyone is wondering!

I should put some of my layouts here too but I can't be bothered now! Maybe next time.

Kinder Boy!

Jordan's first day at 3yo kinder. How was it? I am quite unsure, he and the teacher have very different opinions, she says he went well, he had a massive meltdown when I collected him and didn't sound quite so positive about it at all. Judging by the screaming, kicking, crying, throwing himself on the ground (because he hadnt been allowed to go into the empty daycare playground, which also happened last week at orientation), I would think not that well, added to the fact that he was outside on his own when I got there. The teacher said he'd only been a little upset for the past half hour or so. I really dont know, we'll see next week I guess. He is asleep now, emotionally exhausted poor boy.

So some more photos -

This one was taken in front of our glass door, worth trying for anyone who is after that high key look but cant be bothered with backdrops etc.





These where down at the river, my boy collecting pebbles, discovering and enjoying.



And after a swim!



And beautiful Bianca who started school last week! A big preppie now! We were only in Melbourne one day for an appointment and it was her day off school so I didn't get to see her in her uniform but Lisa showed me photos, so so cute in her huge dress complete with massive school bag! I got this beautiful one of her though and some more cuties of Jesse.

I think there is a few more on my flickr for those interested and now that I've discovered how easy it is to link to flickr photos rather than uploading here, I might even update more often!! If you click these photos you can see them in flickr, most of them will have the exif data on them if you want to view that, it can be helpful when learning manual to look at the settings of different photos (ISO, ap, shutter speed etc). Can give you ideas though obviously you need to go with what you need with your given light.

At lastly yes, I am now watermarking all my images for the web, I had heaps of photos taken off the web and used as someone elses own recently (discovered complete with theif's watermark!!!!) so its there as a bit of a deterrent.