Massaman curry

I'm going through a bit of a Thai food loving craze at the moment. Every time I cook something new, I tell myself to take a few photos and blog it, but never get around to it, until now!

Beanies!

It's beanie weather! I wanted some head shot photos of my sons for some canvas prints so I dragged out the beanies and the camera. I'm not sure I got the shots I wanted, but I liked these anyway and it's high time I did a blog update :)

Dwayne and Klazine Engagement

This was my first early morning shoot and the light held up wonderfully. Dwayne's sister managed to get us access to this excellent farm, which provided an awesome setting for the shoot. In amongst the mud we had a great time :) Here's a selection of photos...

Joslyn and Blake Engagement

A few months ago I took some studio photos for the recently engaged Joslyn and Blake. Since then we'd been meaning to get outside and take some more. It finally happened last weekend and we just happened to pick a nice rainy day :) In between a mad dash to the car as the skies opened up, we got the shoot done in record time, in under an hour.

I had a great time doing the shoot, thanks guys :D

Perth Zoo

I took my family to Perth Zoo last week. We hadn't been in about 4 years, so Aran and Joel who had never been had a blast. I didn't get a huge amount of photos, but here's a few. Trying to juggle a SLR and three kids makes for an interesting day to say the least. As usual, click on the photos for viewing.

These were taken in the reptile area. As you can tell from my captions, I didn't pay a lot of attention to what kinds of animals I was photographing...



Joel loved the Rhinos. They were having a mud bath right near the fence that you watched from and he was enthralled :)



I met up at the Zoo with Richard from work and his son Henry. Henry is a fantastic kid and is always happy to pose for a photo. Although he spent a lot of time wanting to take photos with my camera. Needless to say, the gripped D700 and a 300mm lens was just a little bit heavy for him to lift :) This first shot is at ISO 6400 and shows just how good the D700 is at high ISO.

Joel

Joel is my youngest son and is normally super busy. He did oblige and sit for a second for a few photos here, but then was off doing something else. He's got the attention span of a fly, constantly going from one thing to another, whilst in his own little world, occasionaly coming to ours to share a cuddle, a kiss or to get food. He's also incredibly naughty, compared to our other two sons, which keeps us on our toes. Unless it's that as parents we get lax with discipline as we get more kids :)

Aran

I keep telling myself I need to get out and shoot more, so I decided to take some photos of Aran, my nearly 4 year old, in his new shirt that he is very proud of :) It's hard getting a kid to pose and they pull the most random stupid expressions when you don't want them to. The difference in expressions between two photos taken half a second apart can be amazing, so it's lots of clicking and picking the best ones :)



He's got a serious model look going on here and in the second photo he was more interested playing with his buttons then looking at me.

Loafers Organic

My wife and I watched a TV show called 'Great British Food Revival' the other night. It featured Artisan Bread and how the bread of today is just mass produced 'rubbish'. Inspired by this, a google turned up Loafers Organic, a local Artisan Baker. It turns out he sells his bread at the Subiaco Farmers Markets. So, we visited it this morning and I'm glad I did. There is a lot of fresh produce down there and a very friendly and happy bunch of store owners. I try to eat minimal gluten, but could not pass up on the beautiful loaves from Loafers Organic. They are truly amazing in both looks and taste. The Natural Grain loaf with some Fig Jam from Carm-Ol Produce (also from the Markets) is an absolute taste sensation. My kids love the jam and bread as well, which means less for me unfortunately.

I highly recommend trying some of this bread. Also pictured is the Miche loaf, which I can't wait to try.

New Blog URL

My Blog URL has changed to http://blog.perfectexposure.com.au. If you have bookmarked this site, please update your bookmarks.

This change is the first step in having my own website that will run alongside this Blog. Further information to come...

Sunset at the beach

I wanted to get out on the long weekend and get a sunrise shoot in, so pencilled in Tuesday. It's the sort of thing that sounds like an awesome idea a week beforehand, but not so good on Tuesday morning at 430am. Having missed that, I went at night instead as Dave asked me along to a spot he wanted to shoot. On the way, the sun was setting fantastically but closer to sunset clouds decided to get in the way, and I didn't really get a lot of usable shots. The kids had an awesome time trekking along the beach tho :)

Here's the only shot I ended up with that was ok. A bit of post-processing makes it a lot better than the original. The horizon is in the centre, which goes against the rule-of-thirds. Luckily that's only a rule, and rules make for boring photography :) I prefer it in the middle in this shot, so that's were it is :)

Golden Sunlight

On a drive back from scouting out some photo locations, the sun was setting and I saw lots of opportunities for awesome sunset photos. As luck would have it, I only had my 85mm lens, no tripod and a car with hungry kids. With those shots passed up, I stopped for this one instead, with the golden sunlight coming through leaves of this small tree.

Train tracks

It's a cliched shot that's been done to death, but it didn't stop me from doing it too :) My kids had a ball playing on this disused train track, and even stopped to pose for a photo.

Random shots from Busselton

I took a week off work and went down to Busselton for a few days with my awesome family. Here are some random snapshots from our time down there. As usual, click for larger and use the buttons to navigate through the photos.



We went to a farm where the boys could feed the animals. Highly recommended if you have kids, they loved it! It was called Country Life Farm just outside of Dunsborough.



The farm had a merry-go-around, bouncy castle and two indoor play areas for kids, excellent value for money :)



And a couple more random shots of our boys

Xavier

A while back I tried to get some photos of Xavier. I say tried, because he wasn't real keen on being the subject of my photography. I managed to get a few photos before he decided he'd rather be in the swimming pool with his Dad :) He is one awesome little dude tho :D

In the studio with Jo

My sister recently returned from travelling around Australia (shameless plug for her excellent blog here). As you can tell from her blog, she's an excellent photographer. For some reason I offered to take some studio shots of her. Studio shots are what she used to do before travelling, and she does them very well, so it was a tad daunting. However, she's just as good a model as a photographer and came up with some excellent posing ideas. Enjoy some of the results...