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...

Busselton Beach

Whilst in Busselton, I tried to get some long exposure beach shots. I didn't get a lot I could work with, but liked these two.

Father and Son

It's not often I have photos taken of myself, which is one of the perks of owning the camera I guess :) My wife took this one of Joel and myself on the beach enjoying some father/son time, which lasted for all of 20 seconds before he was up and away exploring.

Rottnest Island

It's Jo and my 7th year Anniversary tomorrow. So to celebrate I took her via plane to Rottnest Island. It was her first time in a small plane and I hadn't been in one since going sky diving. You forget how small and rickety they are!

Here is the plane we went in.


I took along my DSLR, hoping to get some good photos from the air. However shooting through dirty, double glass in a plane that lurches and rocks all over the place doesn't really make it easy. Here's a few photos, the last two of Rottnest Island as we approached.


First up was coffee and an early lunch. The cafe was absolutely packed! It's amazing how many people actually visit the island.


There's not too many exciting shots unfortunately and next time the DSLR will stay home and the P&S will do photo duties instead.

Jo took a few shots of seagulls.


And two more shots from the air when we were on our flight back home.


The photos aren't exciting, but the day was nice and relaxing. I'm blessed to be able to be married to Jo for 7 years and have 3 wonderful children!