I used to think blue was my favourite colour, like the ocean and a perfect summer’s sky, but more and more it is green that really rocks me. I love all the contrasting shades of green in nature, and the vibrancy of trees after a heavy rain. I love the inviting canopy of a lush, […]
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Grateful for the calm after the storm…
The raging sea is quiet, fishing boats at ease. The ferry glides out the harbour, a sight to please. The planes descend, to a Wellington of calm. From the sky all looks fine, though the beaten coast needs many caring hands. Sea walls completely washed away, footpaths and roads a mess. Sand dunes dealt a massive blow, […]
#FMSPhotoADay | 7 – 13 June
LOVING #FMSPhotoADay Challenge | 1 – 6 June
Loving joining in with FMS ‘Photo A Day’ challenge this month. There’s a different theme for every day of the month and it’s fun to be a little more observant of the every day (and the not so every day!). Here’s the first six days of June… 1 June – B is for… had fun […]
The Photo Gallery | Two… Masts arrived in a storm
‘Two’ is the theme this week on ‘The Photo Gallery’ and this morning, on World Environment Day, 5 June 2013, an amazing sight met my eyes as I drove along Wellington’s south coast, on the way to my oldest daughter’s school. The wild storm of last night trapped a waka crew anchored in heavy seas. […]
The Photo Gallery | The Weekend
I was delighted to hear my friends and family in the UK enjoyed a much deserved May Bank Holiday weekend of sunshine. Here in Wellington we enjoyed amazing Autumn sunshine too and when I read that Tara, at Sticky Fingers blog, had set the theme of ‘The Weekend’ for this week’s ‘Photo Gallery‘ I knew […]
The Photo Gallery | Self Portrait
The Photo Gallery theme this week is, ‘Self Portrait’. Lately I’ve been putting myself in-front of the camera a lot more frequently – in response to my children often asking, ‘Where’s Mummy?’, when they look through photo albums of themselves from their younger years. The majority of the time I am behind the camera, capturing […]
The Photo Gallery: Expressions from an Autumn Holiday in Queenstown
It’s beautiful here on holiday in Queenstown. The autumn colours are breathtaking and the light works its magic on the landscapes like an artist’s paint-brush. The expressions of our children, enjoying their holiday, are plentiful to light up our hearts too. Young Alice, rolling on the grass, under canopies of golden leaves… Her face radiant […]
The Photo Gallery | Youth
Sweet 16. The year 1990. Perms were in, so were floral dresses. I was all dressed up for my school ‘Prom’, after completing my G.C.S.E.’s and readying myself for ‘Sixth Form College’. I’d spent the past few years suffering acne and tram-line braces. I was only just beginning to be interested in boys – up […]
The Photo Gallery | Happy
Happy am I, on the beach, by the sea. On my own, or with my family. Breathing it in, letting it out. The scent of life, in the air, around me. Happy am I, on my own, in the bush, Running on tracks, winding up to the sun. Emerging, fresh, from a green canopy, To […]
The Photo Gallery | Together
A long weekend gave us time to be together as a family – even if, at times, my mind wasn’t all ‘together’ with it! In my mind there are always people floating around – physically distant from me, but close in my thoughts, that I wish to be together with – for a moment in […]
The Photo Gallery | Walks
Along a pathway lined with driftwood and shells, is a walkway on Wellington’s south coast. There are hundreds of beautiful walks around the city and in the bush reserves, but this is the walk that’s close to home. It’s my little place of escape, where I go to exercise, to free my mind, to listen […]
Silent Sunday
The Photo Gallery: The Letter C
These past hot months, of the most incredible summer New Zealand has seen in decades, has been intensely wonderful. We’ve enjoyed endless evenings of playing out till dark, and days with windows flung open to let air fill the house. We’ve not had to layer up in months, our skin has been free to breath, […]