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February 2, 2012 By 6 Comments
{a} afternoon coffee

{a} afternoon coffee

I did warn you about a possible slide show. Well here we go …

This is my first submission for Souvenir Foto School’s Alphabet challenge. Besides working around the alphabet, there is a lot of scope for what you wanted to do.

My last one was hodge podge ~ items starting with the letter x, y and z. This time, I wanted cohesion, a set, a theme.

But I couldn’t decide on anything.

So naturally I roped in Hubby who obligingly sent me through a list of random thoughts. And out of that, and my own thoughts, this is a very loose start.

Letters.

All I know is I wanted letters in it. I was thinking scrabble letters but, hmmm, cliche? Hubby suggested coffee and cocoa, I thought cookie cutter alphabet.

This idea will evolve. Afternoon coffee was not my original launching pad ~ as I hardly drink afternoon coffee, except for today after little sleep and a glass of wine with lunch.

After this first photo, I’m also thinking simple colours ~ a monochrome feel to each photo.

And because I have barely thought past today, it is also a challenge.

 

 

 

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{my creative space} it’s going to be foto february

February 2, 2012 By 1 Comment

photo time

Let’s all sing that familiar refrain ~ where has my week gone?

It’s Thursday, the smalls have almost completed a week back at school, and I still have a to do list as long as my arm.

Never mind, because things are getting creative around here, and now that I stop and think about it, it’s also getting exciting.

For starters, my week started on Tuesday. After the epic Australian Open final {which I had to wait for as a news hound}, I decided that Tuesday would be the  new Monday.

And amazingly it was quite the productive day.

But yesterday is when things got exciting, and busy. My day was caught up tending to one of the small’s needs, which blocked out most of my day, but inbetween, some amazing things happened.

  • We launched a new month, a new theme and a new design for the Creative Collective as it celebrates its birthday this February. Do stop by and check it out.
  • I won a spot in Vivienne McMaster’s Light Hunters course thanks to tinniegirl. {thank you thank you thank you Cathy!} I’m so looking forward to seeing how this reflects in my photography and I’m already taking more notice of the way light falls.
  • And Souvenir Foto School has started so I’m deep in thought about working around a theme.

And today, well, it’s time to start taking some photos.

So it’s going to be a bit of a foto February. Be ready for a slide show.

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through the lens of a pinhole … with Shelia Bocchine

February 1, 2012 By 1 Comment

{photo pulp} shelia bocchine - pinhole photography

Sheila Bocchine is travelling the world, documenting cultures and all things beautiful with … a pinhole camera.

She got in touch because she thought I might be interested in helping her spread the word about this rare and photographic process.

The pinhole camera is a type of Camera Obscura, the first camera invented in the 1850′s.  Before it was used as a camera with film, it was a tool to help artists learn to paint and draw with more detail, a tool devised to help tell time and a tool used by scientists for observing a solar eclipse.

My pinhole camera is lensless, uses medium format (120) film, is made from teak wood and produces square images. The exposures are longer to compensate for the pinhole, which is why you will see subtle blur and motion in all of my images. Since the world rarely stands still, my pinhole camera captures all the beautiful motion and energy onto the negative, thus resulting with dreamscape-like qualities.

{photo pulp} shelia bocchine - pinhole photography

I feel like each pinhole photograph is a marvelous dream… a surreal and whimsical moment in time that has swirled around my daydreams before coming out as the perfect pinhole photograph.

Pinhole photographs are romantic, surreal, unique… a fanciful interpretation of life.

Travelling, photography, unusual film technique. Of course I was interested.

You can buy Shelia’s prints on her website {international shipping is available}.

Or find her here:  / shop / blog / Google + / facebook

 

 

 

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{pretty pulp} est magazine

February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

{pretty pulp} est magazine

Who doesn’t love a good e-magazine? Something you can bring up on your computer and flick through during the long hours at work. Or better still, sit somewhere lovely with your favourite beverage and flick through on your iPad.

est magazine published their fourth issue yesterday and one of the things I love about this magazine is it’s Australian. I’m so proud, even though I’m just a  fan ~ I don’t actually work for them, that some of my favourite interiors magazine make such a big splash in the foreign market.

And est is no exception ~ this issue embarks on a trip across the seas, scouting the best Scandanvian design.

There is also a feature on street style photography Amy Arbus, whose fabulous studio you can spy up there and the home of designer Tine Kjeldsen.

You are sure to find some inspiration among its virtual pages.

read est magazine

 

 

 

 

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{tuesday’s top 5} school’s in ~ A-grade tips and tricks

January 31, 2012 By 1 Comment

back to school

Can you hear that? The collective sighs of relief from mums across the nation as the smalls head back to school. For us, it was like they had never left, I packed them up on Monday and off they went. Back to routine, just like that <inset finger snap here>. And so far it’s not too bad, but I won’t always be this organised. So I’ve bookmarked some tips here that I’ve spotted around the web this week  so perhaps I can start as I mean to go on!

  1. Mornings are not my thing so loving this series on “Make the Most of your Mornings” series on Tam’s blog Around here
  2. Lunch organisation with Kate Says Stuff ~ this is something I need to try, see point 1.
  3. Maddie at Lil Magooglie has rounded up some fabulous bento blogs for lunch ideas
  4. Some fun jokes and notes you can print out and pop in their lunch boxes
  5. Kate and her readers are sharing back to school snacks over at picklebums

And Nic has a great round-up of parent resources on Planning with Kids for children of all ages.

 

 

 

 

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