Water Happiness

I am so happy - I am on theme - yay.

It was SEW which means Spiritual Emphasis Week at school last week and we ended the event with a huge water pistol fight. It was so much fun. The best part is that I had protection from the water as I was photographing. Anyway I think these shots fit the happiness theme.

Monday Already?

Well we had an eventful weekend it was the school fair, hence our clown shots. Other than that it was packing for our move - we are gone in 3 weeks. Man where did the two years go?

I am still editing images from when Mum and Dad were here. These are a continuation from our Fortress visit.

Have a great Monday!!!!!

Just clowning around.

We had some clowns come to school today and I was in awe of them. These shots are so far from being technically perfect, but I really want to capture the fun of the day.

There really isn't so much to do in Korea other than go to Fortresses and Temples. These shots were taken at the Hwaseong Fortress that is a world heritage site. Kind of depressing but it was built to honour a king whose son was murdered by a neighbouring king. This is the gory part - they buried him alive in a coffin filled with rice!

It has been Buddha's birthday here and so there have been many celebrations on lately. We saw all these lanterns outside a temple and they were hanging them for Buddha's birthday.

Yes, that is a swatsticker (or how ever you spell it), it is a very common buddhist symbol.

Out and About again

This is a prayer tree. Basically you write your wish or prayer on the paper and attach it to the tree - then it will come true. Personally I am a big fan of prayer myself, I'm just glad God hears mine.... I would be in serious trouble if I had to write them down.

More wedding

It has taken me all week to get back to my wedding photos and finally finish editing them. From a Mum's point of view I like them, from someone learning to get it right photographically, I am not so happy at these shots as there is too much noise in some of them.

At least we have a nice record of the day. It was so much fun.

Thanks Jess for your Warm Honey here.

This is my favourite photo - the don't take anymore photos look!

Happy Mother's Day

A huge happy Mother's Day to all those Mums out there.

This is the Mother's Day shot I took for my mum and my DH'd mum.

Well I finally took the plunge and turned the dial from the auto mode to manual.

It didn't hurt too much and this is one of my first manual shots.

I am seeking CC as I REALLY want to improve and there are so many photographers here who inspire me.

These were my settings: 1/250, f6.3, ISO 100.

Flower Girl

We were able to experience our first Korean wedding on Sunday. It was extra special as Claudia was the flower girl. I haven't really had time to edit much. I will try to post the rest tomorrow.

Water or at least a need for it!

I have never really bee to good at sticking to the theme.

Todays photos are not really on theme either. My littlest DD was in art class yesterday (I am the art teacher) and she created this elephant - very cute I think. Well she also got really dirty - and I couldn't help myself, I needed to take her picture. She was not impressed. She said to me, "Mum, now you need to take everyone's photo, not just mine." I suppose it is hard to having a Mum as you teacher? Anyway, she needs to find some WATER and wash herself.

One very tenuous connection to the theme here.

RAW - i did it.

Ok this may seem lame, but I have not ever shot in RAW - purely because I never had the time to work out how to convert it. Well I decided to make the time. These shots are nothing earth shattering, but are my first go at RAW. Emily and I took a little walk on Sunday in the rain.

Thanks for all your concern about my nose - yes it is broken, but not bad enough to do anything major to fix it up. So in the meantime I look like a racoon with 2 black eyes. Could be worse, I suppose and had to have an operation. i am trying to be grateful for small mercies.