The holiday season usually has us doing one of two things – heading away or having family to stay. This holiday season is the latter. Our newest granddaughter and her parents traveled from Melbourne, Australia to spend the holiday break with us.
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My son and grandsons have been visiting from Brisbane and I took them to visit Wellington Zoo. My focus of the day was the children so I restricted myself to my 35-100 lens. Usually at the zoo I only ever use my 100-400 so I found it easy to shift my focus to taking images
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Every now and then I shift my focus from the birds and do something different. Portraiture is not something I do often anymore but now and then I get asked to do some. Today was one of those times. This little cutie was a delight to photograph, even if the light was challenging. We made
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Our two grand-daughters, Abigail and Claudia, were both cast in the musical “Madagascar” which was showing in Rotorua earlier this month. We made the trip up from Wellington especially to see the girls perform. Their mother had secured us a front row table so we had the best possible view of the show. At some
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Yesterday I had a visit from our nieces who wanted some photos taken while they were all together. One of them lives in Australia now, so the opportunity doesn’t come about often. We had planned an outside shoot, but the weather gods decided otherwise, so the night before I got out the studio gear and
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This weekend past was a big family event. My son and his partner married in the beautiful Redwoods Forest in Rotorua. (They have requested that photos are not posted yet.) We had all four grandchildren together for the first time and it was really great seeing them make friends with each other. We took them
I am really behind in my image processing right now, I have been travelling in many different directions over the last two months and some of my images are still sitting waiting. Today’s set are of my beautiful grandsons who I only get to see once a year at best. It has been a little
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We have had some record temperatures here in the Hutt Valley over the last few weeks and just as it was starting to cool down guess what I did! I went to Brisbane for the weekend. Not long after I got there, it rained!! The heat returned the next day and it wasn’t much different
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2015 saw us go from being Nana and Poppa to one, to now being Nana and Poppa to four! My son and his wife in Australia welcomed their second son in June and my son in Auckland now has a ready made family with his fiancé and her two daughters. The latter joined us for
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Over recent years come Christmas time we have gone away as our family is now scattered between two countries and all doing their own thing. This year we stayed home and some of the family came to our place for Christmas day. My husband’s father is visiting for a few weeks and while he is
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