Ahhhh sunflare. My one true photographic love. When I saw this weeks challenge I just KNEW that I had to enter. I immediately thought of this photo of my eldest boy child, Samuel. He is 15 and not my normal victim (that would be my 14year old boy child, Zachary) so it is nice that this one let me take photos AND he enjoyed it.

I have quite a few from this ’shoot’ to choose from but I think this is my favourite. You can see his gorgeous eye(s) and I love the way the light acts as a halo around him but most of all I love HIM. He is a nice person. A little weird (I wonder where he gets THAT from!!!) but oh so nice.

Oh. Can you spot the heart shaped sunflare on his face! I just spotted it now!! Yay me! lol (of course I meant it!!!!!)

So, this is my entry for the Sun Flare challenge this week over at I Heart Faces please go and take a look at all the gorgeous flare from around the world…it is divine!

This week over at I Heart Faces is Crazy, silly funny face week and when I saw that, I immediately thought of this photo I took of my eldest son quite some time ago. It is my ALL TIME FAVOURITE funny face shot I have ever taken! lol

Disclaimer – he really is a handsome boy – don’t let this shot fool you!

Funny, crazy faced Samuel!

Don’t forget to head over to I Heart Faces to check out all of the other weird and wonderful faces there are in the world!!

and I really really like the way it turned out.

Do you think it works?? Would love you to let me know.

k8 xxx

When will it be here??

Which direction will it come from?

I wish...I wish...I wish...

Feels like we've been waiting forever...

Can you see it???

Quick! Run! It's coming!

Time...

and time....

again...

I fall asleep....waiting....waiting

I am delighted with it. My brother gave me this lens along with my film camera the Pentax ME Super oh about 30 years ago! (shhhh). I was lucky, he was in the Australian Navy then and was able to purchase it overseas for me.

At the time I was doing an Arts course and one of the subjects was Photography. Then, as I got older  (Overseas travel, kids etc) got in the way of taking ‘proper’ shots. First I went to a compact film camera or two and finally about 8 years ago I bought my first digital camera. It was a compact and was a Canon Powershot A something or other. Cost me a whack for those 2.1 megapixels too – over $700 Aus Dollars!!!

I still use that camera once in a while although, compared to today’s standards, it isn’t very compact at all.

Finally, I bought my Pentax Digital SLR and one of the main reasons I went Pentax was so I could use my old lenses. But just yesterday, I really TRIED to use them. And I was really HAPPY with the results….

This Pentax M 50mm 1.7 Asahi is apparently a sought after portraiture lens and there it was just sitting in my old camera bag – for years. The only ‘problem’ with these types of lenses is that they are fully manual. No auto focus, no auto aperture setting no nothing. And gosh, when I used it yesterday, I felt like I was ‘home’. I loved the feeling of physically ’stopping’ down (or up) the aperture. It just felt that I was more in control.

In all the shots below, I have used some of Sheye Rosemeyer’s Eye Candy Actions – mostly Honeychild and Pale and Interesting. (they are the name of the actual photoshop ‘actions’) In all of them, I have tweaked the action to suit what I wanted….

Anyway – here are some shots I took of my eldest son, Samuel. I realised that I haven’t shared many photos of him here because…

1. He is often out when I have the camera clicking away

2. When I do get to take his photo, he doesn’t like the shot

3. He is a teenager!