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Driving along New Street, Brighton, here in Victoria I was looking at St. Andrews Church and saw the most beautiful light hitting the doorway.

I stopped the car suddenly, almost tossed Bronte out of the car and said ‘sit there! quick! the light is just about to go!’

Poor kid – she was a bit lot reluctant as she had just been to physio and we were on our way home. She said “I’m not dressed right” “You look fine!”

Snap, snap, snap. She had had enough but I did get a few that I was happy with. What do you all think?

On our trip to St. Kilda yesterday, the oldest and youngest got some new shoes. Well, they were on super special! Both love Converse All Stars. Sam already has a pair of red Chuck Boots so he opted for the Red runner style. Bronte wanted some ‘real’ Chucks and opted for this sunny pair. Gorgeous eh?

For some reason, I love skies that have powerlines in them. Something to do with peacefullness = urbanite maybe?

I don’t know the reason – I just like them. Today I have been looking through my many memory cards and found this set. Hope you enjoy!

Taken just out my driveway in the middle of suburbia.

It is school holidays here at the moment and I had two of my 3 children at a loose end so we decided to drive in to St. Kilda which is only about 20 minutes away.

Luna Park was our first stop. We didn’t go on any rides as it just didn’t seem like we should do that with the middle guy missing – so we just wandered around and I took a few snaps.

Then we walked past a famous Melbourne landmark, The Palais…

Then down a little laneway that had the coolest graffiti…

a trip to the toilet….I couldn’t resist the lines and light and patterns!

and finally, just a couple of fun shots to finish our outing!

I kind of went ‘location hunting’, enjoyed myself on this beautiful winter day in Melbourne. The shots below are not my normal style nor are they processed like I normally process my images. However, I am really happy with these and hope you all enjoy them.

1. Tunnel Vision

2. Abandoned

3.  Peeking

4. Noah’s Ark

5. Noah’s Ark – same as above but B&W – couldn’t decide which I liked best…

as I wanted to enter a photo this week over at i heart faces.

This is the photo I ended up submitting for the challenge – mainly because I adore the light and the fab red flare! Check out my entry over at my Challenges Blog.

The following are photos of him that I loved for one reason or another. Most because this shoot only took 10 minutes and I managed to capture that beautiful golden late afternoon light. Warms me up on a winter’s day!

The shot above was the other that I was considering to enter into the challenge. What do you think?

I call this one ‘Golden Boy’

Love the colours and textures in this and I love the way he is looking at the viewer.

the fog was a.mazing!

This was taken to the left of Brighton Beach, towards Hampton and Sandringham. Normally you can see the marina and other things but this day – zilch. I love how this turned out – almost like the end of the world – step into my oblivion!

This lone walker was walking in the direction of Melbourne the city. Normally you can see the city quite clearly in the distance from here. Not this day!

Colour at last! Love this storyboard of colour on a dull winters day! The famous Brighton Beach Boxes!

it was such a foggy morning here in Melbourne – it weirdly inspired me to get my camera out. I took a stack of photos so will do some different posts to show them off!

First of all was the foggy Hampton train station and train track…

I do love me a bit of fog – lovely and eery – makes you wonder what is happening ‘just up there’.

isn’t it?

Well, if you are my daughter – yes, that is what it is all about.

Last year, I was lucky and won first prize in a raffle – a limosine ride to school for my daughter and some of her friends. Well, we finally used it on Bronte’s birthday on Friday!

Can you hear the squealing? I couldn’t believe how excited these girls were! They loved every minute of it.

Here is a storyboard – first couple of shots are of Bronte in the morning with her new Birthday Glasses – sadly they are no longer with us – and then the all important Limo ride.

As they took off around the corner, all we could hear were squeals of joy and doof doof music!

Yes, I have a new toy. The all encompassing iPhone. Gosh it is so much fun.

So many ‘Apps’ to play with. So much fun to be had. So much time to be wasted spent learning new things.

I so love this Hipstamatic Application. Appeals to me because I love old looking photographs. Appeals because of its immediacy. Appeals because it is so. much. fun.

Oh and yes, I do use it as a phone too!