Thursday, June 28, 2012

30 Days of My Kids - Day 23

23June2012 by LoveMicreations
23June2012, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.
Ok so I posted day 24 before day 23, that happens. So it's out of order, at least I took a photo.

I couldn't decided between these too, so decided to post both of them. Snap shots but having fun with lego.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 24

24Jun2012_3526 by LoveMicreations
24Jun2012_3526, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.
I love this image. It captures the pure innocence of my daughter.

Kids don't have to be looking at the camera for an image to be great, this proves it. I just love the way her hair flows in the breeze.

24Jun2012_3521
This is the other image that I took that I just love.

Enjoy,
Matilda

Sunday, June 24, 2012

30 Days of My Kids - Day 22

22Jun2012_3540 by LoveMicreations
22Jun2012_3540, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.
There will be 2 images from today. I just couldn't decide. Also with Kayla at school I feel like I don't get any images of her, so it's nice to focus on her for a bit.

Here she is all ready for school. Another snap shot, but it's my girl so of course I'm going to love it.


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Miles loves going for walks.  And while it wasn't raining I thought we would go for a stroll and get out daily dose of vitamin D.  I wasn't actually looking through the view finder in this one, It was a general point and shoot shot (at hip level), as I continued to keep walking.  I just love the framing of this one.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 21

21Jun2012_3559 by LoveMicreations
21Jun2012_3559, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.
Ok day 20 I really did forget about. Life just got the better of me. Sometimes that just happens.

Here is my girl, all wrapped up out of the bath, it's a snap shot, but I love it all the same.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 19

19Jun2012_3376 by LoveMicreations
19Jun2012_3376, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.
If you are wondering where day 18 is, well I didn't post one. Yes I did take a photo, but they were so crappy that in my opinion they were not worthy of posting.

Today Miles and I went for a walk, while the sun was out. Out at Cato Park there are parks of the path that naturally pool with water.
It's just as well Miles loves wearing his gum boots. He had a great time jumping in the puddles.

I love the splash of water coming from his shoe, and his reflection in the water.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 17

17Jun2012_3231 by LoveMicreations
17Jun2012_3231, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.
We have a season pass to the Halls Gap Zoo. We love going there as they have a good range of animals, and the kids always have a great time when we are there.

While Kayla was watching some of the zoo keepers I captured this image of Miles. I just totally love the 'blue steel' look he is giving me.

One thing I love about the Halls Gap Zoo is they have a great playground area.  There is this chubby house, that is the home to 3 ferrets.  The kids love playing in this chubby house.  But what I love is the window.  It makes for great photo's.
I couldn't decide which image I like the most, so I did a storyboard instead.

Miles
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And can't forget my beautiful girl Kayla
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These images make up for my 'non' days.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 16

16Jun2012_3288 by LoveMicreations
16Jun2012_3288, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

This image just cracks me up. My 2 decided to play hide and seek. If they can't see me then of course I can't see them.

Enjoy,
Matilda

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

30 Days of My Kids - Day 15

15Jun2012_3412lomo by LoveMicreations
15Jun2012_3412lomo, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

I processed this image lomo style, as everything about this screams 'gangsta'. I love how his beanie is folded, how it's pushing one of his ears down, how he is giving a 'how you doin' look' (like Joey from Friends). It captures my boys personality to a T.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 14

14Jun2012_3439 by LoveMicreations
14Jun2012_3439, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

So many images of my boy (well you'd expect that when my girl is in school and I get lots of one of one time with my boy), but today is an image of my dancing girl. Yes she is dancing, and I believe she is dancing to Delta's 'Sitting on top of the world". It's a complete snap shot, but I don't care, it captures the essence of my girl.

30 Days of My Kids - Day 13

13Jun2012_3465 by LoveMicreations
13Jun2012_3465, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

I do believe he was actually saying 'Hello'. Very cute. This particular image I had to do quite of bit of editing to it to get it the way I wanted it to look like. But I adore it in black in white.

Enjoy my hello boy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 12

12Jun2012_3492 by LoveMicreations
12Jun2012_3492, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

Miles and I go for a lot of walks. Weather pending that is. And we always seem to end up at these pile of rocks near the railway line. He loves it because he loves looking for treasure or for rocks for his 'rock' collection. Therefore this shot has more of a story to it and an memory of a time that Miles and I share together.

Enjoy,
Matilda

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

30 Days of My Kids - Day 11

11Jun2012_3169 by LoveMicreations
11Jun2012_3169, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

This is a complete snap shot, nothing set up about it at all. Hey I'm not going for artsey fartsey every shot, sometimes it's nice to have the snap shots capture those moments.
Here is my girl, showing off Teddy. Teddy is much loved. He is my sisters Teddy, she has had him now for 26 years! He is well loved and he totally rocks! And yes his name is Teddy.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 10

10Jun2012_3180 by LoveMicreations
10Jun2012_3180, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

I've made it 10 days! Only 20 more to go. I do hope my kids don't get sick of me taking photo's of them. I don't mind, it has been nice to document their lives.

Well here is Miles again, I honestly could not tell you what he was watching on tv, but he look so cute with Teddy tucked up under the blanket on the couch.

Again in black and white, as I liked the tones in black and white over the colour version.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 09

09Jun2012_3192 by LoveMicreations
09Jun2012_3192, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

I love this image of my little boy. I love how the light falls. No flash just light from the window.
EXIF Data is as follows:
ISO: 400
Lens: 50mm
Fstop: 1.8
Speed: 1/160

I processed this one in black and white cause sometimes portraits just pop out more in black and white. I could have also cloned out the little scab he has under his eye, but I figured he's a boy, and he's bound to have bumps and bruisers, or in this cause a scab or too.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 08

08Jun2012_3165 by LoveMicreations
08Jun2012_3165, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.
This shot was taken with my Tamron 90mm. I was actually really happy with the photo's in my camera. There were some really good ones. Well when I got home I was very disappointed. The focus was just way off! Going to give the lens a good clean, and from now on either do bbf or just switch to manual.
Out of all the images I took this was the only decent one (that was 100% in focus). I still love it. I can't believe how grown up my girl looks.

Enjoy,
Matilda

Friday, June 8, 2012

30 Days of My Kids - Day 07

Day 07 by LoveMicreations
Day 07, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

After picking the kids up from their nanamoo's we decided to go to the park. Miles however did not want to go to Cato park. So decided to drive over to Halls Gap for a change of scenery. Kids loved it.
Love this shot of them on the slide.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 06

Day 06 by LoveMicreations
Day 06, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

We were walking up to the toy library when I captured this shot of my boy. I couldn't really tell what the image looked liked in the camera as it was quite bright, but I love how this one came out, his crusty upper lip and all.
I just love the way he put his beanie on too, if it were red, then he would have looked a lot like papa smurf.

Enjoy,
Matilda

ps. I didn't shoot this one on manual. I shot it on the 'portrait' setting. He was just moving so fast (he was on his bike), and out of all the other 'auto' settings portrait is the one I use over all the others.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

30 Days of My Kids - Day 05

Day 05 by LoveMicreations
Day 05, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

Caught Kayla just after dinner. It was a sausage pasta, which obviously she throughly enjoyed.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 04

Day 04 by LoveMicreations
Day 04, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

Miles is totally loving the bath at the moment. He was being a complete merman and just want me to take more photo's.

Here you can clearly see his eczema. But we did have an allergy appointment the next day regarding this, so in a few weeks it should be cleared.

He is still a happy boy though.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 03

Day 03 by LoveMicreations
Day 03, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.
We went to the Halls Gap Zoo as we have an annual membership. The kids love seeing the animals, but they also love the playground. This little chubby house also houses some ferrets.
Captured this shot of my two (primarily Kayla), just love how it works in black and white. Also love the frame within a frame.

This is my bonus image.
Day 03 - Bonus

I was not looking through the view finder at the time, as I was trying to get both kids attention, so my window framing is off, but I still love the image.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My Kids - Day 02

Day 02 by LoveMicreations
Day 02, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

In the car to the hair dresses. Kayla loves her long hair, but it was in serious need of a cut. So this is her before shot. Just look at all that fly away hair. Love how the light falls in this one.

Enjoy,
Matilda

30 Days of My kids - Day 1

Day 01 by LoveMicreations
Day 01, a photo by LoveMicreations on Flickr.

I've been in a photography slump lately. I love photography but with no sessions at the moment I need a creative outlet.

So I thought I would do a photography challenge. This one is obviously theme related, and that's my kids.

So here is Day 1 my boy Miles. Miles suffers chronic eczema :( you can see the bits around his eyes, doesn't stop him being a happy go lucky boy however.