Day 132/365

No sunsets today, I am not sure the sun

even came up, it was a miserable day here.

Windy, cloudy, and very cold.

This photo was taken at the Blue Pool

looking back towards Bearres Beach,

the waves were monstrous and

rolling from way out past the usual breakers.

I finally got a photo of the Gallahs out the front

of the shop. Not a great pic, but hey what ya

gonna do on a day like today.

I forgot to add this one last night, the verdict

on the toffee apples was a collective YUMMMMMM.
I don't know whether to believe the girls

(not mine) or not, but they said they had

never had a toffee apple before.

I didn't get to taste one but they looked

pretty yummy.

In answer to a question in my comments,

the black background is a piece of

fabric I have had for ages,

it is some sort of brushed velour

or something, it works well as a background.

I took the portrait shots outside on

the veranda. I set up my own studio.

I used a bed frame to hang the fabric, with

a blanket underneath to stop sun

shining through, and another

piece of fabric, a lined curtain piece, to

reflect the sunlight back towards the

girls faces, I hung that on the clothes horse,

and there you go, my own special studio.

Not a lot to keep you interested today,

I worked, only had a few customers,

finished one Lo, almost finished another,

which I will photograph in the morning,

and that was my day.

Thank you all for the comments that you

leave me, and thanks for popping over

just to look, I too am guilty of looking but not

leaving a comment all the time.

Until tomorrow my faithful friends,

may you all be happy and healthy.

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Day 131/365

We had the most miserable day today,

rained on an off for hours,

we did manage a bit of sunshine

a few times though.

I have lots of photos to share today,

these ones of the sun shining through

the clouds at about 4 this arvo,

in no particular order.

The middle wharf, I was actually looking for

something interesting on the boats to

take a pic of, this man very

obligingly stood in the right spot just as I

clicked the button, made a better

pic than anything on the boats.

This one was taken when I did a 180

after taking the photos of the sun.

Looks like a totally different day, looks

like the sun is out and the world

is beautiful.

Sheri and her friends had a sleep over last night.

Today they willingly let me take photos.

Thank you girls for giving me the

opportunity to practice portrait shots on you.

I absolutely love this photo of Sheri,

her eyes are amazing.

Maddy.

Darrie

Sheri and Maddy

Sheri and Darrie

Darrie and Maddy

Group shot.

Another group shot.

Sadly her other friend Claire had to go home

early this morning so we didn't

get a pic with her included.

Next time, I promise.

I could have added so many more photos,

all the girls look beautiful in

in every one I already culled

the ones I wanted to load, I would have

been here all night otherwise,

and I am sure you don't want to see all

of them.

It is still raining here, hopefully it will

be filling our water catchment, it was getting

a bit low. Tomorrow is supposed to

be a better day, fingers crossed it will be.

That is it for me tonight, I will be

working again tomorrow so I should

already be in bed.

Thanks for stopping by to share my day

with me, and Shaz thanks again for

the blog award.

Blog Award

Yesterday before I left for work I took

a minute to check my blog,

while I was at it I did a little blog hopping

and look what I found, the delightful

Shaz had nominated my blog for

this very cute award,

it certainly put a smile on my face,

made going to work that little bit easier.

Now I am not sure how many people I am

supposed to pass it on to, so I will

sellect 5 of my favourites.

tara

teegs

alyssa

ruby

nic

Thanks Sheri for showing me how to paste

a link, woohoo, major acheivement there.

Now I just have to work out how to

add them as a gadget!

Thanks heaps Shaz,

your blog always puts a smile on my face.

Day 130/365

Ah, another day at work with nothing to take a

pic of. So what did I do, I went out the front,

and took a pic of the mower man, nice to have

someone to do the lawns hey.

Then I took a pic of the bird nest up the top of the

phone pole, lucky there are no birds

there at the moment, they would have been

blown out of the nest.

Um, then I found this double bloom on the bush

next to the shop.

Sheri made these Toffee Apples last night.

She has some friends over tonight, I don't

think they need a sugar high though.

Don't they look super yummy.

Sun-rays over Peak Alone.

It was looking pretty good.

Wonder what the sun was setting behind,

it made this awesome shadow going up the

centre of the sky.

You can tell which direction the sun was setting.

If you know what you are looking for, you

can see the fire towers on the top of peak alone.

Woohoo, tomorrow is Saturday and I get to sleep in.

The girls had better not be noisy all night, or I wont

be a happy camper.

What do you have planned for your weekend?

I don't think I will be doing too much.

Other than the washing and general

housework.
That is it for another day, just

another sunset and some spur of the moment shots.

Thanks for dropping by, I will catch you all

again tomorrow.

Day 129/365

A little ray of sunshine.

There has not been much sun to talk

about lately.

It was shopping day today,

so I stopped to take these two photo coming past

Wallaga Lake.

I moved along the road a little bit to take

this one, I think it is much nicer than the

first one.

The next two photos are almost the same,

same boats, same harbour, same background,

different colour in the sky, I am not

sure which photo should be first.

That is it for the days photos.

*******

How depressing is it to go do the grocery

shopping these days.

I am finding that I am buying less and less

each week but my bill is getting bigger and bigger.

The quality and/or quantity of

some of the usual things I buy is not the same either.

Chocolates were on special today, have

you noticed the new boxes they are in,

the chocolate inside has shrunk by 50 gram,

but the price of each block has risen by at

least 50c. Do the manufacturers think we

are blind as well as dumb.

And what is with the new bottle that my

detergent comes in. It no longer has a handle

to hang onto, just this shape where your hand

is supposed to fit, huh, what a joke, I now find most of

the time that I am using two hands to lift the stuff.

I must be tired, I am not only raving, I am whinging too.

I had better get my self to bed and

have a good sleep so I am awake for work in the morning.

Thanks for dropping by to share my day,

I will be back tomorrow.

Day 128/365

Just a couple of pics today.

I don't think I like winter, there is not

enough sunlight each day, by the

time I get the camera out it is almost dark again.
Never mind, it just means I can give the

locals something to talk about, ie the crazy

lady with the camera.
I pulled up in the main street to take

these sunset photos. One of the shop

keepers asked what I was taking a photo of.

I told her the sunset and asked could she not see it,

she just laughed and shook her head at me.

I love the misty look of the pine trees under the palm.

And just for the hell of it, I took a photo of the

girls netball hoop.

Ok, I am not very interesting tonight.

So I will just say Happy 18th Birthday to Vicky's

daughter Jess, hope you celebrated in style.

I am not sure what I will come up with tomorrow,

I wish we had a waterfall somewhere close by,

I would love to see how I would go getting a pic of that.

Thanks for stopping by, please feels free to leave

a comment for me.

Shaz, I do have photos! Look under the Lo's.

Here they are, the two Lo's I have for show and tell.

Lol.

The colour is not true, night time photos, yuk.

Sheri hates this photo, she thinks

the Lo isn't too bad though.

I played with stamps for the chippie letters,

I like the look of them.

I also played with the flowers, I didn't

want to use just ordinary flowers so

I curled the edges, makes them look shabby.

work this arvo, I have this great stash

of rub-ons that I never get around to using.

I went really simple with this Lo, a bit

bright, but I guess I have to use these papers

sometime right.

Oh yeah, and I put the blue flowers through

the cuttlebug, pretty cool, hey?

Now that is me done for the night.

Hope you have all had a great day, and

hope tomorrow will see the sun

shining on us all.

Thanks for visiting.

Day 127/365

Bermagui is boring at night.

I wanted to get a photo of car lights at night.

Huh, right, in almost an hour there were

maybe 15 cars.

Tiff and I ventured to the bridge before dinner,

and wouldn't you know it, I forgot half

of the tripod, so this pic was taken looking back

towards the main street, whilst the camera

sat on a table, and I don't think there was

a car in sight.

This is another pic of Wapengo St, I zoomed

in a little closer to get a better pic.

While we waited for a car I snapped this shot,

I think a car came across the bridge just

after the photo was taken.

I moved a little bit to see if I could get a better

perspective, and look cars going in both

directions, not that you can tell by this pic.

So I gave the bridge up as a bad idea,

and went to the park across the road from the shop.

This is a bit out of focus, I suppose the water motion

was making the boats move.

But I like the pic anyway.

This photo was taken from across the street from the shop,

looking towards the main st. There really were not

many cars about.

I got home just as it started raining, again.

It would have been good to get the bridge with

the lights reflecting of the wet road, ah well,

I will keep that for another time.

I have a couple of Lo's to share, I just have to

get a photo. I will see if I can get a decent

photo in a little bit, so I might be back shortly,

in the mean time I hope you all enjoy my

view of Bermi at night.

Carried away with the camera again...

Day 126/365

Sorry, I did it again.

I got carried away with the camera.

I had plenty of time to kill around 5 this arvo,

Sheri had to come to town for music, and

it is not worth driving home for half

an hour. So Tiff and I checked out the bridge,

and went for a

walk on the breakwall.

Then back to the bridge to check out the lights

of passing cars.

A boat and trailer crossing the bridge at

sunset. We were standing on the sand

next to the river.

I think the sun had just dropped below the

horizon in this one, not sure though.

This one is when we were walking along

the breakwall.

I set the tripod up to take this, the wind was blowing

so hard I thought everything was going to

topple into the water, including me.

Still not happy with this, but I think I will

have to wait for a non-windy day to try again.

I set the tripod up on the edge of the river,

I was really trying to get the car lights as they

crossed the bridge, but the sides of the bridge

are way too high. I think I will have to try this one

again as well.

This one nearly worked. I caught some of the lights.

It was not really dark enough either.

The lights look like stars.

The water is nearly glowing in this one,

and the lights are great.

I am really enjoying playing with the different

settings on the camera, so come on everyone

get brave, take the camera off the auto settings

and play. Make sure you have a tripod, cause it beats

shutter shake. Most of my pics today were taken

using the shutter button, set to something like 10.0",

not real sure what that means though.

I also played with the ISO, and also the white balance (I think),

and I am thrilled with the results.
Thanks for visiting my blog, please leave a comment

and tell me what you think of my pics,

I am really liking the latest ones.