Kookaburra Sits on the Electric Wire...

..Jumping up and down with his pants on fire,

Ouch, Kookaburra ouch! Kookaburra

Hot your tail must be!

Haha don't worry, no Kookaburra's were harmed in the making of this photo =D

I've been trying for absolutely ages to get a photo of birds on the power lines...but they're always there when I'm not ready! I was sitting in Mum's front yard with my brother yesterday when Mr Kookaburra flew up and perched on the lines and I managed exactly one shot before he was startled off by a passing car. 

 {Linking up with LEM's 'Anything' challenge and Snap and Share}

  

I decided to try out Shadow House's Raised Effect Texture on it too, I think I kind of like it :)

{Linking up with The daily Wyatt for Texture Thursday}

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Caves Beach

On Sunday we took a drive up to Caves Beach. The kids hadn't been there before and they LOVED it. You go through a big cave and then through a tunnel and come out on the other side of the beach, it's pretty awesome :)

I planned on taking some shots of the tunnel and cave on the way back through but there was an "incident" lol

My beautiful babies :) Finally got a nice shot of them together. A little out of focus but I had to act fast before they ran off!

 

Hubby and Willy taking a stroll.

Cheeky boy

Linking up with Live Every Moment 'A different view' challenge

This was his little game of choice, throwing sand up in the air, lol

For all these shots I used my new Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 Lens. I heart it :) It's much crisper than the kit lens I was using! I didn't even have to edit these much, just reduced the size and sharpened for the web. Plus I  didn't have time to do any fancy editing, lol but I might go back and play with some of them :)

Mr Serious. Love this one :)

"Right there. That's where I'm going to dive in." 

Yep, this was right before the "incident"

Linking up with Snap & Share 'children' theme and A Few of my Favourite Things because watching my babies explore and discover new things is a definite favourite :)

  

A few seconds after this he dived into the rock pool head first =O

Hubby was right there just out of the shot but wasn't quick enough to grab him, lol.

He looked very much like a drowned rat when he came out but wasn't too fussed about what had happened! 

Lucky I had a spare jumper and nappy in the car, lol

Linking up with Theme Thursday for 'Water'

Charlotte up at the lookout. Love this one too :)

The end :)

xx

Baby in Flight :)

We've been taking the kids to the beach after dinner every night lately, trying to wear them out so they'll go to sleep at a reasonable hour. It doesn't work though, lol.

Anyhoo, this week has really been a huge step forward for me with my camera, I'm pretty much shooting everything in Manual now, hooray! I had one of those moments when it all just clunked into place in my head, lol. So I took my camera to the beach and was trying my hand at silhouette's and this is what I came up with:

(Heads, Shoulders, Knee's and Toes - Anything but a Face week at I Heart Faces)

I love this photo.

I love everything about it. It's probably not "perfect" technical-wise, lol but I just love how relaxed and free William looks in the air and I love that Charlotte is there, head thrown back laughing with the sun in her hair. And hubby looks a bit muscly too LOL!

I'm going to get it blown up and framed. Cause I heart it :D

And, it's SOOC, yay for me! I did try some editing on it but kept coming back to the original :)

And if anyone is interested

1/4000

f/5.0

ISO 100

I have no idea if those are the right kind of settings for this type of shot but I got a result I was happy with, lol.