Brisbane light show!

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 I have been slightly afraid of night photography even after my photography course, pulling out a tripod makes me feel like I am some sort of professional, not someone that has their training wheels on!  It also doesn't help when your tripod is an antique and instead of keeping your camera still tends to wobble!  I have a new tripod now thanks to my husbands parents, but I haven't had a chance to test drive it yet, I am sure this holidays an opportunity will arise!

 So why venture out into the twinkling lights of night time????  I adore city lights at night, ever since I was little some of the my most precious memories are driving into the city to see the Christmas lights in the windows and  lining the streets, they just seem to evoke some kind of magical land to me and they still do!

I just love and adore Christmas time, driving the streets and admiring all the houses adorned in sparkling magical lights.  Now I just need to work on taking a good shot at night, so I can capture those moments forever!

I am very frustrated with the below photos but I am learning and by taking the leap and heading out at night with my tripod and a lot of patience I am hopefully one step closer to nailing what so far has been allusive to me!

I am posting the below photos so I can learn and hopefully look back on an improvement in months to come!
What do they always say, if at first you don't succeed try, try again!  And it is a wasted day when you do not learn something new!

I found this wonderful quote:

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.  ~Thomas Szasz

 What can I say, we are half way through November and I am only just blogging about Halloween!  Not bad for me really, sometimes it takes years lol!  Halloween is only just starting to take off her in Australia and I would be hard pressed to find a house down our street that would be decorated up and invite two little trick or treaters in the front gate!  So to dress my kids up and send them out might result in a very traumatic result of no candy(hey that might have been a great plan!) and maybe a few tears.

So lucky for me, my sister had kindly invited us to a street party with willing houses putting a balloon out the front so you don't receive any surprise, unwanted visitors arriving on your doorstep yelling out - "Trick or Treat!".  This was the second year that my sisters street had run with Halloween and the willing houses has nearly doubled, which was very exciting for my two!

Thanks Jen for making two little people more than happy and who have now been  living on a sugar high over the last couple of weeks, we still have a little stash left in our pumpkin baskets.

I hope everyone had a spooktacular Halloween!

Excuse the green pants on my little devil (so appropriate......dressing up as a little devil), I was lucky to get the costume on him as before he realized that lollies were part of the deal, he was not keen to take part!  Do you like the candy bracelet, very 2011 I think!

Disco inferno!

 

How much fun are school disco's!

I know one big 7 year old that had a ball!

There was face painting (this is where I spent most of the night) and crazy hair and a whole lot of dancing and running around!

We had a big sports carnival during the day and then ended the Saturday night with a disco, how much more enjoyment can you fit into a day!

Even though my legs were killing me and some lucky girl above went home with the best dressed year two it turned out to be a pretty close to perfect and impossibly fun Spring day!

How cool is that DJ, he certainly got the young ones clapping and a couple of bigger children also!

Then we went home, and mummy got to play with her camera!  A dress up costume, two excited and willing models one with crazy pink and yellow hair, and a model that wasn't quite as willing but didn't have much choice(lucky he can't talk and his tail was still wagging at the end, tiara and all)!  

We had so much fun and I had the chance to play with the flash verses high ISO and with a multitude of posses!  Now all I need is photoshop or something similar and to take a course so I know how to use it, so I can edit my photos

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I feel the more I seem to learn about photography the more things I really don't know and need to learn!  At least I am having fun along the way!

I hope everyone has a rockin' weekend!