well its in the middle of winter…so what would you expect a four year old to do at winter after all that rain?
Puddle Jumping of course! LOL

this was taken over the weekend and it wasn’t even all that much of a puddle….
in fact im sure you can’t even call it puddles because its just rain water instead of brown and muddy,
we have a slab of pavement in our back yard which has collected some water after the rain…
but she said she wants to have a go at it anyway and i have to agree with her just for the photo opportunities LOL

btw, im sick today….my cold has gotten worse, im really congested and feeling yucky all over.
So im staying in bed, keeping warm and having my tea…hope everyone is well and staying away from my germs!!

and here is the so called ‘puddle jumping’ pics from the weekend….

she picked a little daisy and put it on her left gumboot, and she said to me “look mommy, my left gumboot is giving a flower to my right gumboot!” hahaha isn’t she cute?

the big jump with a nice splash that she is so proud of….lol

the splash landings….check out her wild hair while she was jumping around! lol

her standing ‘tude’…just love the reflection here…

and the full collage of the her puddle jumping fun…

Well i guess Winter is here…. and with the horrible weather we have been having here in Wellington, we are officially stuck indoor.
It has been freezing these past couple of months….in fact im pretty sure we skipped autumn altogether and we are having an extra long winter, Yikes!

So anyway, i haven’t got a chance to shoot outdoor with all the rain and the hail and the frost….so we decided to to take some pics indoor instead.
In our bathroom nonetheless where we have the best light of course! LOL

I thought i’d share Claudia’s recent pics…..she has always been a water baby and she loves the water so we decided to have a flower bath and have fun
taking pics at the same time. Hope you enjoy these pics!

I just wanted to share a good news today…

Last month i entered Canon Contest in a local Photography Magazine Called ‘The Photographers Mail” and the theme was “Capture the joy and freedom of playtime”.
I sent one picture of my daughter that i snapped while she was playing ‘princesses’ with her best friend.

And guess what???!!
I just received an email a couple of days ago from the magazine editor saying that my entry has won a merit prize which was a Canon PIXMA printer!
Isn’t that awesome? Im so happy coz i never won a real prize list from a magazine competition before!

So i thought i’d share my excitement here…oh and here is a preview of the image i sent for the contest:

So we have been promising Miss C that she could go and try the BigAir BUNGY in the Wellington waterfront….
its one of those multiple bungy cords attached to a harness (in which the jumper is secured) super-boosts the traditional trampoline experience
giving a gravity-defying ride which has all the adrenaline of bungy jumping.

you can jump up to eight metres in the air off a trampoline, looking down on the crowd from more than two storeys up….
all the jumpers are secured and safe in their adjustable purpose-built harness, they are free to experiment with acrobatic movements
or to simply jump as high as they can.

Every single time we drove passed the waterfront she always point to the bungy and said “mummy i wanna try that and jump up high in the air!”
well we have managed to hold off taking her until yesterday.

So we went to the waterfront yesterday afternoon…and she was so excited and a bit nervous too when we were lining up
but after her first jump she forgot all about her fear and LOVIN every minute of it!!

well im a total wuss when it comes to anything to do with heights…so you can’t pay me to do this….but apparently she wants to go again next week…lol
we took video camera there as well but here are some of the pics from her big jumping and flying experience…

here she is on her first jump preparing to take off…

getting more air and jumping higher…

check out the excitement on her face…

checking out the view while she was up high…

one last bounce…

her highest & bigger jump…she is really proud of this one…lol

We have been fortunate in getting some nice weather in Wellington this week….in fact it has been awesome since easter weekend,
i really hope it stays this way.

So i had the chance to go shooting with my girl when the sun was setting and it was the perfect time to practice backlighting
and getting those golden sunflare pics that i adore…

However, before i share the pics i wanted to asked you guys for some feedback….
I have been getting more and more emails from a lot of people asking me how do i process my photos and how do i get the colours and my workflows in editing…..and i tried to reply to most of the emails i get and help you guys with your questions, and like i said in pretty much all of my emails my workflow consist of LR editing because i shoot in RAW….and then when i need to i re-polish them in Photoshop.

Now over time i have been developing quite a few of my own presets because of my personal taste and how i like my photos to look, so i tend re-use them often for my future processing. So because of the emails i get i have been thinking that maybe i should be offering some my presets for sale…there will be two different types of presets because i process my macro photos a bit differently from how i edit my portraits.

Now i know there are already a lot of presets and actions for sale out there so if im going to do this im going to make it very affordable for everyone,
however i thought i’d get this idea out here first and i really would like to know if this would be something that you guys will be interested in or not…
so yeah…..please let me know what you think ok?

Oh and please be gentle in your feedback….if you totally hate it then just say its not a good idea…
or if you prefer you can send me your personal feedback via email.
my email: ncphotography@xtra.co.nz

Alrighty, so without further ado… here are some of my fave sunflare pictures from this week.

Well easter is finally over in our side of the world and back to work today….but the remains of easter is still very much evident in our house. Yesterday we were running a household high on sugar….like always every easter our house is full of chocolate & candy and everything sweet (a haven for my lil girl..lol).

So I just had to take a few pics of my lil girl with her easter bunny….she willingly let me take this shots because i told her she can eat the bunny after i take pics….yeah sweet bribes works everytime! lol