Category: Photography

06 Feb

#366Project Week 5

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I have succumbed to the pressure of busy times and busy days and all that… I simply don’t have the time I thought I had to look for a shoot, edit and post every day… so a little compromise has to be made… and I will now be posting my 366 Project photos once a week, every Sunday.

This weeks photos are particularly awesome… :)

I need to start of course with Luschka’s (from Diary of a First Child) Pregnancy shoot!

It was great to seeing them all again – and long overdue – and K’s smile as she said “Hi Uncle Yuri!” and gave me a hug was just priceless! I can’t wait for Squiggly to be around and we’re planning for me to do a New Born Shoot as well so watch this space. ;-)

It was LOADS of fun for everyone and the result was just spectacular (and I am forgetting all modesty here… hehehe). I’ll dedicate a whole blog post to the shoot later, but I just think t least a couple of the photos should be included this week ;-)

Next in the list of awesome was Big Monkey’s Spontaneous Combustion snap.

Don’t be alarmed… I did not cover him in petrol and light a match on him… hehehehe…

Little Monkey found a glow stick and brought it to the bath with him… Big saw it and when it was his turn for bath time he brought another 2 with him and asked me to turn the lights off… now THAT gave me an idea… I lowered my shutter speed and clicked away… the result is what you see… AWESOME OR WHAT??? ;-)

And then… FROM fire to ICE…

Well… Snow… And Snow Troopers (LEGO!!!)…  And Birds… And fruits… and Slush…

And under special Request even a Tauntaun!!!!!

So… That’s it for this week’s 366 Project photos… I hope you enjoyed them… Stay tuned for more next week… and Carpe Diem… Every Diem!!!! ;-)

01 Feb

NO! #366Project #TodaysWord

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If there is one thing that I’ve learned is that if you say YES more often than not AWESOME things happend more often than not… Saying yes is not hard to me… at all… It might get me into trouble more often than not… But it also means I got to see and live things I wouldn’t have if I had said no… To me is harder to say NO

But it is something I am having to learn to do… I’ve realised that I am stretching myself too thin… Which would be great if I was actually getting thinner… but I ain’t… so there… :-)

Focus is my keyword for 2012… so NO is a word I am having to learn… Can’t be that hard can it? I mean… it is Little Monkey’s favourite word… Even he means to say yes…. so… how hard can it be????????

So much harder than saying yes!!!!!! :-/

But I’ll get there… So… Ladies and gents… today’s word is NO!!! (Thanks @ramble818 !!!! ;-) )

Now… what’s tomorrows word?

Carpe Diem!

31 Jan

Starting Something New #TodaysWord #366Project

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I was waking on Bluewater the other day and Big Monkey saw a photography stand… They ahd a product there that was basically you go and choose images from a catalog… each of them resembles a leter… and you can form words from the letters you choose and frame them to give as gifts.

I thought it was such an awesome idea! And so did Tommy… he looked at me and said: “Daddy, you are a photographer, right? I think you should do that!”…

My eldest son is a GENIUS!

So basically… I shall be adding that to my list photography services… Only … I shall be doing it differently… instead of having a catalog of I will be doing bespoke artworks to fit the words and what the client wants to transmit with them message… and instead of simply framing it I will use some very intelligently awesome suppliers I have found… so watch this space… ;-)

This week I am going to put my creativity to the test: All of my 366Project posts will be fashioned like the one on top… LIFE… is a good beginning huh?!?!?!

And there is more… every night I will ask my Twitter followers what is the word I should work on the next day… I am not allowed to use photograph letters… Only forms and objects I find throughout my day… I am allowed to photograph street signs… as a last resort. :-)

And THAT is my challenge for the rest of the week… And you are invited to participate… so… dictionaries in hands ladies and gents!!!! I will once again be taking requests… just… this time I won’t be photographing my belly!!!! ;-)

Carpe Diem!!!

30 Jan

Weekend in Photos (too exhausted to write lots) #366Project

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Saturday started with an incredible and VERY rare lie in until 9am followed by a delicious breakfast composed mainly of… well… Hotwheels cars (followed by a proper brekie because I was still hungry after so much iron in my diet… ;-) )

The rest of the day was spent crashing the same cars agains each other or playing “Fight For The Ball” (our little version of rugby… or something like that… brutal… but awesome way to burn energy) with the big monkey…

Next… We started a Little LEGO project…

Still a prototype… but our Terranova Mobile Headquarters is starting to look good… Still need to solve the problem with the tracks tho… as in… they keep falling off… but The Big Monkey is happy with the result so far. He better be… it was bloody 1am by the time it was “done”. He fell asleep… I was left awake to finish it off so he could play with it in the morning… The things we don’t do for out kiddos huh?!?!?! lol

Another LEGO Started this morning before we were ready to go pick the Littlest Monkey up for Triple Monkey time.

LEGO Viking Chess! (I’m the redo ones… this is gonna be a long game! :-) )

Triple Monkey Time!!!!!

Little was incredibly excited screaming and bouncing and saying “my baby” hugging Littlest  and stroking his head. Big was happy to see him and they both flanked him and my mum (she was holding him)… At 1st he looked at them and smiled as usual… Promptly it was all a bit too much and we had tears and crying… A few cuddles later and a change in scenery (and a with a little help from Little as he took his dummy off and put it on Littlest mouth… yeah… kids come up with the simplest solutions… and damn it if they work!!!) and we were all happy and giggling again.

I even managed a rare photo (using the phone camera) of the 3 of them that Im able to publish here!!!!

LOVE IT!!!!!! Yes I do ! I do I do I do!!! 3 little monkeys… ALWAYS on the move!!!! :-D

Talking about moving…

I should have posted the one of Little One trying to teach my mum how to ride a scooter… but you know what? I kinda sorta really LOVE that one… 5 more sleeps until I see the Monkey Trio again!

As usual at the end of Monkey Weekends… I am exhausted beyond belief… but happy as well… And bring on the week ahead!

Carpe Diem!!

27 Jan

That is Enough Photos for 2 Days… Right?!?!

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Yesterday was just one of those days… And a busy one at that… What is worse: I saw the best photo opportunity ever just pass me by when the sun came out to play… and I watched it go from my window… and carried on working…Priorities Yuri… Priorities… you got them wrong!!!!

;-)

So today I am making up for the day I missed on the 366 Project!!!! And that is mainly thankfully to the Little Monkey’s obsession with water fountains… We sat at Starbucks today and he kept pointing at that:

And he kept shouting “WATER!!!! WATER!!!!” While I tried to drink my Chai Tea Latte… But he insisted on “Water!!! Watter!” while scoffing down his donut and quickly drinking his juice and then trying to hurry me saying “Drink Coffe!!” until I finally gave up, and finished it off as quickly as I could to to take him outside to see “water”…

He was giggling like a little Monkey maniac. running around the fountain, putting his hand in the water, and then he looked at me puzzled and said: “no fish?!?!”

That genuinely made me laugh… and then when I stopped laughing an idea hit me! MAYBE I could give him a fish perspective!

No… I didn’t throw him in the water… ;-)

I happened to be carrying my Kodak PlaySport on me… So I thought… what the hell… and dipped it in the fountain and took a few photos from different angles… some of the photos were quite boring, although all of them made him giggle… and made him mad at me when I took him away from “water”… Don’t judge me! I had to go get his big brother at school… but I have a few favorite ones that I kinda loved… And THOSE are well worth 2 days worth of 366 Project photos! RIGHT????

So… Ladies and Gents… A Fish’s Perspective:

You can say what you want… but I am impressed with my skillz! LOL!!!!

There is just something about moving water… Falling in special… It soothes me… There is nothing like standing under a waterfall letting the wight of the water wash away your sins… Of course… I don’t think I’d do that in the UK… I don’t wanna freeze to death!!! :-)

I think I know where the Monkey takes his obsession with water from…

How about you???? What element soothes you the most???

Carpe Diem

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