day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY EIGHT | year SIX | 2015
A familiar scene… Willow watching tv on the couch with Dexter on her lap.
day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY SEVEN | year SIX | 2015
My girls… and their boys… at the airport, saying goodbye.
day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY SIX | year SIX | 2015
Today, for Darci’s 20th birthday, we went Ice Skating, then out to dinner, then for a walk around the city… with this motley crew… Happy Birthday Darci!
day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY FIVE | year SIX | 2015
Another lucky phone snap… me at my Hippo-Dancing class… otherwise know as Xtend Barre 😉
day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY FOUR | year SIX | 2015
~~ Photo lost to the great NAS failure of 2015 ~~
day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY THREE | year SIX | 2015
Yep – another day of photos lost to the NAS… but I did take this one shot with my phone! I just needed to know if Zoe’s boyfriend (celiac) could eat any of these gluten-free treats… lol
day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY TWO | year SIX | 2015
~~ Photo lost to the great NAS failure of 2015 ~~
day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY ONE | year SIX | 2015
~~ Photo lost to the great NAS failure of 2015 ~~
day TWO HUNDRED and SEVENTY | year SIX | 2015
So, the NAS ate all my photos from the day of Xan’s birthday party… luckily I had already shared this one on Facebook, and could download a (low-res) copy! … all my gorgeous girls <3
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY NINE | year SIX | 2015
Accidentally opening your phone camera on selfie mode!… com’on… I know this has happened to you too!
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY EIGHT | year SIX | 2015
Twelve years old and she still loves to snuggle… I secretly hope she never grows out of it <3
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY SEVEN | year SIX | 2015
Selfie time… the last bastion of the forgotten photo-a-day…
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY FIVE | year SIX | 2015
~~ Photo lost to the great NAS failure of 2015 ~~
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY FOUR | year SIX | 2015
What?? … doesn’t everyone take photos of their breakfast?
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY THREE | year SIX | 2015
As it turns out, the only photos I managed to recover from today were actually the most important ones I took… this is John Short, Navy veteran, whom I photographed as part of the AIPP Reflections Project… he was a joy to photograph, with lots of laughs and some great war stories.
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY TWO | year SIX | 2015
Hockey grand-final time… after not losing a game alllll season, the Old Canberran U18-2 team went down 0-1 … but I was happy to see all the girls in good spirits after the game… truth be told – lollies fix just about everything, right?
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY ONE | year SIX | 2015
~~ Photo lost to the great NAS failure of 2015 ~~
day TWO HUNDRED and SIXTY | year SIX | 2015
~~ Photo lost to the great NAS failure of 2015 ~~
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY NINE | year SIX | 2015
Happy FIFTEENTH Birthday Xanthia… you are such a lady – stuffing that entire profiterole in your mouth, like that… makes a mother proud! 😛
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY EIGHT | year SIX | 2015
Xan is the only one in the house willing to clean up after the dogs in the backyard… she doesn’t do it for free – but she’s worth every penny 😉
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY SEVEN | year SIX | 2015
I tried to capture Darci before she got away… but all I really captured was my messy office!!
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY SIX | year SIX | 2015
~~ Photo lost to the great NAS failure of 2015 ~~
We interrupt your regular programming for a short public service announcement…
So you may have noticed just how slack I have been updating my photo-a-days lately… well, let me tell you I have a very good excuse this time… no, really!
In late September, I had a catastrophic failure with my computer hard-drives and back-up system… I lost EVERY single digital photo I had taken for the last 15 years – ALL of them! … but after a couple of months of heartache, anguish and enough money to fund a small nation, I (and by ‘I’ I mean the tech-head experts I hired) have been able to recover all but the last few months of images. I have back all of them up to the last week in May… and then from October, where I started saving the images I took to a different place. So all up, I have lost about four months worth of images – not counting the client files and Heartfelt images, that I was able to move before the ‘big crash of 2015’.
On the up side… I do have my photo-a-days up until September 12 already uploaded here!… and I may have the odd random photo saved here and there, which I hope to find as I wade through the minefield of data I now need to resort.
So… my public service announcement is this… BACK UP YOUR PHOTOS… and then back them up again!
Now… back your regular programming… well, give me a bit of time to get my self sorted out… but soon, ok… soon!
EDITED TO ADD… I am moving this post back to where I left off with my photo-a-day, so that this explanation for the gap in photos, is in the right spot for future reference.
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY FIVE | year SIX | 2015
Today Darci and I watched superstar Xanthia score the winning goal in her U18-2 team’s 1-0 Semi-Final win, taking them into the Grand Final next weekend!
‪#‎gochecks‬ #‎longsufferinghockeymum‬‪ #‎shegetsitfromhermother‬ ‪ #‎taughhereverythingsheknows‬
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY FOUR | year SIX | 2015
We have been working our butts off tonight… building three flat-pack beds… emptying Xan’s room and turning it into Jaimi & Willow’s room… emptying Jaimi’s room and turning into Xan’s room… we have done a good job and can see the light at the end of the tunnel…
(Xan’s new room)
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY THREE | year SIX | 2015
Damn… and I’d being doing so well!
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY TWO | year SIX | 2015
Spring in Canberra… it’s beautiful <3
day TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY ONE | year SIX | 2015
Look who got new shoes! … best pressie ever!! Thanks Vic & Chris <3 #‎mickeymousevans‬
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY NINE | year SIX | 2015
‘This’ makes it all tolerable ‪#‎notoftenenough‬ ‪#‎betterthannothing‬ ‪#‎lovemyranga‬
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY EIGHT | year SIX | 2015
… and now for the final game of the season for Willow’s Old Canberrans U13-2 team…
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY SEVEN | year SIX | 2015
Willow and her U15-2 Old Canberrans hockey team… suiting up for their last game of the season…
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY SIX | year SIX | 2015
Have you ever had the bejeezers scared out of you by a cat in a hammerhead shark hoodie, crouching on your kitchen floor??… oh em gee… me too!!   ‪
#‎mighthavesquealedalittle‬ ‪ #‎nearlywetmypants‬  ‪#‎yodacat‬ ‪ #‎imadogperson‬
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY FIVE | year SIX | 2015
My biggest… and my littlest… the only ones home today <3
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY THREE | year SIX | 2015
Spring is so close I can taste it…
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY TWO | year SIX | 2015
Where else would my giant dog chose to take a nap, but in the empty half wine barrel…
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY ONE | year SIX | 2015
Today I spent the afternoon photographing a gorgeous little girl at her first birthday party <3
day TWO HUNDRED and FORTY | year SIX | 2015
All set up for a new baby boy in the studio today…
day TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY NINE | year SIX | 2015
Jaimi got new hair… and it is purpl-icious!
day TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY SEVEN | year SIX | 2015
This is about the standard state of things at the moment… towel on the stairs; water bottle at the top; fluff and dog hair all the way up… and me standing at the bottom of Mt Everest, telling myself I’ll take care of it ‘tomorrow’ 😉
day TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY SIX | year SIX | 2015
Nothing I love more than coming home to dinner being cooked… by NOT me!
day TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY FOUR | year SIX | 2015
After a big morning of hockey… it's time to just relax and hang out.
day TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY THREE | year SIX | 2015
Willow and her friend are having a sleepover… they fell asleep during the movie they were both so keen to watch!
day TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY TWO | year SIX | 2015
Another photo from my spunky ranga overseas…
day TWO HUNDRED and THIRTY ONE | year SIX | 2015
My ranga sent me a pressie from Afghanistan… it's ugly and kitch… and I totally LOVE it!