Kez photography

life seems to take me on a roller coaster of time loss

2009-11-10T18:31:00.006+11:00

am alive just busy living. 2 more assignments and I'm done for the year! Can't wait.

some of my fave photographers:
Mary Ellen Mark - can't get enough of her amazing photos, so much power in them
Sally Mann I have her book 'At Twelve' - fantasticly awesome photos!
Jill Greenberg I love her 'Four more years' photos - intense and powerful!
Diane Arbus
Jock Sturges
David Hamilton
Bill Brandt
Nirrimi
Kristy Lee
Enjoy.

Parrot

2009-10-28T18:42:00.001+11:00

^ A friendly parrot came to visit this morning. I fed him some of our chook seed. He let me photograph him while he ate.

photos coming soon I hope...

2009-10-26T13:09:00.003+11:00

I have soooooooo many photos to post. I just havent had a chance to do it. I did a shoot with two girls last weekend. Then I did a shoot with a toddler and his Mum on Tues. Ive taken other photos also. It's been crazy lately no time to upload anything. I'm too busy editing the photos.

Bridge and river thoughts

2009-10-20T14:03:00.001+11:00

Broken

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^ Broken egg. I found it already broken on the path during the photoshoot on Sunday.

Tree Painting

2009-10-20T11:49:00.001+11:00

^ I took this out the window of the car whilst we were moving. It's of the trees on the way home. I think it looks like a painting.

Lake ~ flowers, bees and weeds

2009-10-20T11:43:00.003+11:00

^ We went to the lake in L. It is pretty at this time of year. Flowers and weeds everywhere.
The bee was fun to photograph, he kept on flying to another flower just as I was about to take a photo. I had to follow him with my camera ready.

Pretty lavender

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^ It's pretty, purple and lavender.

Two paths

2009-10-19T22:16:00.002+11:00

^ The river almost flooding the path. We've had so much rain here lately. The river is swollen with water rushing in rapids down the river. I'm sure that the river would have been higher than this. I liked the two paths crossing.

white snow flowers - onion weed

2009-10-19T22:11:00.001+11:00

^ Pretty wild flowers

Lily

2009-10-19T21:39:00.003+11:00

^ These lilies grow wild around where we live. We picked a few to brighten up our house.
Taken with my 'new' Canon Powershot SX120 IS. I got it on Friday. Very exciting. It has amazing features for a small camera. Will post specs later. Enjoy the beauty of these wild lilies.

photos - yay!

2009-10-10T19:39:00.002+11:00

Some photos that I took this afternoon. I made a daisy chain whilst sitting in the beautiful spring sun. I hadn't made one for years!

Some favourite photographers

2009-10-08T06:55:00.002+11:00

I found Neelakshi Vidyalankara's work to be amazing. She is an awesome photographer.

Some other photographers I like:
Sally Mann
Mary Ellen Mark
Bill Brandt
Jock Sturges

Exploration of self photoshoot

2009-10-05T17:40:00.006+11:00

I took a whole series of photos in January this year. I had an idea of working with lace and the body. Here are some of my favourites.

Working lace turned out to be amazing. The effects were awesome!

I really like incorporating texture into my photographs - hiding things but still being able to see it. Suggesting a hint of something, not quite there.

more photos from weekend

2009-10-05T12:27:00.002+11:00

Spring is here! It's a beautiful time of year. Everything is new, fresh and alive. The world is waking up from it's winter sleep and new life is everywhere. I love the pink leaves on the tree. I have seen them every spring since we lived here. I think they are so beautiful and different.

Wow! I'm back....what a journey!

2009-10-05T12:04:00.001+11:00

Apologies for disappearing for so long. I've been through alot lately. This is one of my latest photos. I took a whole heap over the weekend which was lots of fun! This was on Fri arvo from my driveway as the sun was setting.

K's Photoshoot—part 6

2009-06-30T16:39:00.001+10:00

^ I almost forgot to add this photo. This is one of my favourites.

K's Photoshoot—part 5

2009-06-30T14:56:00.000+10:00

^ running away to my dreams...where I'll rest, dreaming, safe.

K's Photoshoot—part 4

2009-06-30T14:51:00.002+10:00

^ These photos were quite spontaneous really, K was fixing up something on her shoes and I saw a beautiful photo - so snapped it. Then I saw how pretty the light looked on her legs and shot this lovely photo.

K's Photoshoot—part 3

2009-06-30T14:46:00.002+10:00

^Part 3 of K's photoshoot. Looking forward to another photoshoot with her.

K's Photoshoot—part 2

2009-06-30T14:33:00.002+10:00

^ More lovely photos of K—she has such beautiful, long hair. I feel so blessed to have her as a model.

K's Photoshoot—part 1

2009-06-30T13:45:00.001+10:00

Here are some more photos from the photoshoot with K. We found some lovely locations, with beautiful sunlight. She is a wonderful model.

K's Photoshoot—Preview

2009-06-29T12:16:00.002+10:00

I did a photoshoot of my of my friend's K, it was so much fun. This is a preview of some of the photos I took. I will be adding more as I get time. I am hoping to use K as a model again in future.

Lovely sunrise

2009-06-29T12:02:00.003+10:00

Apologies for no photos for the past week or so. I have been taking photos, just have not had time to upload. I took these photos last week, it was a beautiful sunrise. Where we live we don't get to see the sunrise or set due to so many mountains surrounding us. So it was lovely to see such a beautiful array of colours in the sky, even though I could not see the sun itself.

Comments working!

2009-06-16T14:10:00.001+10:00

Comments are now working - its been fixed. Thanks to my lovely husband M. :)

Monday

2009-06-16T14:03:00.002+10:00

Sun filtering through leaves

Golf ball - Tiger plays with it
It was in our yard when we moved here

The last of the Raspberries

Sunday's Daily Photos

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I had the pleasure of seeing a beautiful rainbow on Sunday afternoon. It was lovely. Tiger also beckoned me to photograph him as he sat in the afternoon sun.

Saturday's daily photos

2009-06-16T13:46:00.004+10:00

Dead rotting stump

Dried fallen autumn leaves

I am getting back into taking photos everyday. The weather has been surprisingly nicer.

Comments

2009-06-15T10:22:00.002+10:00

Ever since changing my blog background, posting comments has not been working. I am working on fixing the problem, so hopefully in a few days it will be all fixed. Thank you for your patience. Photos to come soon too.

Photoshoot with my parents - Part 1

2009-06-13T13:53:00.002+10:00

A few weeks ago while my parents were visiting I had the privilege of photographing them. These are a few of the many I took. More to come soon.
It was lots of fun to photograph them in various locations. I have of course got them to sign a model release form - so it's perfectly legal for me to post these photographs.

Daily photographs - Friday

2009-06-13T13:48:00.002+10:00

I have finally taken some photos after all the wet, cold weather. It was wonderful to take some photos.
It was quite windy yesterday - hence the washing line and basket - I thought it was an interesting composition.

SNOW!!

2009-06-11T18:13:00.008+10:00

Me, my husband and Della went to snow yesterday. It's only 20 minutes from where we live. It was absolutely gorgeous, very cold though, but oh so beautiful. It started snowing when we arrived. Everything was lightly covered in fresh fallen snow, which made for lovely footprint photos and fresh snow!
It doesn't snow at my house, but on top of the mountain, we live at the bottom of it.
More photos here.

Tuesday's daily photos

2009-06-11T18:08:00.003+10:00

Very late daily photos. I have been very busy with assignments - trying to finish them off before the end of June. It has also been raining alot and very cold so it has been hard to get out everyday and take photos. Winter is here, what else can I say.
I am not able to stick to taking yard daily photos everyday at the moment. I will try other ways though - perhaps in my house.
Enjoy these photos. It was hailing when I took these. Although you can barely see it.

Tuesday's daily photos

2009-06-02T17:47:00.001+10:00

Playful Tiger

2009-06-01T18:18:00.001+10:00

Tiger was in a playful mood, so my husband and I played with him using sticks, rustling grass - anything to attract his attention. I decided to try motion photography of Tiger in action - jumping, running...they turned out so cute.

Redwoods and exploration

2009-06-01T17:06:00.002+10:00

I saw these trees and had to photograph them. They look lovely in the afternoon autumn sunlight.

This is someone's lovely driveway - with beautiful autumn colours lining their driveway

This photo was taken on a 5 second exposure - I used my camera bag to rest it on. I don't have a tripod yet, hoping to soon.

Lovely Redwoods near where we live

I photographed my husband jumping in the afternoon sunlight surrounded by Redwoods.

Saturday's daily photos

2009-06-01T16:17:00.001+10:00

Saturday's daily photos involved exploration. I actually took more than these, just haven't got the time to organise them all. I took some photos of Tiger running and jumping - they look interesting, turned out well I think.

Friday's daily photos

2009-06-01T15:44:00.003+10:00

I have finally gotten around to posting Friday's photos.
I didn't take any daily photos on Tuesday, Wednesday last week and Sunday (yesterday).
It was a lovely sunny day on Friday, so got some opportunities to get some lovely light. The bugs and weed flower photo - I didn't realise what they were doing until I had a look today when I post processed them. Ah well...its life.

Thursday's daily photos

2009-06-01T15:22:00.002+10:00

I am finally posting last week's daily photos. I am feeling somewhat better. Now I am stressing about finishing my assignments by the end of this month.

About these photos: It was a cold, wet day and I forced myself to go outside and take photos. I looked for unusual angles and compositions...and I found them.

Sorry...

2009-05-29T15:28:00.001+10:00

Sorry everyone, I have been sick all week and very busy trying to finish assignments. Photos will be up tomorrow. I have missed a few days, but stay tuned.

Daily photos

2009-05-27T18:58:00.000+10:00

I remembered that I have some daily photo posts on my old blog so here is the link to my earlier daily photo posts. Enjoy.

Tuesday's daily photos

2009-05-27T18:46:00.000+10:00

Here are Tuesday's daily photos, from my yard of course. I did not take any daily photos on Monday as I did a photoshoot with my parents before they left - these photos will be uploaded soon. I did not get to take any photos today either (Wednesday) as I seem to have come down with a slight cold and just did not have the inspiration to go outside and photograph in a cold, wet yard. Tomorrow, be rest assured it will happen.

Sunday's Daily Photos

2009-05-25T09:57:00.000+10:00

These are the photos I took on Sunday (yesterday), there was lots of lovely sunlight filtering through the trees and the cat was following me so I captured a lovely photo of him walking through the sun tree tunnel.

I didn't get a chance to take any photos Saturday as we were out all day - it was a very busy and long day. We didn't get back home until it was dark...I was disappointed that I didn't get to stick to my daily photos ideal...ah well, that's life.

Friday's daily photos

2009-05-25T09:39:00.000+10:00

I haven't had much of a chance to post my daily photos - it was a very busy weekend, particularly with my parents visiting. These are Friday's daily photos.

The water drop photos were taken early morning, it was amazing. There were so many and they all looked so beautiful hanging off the dead branches in the yard.

The last photo is a corn plant from our garden...we didn't get that much from our corn plants, they look good.

Extra photos

2009-05-22T11:59:00.000+10:00

We stopped randomly on the side of the road due to a phone call and I saw these two lovely photo opportunities. The horsehair particularly was a photo already in my mind - the sunlight filtering through was a bonus.

Thursday's daily photos

2009-05-22T11:41:00.000+10:00

I didn't have alot of time to take much in the way of photos yesterday as my parents are visiting and I was busy showing them around. These were taken just before 5pm using a higher ISO (1600) and the longest exposure I could take hand held (40th of a second I think). They may be somewhat grainy due to the higher ISO. I am still making sure I get my practice of daily photos from my yard.

Wednesday's Daily photographs

2009-05-20T15:58:00.002+10:00

Once again my daily photographs within the constraints of my yard...the possibilities are endless.

Self-portrait experimentation

2009-05-20T15:49:00.000+10:00

Mirrors + lovely sunlight/daylight = interesting self-portraits
I took many self-portraits using a mirror resting on a chair with the light source in various places - these are 2 of my favourites. As is the one I have used for my profile page.
I have over the course of my life taken many, many self-portraits so am quite practiced in the art. It is indeed an art, one I am still experimenting in. The key is to make sure your arm (the good ol' arm stretch) is not in the photo and that your neck is not strained in funny uncomfortable looking ways.
I try to take unusual self-portraits, they don't always turn out. I think it is important to know how to photograph oneself just as much as it is important to know how to compose a photograph in other settings.

Tuesday's daily photos - up to date

2009-05-19T22:17:00.001+10:00

I didn't have much time to take photos in my yard today as I was out for half the day and I have been rather behind in updating my photos. The rock photos were taken in the early morning - it was 6C and my fingers froze as I trying to shoot this scene.
Being super critical here, this is not the best I can do. I can do better. I am somewhat happy with them, but feel they are average photos. At least I fulfilled my quota of taking photos everyday. However I do not want to just fulfill my quota with crap photos - no way! This is a learning experience for me, not a fulfulling quota photo thing.

A visitor - cute kitty

2009-05-19T17:19:00.000+10:00

I had the privilege of photographing an adorable kitten who decided to follow me home on Sunday night. He was still there Monday morning so I captured his presence while he visited me. He had a beautiful nature, constantly purring and wanting to snuggle. He would follow me where ever I went - so cute.

Monday's Daily Photos - bit late but taken on Monday

2009-05-19T16:32:00.000+10:00

My backyard is full of amazing photos just waiting to happen...

Abandoned...

2009-05-19T15:16:00.000+10:00

I stumbled across this delightful gem of a place to photograph. I could barely believe my eyes; all the wonderful photography opportunities. Others rubbish has now become my photography...

Autumnness Photoshoot

2009-05-19T14:14:00.000+10:00

Lovely autumn leaves on trees, falling, falling, falling... for me to photograph, to capture in a moment of beauty.

Sunday's Daily Photos

2009-05-19T08:34:00.002+10:00

Exploration of my yard through photographs and of course some lovely photographs of Tiger.

More photographs coming of my Sunday photoshoot where I stumbled across a delightful & interesting gem of a place.

Saturday's daily photos (posted late but taken on time)

2009-05-17T17:49:00.001+10:00

Morning sunlight captured on a tree trunk

Autumn colours blown to the back porch

Tiger & M - morning cuddles

Daily Photos

2009-05-15T13:33:00.001+10:00

It's a gloriously windy day and the washing was waving around in the wind so beautifully. I had to photograph the washing blowing, waving and straining to get off the line. Tiger had his moment, I captured him just after he had finished drinking from a container of rain water.

Kez photography

2009-05-15T12:58:00.000+10:00

Welcome to Kez Photography. This is my new blog for my personal photography, daily photos and photo shoots I do with chosen models. Enjoy my journey...