Shot through the trampoline net which makes the image appear grainy and her little left hand is cropped out and yet it's is an all-time fav: With everything i can see that is 'wrong' with this all i really see is Che looking right at down the lens while he sings to me: Just playing around and yet I love these shots: So very, very dark with some focussing issues and i wish i could see more of my Mum's face but i love seeing her lovin' her grandbaby: Poorly cropped but what a proud and so very loved little hunka poultry this gal is:
Sometimes you don't realise until later that there were very special moments happening on the side-lines:
I've been making a big effort to collage my Instagram pictures
in Photo Grid every week. I'm about four months in and it's making for a really easy method of memory keeping.
So here it is! The very first post on my new blog! I'm excited people!
I have been trying to make a photography blog 'work' for me over on Blogspot for over a year now and even with my addiction to reformatting it just never felt right. So not only is this new site the most excellent way to present my work and the services i offer as a photographer but it can also host my blog. Brilliant! So, i have a couple of projects lined up for the coming months and as a result i'm currently feeling creatively motivated and generally positive. Aside from photography jobs and personal projects i'm currently putting together a podcast. I'm really backing myself with this project because i do feel it has real value but i am still going through that classic doubt-cycle that most creatives find themselves going through when taking on a new project. It looks a little bit like this:
I'll push through i'm sure and can't wait to be in the swing of things with this new-to-me medium. Anyway, i feel like sharing a few of the things i've been up to lately. The Summer holidays are a strange time when you free-lance and even stranger when you're parent. I finally understand why parents have always said why they can't wait for school to start at the end of every Summer hols. Yes i get it now, i am seriously gagging for some semblance of a routine! ;-)
zombies
Just before Christmas i was asked if i would document the 'zombification' process for a youth arts program here in South Australia. They are doing whole bunch of zombie themed workshops. It was paid work and it sounded fun!
I have never really worked with teenagers before but i REALLY enjoyed the experience; i really enjoyed them! I was so impressed with all the kids but there was one young lass who had jumped online and watched a few make-up tutorial, bought some make-up and spent the session painting everyones zombie bite wounds. She did a super job for a kiddo with no theatre/film make-up experience. The wounds were just as they should be: SO GROSS! :-) So i took LOTS of pictures, here's a small selection; some shots documenting the afternoon and a few pictures messing around at the end of the session. Oh and check out that zombie cake! watching:
VIKINGS! And falling hard for Legartha, the best female character i've seen on TV in a loooooong time! She is fierce and i am indeed asking myself 'What would Lagertha do?'
I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this shot of Katheryn Winnick in character! digital scrapbooking
'let's play make-up faces!'jammin' as therapy!
As some of you may know i dabble in a little song-writing. It has always been a very cathartic process for me. Even just the act of singing really is such a 'feel good' exercise. I play around with my husband Jeremy here and there and we've written and performed together. Now i'm really not sure that Jeremy would agree with me on this because his approach to practise and writing and i guess even performing is quite different to mine but getting into a rehearsal space recently and just 'singing it out' for 5 hours had the most incredible therapeutic quality. What IT is and what i'm saying i'm singing OUT i'm not entirely certain but i know i need more of it in my life. I've been in therapy here and there and i just feel like i'm at a time in my life where therapy needs to have a physical aspect to it; the need to box out frustration, push out any anxiety and i guess sing out the blues.
So we went and messed around on a couple of soul tracks last month with our mate Ben on the kit and after our session i was spent and it felt GREAT! We got so very little done really, only one tune to a point that i would say is playable but just expelling all that energy to the point where my voice was SO tired; it felt great and it reminded me about why i fell in love with song-writing to begin with; all those sessions with just me or me and my guitar or with Jeremy, sometimes other mates, singing tunes i love or tunes i've written. It really is the best kind of therapy!
If you're interested in listening to one of the few times i pulled my finger out and actually recorded a tune here it is: For Emma, a song written for a dear friend i grew up with:
My daughter tells me i sound very different to this now which i nice to hear as this was recorded SEVEN YEARS AGO now. BLIMEY! This year i am really looking forward to doing more music on my own and seeing where it leads me!
THANKS FOR STOPPING BY
SIOBHAN X X X
Since i turned 30 in October there have been a number of rather large challenges for my little family and some personal challenges too. It's encouraged me to adopt a frame of mind that is totally unfamiliar to me. And truly, it's a revelation! For the first time in my adult i feel like i am truly steering my own ship; i am at the centre of my own story! This new found strength is allowing me to push myself creatively like never before. I am making more, collaborating with new people, planning and feeling optimistic, BRAVO!
some old favs:listening to:digital scrapbooking
Still enjoying putting together my family albums in a digital format
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