To market, to market

Oh I do love a good market don't you? I went to Bondi markets today and had a lovely morning checking out all the beautiful produce. I bought some flowers and bread and coconut yoghurt and enjoyed taking photographs of everything else on offer.

 Beautiful poppies I bought home

I've never tried Kimchi, have you? there were so many types of bagels

 

August

Well August is here already and I am back on another 365 project! I found it so strange not having my camera with me all the time so I am continuing with one photo a day. So far August looks like this -

We went to an amazing French restaurant for a truly fantastic dinner and as we left they presented us with a small brioche and a pot of jam, it was delicious.
These tiny little flowers are out in my garden right now, I have no idea what they are called.

Yesterday we went to Bondi and sat overlooking the icon icebergs pool for lunch. The sun was shining but it was absolutely freezing and one brave soul took to the water without a wetsuit.

How is your August? hope you are having fun.

Hello Monday

Monday again! the weeks are flying past aren't they? My frangipani tree is in flower and it's very hot here with huge storms every afternoon. How is the weather where you are?

Things that make you go mmmm....

I met up with the lovely Leanne yesterday and we went to a very trendy place called The Grounds which is in an industrial part of Sydney. We spent a very happy couple of hours eating a delicious breakfast and snapping away until we were told to stop taking photographs unless we paid $500!!  Everything was so well done and it really was a photographer's paradise, I took so many pictures.

I came home with a loaf of barley sourdough and the choice of breads was amazing, all gluten and wheat free and made from ingredients I had no idea you could make bread from.

The flower shop was amazing too, I bought a bunch of flowers and some flower scissors to add to my props cupboard.

Summer

It feels good to be warm, summer is really here with trips to the beach, bougainvillaea everywhere and splashes of colour to brighten the days.

The weekend ahead

We are having a quiet weekend this weekend, no plans apart from going for a run, reading, doing a bit of cooking and gardening, what about you?

Growing roses in Sydney

I am so excited as I have managed to grow roses in Sydney! we live near the sea and experience high humidity and everyone told me that roses wouldn't grow.  I took advice from a specialist rose growing nursery and sent them a sample of the soil and told them the garden is in shade for most of the day and they suggested the rose called 'fabulous' and fabulous it is although sadly it doesn't have any perfume but it looks good and I can have a little bit of England each time I look out of my kitchen window.

A weekend in the country

We just spent a most wonderful weekend in the countryside where my parents live, it was a weekend of food and flowers. My parents grow their own vegetables and have the most wonderful garden, it was a visual feast and here are just a few shots with many more to come!

Broad beans from the garden to the plate and sweet peas and cosmos

A week in black and white

I have just finished my week of black and white and I would really recommend doing it as it forced me to think outside my comfort zone with my camera. It is easy to do the occasional black and white shot but to do it for a week does become a real challenge because so many things don't work in black and white.

Black and white is great for low light and nightime. I took this picture with my iso on a whopping 10,000 knowing that any grain would add to the effect of the night shot.

I took the above shot on an overcast day with my iso at 500

Flowers always look good in black and white but plants can sometimes look flat

 Kitchen equipment is always good to photograph in black and white

We are also doing black and white this month with our diptych over at TwoTakes so do have a look.  This week I am going to do a week of colour if anyone wants to join me.

A week in my neighbourhood

I have been taking shots of the area I live in all week, part of a weekly series I have decided to do. Next week I am doing a week of black and white, does anyone want to join me?

Flowers from my garden

My lavender is doing very well here in the sunshine.

At the market

Don't you just love markets? I have recently discovered the food markets at Bondi every saturday, so many colours and delicious food plus you get to walk along the beach afterwards.

A week of flowers

 Summer here in Sydney is all about colour and the best place to find it is in the flowers.
I have white in my garden

Red, yellow and green down the street

and I bought pink today

I hope your weekend is full of pretty colours

Lately

Lately I have been taking a lot of pictures, carrying around my dslr and making the effort to shoot every day. I must confess I don't miss instagram at all, I thought I would but I realised it was making me a bit lazy, a quite snap, edit, upload, obsess about 'likes'. I am enjoying taking pictures for the diptychs I am doing with Leanne over here. We have been sending each other pictures based on a theme then we match them up, it is great fun, I highly recommend it if you feel in a bit of a rut with your photography. You can easily make a diptych using pic monkey, I am finding it really hard to shoot in portrait so I just adapt my landscape shots, I know a lot of people only shoot in portrait for a diptych but hey, isn't photography all about breaking rules too?

Clematis flower

London is looking very grey and dull at the moment but as I tidied up the garden yesterday ready for winter I found that the clematis is still flowering. I love these colours together, purple and green make such a wonderful combination. Hope you are having a colourful autumn too.

daisies

who can resist the allure of daisies.

sweet shot tuesday

Today is sweet shot tuesday.