Hey, move already!

Hope that got your attention!!

I've moved to my new photo blog... please check out my link, and change your feeds!
http://www.jeanetteverster.com/

The end of this blog

I've finally taken the plunge and created my own domain.  And yes, it's in my real name, so it's almost the end of Jenty too ;)
http://www.jeanetteverster.com/

Please check it out, and remember to change your RSS feeds and readers!  Hope to see you all there!!

On the road again

I just love the scenery on the way home from Natal to Johannesburg along the N3, especially going through the hills of Natal to the flat scenery in the Freestate.  I'm getting quite good at taking photos from the car while it's moving too!

This shot is my favourite, I just love all the brown wintery colours at this time of the year...

Just before Harrismith

Farm in the Freestate

And of course, I just have to find ruins to take photos of!

Weekly Winners: 9 August - 16 August

I'm going to try and choose my absolutely favourite shots that I took during our holiday in Shelly Beach, and because I missed last week's WW, I'm going to show you photos from the 9th onwards.
Hope I don't overdo it, but I'm finding it very difficult to choose from the 700 odd photos that I took. LOL! If you can, please choose your top 3, because I want to submit 3 of these to Camera Club this week and I need some help choosing ;)

Watching the sea

There was a LOT of debris on the beach which was washed up a few months ago in massive storms. The beaches have still not been cleared properly but the massive logs and trees made wonderful props.

Debris at sunrise

Debris at sunset

Debris under the moon

Tossed by the sea

The logs made wonderful jungle gyms too!

Leaping off the log

Woohoo!

Copying my brother

Cracks in the wall

I was JUST too late for this shot, but I still like it (I managed to cut off part of his wing)

Flying from the wave

Seagull on the rocks

And of course the magnificent sunrises! It's a pleasure having small kids when you know you have noisy "alarm clocks" to wake you up in time to set up tripods on the beach to wait for the sun to some up ;)

Sunrise at Shelly Beach

Dreamy sunrise

Seagull at sunrise

Check out the wonderful Sarcastic Mom's blog for more Weekly Winners

Abandoned bucket

We came back today from our holiday in Shelly Beach, on the Kwazulu Natal south coast.  It's not the best time of the year to go there  ito weather, but it was a good break. 
I've taken SOOOO many photos that I don't actually know where to start.  In fact, I think I'll post some every day for the next week. Hopefully one or two of them are going to be good enough for Camera Club this coming Wednesday night. 
I thought this one covered this week's photohunt quite nicely.  The theme is colourful, and the colours of the bucket that the kids were playing with really stands out against the colours of the beach and the sea.

Check out tnchick's blog for more Photohunters.

Sun rising in the Freestate

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

This was taken VERY early this morning just before Harrismith on the N3. Yip, you guessed it, we're on holiday :) And yip, you guessed right again, I was doing my favourite trick of taking photos at 140kph!
In fact, as I'm typing this, I'm sipping some well deserved red wine and listening to the sea :) Nothing can beat that.

Can't wait to take the kids to swim in the sea tomorrow, chat later. So forgive me for not visiting all my usual blogs for the next few days ;)

Check out more Skywatchers HERE and more Photostory tellers HERE

He needs a haircut

OK, this isn't that wordless!  I forgot to organise haircuts for the boys and we're going on holiday!  Damnit! 
Oh and, I've been playing with some free Photoshop actions that I found in my travels around the web.

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Peering through the Pallisades

Remember a few weeks ago I posted photos of Connor watching the traffic through the fence... but standing on the ground while doing it.
Well, he's progressed from there... he now insists on climbing on top of the wall to look through the fence, the ground is no longer exciting :)

A study of an arum lily

I love taking photos of Arums, and they're looking so lovely in my mom's garden at the moment.  I took these with an ISO setting of 1600 because they were taken at sunset today, which is why the background is slightly grainy.

Arum torn

This one was taken with the flash, and I quite like the effects of the shadows.

In the shadows

Spot the insect

I'm fiddling with my actions again, I'm a bit tired of the black frames.

Weekly Winners 2 Aug

I have taken photos all week, like usual, but my week was ALL about yesterday, so I'm only going to show you some that I took yesterday.

My dad, sister, brother, me and the boys flew to Cape Town yesterday for the day so that we could visit my grandparents in Hermanus.  My grandad is very ill, and when my dad said he was going to see them, we all said we HAD to go too.  I wanted him to meet Connor and see Bradley again.

It was a VERY long day.  In a nutshell... 2 hours flight there, 1 hour drive to Hermanus, 1 1/2 hour drive back, and 2 hour flight again... with 2 kids... it was a looooong day.  But the 2 1/2 hours that we spent with them was more than worth it, and in fact, long enough for him (but not for my grandmother).  By the time we left we all noticed how tired he'd got.  Anyhoo, here are some of the photos I took.

This is by far my favourite photo of the day. It's not the best ito photographic skills, but I love it. Connor relates to people so much faster than Bradley ever did, and he was sharing chips with my grandad (which I think meant the world to him because they had a "moment")

Sharing

And here's more for you

Connor with his great grandparents

Grandpa Roy

Granny Marie

Hermanus is the most beautiful town. It's on the coast close to Cape Town, and is known for the whales that come to the bay every year. It's not quite whale season yet but that didn't stop us walking to the cliff path to see if we could spot one (And I had to get some of the energy out of the kids before we headed off for the airport again).

Daisies on the cliff

Bench

Elaine on the cliff path

Trying to spot whales

Connor walking through the fynbos

The end of a long day

My only regret was that I didn't get a photo of my dad with his parents. I only thought about it last night when I was proofing the photos.

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