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Seven more sleeps

May 29, 2012 by Jen

As a friend informed me today there’s seven more sleeps until my exhibition opening. As I write the opening will be nearly over.

I’ve finally got all my pictures ready to hang.

Invites are out and people are coming.

I’ve pretty much priced everything. That’s hard!

I got a great write up on a local website called Adelaide Tweet.

Read more about how social media helped me get my 365 project exhibition underway, and find out more about my photo a day project – Project 365, or as it’s known this year, Project 366 – the leap year project.

Project 365 done and dusted

November 26, 2011 by Jen

How does one end a photo a day for a year? I wanted to take a photo of something with the numbers 365 in it but of course couldn’t find anything and I hadn’t planned ahead far enough.

Next best thing? Take a self-portrait. That’s what I did. I took quite a few photos before I was satisified(ish) with this one.

I feel a fantastic sense of achievement with the completion of this self-imposed project.

And the unexpected result of doing this project is that I’m going to have a photography exhibition early next year. I’m excited and scared all at the same time but those are natural feelings when you put yourself and/or your work out there.

I don’t know what I want to achieve with this exhibition. I don’t have a desire to be a professional photographer as I think that would take some of the fun out of it. At this stage I want to keep it as a hobby because it’s something I really enjoy.

I’ve decided to do another photo a day for a year project but I’ll start on 1 January 2012 and by my calculations it will be 366 photos because it’s a leap year.

Project 365 – the penultimate photo

November 23, 2011 by Jen

This was Day 1/365 of my Project 365 photos.

This is Day 364/365 of my Project 365 photos.

I’ve done it, except for today’s photo – the last one for the year. Will I continue with another year? Should I?

This is my contribution for Wordless Wednesday – hoping Trish gets her blog sorted out. If it’s not there she knows there’s problems.

Hangover cure

October 24, 2011 by Jen

Saturday, 15 October 2011, Day 326/365.

What does a girl do after she’s been out for probably a few too many birthday drinks the night before?

Why, she answers the callout from a mate to go and help clear his block of land.

When we rocked up we were greeted with a beer and then went to work picking up rubbish. It was mostly burnable rubbish so we had fires going. Consequently we all smelt of smoke and I was completely knackered afterwards.

It was good to get out and do something like this though.

Sunday, 16 October 2011, Day 327/365.

The photo above shows glacier rock at Hallett Cove. I’d never seen it before. See all the lines on the rocks? That’s apparently from where a glacier used to be millions? of years ago. It was a spectacular sight and I’d like to go back and see more of this area.

The speck down on the rock near the shoreline is actually my son. Can you see him? Whereever possible I like to wear out some of that boundless energy so sending him down the stairs to have a closer look at the rock was a great opportunity. He loves rocks and ‘crystals’ so he didn’t mind at all.

Birthday

October 21, 2011 by Jen

Friday, 14 October 2011, Day 325/365.

This time a week ago it was my birthday. Another year has passed and as usual I’m wondering where the last year went?

It was the last day of school holidays so I didn’t work and JJ didn’t go into vacation care so we spent the day together. It was a pretty relaxed day with a bit of domestic stuff like grocery shopping thrown in.

And it was good to just have the day with him without having to go anywhere. My sister popped in for a little while with a present for both of us (JJ’s belated birthday present) and a beer each for herself and me.

Then from about 6.30pm onwards people popped in as I’d arranged a night out.

My sister came over to babysit while I went out with The Surfer and some friends.

Oh, and before we went out The Surfer gave me a cigar box ukulele for my birthday. I love it. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I’ve seen cigar box ukes that are flatter, but never one quite like this. It came from Tennessee apparently.

I had a great night out. Five of us had dinner before other friends turned up at the venue I’d chosen. It was very relaxed and I was very relaxed. I’d just sent an email to my friends asking them to come along. The dinner group just sort of evolved organically and I had no real idea who was turning up later.

Normally I would stress out a little bit wondering who would turn up, or if anyone would turn up but I didn’t this time.

All in all I had a lovely birthday. And I do enjoy my birthdays.

Full moon

October 20, 2011 by Jen

Thursday, 13 October 2011, Day 324/365.

I was watching tv and checking Facebook and Twitter during the ads because I always avoid watching ads if I can and noticed that lots of people were talking about how fabulous the full moon was.

I checked it out for myself and took some photos with my phone. I wish I could have been bothered to get my SLR camera and setup the tripod but I was tired and it required too much effort on my part.

But I’m happy with how this photo turned out – you get some sense of how it looked that night. Sensational.