Some pics from our holiday

We just spent a week on the coast and what promised to be a lovely holiday soon turned into mayhem. The first two days we were there we had lovely weather ,the sea was calm and blue not unlike a lake. Then Tuesday morning the rain and wind started and what ensued was the worst floods the region has seen for the last 40 years.

This was sunrise the first morning, around 6.30 am - one looking up the beach to the left (this is where the sun rose) and the other looking down the beach to the right.

My baby and her footsies in the sand lol. She really didnt know what to make of the sand.

My eldest daughter and my dad walking on the beach, I used my 70/300 here as they were miles away lol.

Eldest daughter climbing a sand hill hehehe

I love that on this pic the shutter speed was just right to catch the water drops.

Two more pics where I used the 70/300 - see how calm and blue the sea is in the second pic? You can not get better then that!!

I'll post the flood pics shortly :)

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F is for Fun :)

So I'm still with photographing people :) My daughter was fooling around in the garden on the trampoline yesterday afternoon - I played around with my shutter settings and got some good snaps - the sun was just setting though so there was a bit of an orange glow on pretty much everything :) I love the mid-air shot :)

E is for Elegant

I decided to try start taking more pics of people as my skills as far as that goes are severly lacking. I actually had a thought of selling my camera this weekend because I am so bad at it lol.



I had to buy Lemon a new ballet outfit as hers was taken from school, so I thought I would take some pics of her in her new outfit. Ballet is elegant right? lol.






I tried the black and white setting on my camera - and yup I need some more practise me thinks :)

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E,F and G are gone :(

I took some great photos this weekend, when I tried downloading them my CF card gave me an error , I couldnt fix it :( Only thing I could do was format the card. It seems to be working ok now - will go out later and get some more pics. In the mean time, I wanted to share these pics with you. They are my all time favourites :)

This one was taken at Sun City - the lizards was on a rock about 5 metres away, I used my 75/300 Lense and lay on my tummy to get this shot lol

We were playing tennis the one afternoon and there was this lone sun flower growing next to the courts. I love how bright the petals look in contrast to the sky.

This was taken at the Dolphin show at Ushaka Marine World. The dolphins were about 20 meters away and I used my 75/300 lense here, and I had no tripod. I am super proud of this shot as I managed to firstly catch the dolphins as they jumped out the water and that my focus was spot on.

This is my daughter on a beach in Ballito. I think the photo has an artsy feel to it, lol. I will probably print an enlarged pic and maybe block mount it :)