Puppy Love

My daughters treasure; her Rottweiler puppy Jed, playing with Zac, their friends dog.

We just got back from a busy weekend in Auckland catching up with family and having a late and wonderful Christmas dinner.

I didn't get time to take many photos today and still haven't looked at the other 300 plus I took yesterday. Thanks Ice Bunny for the reminder of the shadow and highlights adjustment which I used to fix the dark area on this shot.

Little Treasure

A little treasure and its Mum I photographed at a Horse Sports Day today

Farewell Flowers

Today was my last day of work after 3 and 1/4 years. My workmates bought me these lovely flowers, knowing I will also enjoy them photography wise. LOL.
I am looking forward to what life brings next and hopefully a few weeks off to catch up on commenting!

Taken with Sony DSC-W170, natural light window light.

Twin Luck Dragons

Well I used a tripod and fill in lighting and still couldn't get it right. I should have used an auto lens, LOL.

These little dragons were a wedding present nearly 8 years ago. I think they are hand made - they come in a pottery egg (they are sitting in the remains) and when you break it you you find your little luck dragon who hold the coins in their mouth. We were extra lucky and got twins!

10 minutes in the garden

My treasure today is the little things I found while wandering in the garden. We have a couple of rose bushes struggling to grow as they are never pruned (long story). A fern unfurling that is part of a tribe trying to take over our deck and a dandelion just past its best.

None of them were particularly good on their own so I have joined in with the abstract and multi-shot takers and created this. It reminds me a flag, if I had put the dandelion in the middle it could be Italy.


Taken with the prime 50mm and macro extension ring.

At the end of the rainbow

Not sure what I was going to photo today, then just before dinner this beautiful rainbow appeared with its friend. So todays treasure is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - just over there!

I took some more photos of the rainbows and an amazing cloud, but my memory card is refusing to work and the recovery software is struggling, so this one will have to do.

I did get told I am finishing work on Friday, but managed to negotiate a bit more redundancy - a small victory and still only a small amount.
Looking at this rainbow I am reminded that every cloud has a silver lining and I am hopeful I will end up with a better job.

Rubber Band Ball

This was the best of a bad bunch today. Not much DOF involved either. Taken with a Sony DSCS-W170 at work, on automatic. But I did use white bags to reflect light back onto it.

I started off this rubber band ball over a year ago and my co-workers and I have been adding bands ever since which makes it a treasure, especially as I am almost definitely going to be made redundant by Friday.