Three Toby Jugs

I am visiting my mother today, so took the opportunity to photograph her small collection of Toby Jugs. They were her mothers, who bought them when my mother was a little girl. I hadn't noticed the character and detail in their faces until photographing them today.

I hope the border matches the others as I didn't use Photoshop.


Taken with Olympus kit lens 40-150mm, using natural window light on the coffee table.

Portmeirion Cup and a Jaffa Cake

Many years ago my Nana visited Portmeirion and bought these two cups and saucers. After seeing the Prisoner TV series in the late 70's and finding out my Nana had been there I had had a fascination with the place. Last year I was lucky enough to go and visit it for myself. I drove my mother nuts taking hundreds of photos...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmeirion
Jaffa Cakes are a favourite English treat which are occasionally available in New Zealand and are very yummy.
Although I had the idea in my mind for this shot for a while, I didn't have enough time to minimise reflections, etc before heading back up to Auckland for a few days. Fingers crossed I will get a photo up tomorrow.

Taken with the Prime 50mm, tripod and natural light.

Books by Candlelight

We went out for dinner for my husbands birthday and I never expected to get home so late... and then I found the photos I had taken earlier were awful.
For this shot of some of the books in my bookcase I used the fifty prime and tripod  with very low flash and tissue over the flash. I think the bright highlights are reflected candlelight. The candle is one of a pair of wrought iron candlesticks that I inherited (not that you can see them).
Inspired by Lady Min.

Two Zebras

Two zebra's given to me by my children. I would like to create a herd of zebras one day.

Taken in the evening with a tripod and the Prime 50mm lens with TeleConvertor 2X.

Christmas Tree Fairy

I promise this is the last of my Christmas shots until at least November.

I was putting away the last of the decorations today and found this treasure that my Nana created. I have no idea how old she is but she must be at least 45 years old and is only about 4 inches high; my Nana made the tinsel wand and fancy outfit complete with sequins.

I found (in my husbands old collection of film gear) a TeleConvertor 2X that I put with the manual 50mm prime. This photo has only had a slight crop, I can see me using this combination again. I have another photo that is all in focus but I preferred this one.

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