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Best of the Best
December 24, 2006 2:57 PM
Here's a little montage of the "best of the best" photos I've taken over the last little while.
Christmas for Timbos.
24th: Get up earlyish, put my gear together, visit Matty & Lisa (and my lovely Godsons Tom & Will), drive to Church, do sermon prep all day, Preach @ 7pm service (we have a 5,7 & 10:30), hang with JT in the evening, go to 10:30 then head home & crash.
25th: 9:30am service, do a kids talk (should be a hoot! I got to help sew in my prep for this one!), drive home & pack the car, drive to the Craig's house for Christmas with Shona & Co., then drive up to the Hunter Valley for Christmas dinner with my family.
Busy days, but good times. I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning & also to camp which happens straight afterward.
We'll see how many blogs happen over the next week. No promises...
Hangin' with the Fam
December 20, 2006 10:09 AM
I guess I have a sort of love/hate relationship with road trips. I do enjoy having open road in front of me, knowing that there is unlimited potential lying there. Who knows what's going to be in front of me? On the other hand, I occasionally struggle, because I usually when I am travelling, I am trying to get somewhere & when there is a destination that is in my mind, then the exciting stuff that I might pass on the way can loose a little of it's lustre.
It is hard for travelling stuff to maintain a shine when the destination is my sister's place in Wagga Wagga. Amy and Andrew (Sis & Bro in Law) are heaps of fun to hang out with, all three of the kids are gorgeous & this time my Dad is down here to boot!
So my travel tales over the 6 hour period are pretty minimal. I listened to test cricket for almost the whole time on the way down (Australia won the "Ashes", Yay!!!!), and I only really stopped for a bit of petrol & some lunch, then for a couple of happy snaps of a hill.
And now when I think about it, I am not sure I am building too many stories here, or at least ones I want to share. It is great just to hang with the kids (they grow so fast!) chat to Amy & Dad, and watch episodes of "firefly" at night (A&A's current obsession, and possibly a future one of mine!).
So meanwhile, you'll have to make do with a couple of pictures. One old, a couple new.
Here is a pic that I took when I went out with Jodi Mac the other week. Love Sydney!
A pretty tree on the way to Wagga. (Best viewed large)
More road shots...
Oh please be true
December 13, 2006 12:33 AM
Big props to Maccentric in Chatswood. I emailed them & outlined the problem with my computer & I got an email back inside 24 hours, saying essentially "It sounds like a problem that could be fixed without us. Check out these websites that tell you how to do it so you don't have to pay $125 an hour to get me to do it for you!".
48 hours and a reinstall of my operating system later, things are working again. There are little bits & pieces of stuff that I have lost & will have to fix, but basically everything is up & running again.
OK, so it is almost 1am here, but I just HAVE to celebrate by posting a couple of pictures from the two weddings I have been photographer for over the last couple of weeks.
I'm back baby! All I have to do is work out how to make my computer access the net from Phil's house & it will be 100% go!!!!
Check out the sweet "Quadruple Magnum" look from the 4 little Zoolanders. Elaine & Matt (Bride & Groom in the center) Janet & I (The two photographers for the day). This was from the 2nd of Dec.
A fish-eye shot from Colin & Cath's (Kath?... I always forget) wedding that was on the 9th.
One more to go on the 16th, then I am free & clear!
PTC & Toi Toi time reading.
December 3, 2006 10:45 PM
There will be Pictures To Come in the near future. I have some great night shots that I took with Jodi, and I could also give you a couple of teasers from yesterday's wedding of Elaine & Matt, but it will all have to wait till I have my computer running again.
Meanwhile, I considered starting a story for you, but instead I think I might go to bed.