Photo challenge...

Anita has set a little challenge for us. I have to choose an older 'forgotten' photo & tell its story. The instructions included looking in the 6th folder for the 6th photo & rediscovering.

This photo was taken at Apollo Bay in 2006. Our 3 families had spent the weekend in a large rental beach house that was able to accomodate all 13 of us. On the Saturday afternoon we did a short walk up to a lovely little waterfall (the name of which escapes me, shows that you really should write down the who, where, when because we do forget!)

Erin & I paused for this shot, taken by Chris with his new mobile phone, it was a novelty to have a phone that could take snaps like this as I hadn't taken a camera at all!

It was quite a warm day & it was lovely to pause at this cool spot & let the kids scramble over rocks, logs & into the waterfall itself.

Thanks Anita for setting the challenge, we need to reflect sometimes & tell our story...the photos don't always have to be perfectly focused, posed or set up.
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I always loved taking photos, sending off the films to be processed & the anticipation of getting the prints back. I have boxes & boxes of prints & I was diligent about writing details on the back. Photography was a passion, I toyed with the idea of being a photographer but was swayed to do nursing instead by parents who wanted me to have a 'proper' career.

In those boxes photos like this taken when Hayley & Lucy were performing with the ensemble.

Or this one, taken on Mum's 60th birthday when Hayley was a toddler.

Now I have folders & discs with hundreds of pics instead.

I loved my SLR camera with the ability to change settings, focus etc but now I am also lovin' my new digital camera with its instant gratification. I am not so good at recording the details on the computer when I download them but have multiple snaps to choose from when deciding on a layout.

Fun shots like this, & I keep all of them unless they are so blurred I can't tell what it is!

My style has changed with the freedom of digital to shots like this, I would never have wasted the film on such a carefree shot that wasn't posed or perfect, but I'm so glad I have them sitting on my computer.