Unphotographed

The photograph I didn't take today was of myself at 4:30am at the Lions Lookout up in Lesmurdie. I stood sandal glad feet rooted to the ground. As the wind bufffeted and blasted me from behind. Plastering my pretty green pyjama pants to my legs so that they were outlined in the dark morning, the excess fabric trying it's hardest to jump from the front of my body into the dark abyss in front. The drops of rain were forced through my t-shirt cooling my back in the early morning warmth that stays despite the wind in this Perth summer. I was unmoving though. Except my index finger poised and ready as I watched.

And these are the photos I did take....

 

 

 

Unphotographed 26.7.11

My left arm is extended and cradles the head of a small boy in the middle of my early morning bed. His right arm is extended and cradles the head of a smaller boy sleeping in the crook of my arm. My right hand holds his left and an even smaller hand is nested in between.
Love. ♥

Unphotographed: Cat, Ducks.

This is the set of photos I didn't take as we backed out of our drive one morning last week. I looked down the road for oncoming traffic and spotted a black cat crossing the road following a little way behind it was a paddle of 15 ducks. The cat was unaware of his feathered stalkers. Until he turned his head at which point the ducks changed their mind and in a casual sort of way turned around and headed back to the other side of the road.

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Winter Rose: Photographed and Unphotograhed

Kieran's rose put on a small out of season display...

Flowerliscious!

The same rose was part of an unphotographed situation... in hindsight I should have made the effort but hauling out and setting up the tripod on the cold winters night didn't appeal at the time. The photo I didn't take was of the same rose in bud. It was a dark night and Les went out for some reason so he happened to notice that the curtain was open a crackand the beam of light created was striking directly on the rose. Like a leading lady doing a solo in the spotlight in the middle of the stage.
Awesome... should have got the tripod out!

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Three Unphotos and a Funny Story

Unphoto No. 1; this is the photo I didn't take when I was driving down the main road toward the shopping centre. There was a car on a side road on my left waiting to turn onto the road on which I was travelling. As I approached the car a hand swung down into view and an arm hanging out of the bottom of the cars boot. I stared in shock and creeping horror and then relief as the road worker, all but his arm obscured by the cars rear tyre, finished inspecting the road and stood-up.

Unphoto No. 2; Les came home at lunch on Friday. I had just done the fortnights supermarket shopping and needed to put it away and also get two loads of washing on the line whilst simultaneously corralling, feeding and putting to bed the baby whom I did not want on the wet grass. So Les took the baby and the shopping leaving me outside under tg fhe washing line. Whilst the day was crisp the sun beat down warm on me and a thermal moved directly over our house lazily circling and enjoying the updraft of warm air was a Harrier Hawk about 50 metres or so above. A called Hawk loving dad and bird loving son out to check it out. As I did another Hawk joined the fun. We watched the birds do a circling dance above the neighbours house. Eventually one flew off leaving the other circling some more. And then we saw it. It ejected fast from it's body and then disapated seeming to vapourise as gravity pulled it to earth. A hawk taking a dump- now that's not something you see every day.

Unphoto No 3. We did a quick run down to the Balmoral Warehouse yesterday (we're looking for some particular chairs). As we were driving back home along St Lukes Rd We passed a store that had a sandwhich board outside with two sets of orange and yellow balloons attached to them. Just as our car approached one set of four balloons detached and flew into our path bounced off the front of the car and over the top. Will and Merenia both missed it which is a pity because it was a pretty cool moment.

Finally the funny story; Kieran and I went out recently to look for Lemony Snicket and other books. We went to Wheelers book store in Triton Drive, Albany. As we were driving back down Triton Dr Kieran was checking out his surroundings and announced; "Barbarella's" and then "Sexyland" as the large sign on the side of the building proclaims. I laughed and said, "Do you think you wanna check out Sexyland?" to which he replied; "No, but I'd like to go to Funky Town!"

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Unphotographed; man and his dog

I have seen so many things lately that have gone unphotographed.

A licence plate that says Jakes- Kieran's best friend.

A little girl lying on the ground and refusing point blank to go a step further.

The errant blossom on the apple tree that came out about 4-5 months after all the other blossoms.

And today I would have liked to take a picture of the gentlemen I saw outside the Albany Warehouse this morning.

'Man 1' was a Maori guy, talk, very short hair, solid build, stacks of Moko (Tatoos) all over his face and arms, jeans and a singlet . In a word staunch. I know some people who would cross the road to avoid walking past a guy like this- out of a misguided sense of fear.

'Man 2' was an elderly gent. White hair, blue cotton shirt and a wool cardy and a pair of 'nice' trousers.... I expect he had some lovely walk socks underneath.

They were an unlikely pair. Man 1 was standing facing the shop doors as if waiting for some one to come. Man 2 was stooped on the ground in front of him and they were both talking about man 1's dog... a little white fluffy dog- a bichon, lhasa or cairn terrier type.

The whole scene just really appealed to my aesthetic because they were such a odd trio.

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Unphotographed: The Hunt

Will and I put out some bread for the birds to give us something to watch from our posi on the couch. The large gathering drew the attention of Angel the neighbours lithe little black cat. She tried the run and pounce first and then the hide and sneak but her final move albeit unsuccessful was the most spectacular.
She climbed into the grapefruit tree right outside our lounge window and sat and watched and waited and waited and waited. Eventually the birds, lulled into a false sense of security, gathered in large numbers around the bread which was just under the periphery of the tree. And then she jumped down and out of the tree and into the mass. Cat went down, birds flew up... cat slunk off looking quite miffed.

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Exhibition Unphotographed

I've seen a bunch of cool stuff recently that I wasn't able to take pictures of so here goes...

The photo I didn't take the other week was of a truck with a swimming pool on the back rolling down the road towards me in the car. The pool being big and wide took out a street sign which then promptly rolled across the road and landed right in front on me.

The Sunset on Monday night as I was driving up Hobsonville Rd. The sun was just about to go below the horizon and the colours were amazing... this is one of the things I really enjoyed about living at Muriwai beach.

The photos I didn't take yesterday were;

Of some Paradise Ducklings- I've never seen Paradise Duck ducklings before but I can tell you despite the fact I went past them at 100km/h I know they are seriously cute.

Of Will. Crawling, seriously crawling not the lounge lizard commando crawling that he has become so highly skilled at but real up on hands and knees crawling for the first time at Jennie and Lilly's house yesterday... way cool. There has been more today as well... it won't be long now.

I'm sure there are others but me old brain is addled. :-)

3 months and other ramblings

Ok I have other stuff to do but this morning is obviously a thinking morning so here are my thoughts...
I was inspired by this blog and think I may just have to add a few of those to my blog from time to time. So today, the photos that I didn't take were;

• At school when I dropped the kids off this morning (still in PJ's again, jeese I hope the car doesn't break down one of these days)... anyway We pulled up alongside Maddy T who was wandering dreamily into school. And when she turned and saw who was in the car beside her she just cracked her massive smile that I so love seeing. She is such a sweet girl and she really does just beam when she smiles you can so tell that her joy is completely genuine.

• The photo I didn't take on the way home was one of those classic sunbeams through the clouds shots. It's quite a grey day here (the weather obviously saw my washing load) and the sun was pretty glorious in it's efforts to break through those strong grey masses it looked awesome.

Will was (unsurprisingly) gorgeous when we got home. Today he woke at 7:15 which means that he is ready for bed again by 8:15 which is of course about 5 minutes before we jump in the car to go to school. Some days he just goes to sleep in the carseat and others like today he fights sleep all the way there and back and has a quick drink before nodding off and being put in bed. Today he fought it, we got home and I took him and lay him on his wrap on the bed. He cried for seconds and then went real quiet. I wrapped him up and he stirred a little. I picked him up and he stirred a little. I put him down and deep sleep was instant.

Merenia was being thoughtful this morning so she got me out the "Marmalade Breakfast Jam" I have to say I am glad that I am not too tired at the moment as I probably wouldn't have noticed her error till to late...


I had to laugh at this too this morning...


Lucky she's doing lots of splling practice I think.

I'm not having milk at the moment to make sure that it is not what's bothering Will- god it's hard I miss it and now crave things I hardly ever have. I'm also obviously more tired than I feel because I was seriously contemplating a cup of coffee when I was driving home this morning (I don't drink coffee) and I jumped at the chance of a Diet Coke the other day, I'm not in to Diet at all but damn it was good. And yesterday I brought chocolate raisins and I'm not that big on chocolate either. But stimulants are obviously my thing at the moment.

Will is back to spending the period from 4:30pm till 10:30/11pm awake and it's like walking up a hill that gets steeper and steeper as the night goes on. And it also trashes; a) the time that I usually relax in and. b) a big hunk of my time to be creatively productive. I have the pictures printed for the V8 album now and I want to put it together plus I have another digital album to do as well which I want to get onto. I am hanging out to get all this other stuff out of the way so I can scrapbook my family!

The kids found out what their parts are for the production on Monday, I have a Soldier and a Courtier... does that not sound like some tacky love story to you... "The Soldier and the Courtier" I can just see the cover of the Mills and Boon book now.

Finally it's the 19th so you know what that means...

The official 9:38am photo....

The unofficial 9:38am photo.

That my friends is the face of a boy filling his pants!