25. December 2014 08:01
by Rene Pallesen
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This year we celebrated Christmas eve with the boys.
5 days before Christmas I still hadn't taken our annual family photo even though I had the concepts loosely worked out in my head.
I knew that I wanted to do one in the kitchen and one evening when Kim decided she wanted to experiment with cooking brownies I decided to set it up and talked her through the concept and what I wanted her and the kids to do.
It worked out better than expected.

Kim also wanted one of us unpacking gifts.
This one was a lot harder to set up as the light was critical.

The last family photo we did was a simple one taken in the morning at Maroubra beach.
24. December 2014 09:01
by Rene Pallesen
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Today was REALLY hot in Sydney.
We have had a couple of really hot (40C++) days in Sydney this summer but yesterday beat the current longstanding heat record from 1936.
In Sydney itself they measured 45.8C and at the Airport which is closer to us the measured 46.4C. At our place we measured more than 43C degrees at midday.

Fortunately yesterday was a lot cooler and because we knew that there was a hot day coming up we managed to cool down the place the during the night to a pleasant 25 degrees...and out house maintained that temperature for most of the day (apart from our study which gets really hot because of the big windows).
In the evening a cool change arrived with very strong winds and a bit of rain...we quickly opened all doors and windows to take advantage of it and cool down the place again...unfortunately this also came with a very fine layer of dust on everything next morning.
9. January 2013 04:23
by Rene Pallesen
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2012 was a record blogging years for me...77 posts over the entire year...which means one new entry every 4.5 days, or in other terms something new to look at regularly.
I am hoping that 2013 will have equally many posts. I have now been blogging for more than 15 years and most if not all the posts can be seen here:
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2. January 2013 01:37
by Rene Pallesen
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Here is another family photo that I had my Dad assist us with. It was easier to have him on a ladder taking the photo than trying to set it up on a lightstand.

It was lit by firing a group of flashes into the ceiling of the room...hopefully I will get a professional studio flash soon and will have some more power available for these types of photos.
I recon this is one of my favourite family photos from 2012.
2. January 2013 01:00
by Rene Pallesen
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In one of the shops at Eastgardens I found a wall full of these inspirational notes for 2015.






23. December 2014 09:01
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21. December 2014 09:01
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Kim has never learned to ride a bike. One day at the park she borrowed Kaylas bike and gave it a try.
She did pretty good considering that she's never done it before.
