7. November 2010 02:35
by Rene Pallesen
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Today it is Aidens Birthday....he is now 5 Months old (when you are less than 6 months old you get to have birthday every month).
He is a good/easy little boy. He is now able to keep his head up, but still unable to sit or roll around onto his tummy. He sleeps through the night and wakes up around 7.30 to get a feed. On weekends he is happy to go back to sleep so his Mummy and Daddy can sleep in.
He is very quiet when in crowded places and likes to just sit and observe (Kims dad is saying that he has got that after me).
It has taken me a long time to get this photo done. I had to wait for him to keep his head up and even then it was pretty hard to get hime to look in the right direction.
3. November 2010 11:50
by Rene Pallesen
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I have now finished the second portrait in the series of the four elements...just Fire and Air left. This one is "Water". The yellow blob is a Weedy Sea Dragon.
...Really helping my Photoshop skills. Not sure if anyone else thinks these photos are cool...but they are cool to make and are different from what I'd otherwise be doing.
1. November 2010 09:50
by Rene Pallesen
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This weekend Kim and I went to see the musical Fame at Capitol theatre with a couple of friends Audrey and John.
Most of the cast was made up of dancers from “So you think you can dance” so there was a potential for a really good performance with some excellent dancing.
Our friends had organised a babysitter for the night and Aiden was being looked after by Kim’s dad and sister.
The performance was good (but not great). I think we were expecting more singing and dancing (It was a musical) and less dialogue. The second half of the play was a lot better than the first half with more dancing.
Unfortunately our friends missed this part as she was worried about their kid left alone with the babysitter (that is kinda the point of getting a babysitter) and left during the intermission.
At the end they got everyone in the audience up from their chairs for the famous "Fame" song.
Kim and I however had a good night out…and she looked smashing!
20. October 2010 11:11
by Rene Pallesen
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We just finished another grading as a family. This time the boys and Kim graded to their first brown belts and I graded to my third brown belt.
We were supposed to have graded about a month ago, but because of Kims dad's funeral we had to postpone it for a month.
It therefore turned out to be just a mini grading with just the four of us as a family.
Now it will be quite a while before any of us are grading again. The boys need to get a fair bit stronger before grading for the next belt based on the feedback. I will need to start working towards the black, so Kim will probably be the next one grading towards the end of the year.
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Sunday night Kim and I was looking after Ethan and Kayla while Chong and KC went out for dinner.
Kims
dad and Dylan popped over for a couple of hours (Kims dad wanted to see
Aiden ;-)) and after dinner and after Aiden was asleep I set up the
studio to take some portraits of the kids. Main purpose was to
experiment a little to improve my photography skills...especially my study of shadows (It is easy to light, but harder to create meaningful shadows).
Lately I
have been doing more photography using all my flashes with wireless
triggers to get interesting angles and effects. A couple of days ago I
bought a couple of pieces of fabric in different colours (blue and red)
to use as backgrounds and the following photos are a result of Sunday
nights photoshoot.
I used one flash camera right in a 60*60 softbox, Hair light behind
camera left snooted. In retrospect I should have taken my 3rd flash and
used this to light the coloured backdrops to create better seperation...the highlights above are done in Post processing.
27. September 2010 12:21
by Rene Pallesen
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I had a bit of fun on the weekend and spent a little time using photoshop doing something different for a self portrait. Just a bit of fun for a Facebook profile photo.
It took me about 5 minutes to take the photo and about 25-45 in photoshop to modify the image.
After taking the image I modified the background, de-saturated the colours, saturated the green colours, added the cat-eye contact lenses and extended the canine teeth slightly...done! Not perfect, but good enough for what I wanted to try and accomplish.
19. September 2010 10:31
by Rene Pallesen
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The boys putting up the tent.
Our campground from across the lake.
Teaching the boys to fish (only caught seaweed).
The kids spent hours climbing up and down this little hill.
Lots of brains trying to put up a gazebo. Eventually we had to consult the instructions.
Sunset scenery
It was raining so we gathered under the canopy.
Lots of curious ducks (waiting to be fed).
Spotted a 2016 vintage from Coonawarra...had to try it.
Scenery from our camp ground.
Great selfie with Lucas and I.
More spectacular scenery.
Cuties in the hammock.
I have seen steam tractors in museums before, but this is the first time I have seen one that is still functioning. This one is from 1913.
One day we went mushroom picking. These ones you definitely can't eat.
And these ones you can.
First time I have seen a Leopard Slug.
A pretty good picking...
The kids found a bird skeleton. It could be a dead lyrebird, or maybe a dodo.
20. April 2022 14:04
by Rene Pallesen
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Here are some various photos from first part of 2022.
Here is one of Aiden in his happy space at the Piano and Guitar.
At Cabramatta we sat down having an asian drink. It looked so much like one of the birds from Angry bird that I just had to get a photo. See the resemblance?
This is a Lego truck that Lucas built.
