28. September 2012 08:39
by Rene Pallesen
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Yesterday we made the trip to Auburn Botanical gardens which is located about 25km from where we live.
I am paternity leave at the moment at this was a nice opportunity to get out of the house with Aiden and the newborn and also take some photos.
The garden contains a Japanese section full of Cherry blossoms in spring...unfortunately it is no longer cherry blossom season, but I did find some apple trees with flowers on them as well as other flowers.
There was also a bunch of peacocks around the place...one of them kind enough to show us its pride.
24. September 2012 07:45
by Rene Pallesen
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During the last couple of days I have been doing my first series of newboarn photos with the little one (still no name).
So far he is behaving like a typical newborn...wants a feed every couple of hours and sleeps a lot. He is doing his best to keep Kim awake at night...I try to get a good nights sleep and then look after Aiden during the daytime and get him out of the house (swimming, shopping etc.) so that Kim can get some additional sleep without too make additional interruptions.
Anyway...back to the newborn photos. I wanted to take these cute high-key photos with the newborn wearing a hat. It turned out to be a lot harder than I had expected...both due to the little one not behaving as desired, but also because there were a few adjustments that had to be made underway. In the end we ended up doing three sitting where the last sitting was the most successful one.
I knew that I needed to raise the head from the body to get the right pose but I found out that it was a mistake using pillows as they were too soft. After this I tried towels and linen but they were still too soft. In the end I used a hard camera suitcase with a towel on top which turned out to be perfect.
Over the next weeks I will get to take some more photos, so stay tuned...
13. September 2012 04:34
by Rene Pallesen
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During the last 9 months since Kim became pregnant I've been doing this project with a monthly belly photo.
12. September 2012 07:20
by Rene Pallesen
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On the morning of the 12th September 2012 at 6.10am our little boy arrived to this world. He was keen to get out and as expected (pretty much) he arrived two weeks early.
Labour actually started more than 24 hours earlier and was just dragging on with Kim getting contractions every 30 minutes or so...not close enough to quite panic about, but still with the knowledge that it is close to going to the hospital. At the time the little one arrived Kim had been in labour for more that 24 hours so she eventually ended up with another c-section.
Fortunately there were no complications with the procedure, the only downside was that everyone else in the whole area decided to have babies on the same day, so the hospital natal section was completely full. This meant that for the first three nights Kim and the little one were put in the acute section of the hospital. Very noisy and hard to sleep, but the good thing was that there was a 1:1 carer ratio and they don't normally see little newborns there, so both Kim and the newborn got a lot of attention and assistance.
After 5 nights in the hospital Kim and the newborn (still without a name) came back from the hospital.
The little one actually looks a lot like his older brother...same mold I guess.
9. September 2012 07:12
by Rene Pallesen
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Last night I went with Kim and Aiden to Darling Harbour for dinner. We wanted to go somewhere where it was also nice to go for a walk.
We ended up just buying a kebab and sitting on the steps outside eating it while Aiden had fun imitating the sounds of the seagulls trying to get to our foor (in the beginning he was a bit scared of the birds).
I had brought my camera along and took a couple of panorama shots of the harbour...love it, love it, love it. I was able to crank up the ISO and take this handheld with no problems and because of the high resolution it is amazing what I can do with it back home in terms of stitching photos together etc. The end result is a 100 Megapixel image so very big.
Afterwards we had coffee and tiramisu at Guylians...coffee was nice but had better cake before.
9. September 2012 02:29
by Rene Pallesen
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We are now 8 months into expecting our new little baby boy and we expect him to arrive any time within the next two weeks.
We did some pregnancy photos the last couple of days to make sure we have some nice ones as a family.
6. September 2012 11:13
by Rene Pallesen
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This Sunday it was Fathers Day here in Australia. Aiden had painted me a very nice picture at Daycare as a fathers day present.
In the morning he took me out of for a buffet breakfast at the Crowne Plaza in Coogee...and afterwards we enjoyed a the very nice warm and sunny day at the beach where he got to play in the sand.
25. August 2012 08:55
by Rene Pallesen
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This morning Sacha asked me if I'd like to do a sunrise shoot with him at the Opera House. I'd wanted to try out the new camera for landscape so said yes.
This was the very first photo I took and after that the light went pretty bad.
A very nice morning, but I am not sure if I'm cut out for the early starts (had to get up at 4.30am), especially not now that we are going towards summer.
Kim and Aiden stayed at home sleeping and they were still sleeping when I returned at around 7am.
21. August 2012 12:03
by Rene Pallesen
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This weekend we went with the family up to the Entrance 150km North of Sydney.
We stayed at a small resort in the middle of The Entrance close to the water and restaurants.
When we arrived on the Friday night it was really windy and cold...I had left behind my jacket in Sydney rushing out the door but fortunately I had enough jumpers to still stay warm.
We were staying close to the bridge across the Entrance and underneath the bridge there were some nice lines that I quickly rushed out to capture before sunset.
Next day we spend around the local area looking at the market, playground etc.
In the afternoon there was pelican feeding which definitely was worth seeing.
One of the birds had a fish hook stuck in its neck and the feeders quickly caught it to try and pull it out.
They also have this insanely long jetty going into the lake. I wanted to do a sunset photo but the conditions weren't great...no spectacular clouds and the water was full of seaweed that had been blown in with the wind.
21. August 2012 10:14
by Rene Pallesen
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During the day at the Entrance we made a quick trip up to Norah Head light house to scope it out.
Later that evening I headed up there in the dark to take some star photos.
The conditions were perfect with the Milky way clearly visible and I good some great shots. Here is one pretty much straight out of the camera that requires just a little more processing.
As I walked from the gate to the lighthouse (about 700 metres in pitch darkness) with my torch all hell broke loose suddenly when I rounded a corner.
I heard people scrambling in all directions through the bushes falling over branches. I used my torch to have a look and saw these 6-7 kids running away...obviously they were sitting there smoking weed and got a freight.
Later in the evening they walked past me as I was taking photos and one of them said 'Man, you gave us a freight...we thought you were a cop'!