The Walk

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Never to be put off by a bit of rain, a nice bushwalk in the local reserve with Chaos, Tickles and the boss was a great way to spend Good Friday.

Happy Easter ya'all 🙂 and be a responsible easter egg giver (and eater 😉 )

Kids Portraits ain't meant to be perfect

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I have kinda learnt this over the years and come to accept that 99% of the photos of my kids will have them in some form of dissarray, this is a pretty classic example, the hair is half out, that said there is a clip still in there which is actually pretty good for her 🙂 a nice crusty nose and the remnants of the morning tea baby-cino are evident.

but.. and its a big but.. theres a smile and shes happy and that makes me happy 🙂 nicely played tickles

King Queen of the Scooter Planet

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Tickles has been steadily increases the use of her sisters scooter, so much that she has pretty well claimed it for her own, noting that now if her big sister even comes near it there is a guaranteed on ya back tantrum 😉 Lucky I suppose that Chaos has out grown it 🙂

The phrase, "me scoot" has become synonymous with tickles, wherever we are, school, park, shopping centre, front door :-/ .. it's "me scoot"… I have even taken to ditching the pram in favour of the scooter, otherwise its me pushing a darn empty pram around half the time 😉

So, in tribute to your scooter prowess tickles, its only appropriate that you are given your own planet for it 🙂

tickles, queen of the scooter planet, a very Rocky Balboa moment 🙂

Searching for that 4 leaf clover

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Its certainly gotta be easier when the clover plants are up around your thighs, from up at my heights its like trying to spot a pin in a haystack 🙂

Nicely played tickles, even if you did not find that elusive clover you certainly had fun trying to and looked great in your little red dress and hat – clearly dad did not dress you that morning 🙂

techie love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 f2.8 @ 42mm Aperture: f/2.8 and Shutter Speed: 1/1250s
ISO 160
out front – Hoya Circular Polariser

Roo food

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'c'mon roo-ey this bit of grass is sooo much better'
'why you not want my piece of grass?'
'here, again i am holding it just for you roo-ey!'
'fine, then I 'll sit down here and wait for you then'

These roos or wallabies were quite incredible.. they were so docile and used to humans that the though did cross my mind that they had been doped or something 😉

This particular one had its tail patted, ears delicated stroked, fed bags and bags of food and generally fawned over by tickles, i thought she might end up as roo food too, but nope, all good, I did wonder about those sharp claws too… i certainly would not get in the way of one of these animals!

Contemplation

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no fear of rock pools and no fear of pulling out shells, periwinkles and whatever else lays within them.. 🙂 gonna need to watch this one!

I just wish i could know what she was thinking, there was some very serious concentration going on here 🙂

ya like how we roll at the beach, singlet and all ? 😉

Cheeky

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there is no happier moment than a child laughing uncontrollably

So here we are brushing our teeth, in the middle of the day of course 🙂 it was just myself and tickles (her sister was at school) and someone thought it would be a great idea to grab a spoon and drink water from the bathroom sink. Normally i would stop this, however tickles has had a pretty fierce set of teeth coming thru and suffering from some bad fevers as a result so I thought I would let it slide, especially since she seemed to do a better job getting the water on the spoon and into her mouth than say.. her breakfast or dinner ;).

The first image is after me saying stop.. you can see the thoughts in her head "why eh ?"
The second image is.. well … I can't put it any other way.. blatant disrespect for authority (i wonder where she got that from ? mum 😉 ? )
The third image… in adult terms is "haha screw you dad i just did it 😉 whatcha gonna do?"

Great to see you smile tickles, i love it when you laugh (even if you don't listen to me 🙂 )

Exif/setup:
D750 coupled with 85mm f1.4 @ 85mm Aperture: f/2.0 and Shutter Speed: 1/250s
ISO 400

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Shopping Planet

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Shopping Planet - (c) 2015 Gerard Blacklock

3 Landscape orientation images manually stitched
D750 coupled with 24-70mm f4 @ 70mm Aperture: f/3.2 and Shutter Speed: 1/3200s
ISO 200

its a wild world out there, luckily we got our hard hat

A recent gift from nan and pop was just perfect for this incarnation of a tiny panet, planetoid or what ever ya want to call them. This was the wet warm up session to the for which we are now at #37 (Alison Wonderland – I Want U) damn i love the public broadcast system in this country 🙂 I reckon there would be a revolution if they cut funding to tripleJ 😉 not only of the young folk, but also the old fogeys who grew up with the jj’s.

This image is panorama of three images, manually stitched together, there was basically nothing for the programs to be able to stitch it together except the grass and given the lightning speeds tickles was belting down the slope with her shopping trolley ( rice cakes and sugar included) there was plenty of discontinuity between the frames 🙂

cheers to +Kitten KaboodleInc for the idea of the tiny planet – it did not quite work exactly how I wanted, but chasing two kids at the same time whilst trying to set it up was…lets say challenging 🙂

Exif/setup love:
3 Landscape orientation images manually stitched
D750 coupled with 24-70mm f4 @ 70mm Aperture: f/3.2 and Shutter Speed: 1/3200s
ISO 200
out front – grass, tickles, trolley and hard hat.

 

Escapee

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screw you punks I am outta here

Once seen never forgotten, even at 14 months tickles memory is disturbingly good, after one visit out this gate it was stuck in her head and was very determined to revisit the outside world 😉

6 images, assembled into a x-tych
Exif/setup data:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 85 f1.4 @85mm Aperture: f/2.0 and Shutter Speed: Typically 1/250s
ISO 400
out front – escapee