happy birthday, Bruno!

May 15, 2013 by [ayu]

My dog Bruno turned 10 today. Hip hip hoorah! His greyish muzzle shows his age, but I can’t say the same about his behaviour. He still behaves like a pup. It’s true what they say, Labradors have a (very) long period of puppyhood. In Bruno’s case, I’m afraid, it’s never ending. Bruno is a well travelled dog. He was born in Lommel (Belgium), 10 years ago, and moved with us to Australia when he was 5. He left Belgium a […]

Categories: nature & creatures • Tags: chocolate labrador, dog, labrador, pet

the perfect dusk

May 13, 2013 by [ayu]

What I feel when standing in a beautiful place that is gleaming with golden hour light can be likened to a kid who stands in the middle of a candy shop. Wide eyed and excited, we like everything we see and we want to take it home. And there is A LOT of things we like. However, unlike the colourful candies that a kid can buy and take home, I can only take the beautiful view I see and capture it […]

Categories: forever faces, telling stories • Tags: autumn, dusk, friendship, Golden Hour, Lanyon Homestead

best friends

April 30, 2013 by [ayu]

Here is my Ms. 5 with her best friend Caspar. They started school when they were 3, and  they have been friends ever since. They rarely see each other now because they don’t go to the same school anymore. To organise a playdate on the weekend is a pain, and our weekdays are packed with schools and after-school activities. So you can imagine her excitement on the day when I took these photos. It was Caspar’s little brother’s birthday, and […]

Categories: telling stories • Tags: birthday party, friendship, fun, laughter, magician

vibrant

April 29, 2013 by [ayu]

Open a magician big bag of everything, these colourful snake-like rubber balloons would be the least weird thing you can find, though certainly the most vibrant. Hope your Monday is filled with bright colours, folks!

Categories: stills • Tags: balloons, chromatic, colours, magician

autumn colours in canberra

April 27, 2013 by [ayu]

It’s early autumn in Canberra and we are slowly gearing up towards winter. The temperature dropped by two degrees or ten (at nights), and light jackets have started to see the light of days again. I was out walking and enjoying the sun while really savouring the changing colours around me. I love the colours of Canberra around this time of year. This early in autumn, all the leaves with changing colours are pretty much still hanging on tight to […]

Categories: nature & creatures • Tags: autumn, Canberra, tree obsession, trees

curls

April 12, 2013 by [ayu]

Weddings are special. Everybody involved feels the buzz. The vibe. The happy wedding joy. Everybody dresses in a special -even prettier than your usual Sunday’s best- way. Looking at the top of this beautiful mass of curls we know that this little flower girl is ready to roll. Let’s get the party started… Hair by Suzi Owusu

Categories: telling stories • Tags: curly hair, flower girl, wedding

the 100th birthday: night celebration

March 24, 2013 by [ayu]

Now is the time to highlight the night entertainment during the Canberra Day long weekend. Again, I was a bit overwhelmed by the choices. Having a young kid who refused to walk by herself after 9 PM did help us remove some of the (fun) choices. The events were basically sprawled in the same area. But the area was quite big for tiny legs to walk all the way around so we decided to come two nights, taking different point […]

Categories: telling stories • Tags: Aero Dome, Canberra, canberra 100, centenary of canberra, Enlighten, motherhood, night shoot, Sienta la Cabeza, the National Library of Australia, the north side

the 100th birthday: one very big day

March 23, 2013 by [ayu]

Monday, 11th March 2013, was a big celebratory day in Canberra, thus the name, One Very Big Day. Events, live performances, food, dances, you name it were all there around the lake Burley-Griffin. … Canberra is a city built on words: it was created as a place for the nation to meet and communicate, so WORDS is our theme. Canberra… in so many Words. source: canberra100.com.au On that day I was predominantly involved in Indonesian Home project, which was a collaboration […]

Categories: telling stories • Tags: AILSA, Canberra, canberra 100, centenary of canberra, Indonesia, Lake Burley-Griffin, One Very Big Day

the 100th birthday: 2013 Canberra Festival Balloon Spectacular

March 22, 2013 by [ayu]

Canberra has turned 100 on her birthday, the 12th of March, last week. A year-long events are planned in 2013 for the  Centenary of Canberra celebration. You can check here for details. The Canberra Day long weekend was like a big party weekend here in Canberra. There were so many things happening, day and night, from Friday to Monday. I went to a few events, and I am sharing the photos of these events here, starting with the hot air balloon […]

Categories: telling stories • Tags: autumn, Canberra, canberra 100, canberra festival balloon spectacular, centenary of canberra, hot air balloons

up in the air

March 7, 2013 by [ayu]

Do you remember when you were young kids and played so hard, you would run so very fast, or jump so high that your chest hurt and you had to stop to catch your breath just to do it again the whole day, and how happy that made you feel? Well, these shots of my son took me back to that time. There must be something joyful about keeping your body up in the air that he always try to […]

Categories: telling stories • Tags: summer, kids, school holiday, action shot, childhood, playful, play hard, bounce, jump, bouncing pillow, in the air

not. happy. mum.

March 3, 2013 by [ayu]

  It was a hot humid day that weekend. Ms K was all dressed up in Indonesian costume ready to join the children’s parade in Civic for the 2013 Canberra Multicultural Festival. The waiting was too long, the day was too hot, the walk from the parking to the venue was too far, well, basically, everything was too wrong for her. And to top it all off, she was extra upset that I did not bring her swimmers so she […]

Categories: forever faces • Tags: by the pond, Canberra, expressions, honest emotions, kids, little girl, Nikon D 90, portrait, sad face girl

One Night at the Kangaroo Valley

February 24, 2013 by [ayu]

As it happens, summer is (officially) nearly over here in Australia. The new routines have started to kick in, daily  activities soon became a blur, and before long our summer fun will turn into distant memory. We have had a great summer holiday. Despite the extreme weather (extreme heat, extreme cold, heavy rain, and more) we really enjoyed this summer, maybe the fact that the two summers past have been a real fluke (constant rain and cold weather) made us […]

Categories: telling stories • Tags: Australia, camping, canoe, kangaroo valley, kangaroo valley safari, summer