Portrait Project – 51/52

December 27, 2014 by [ayu]

Christmas eve in my house was a bit of chaos. Unlike most people in Australia, our family open our Christmas presents in Christmas eve. Right after mass, and after enjoying our precious time eating scrumptious dinner together as a family, then it was time for us to open our presents. In my head that worked perfectly. In reality, it was a total chaos. Right after we got home, the begging started, and promises were made to open only one present […]

Categories: 52 Portrait Project 2014 • Tags: 52 Portrait Project, christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas gift, family

The Nutcracker’s Soldier

December 15, 2013 by [ayu]

Million things are happening days before Christmas Day. There are all the shopping, the baking and entertaining, singing concerts, and for us this year, we have also Ms 5’s first ballet concert put in the mix. Her preparatory class was performing parts of Nutcracker a week ago, and she’s one of the soldiers. The way it was set up was very casual, considering the young age of the dancers. We parents were allowed to approach the stage after each class […]

Categories: telling stories • Tags: ballet performance, christmas, dance, first ballet concert, little kids ballet, nutcracker, portrait

Twinkling Lights – a belated Xmas post

January 29, 2012 by [ayu]

Ok. I am well aware that this is January and no longer Christmas. But, as I mentioned several posts ago, I am doing a big catch up in post processing my back log photos, and I am up to doing photos from last December already(yay!). I was practising with the Christmas lights and ornaments guided by the DPS (Digital Photography School)’s Christmas tutorial. I was happy with the results. Those big colourful lights were exactly what I was after. I […]

Categories: Learning Photography, stills • Tags: christmas, christmas lights, christmas tree, Lego

’till we meet again, my little friends

January 3, 2011 by [ayu]

All good things sadly must come to an end. This last Christmas had been a beautiful one. Even though I missed my family back home like crazy, I still felt so blessed surrounded by my own little family and great friends. Now that our christmas tree and its beautiful sparkly little ‘friends’ have been packed, I wish you a great new year ahead! Hope all your ornaments were color coordinately packed and properly wrapped in protective tissues for the next […]

Categories: Events, iPhonegraphy, stills • Tags: christmas, Christmas ornaments