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

Day 215 #Project365

August 2, 2012 by [ayu]

When my kids were still tiny babies, I learned soon enough the difference in their cries. Thought it was a myth at first, but I turned a believer once I could actually tell the hungry cry from a sleepy one, or the -I’m-sick- cry from simple boredom cry. Now that they are bigger, they cry less, but cry nonetheless especially when emotions or pain gets too overwhelming. Mere words just won’t do. There was a sad moment today for Ms […]

Categories: Everyday Things, forever faces, Nikon D90, People, Project 365 - 2012, telling stories • Tags: being parents, kids, motherhood, portrait, Project 365 - 2012

Day 118 #Project 365

April 27, 2012 by [ayu]

I have done project 365 for over 100 days, and one thing I know for sure I love in photography is photographing children. Strangely, I only posted a very few children photos to date. Not that I did not take a lot of them, I consciously wanted to try to shoot other things, and posted them instead of the children photos. I feel there is a danger of specialising too much too soon if I only limit myself of photographing little children. […]

Categories: forever faces, Learning Photography, People, Project 365 - 2012 • Tags: black&white, children photography, children photos, motherhood, natural light, portrait, Project 365 - 2012

Day 94 #Project365

April 3, 2012 by [ayu]

you love them to pieces they drive you mad they made you laugh but they tug your heart so when they sleep so peacefully as this even with full-blown butterfly paint in her face here’s to my 10 minutes of peace…

Categories: iPhonegraphy, People, Project 365 - 2012, telling stories • Tags: face painting, kids, motherhood, Project 365 - 2012, sleeping child