Month in Macro 21 / 30

Nu Ska Vi Sjunga (Now Let's Sing)
We have this old Swedish song book that my mum had as a little girl. It's falling apart a bit but I love the character of it. It brings back memories of bedtime lullabies and songs sung at Midsummer and Christmas. It has charming illustrations too, of children enjoying the summer and the festivities at Chistmas.
I still sing some of the songs at bedtime to my son, even though he doesn't understand all the words, he'll ask "Sing the troll song, mummy". I love to keep the family history alive. Songs that my mother sung to me, and her mother sung to her.

Midsummer texture by Isabelle Lafrance applied

Old Paper 10 texture by My Second Skin applied

Sugar & Spice texture by Life-n-Reflection applied

Old Paper Texture 4 & 10 by My Second Skin applied

Taken with my 50mm 1.8 together with an extension tube 25mm. I have a post about extension tubes here, if you're interested in this alternative to a macro lens.

Linking up with Lisa Gordon's Creative Exchange.

I Heart Faces - Let’s Hear It For The Boys!

My favourite photo of my two favourite boys - my husband and our son!

Photo processed with The CoffeeShop Blog Butterscotch Vintage action.

Entered into I Heart Faces

Month in macro 20 / 30

Dew drops on Nandina or Japanese Sacred Bamboo
Please click on pictures to enlarge and see more detail

Project 52 Week 4 Fathers Day Special

 It's not actually Father's Day in Australia; but as it is elsewhere in the world; I thought I'd celebrate the special guys in my life. So I'm posting some photos I love from our family day at the Botanical Gardens on the weekend.My husband found some helicopter or whirlybird seed pods, and showed our son how he could throw them in the air and watch them whirl down. They had so much fun!!
Click on the second photo to enlarge, my son's eyes are just so lovely...I'm allowed to be biased.
I love the shots of them holding hands by the lake too. Makes my heart happy. :-)

Linking up with Paper Heart Camera Parenthood challenge


Thank you!

Month in Macro 19 / 30

Yesterday we visited the Botanical Gardens. I love the gardens; I always wander off with my camera to take shots of the plants. We walked to a lake this time, I'll post some photos later from this. We were checking it out for future picnics because our favourite lake has road works going on next door. :-(
Please click on the photos to get a larger picture that shows more detail. 

Processed with Johnna LaFaith's Whisper action

Cream Swirl texture by The CoffeeShop Blog applied

Magnolia Madness texture by Isabelle Lafrance applied

Vintage Cream texture by The CoffeeShop Blog applied

Vintage Cream texture by The CoffeeShop Blog applied

By the way the first flower was sparkly SOOC, the action just changed the colour slightly to more of a violet and brought out the sparkles a bit more. I didn't realise it was going to be so sparkly when I took the photo. What a happy surprise!
The white flowers had such an incredibly strong but pretty perfume.
All these photos taken with my 50mm 1.8 together with an extension tube 25mm, as all my macro photos are. Check out my post on extension tubes if you're interested, here.