life and stuff

I know the blog has been a bit all over the place recently.  I feel like I've lost my focus or bloggy mojo.  This month I'm doing the 30 day photography challenge and trying to learn how to use my off camera flash (so fun).  I bought a wee flash trigger which means that I can have my flash away from my camera and it still works.  As I got the bargain version (under $150) it's not quite working how I thought and I have to figure out a few problems.

Three out of four of us have had the flu this week which has been sucky too.  No fun long weekend for us.  Having said that I did spend a lot of today listening to photography talks and looking at exhibitions in the city.  It was so good  to have some time out after all the nurturing I've been doing recently. If you're in Auckland and didn't realise, it's the photo festival this month.

Anyway the other thing that's keeping me busy is editing.  Pre kids I worked at TV3 cutting 60 Minutes and 20/20.  I love editing and creating visual stories, guess that's why I like photography so much.  I wasn't sure that I'd ever be able to go back to it though because the hours are not at all family friendly.  Before I became a mummy I kind of figured that I'd go back to work full time once the kids were both at school.  I don't know what I was thinking!  I feel like the boys need me now as much as they ever did and I couldn't stand not to be here for them.  Blah de blah blah, what I was trying to get to is that I've been doing some editing again!  Being back in the edit suite feels like home, I've missed it a lot.  Nothing official yet but hopefully soon I'll be able to do a bit of work during school hours.  Cross your fingers for me.

Also on the work front this is my latest effort :o) Actually the kids were awesome and hardly any effort at all. Although I'm not in business as a photographer any more (it didn't suit me), I am enjoying doing these shoots for Parenting.  Partially because they're only four times a year and the editor and designer are so nice too (yes I know you're reading this!).

So if you're still reading I was trying to get my head around what to do with the blogginess.  There are so many linky things that people have, like wordless wednesday and silent sunday and this moment... I'm just not sure where to go from here.  I think I'll focus on this photo challenge for the month and see where I end up.

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