MOJO

I'd lost my photo mojo. I think it is as a result of being busy and tired. I was tired, like bone tired, and when I get like that I can't see the forest for the trees, so nothing inspired me to reach for the camera. I still took it with me, however not one pic was taken for over a week. It was disheartening, depressing and detrimental for my confidence.

Then I saw this



Which became this



And then became this



That sunset certainly aided my mojo to return!

Photography group met in Mt Isa Saturday night at the observatory. It was a fantastic outing and all who came along thoroughly enjoyed themselves. It was incredible being able to look through powerful telescopes and see Jupiter and its three moons, as well as Saturn. All the canon users were able to attach their cameras to the telescope and take photos of the other planets. The astonomer man uses a canon camera so he had an adaptor. So us Nikon users missed out :-( Never mind, an adapter is on the wish list and I am hopeful to get one before our next outing there!

I did manage to get this shot of the moon though

Thank goodness for bullbars!

Coming home the other day I hit a wallaby. I had absolutely no chance of missing it as it came out of the scrub a million miles an hour. It hit our bullbar. Thankfully we had a bullbar otherwise we would have had a very badly damaged front end! In fact, the wallabt hit so hard it dinted the bullbar and shifted it about 6 inches to the right! That meant that the end of the bullbar, the part that curves around to the wheel arch on the passenger side, was rubbing on the tyre, whenever we hit a bump. The road we were travelling was VERY bumpy! Luckily we came across my F-I-L! He had been minding the place for us whilst we were at the wedding and the funeral. We were both driving home on the same day, on the same road! Mr Fabulous hooked a 'snatch'n'strap' to the left side of our bullbar and connected it to the centre upright of F-I-L's bullbar. He then put our car into reverse, whilst the other car remained stationary, and 'pulled' the bullbar back across the car so that the tyre wouldn't rub. Here are a couple of shots of the damaged bullbar.





THANK GOODNESS FOR BULLBARS!!!

I had a play around in photoshop with a couple of pics yesterday afternoon. I am having a bit more fun with post processing and it seems to be the 'way of the world', unfortunately.

I turned this




Into this



And this



Into this



And this



Into this




What do you think?

Have a great evening xx

May 8th

Well I knew it had been awhile since I wrote, however I hadn't anticipated that it was THAT long ago!

Its been so long I don't even know where to start!

I do know that we've been busy- very busy. We are managing the worst drought that Mr Fabulous has lived through. We have destocked by approximately 48 deck (that's about 8 road trains) since mid February. So whilst our coastal counterparts have been whinging about the rain, we've been praying for it. It seems the Great Dividing Range lived up to its name this year and clearly divided Queensland into wet and dry areas.

We had a wedding to attend a couple of weeks ago. Mr fabulous was Best Man. It was a lovely day and we saw two of our best friends 'get hitched'. I am still working on some pics, so watch this space! Here is a sneak peak though




Unfortunately, the night before the BIG day, my Grandfather passed away. I did get to see him whilst we were 'on the coast' before he slipped into a never ending dream, which I will be forever grateful for. The day after the wedding, we went to my in-laws place and we stayed there until the burial. This gave us some time to relax and for me to take photos. We went to Josephine Falls one day, which is where I spread my Fathers ashes. This pic is taken from the base of 'Dad's tree'.



Here is another shot of the water near 'the' tree



Whilst at Julatten, I was lucky enough to tag along to my MIL's photography group day. It was at a passsionfruit farm in the Daintree and it was stunning! Here are a few of my favourite shots of the day.







Yesterday, on our home we picked up a new dog. We added a female red kelpie to our doggy family. She is approximately 7mths old and is settling in to the Caleewa way of life very well. We named her Opal and I think she likes her new humans.