Tag: challenge

  • Five Minutes with Gerberas – RegularRandom

    Five Minutes with Gerberas – RegularRandom

    I stopped off after the park today, and picked up this bunch of gerberas. It’s not a flower I buy very often, but they are simply lovely. I love the colours of the petals in these ones in particular, they’re so pretty in their peach petals through to pink in the centre. Would you like…

  • Birthday Chocolate Tart – RegularRandom

    Birthday Chocolate Tart – RegularRandom

    It must be tough having a birthday in the days leading up to Christmas. One of my friends at work, Anna, has her birthday on the 19th, and so we had a little morning tea to celebrate. I brought along a chocolate tart from my favourite bakery and we all enjoyed it on her day.…

  • Five Minutes with Five Meringues – RegularRandom

    Five Minutes with Five Meringues – RegularRandom

    Last week, I featured some photos of some meringues that my friend Jing Jing at work made. She brought some more in the next day and I selected these five to set up another shoot. I had an idea in mind, using some of the items on my desk at work but I simply didn’t…

  • Five Minutes with a Raspberry & Malteser Cronut – RegularRandom

    Five Minutes with a Raspberry & Malteser Cronut – RegularRandom

    Another visit to The Village Bakery for sourdough bread and I just happened to see this spectacular thing. Of course it’s time for the RegularRandom treatment. Would you like to join in the RegularRandom crew? Here’s how: choose a subject or a scene spend five minutes photographing it – no more! try to not interfere…

  • Five Minutes with a Snail – Regular Random (and a surgery update)

    Five Minutes with a Snail – Regular Random (and a surgery update)

    A few nights before surgery (stay tuned for an update on the surgery at the bottom of this post), I spotted this little snail making his way up the glass door to my balcony. So I grabbed my camera and spent five minutes with him for this week’s RegularRandom. After his five minutes was up,…

  • Five Minutes with a Ranunculus Part 2! – RegularRandom

    Five Minutes with a Ranunculus Part 2! – RegularRandom

    Hello and welcome to another #RegularRandom – my apologies for missing last week, it was my birthday and my best friend was in town and we had some celebrating and shopping to do 🙂 A quick recap of the rules: choose a subject or a scene spend five minutes photographing it – no more! try…

  • Regular Random – Five Minutes at the End of a Shoot.

    Regular Random – Five Minutes at the End of a Shoot.

    Some time ago, Julie and I did a concept shoot (you should visit Julie’s post, she tells the story of some funny events that took place during the shoot) with two models and it was a blast, the images are amazing. I’ve wanted to share them with you for a while now, but haven’t found the…

  • RegularRandom – Five Minutes with Pens

    RegularRandom – Five Minutes with Pens

    I’m a stationery addict. There I said it. There’s comfort in knowing that I’m not alone. For this week’s #RegularRandom I decided to spend 5 minutes with my new Zebra Mildliners – (from http://www.bunbougu.com.au) these are seriously cool Japanese pens. I don’t know why Japan has such awesome stationery, but there it is. It is…

  • RegularRandom – Five Minutes with a Silver Pear

    RegularRandom – Five Minutes with a Silver Pear

    Welcome again to #RegularRandom, where we choose and object or scene and spend just five minutes shooting it, trying to see it from multiple angles, learning about how light interacts with the subject. It’s fun, although can be tricky to come up with new things to shoot. We’d love you to join in – just…

  • Five Minutes with MissGidget

    Five Minutes with MissGidget

    Welcome to another RegularRandom, where we spend just five minutes with a single subject or a frame, shooting from different angles, seeing how the light changes, all the while trying to interfere with our subject as little as possible. It had to happen eventually, you knew I would spend five minutes with Gidget. Here she…

  • Olympus Macro Comparison – 30mm vs 60mm #RegularRandom

    Olympus Macro Comparison – 30mm vs 60mm #RegularRandom

    #regularrandom #regularrandom #regularrandom #regularrandom #regularrandom The lovely Jude from The Earth Laughs in Flowers asked if I had compared my two Olympus macro lenses. I recently got the 30mm macro lens after having used the 60mm macro for the last few years. I thought it was a great opportunity to compare the two lenses via our RegularRandom challenge, where…

  • RegularRandom – 5 Minutes with a Leaning Cupcake

    RegularRandom – 5 Minutes with a Leaning Cupcake

    So sorry for missing last week! I was travelling and it completely slipped my mind! Dx.   Welcome to this week’s RegularRandom, where we spend just 5 minutes with an object, interacting with it as little as possible, and photographing it from as many angles and perspectives as you can – all within 5 minutes!…