Me

My back-ground is primarily in business, however somewhere along the way I picked up a camera, discovered the almost superhuman power of being able to freeze time, condensing it into “image”…and have now it has become my way of telling stories and making memories.

I’ll shoot anything that moves but more often than not my lense is drawn towards faces and expressions, especially when they are not “trying” to pose but just being natural in their every day surroundings, be that a day out with old friends laughing over silly things or at a wedding amongst a whole new group of new friends, becoming a part of the day and capturing the love that is expressed.

So anyway, rather than ramble on any more, here’s a quick summary of me:

i love delicious         bubble tea

i love exploring new places and faces

i love creativity + inspiration + reeses

i love nikon & polaroid cameras

i love Saturday mornings

i do so, love

life.

Visual Inspiration 365

Visual Inspiration 365 was a project that I worked on over 2010-2011 which consisted of uploading an image with a quote every day for 365 days straight.

Sounds easy right?….oh if only it were so.

I started the project with the intent to challenge myself creatively, break out of a comfort zone (more or less died a 1000 deaths at the thought of it being out in public domain!) and also direct my energies into something productive.

The simple idea was to upload daily a single photograph combined with a quote that I felt matched it…….and much to my joy, I successfully completed that goal and now have a wonderful collection of some of my 365 favourite photo’s combined with 365 beautiful quotes!

On one hand I’m ever so happy to have achieved what I set out to do, and yet on the other hand, was also sad to say goodbye to it had become creative outlet and habit that I had come to love.

Although it took around an hour to create each one (by the time I trawled through 100′s of my photos +  find an appropriate quote + create the artwork file + upload time), it become easier and easier throughout the year.

To begin with there, were nights I was up till 2am pulling my hair out trying to come up with a Visual Inspiration, or falling asleep at my computer, drooling on my keyboard…..

Not to mention trying to keep up with the project while travelling through Europe (which was NOT the easiest thing to do…….there was a very cold night in Amsterdam that found me in tears walking around the hotel garden with B, in absolute frustration, so much so that I even kicked a bin like a little stubborn pony because “I am SO over it!? Argh why was I so dumb to even think this was a good idea!!???” ….thankfully B ever so gently persuaded me to calm down and get my ass back to the computer and finish my blog for the night :)

Besides the “hard moments” of the project, there were also some really amazing moments and when I look at all the photo’s it never ceases to amaze me of the people, places and moments I’ve been able to share as a pixelated memories.

(Now if only I could invent a machine that could time-travel everyone to the exact moment a photo was taken…..now wouldn’t that be ingenius??)

So now, it has drawn to an end and as I realised, this was always a project that was going to have a definitive end, so yes, I’m miss it in a sense but I’m also excited to be able to move onto other things!

Last but certainly not least, a huge THANK YOU to everyone that  followed Visual Inspiration 365.

….everyone that commented + emailed kind words,

….creative strangers that have re-shared Visual Inspiration 365 on their own blogs,

….the people that have I have had the honour and pleasure of photographing and featuring on this project,

….friends and family that have seen me pulling my hair out but continued to encourage me to keep going with it,

…dearest friends who quietly and unassumingly been the PR team, feedback panel & cheersquad,

…housemates who have put up with my camera gear, computer cables + cords, screens and electronic paraphanalia having taken residency in the loungeroom whilst I work

….B who has been my personal encourager and quote searcher when I need it + carried his laptop around Europe so I could use it (I broke mine right before we left for Europe!) and patiently put up with me on weekends while I’ve been frantically trying to get it done so we can go out to play………

and just cause I have always wanted to say this in true Oscar Ceremony Style……

“I’d like to thank God, without Him none of this would have been possible”

And I mean that with all my heart.

Thank you , thank you.