Fotoart Photography Photoblog

ocean discovery centre

We went to the Ocean Discovery Centre in Sidney today.  If you have children, this is a very cool place to check out.  Even if you don't, it is pretty amazing.  I have never been up close and personal with an octopus, but being right in front of one, was pretty special.  My favorite aquarium was the blue one with the beautiful orange jellyfish.  Just the colors are breath taking, but watching them swim up and down is fascinating and makes for great pictures.   

 

closeups

wildlife in my garden

The other day we had a visitor in our back yard.  First time ever I have seen a hawk around here.

winter wonderland

He looks so real it is almost a bit freaky.

let it snow until Christmas, pleeeeze

Oh, I do love snow for Christmas.  I was thrilled to see all the snow last night and it has not melted yet.  Will it stick around for a bit, let's hope so. :)

artsy flowers

So I tried something different today. I am all about color as you know, but today I wanted a different look for all this spring explosion in my garden. I converted a few of the images into sepia and I do love that look. Very artsy as my husband said and he almost did not know what it was at first glance. What do you think. Leave a comment if you like. :)

garden still life

We are doing some renovations and garden projects right now and I have been looking at this wheel barrow and the flowers every morning for the past weeks. And every day I thought I like to take a picture of this. So finally I did.

earth hour

You probably noticed when you turned on your computer today and Google is your home page, that Google already turned their lights off. Today is EARTH HOUR. We are all encouraged to turn off our lights between 8:00pm and 9:00pm. Let's all make a statement about global warming and climate change today and turn the lights off tonight.

The Earth Hour link.

lunar eclipse

Here is my contribution to last night's total eclipse of the moon. I actually had to dust of my tripod to take these. It was fun to photograph something very different.

And a close up.

spring is just around the corner

...but there are not enough flowers out yet. We saw lots of snowdrops everywhere, but that's all for now. I can't wait for spring to start, one of my favorite seasons with fresh greens and color bursts all over.

first days of frost

It is getting colder overnight.  I don't like the cold too much, but I do like the frost pictures you can get.  This picture was taken a few minutes ago in my garden. 

pink poppy

This morning I went outside to water my garden and a pink poppy had emerged overnight.  I can't remember planting it but it is quite beautiful.

spring is here

 

room with a view

This morning I looked out my window and this is what I saw:

Forget the morning tea, out I run and take some more pictures.   This light is gone is no time.

global warming...

...should be a concern to all of us.

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org

Please do your part for the future of our children.

let it snow

We have a winter wonderland.  It snowed yesterday all day and some more during the night.  Victoria is not doing well in snow and the traffic comes to a standstill.  Schools are closed today and the kids can play outside.  We went for a little walk and took a few pictures.