Little cutie pie

Little girl, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

Just another pic of the little (almost) 2 year old I took pics of over the weekend. I love the smile on her face as well as the reflection of light in her beautiful eyes.

Project 365: Day 24

Dreaming, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

This pic was also taken this weekend, while relaxing on the patio at our favourite hotel. We stayed over at the hotel as it was valentines day, but also (more importantly) our 9th wedding anniversary on 10 February. Here Kayli was having a dreamy moment and I love that Jaclynn is also in the photo in the background.

Project 365: Day 23

Little angel, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

Wow it's been a while! :-). But now I'm back.

I took photos of this beautiful little girl over the weekend. Gosh but it's hard to get a 2 year old to stand still/sit down/look at the camera! But it was a lot of fun and I got lots of cute photos of her and her family.

Project 365: Day 22

Rubicube, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

I looked everywhere today (not that I've been a lot of places seeing it's month end) for a nice shape or pattern to take a photo of but I battled. Then tonight we were sitting in the lounge waiting for the estate agent when I picked up the Rubicube and I immediately knew that my search was over.

I've had a love/hate relationship with the rubicube forever! I started playing with it in Primary school and finally in Std 7 (Grade 9) I figured it out and I could solve it within a minute (can't remember the exact stats). But as with most things as soon as I solved it I lost interest and now years later I picked it up again and I know myself, I won't rest until I can solve the puzzle again. I can tell you though that it might take longer this time, my brain is not as sharp as it used to be - with today's technology I really think we neglect exercising our thinking caps! Maybe one day you'll see a wrinkled old lady sitting on a bench in the park trying to solve this - it will be me.

Project 365: Day 21

Circle, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

This is an interesting photo.

I took it tonight after looking around for something for quite a while. See, I decided to challenge myself a bit and take photos of shapes this week.

I eventually took a photo of a placemat, and as it was boring I added a bit of radial blur and bumped up the saturation a bit.

It's quite an interesting effect, I think it will make quite a nice print on canvas - might try it out (the circles almost look like it was formed with oil paint and a brush)

Project 365: Day 20

Light, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

I took this photo of Kayli while we were sitting on a restaurant patio, with the light coming from open sky. I loved the contrast of the photo and also the grain resulting from a low shutter speed.

Project 365: Day 19

Impala, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

This photo was also taken in the Kruger Park. It was taken through the car window so I battled to get focus spot on.

Project 365: Day 18

Chowing, originally uploaded by Heidi Meintjes.

I am cheating a bit, did not have time to take photos for the past 3 days, so I am posting a few from our holiday (December 2009).

We were in the Kruger National Park for two days, and the kids absolutely loved it! (the times when we actually spotted animals). It was so green and overgrown that we battled to see the animals but it was really the greenest I have ever seen the Park.

This impala was curiously checking us out, chewing lazily on grass.