Various posts featuring an eclectic collection of images.
Many thanks to the delightful blog - Ruby the Black Labrador for nominating moi du toi photography for the Best Moment Award (I know! Can you believe there is another Ruby the black labrador besides my Ruby? And she lives in a place called Paddington in Australia, true story, really!) The Best Moment Award is… Continue reading BEST MOMENT AWARD FOR moi du toi photography
Here are my favorite lines from the movie, Good Will Hunting, starring Matt Damon and Robin Williams: Will : Do you like apples? Clark: Yeah. Will : Well, I got her number. How do you like them apples? Don't you just love it when the smug guy gets a kick in the pants! All my… Continue reading How do you like them apples?
Linda Grayson once said There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. My beautiful Polish friend Magda (of the Spiders Fings blog-post-fame) visited all of us at Custard Cottage last weekend and spoiled us with Belgian chocolate, delicious flavoured olive oil from Italy and a stunning Swarovski Crystal pendant. … Continue reading There is nothing better than a friend…
I had high hopes for our little jaunt to Knysna to collect my shiny new debit card but the whole thing started to go downhill from the time I entered the bank until I stomped out, frothing at the mouth after telling the cashier to shove my new debit card where the sun don't shine. … Continue reading Bicker, Knicker, Snicker
Living in the Southern Hemisphere we are experiencing Autumn at the moment but Winter is hard on its heels, it's time to dig out the woollens methinks. The Western Cape is a winter rainfall region but this Easter weekend Nature was flexing her "rain muscles" and we had a taste of that rainy weather with… Continue reading Winter is on it’s way – Ordinary life
Take a look at these two images they were shot using natural light (no flash), using exactly the same settings f/3.5, ISO 400, 1/40 sec, lens EF50mm 1.4 but only 1 minute and 47 seconds apart! There is a significant difference between the images, do you notice how much darker the blue part of the… Continue reading Natural Light Photography – How to “Get the shot” before the moment passes
Welcome to our new home! After living like nomads and moving from place to place for the last four years, Terry and I, along with our little family of fur children finally have a place we can really call home. As mentioned previously we bought an adorable little two bedroom cottage in the picturesque village… Continue reading Custard Cottage – Céad Míle Fáilte
“There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.” Franco Santoro "One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be… Continue reading Shadow Photography Portrait – Embrace your dark side
On my blog, I have displayed mostly images of animals so far. Partly because it's an exciting challenge (a bit like riding a psychotic horse out of a burning stable, you NEVER know what is going to happen in pet photography) and because I just love animals. From a very young age I desperately wanted… Continue reading Sue Bryce, thank you! I know what beautiful looks like …
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