Jeanette Verster Photography

244/365 – Banksia Rambling Rose

Jeanette — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:30:01 +0000

I just LOVE these flowers. The colour of the Banksia Rose Lutea is too beautiful, and the rose itself so small and delicate. My mom has this yellow rambling climbing rose, and a white one too… I HAVE to find one to plant in my garden.

I’ve taken a photo of flowers on this rose bush before… in 2007… looking back at it, I love how I took the photo then, and it reminds me that even though I have this fancy camera now with all my fancy lenses… that macro function on the Sony H3 was AWESOME! I hanker after a proper macro lens!

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.

243/365 – Portrait of Bradley

Jeanette — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:07:02 +0000

I put the one photo on my Facebook page last night, but because I didn’t have time to take a photo today, I’m going to cheat and blog about it too

After the canvas I recently had done with Connor in it, I decided that none of the photos I’ve taken of Bradley would kind of work as a canvas, so yesterday I set out to get that shot. I think I like the second one, but the first one makes me realise how big he’s gotten.

242/365 – Portrait of Elaine

Jeanette — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:12:30 +0000

Elaine was cornered this evening at my mom’s house as she got home from work, and had to get her photo taken for my 365 (I’m starting to run out of willing subjects)

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.

While you’re here, don’t forget to vote for me for the 2010 SA Blog Awards… (remember you can vote every day )

241/365 – A garden in Parys

Jeanette — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:10:56 +0000

We went to Parys today to visit MIL, and of course I took my camera. I haven’t taken photos of Oom Drik’s garden in ages, especially his veggies, so I thought it was a good prospect for today’s 365 set.

On our way out of town we went another route, and we’ve decided that next time we’re going to make a proper day of it and start exploring properly.

A Mickey Mouse birthday party at the Italian Club

Jeanette — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:31:20 +0000

I can’t show you any photos of the gorgeous kiddies today, but I can show you the most awesome decorations and food! I was asked to take photos at a 3 year old’s birthday party that was held at the Italian Club in Bedfordview yesterday. And it was awesome!

The mom is Brazillian and dad Italian, and it was an awesome mix of cultures. The mom actually MADE a lot of the sweets… they were sublime. Even the singing was special with Happy Birthday being sung by the guests and family in English, then Italian and then Portuguese so I had so much time to get photos of him blowing his candles out because they were lit 3 times!

Monkey Magic did the Mickey Mouse decor and also organised the clown, who did a puppet show then balloons and then a little magic before he did the most amazing face painting!

These are brigadeiro‘s and she made a wide variety of them. Some were like Lindt chocolate balls with gooey chocolate inside, and others were like truffles.

She also made these chocolate lollipops in the shape of the Disney characters

Also on offer were Ohlo de Sogra (Mother-in-law’s eyes) which are made from prunes stuffed with vanilla and coconut. Sound a little odd, but my oath they were so very very yummy!