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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

90 years young... A celebration...

 
It was such a joy to be invited to photograph a 90th Birthday party... It was a night filled with memories and laughter, it was a night where four generations of the Rigato family celebrated their oldest and dearest..
It was a night of love and laughter..... and it was wonderful to be a part of it 
thank you 



 The Rigato family







Wednesday, November 17, 2010

A picture captures a tiny moment....


It will be totally great when Mission Beach has its own pool , but in the meantime the Tully pool is fabulous.... it was an amazing tropical day.... hot ,steamy and then super wet..









Monday, November 15, 2010

I love frogs...

This Eastern Dwarf Green Frog only grows to about 2.5 cm... 
and this was not fully grown....a tiny wonder to behold....
and a perfect way to avoid doing my bookkeeping..!!








This frog is associated with a wide variety of habitats including coastal swamps, lagoons, dams, ditches, and garden ponds in forest, heathland, wallum country and cleared farmland. The Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog lives in reeds and similar plants both near and away from the water. They often will inhabit banana trees in the Northern areas of Australia, and are sometimes shipped with the bananas throughout Australia. They are known in Australia for becoming lost frogs by turning up in fruit shops outside of their normal range.The eastern dwarf tree frog is 15-25mm long from snout to the behind. 
PS.the tadpoles are bigger than the adult frog, with a size of 30mm imagine if our babies were bigger than us !!!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

New family love at Mission Beach...

In Mission Beach there have been some of those gorgeous sunny late afternoons where the sun cools off and the light turns golden..
I photographed Heidi when she was pregnant and she invited back to photograph her new family...it was an afternoon filled with joy and laughter... and the images show clearly the love and fun this young family have..










Saturday, November 13, 2010

Cassowaries of Mission Beach - A day at Laceys Creek


.... this beautiful bird literally stepped out of the rainforest and preened itself and looked at us as we looked at him for almost an hour... it was so amazing...
I am grateful to have had  hundreds of Cassowary sightings ... but it is always a treat..

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Gotta love a creature like this ...

This amazing creature looks like he/she is dressed for a carnival... and maybe that's what life is like if you live in these colors ever day ! I crept up on this creature this morning and I managed one picture before it was off looking for some other.. ?? twig to land on...
Nature is grand ...
and Living and taking pictures in the tropics is totally great ....


Sunday, November 7, 2010

I love my job....Images of a tropical fruit farm..

When you LOVE taking pictures... and you LOVE eating tropical fruit, it is a great job when a magazine calls and asks you to take the cover picture at a tropical fruit orchard...and you leave with 
an armfull of delicious fruit..


and this amazing flower is a Dragonfruit... 
aptly named for its magical appearance!!

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Neither do I tire of taking pictures of my beautiful daughter Eve...

 

I am the luckiest mother in the word.... Not only do I have two beautiful daughters, I have two great daughters that are kind and interesting and fun to be with.... We went to the beach yesterday..... to row in the boat and smell the salty air... Here are the pictures of Eve....

Friday, November 5, 2010

The Love between Children & their Animal Friends...









There is always something really beautiful about the love between Children and Animals... 
here are some that make me smile...