The weekend ..

I don't know about you ... but I actually had a damned good weekend ...

We (the Bells) bought Jessica (my neice) a Photoshoot Voucher for her Christmas box and part of the gift included me taking her to the photo shoot ... so Lawrence booked the shoot for Jessica, then phoned me on Friday and said we had to meet Warren from GlamourModels at Ushaka Marine World at 10am Saturday morning ...

I'll be totally honest with you ... when I woke on Saturday morning the last thing I really wanted to do was trapse all the way down to the beach front !!! so I dragged Kelsey out of bed ... cos Lawrence had said bring him and the boys (Lawrence, Kelsey & Dayne) could go surf some waves while the girls (Jessica, Penny & ME) did the shoot ...

I'd charged my camera up Friday night .. so took it along with me just in case (the old one ... still not yet got round to taking the new one out of it's box!!! sorry Paul but really wanna learn to use it properly) we met up with Warren (who by the way is a mate of mine ... hence the reason I bought the voucher through him) Jarryd Sunkel (the photographer) Michelle Olivier (the make-up artist, although Jessica's shoot did not include make-up etc...there were other models having their photos done too)

And so off we went ... what an AWESOME morning ... the weather was a bit overcast, but it was still warm ... Jarryd is such a great photographer and he happily let me tag along while he was shooting Jessica ... and he & Warren passed along a few of their tips and so here are some of MY photos of Jessica ... as well as a few other models that I had ... THE FAMILY :

Still my favourite model :

Luvin Cuzins LOL ...

You can just see the mischief in these two :

These two are still my favourite s!!!

A moment of youthful innocence ...

These are just a few of the 1000+ photos I took ... and I even came home and played around with the editing bit ... well just changed a few to B&W and Sepia ... I have to say I was very,very impressed with my efforts !!! even if I do say so myself ...

And even though ... as previously mentioned... the weather was overcast we all got nice and sunburnt ... enjoyed time on the beach ... yes you are reading it right ... me actually on the beach ... in the SAND !!!

What a fantasticly awesome day, I thoroughly enjoyed myself !!! (not bad for someone who actually really did'nt want to go !!! )

The shoot took us the best part of the day ... started around 10.30ish and we finished up at 3.30ish ... I know I'm rabbitting on a bit about it ... we then popped over to Lawrence & Penny's place so the kids could swim and get rid of all the sand !!! and needless to say Kelsey asked to sleep over ... so off home I went SON-less ...

I then spent most of Saturday night (late into the night early wee hours of the morning )admiring my work !!! (a.k.a down loading the photos !!! )

Yesterday (Sunday) we woke to the bluest of blue skies ... not a cloud to be seen anywhere ... and it was HOT !!! Lurverly stuff ...

Did a couple of loads of washing (no surprise there then) and read, uploaded photos and received praise for my hard work LOL and generally had a lazy, lazy day ... Lawrence eventually brought Kelsey back around 5ish ... sunburnt (they had gone to the beach again in the morning) and discovered a sunblock that actually did'nt work ... I am soooo jealous of my sons golden brown tan !!!!

So all in all a really fantastically brilliant and enjoyable weekend :-)