frosty ground & clear blue sky - a natural contrast

When I saw the weather forecast yesterday for today predicting a fresh start of 2 degrees Celsius with isolated frosts yet still getting up to a top of 22 degrees, my initial plan was to sleep in until about an hour after dawn. Being sub-tropical if you sleep in through that dawn period you usually miss the coldest part of the day. That was my plan, but the fur-child is accustomed to our household stirring from 4am and getting fed pretty close to that, today would be the same, and she dutifully meowed like a little alarm clock with a broken snooze button. The flip side of this, I was now up and awake enough to enjoy the early morning sun rising up over the tree line and into the neighbouring parkland. An opportunity not to be missed especially with the sun rays glistening through the frosty grass. Camera in hand and donning an additional jumper off we went fur-child in tow for an early morning stroll enjoying the moment and seizing the day. The morning vista from our window was beautiful but how inspiring to be out in amongst the natural contrast of a clear blue sky and the frosty ground.  

Busy Bee

An opportunity came up for me to grab a week in the studio. 

I've enjoyed working on a couple more pieces for my upcoming solo exhibition.

also captured a few shots of the flowering ginger

and it's visitor

while myself and the bee were busy

my studio companion had a more idle time happily sending up ZZZs 

while I happily cut, sewed, printed or painted

around her

playtime - oops practice time

 

 The macro lens for my Nikon arrived yesterday in time for Valentines Day. Started to play with some shots of bits n pieces within the studio. Looking forward to the practice/playtime that lays ahead.