For the love of life. Personal and professional development.
Why is travel so addictive?
Do what you love. Why not?
The importance of having goals, but being flexible.
Who wants to see Sir Bob Geldof in Adelaide?
Sir Bob Geldof is going to be in Adelaide, speaking and motivating a room full of people at the Hilton, on Wednesday 25th March 2015. It's early, but so worth it. 7-9am. Start your day off right.
Imagine being in the same room as the brains behind Live 8, which brought in over $45 billion of aid and debt cancellation to Africa… and someone who has been nominated for the Noble Prize 8 times, more than anyone else...
http://www.businesschicks.com.au/events/sa/250/adelaide-business-chicks-breakfast-with-sir-bob-geldof
At a Business Chicks breakfast you can network with other energetic people, eat yummy-licious food, be inspired by ultra successful people, and dance out with a fab goodie bag. These tickets usually sell for $149 each.
Who wants to be there for free? I am giving away two tickets - so one lucky person can bring a friend for free too.
Get motivated, get inspired, get pumped.
How do you get the tickets? Comment below with your fave inspirational quote. You have until Wednesday 18th March - get inspired peeps!!
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SAPPA and APPA photo awards 2014
The results are in. Over the last couple of months many photographers have put their hearts on photographic paper and entered the AIPP (Aust. Institute of Professional Photography) APPA (Aust. Professional Photography Awards) and SAPPA (SA Pro Photog. Awards) awards. I was one of them. And although I may not be completely happy with my results, I know I should be. These awards are hard. Getting an award is something to be celebrated.
Below are my prints that I entered in the APPA's. (These all received Silvers at SAPPA). At APPA all received Professional Standard, with one gaining Silver. One other image was one point off Silver too. They were judged by the best of the best of my peers, so to impress them is something.
BE DETERMINED TO MOVE ON AND UP… ALWAYS BE READY TO LEARN. EVEN FOR THE MASTERS.
A weekend away at Seawall Apartments Glenelg
After hanging out with the good folk at Seawall so much over the last year, updating their gallery of pics, I finally manage to stay. Purely my fault for taking so long.
A weekend of working ON the business, coffees and a wine or two. What an awesome place to hang and create. The beachfront room, with private balcony just adds to the awe factor. With The Glenelg precinct just minutes away (by foot) it would be easy to spend all day out, but I am so comfy watching the world go by, rugged up with glass of wine in hand on the balcony or comfy sofas inside. Oh, it's a hard life. Thanks to my cousin Shaya from The Family Law Project for laying the hard q's on me, and getting a different train of thought started.
Www.thefamilylawproject.com.au And of course, www.seawallapartments.com.au
Casting the net
Sometimes we have to take our chances to expand our catch. Take risks to grow. Sometimes we will miss. But we can always try again.
Working my creativity
For the last six weeks I have been doing a creativity course at WEA in Adelaide. A course that works on getting everyone, as artists, unblocked. Through the course I have decided (after procrastinating for months) to attempt taking a photo every day. So as not to take the easy road out, I wrote down on bits of paper, and put in a box, lots of descriptions - things, emotions, textures, movement, colour. Each day I lucky dip a theme to photograph, and photograph that with whatever camera comes to hand. Along with writing a (near) daily journal, meditating and reading and writing affirmations and gratitudes, I've found it very helpful. It has lifted a heavy cloud off me, a cloud that had been lingering on my creative juices and passion.
Whether the photos are good or bad, it doesn't matter. It's more about the process of taking a photo, and thinking through different ways of getting to the theme.
This set of photos is brought from randomly taking pics of wherever I am, and the themes 'packaged food' and 'light'. By no means am I trying to say that Tiny Teddies are making us fat, it's just what I had! The article does go on to say though, that the amount of packaged food that we eat is one (of many) cause leading to our obesity crisis we have in Australia. Can you believe that our Aussie kids are fatter than the American kids now?!?!?
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