Amanda | January 26, 2012
You know when you read a book and it speaks to your heart so clearly that you feel as though it was written specifically for you? I felt that whilst reading every word of Pia Jane Bijkerk‘s My Heart Wanders. If you love to travel, to discover, to follow your heart, to make your home [...]
Amanda | January 16, 2012
Hello everyone, Let’s kick off the year with some blog talk. I get a lot of emails from people asking me about blogging in general and setting up a photoblog, and a number of the Shoot By Design participants have asked for advice, so I thought I’d share some of my blogging tips and ideas. [...]
Amanda | December 14, 2011
I could tell you that part of the great Winter Embrace of 2011 is really getting into the spirit of Christmas too but for this merry one, Christmas needs no encouraging. It has always been my favourite time of year and there’s really nothing about it that I don’t love. Christmas in Canada is oh [...]
Amanda | December 7, 2011
And a ho! ho! ho! to you… Here’s something a little different for me. I’ve been teaching my Shoot By Design course participants to step out of their comfort zones and I really should practise what I preach, right? So here I am with some darker images with no natural light in sight. I didn’t [...]
Amanda | November 29, 2011
Why do we take pictures? We take photographs to make the old new. We make pictures to create a possibility out of the impossible. Or is that an impossibility out of the possible? To make stars out of lights, bubbles out of shadows and rock stars out of ordinary people. To climb, to create, to [...]
Amanda | November 14, 2011
most days feel ordinary. most minutes of most days seem to lead to more minutes of the typical realities of life. and in those minutes, it all just feels very familiar and ordinary. in between those minutes, between the moments that the hands of the clock tick over, i am being the only thing i [...]
Amanda | November 2, 2011
I’ve wanted to visit Sibella Court’s Society Inc store for the longest time so it was a must on my “Need to Visit in Sydney” list. As you can see from the outside, it’s picture perfect and so utterly quaint that you just want to snuggle into the chair out the front with a book [...]
Amanda | July 1, 2011
Hello all… Things have been awfully quiet around here of late and I’d love to say that it’s because I’ve been super busy (which I have) but mostly it lays quiet because sometimes that’s just the way I live my life. Being an introvert means for me that there are times in my life (when [...]
