News from the Studio, New Locations and Project Updates
365 in 2023 – Sunday Round Up – Part One
Part One of Two Welcome to the Sunday morning edition of Things I Said I Would Do But I Didn't. After three days, the Photo A Day posts kinda died. A Photo A Day was an ambitious project with my current workload - we are six weeks from Go Live on a project we have...
365 in 2023 – 3 – Oriri
Todays post is less about the photograph (which lacks any technique at all) and more about my current journey. Today was my first workout in a fortnight. Any one who knows me knows I workout 5/6 times a week in the mornings. And I have done so for about 7 years now....
365 in 2023 – 2 – Effigies
Latin effigies, from effingere ‘to fashion (artistically)’, from ex- ‘out’ + fingere ‘to shape’. My reflection is dark, heavy, hard.
365 in 2023 – 1 – Crux
Crux - Latin for Cross - is a constellation in our southern skies that we know as the Southern Cross. Making star constellations in my garden with a manual free lensing technique. Fujifilm X-T10. 35mm. 1/250. f1.
365 in 2023
Years and years ago I completed a 365 Photo a Day project with a group of friends. It was the most creative thing I had ever done and I enjoyed it so much, I said I would do another some time. I think that time is now. My Dad passed away a month ago. I've been so...
My Leadership Movement – Action through Inaction
When I started my Strategic Leadership journey, I thought I’d write a manifesto, do some assignments and come away with some skills I could use in the future. I realised that I had long-held views of who I was and how and why I did things and these had changed a lot...
My Personal Leadership Manifesto
2022 is ending on a personal development high. We are at the end of Week One of Alicia McKay's Not an MBA Strategic Leadership course.Our first piece of 'homework' is to draft our own Leadership Manifesto. I have spent the week reflecting on my experiences, my skills,...
October Photo a Day – 02
Saturday 02 October: appreciating the effects of a wet end of winter, wet start of spring. My garden is a hot mess and I love it.
October Photo a Day – 01
Friday 01 October: cheers to the weekend, cheers to new glasses, cheers to daylight savings.
Oh Hi Level 3
It's Day 2 of Level 3 in the Waikato. Facebook and Instagram and Whatsapp are down.I read earlier on Twitter that all we need now is some kind of huge storm or earthquake and we could probably be reassured that this is the end of the world. But that seems a bit too...
Currently – Feb 2021.
It's been a long time between posts. Bloody hell, how many times do you read that? Have many times have I written that??? After New Zealand came out of Lockdown in April, we have slowly but surely got back to our old normal - after saying that the old normal wasn't...
Corona Retreat – Day 27, 89, 500?
I'm taking the liberty of lumping these last two weeks of our 2020 Corona Lockdown into one update - because in all honesty, days are incredibly similar. I haven't taken a lot of photographs, but I have been taking at least one a day. And keeping up my...
Corona Retreat – Day 12
06:00 - up, up, up - let's do this! First day of what I am promising myself to be the start of my new routine. I know I function better for the day after doing a workout first - so Ken and I are doing the BFT Balance workout from Sunday and then taking the dogs for a...
Corona Retreat – Day 11
08:00 - Sunday morning is normally Walking Club with my friend Megan. Since our Retreat started, we've gone old school. Phone calls and text messages. How adorably retro. But then this view. How bloody stunning - what a start to Sunday! Did our weekly check-in...
Corona Retreat – Day 10
08:00 - these cheeky weekend sleepins are starting to be the best habit to come out of the Corona Retreat. Well kinda. Yesterday I decided that I am restarting the Couch to 5 km running app (#C25K). My movement is nowhere near what it was - both with training and...
Corona Retreat – Day 9
08:00 - sleep in this morning! Because we have our workout scheduled for later today (as normal with Fridays) - its the BFT Hamilton CBD Friday Night Jams. On Zoom of course.But I digress! The first Friday morning task is to choose an outfit for Formal Friday! Started...
Corona Retreat – Day 8
06:20 - better late than never!!! Set up a Nike Fit app workout. My favourite moment was Ken saying "oh is that just the warmup?!" 08:00 - discovered a box of Weetbix in the back of the top cupboard. Haven't had Weetbix in ages!! Also, never liked peaches. Now I like...
Corona Retreat – Day 7
06:00 - UP! I said I would and I did. I'm going back to an early morning workout to start my day as this is what I like, what I'm used to and what works for me. 09:00 - my first meeting is 9am every day. Our Project Team has a Zoom meeting and its usually full of...