Window to the Soul

I decided to join in with The Gallery on Sticky Fingers today - subject Eyes



This is a picture of Girlie #1 taken about 2 years ago.  I still love it and keep meaning to print and frame it.  I'm sure it will happen one day.

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This Years Dance Festival Part 2

The second half of the Festival was rather obscurely based on music taken from the childrens cartoon show Phineas and Ferb!

Some of the tunes were familiar, but not many .  Although a wide variety of dancing was included, western, hip hop, tap and disco/modern.

This Years Dance Festival Part 1

This years dance festival was in to halves, first up was The Nutcracker - now who doesn't love a bit of Tchaikovsky ♥

Charlotte with a bit of the giggles

   

Pointes ♥

 

Looking very elegant

The littlies - how cute

Chinese Tea Dance

Arabian Coffee Dance

Russian Dance

Not sure what has happened to the little girl on the right!!

Jazzing it up Benny Goodman style

And just before the interval, as has become a bit of a tradition now, two Michael Jackson numbers

Heal the World - so moving and goose bump giving ♥

And as a finale for the first half, Dangerous - absolutely fantastic and they must've worked really hard on this.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, please return to the auditorium at the sound of the bell for the second half of the show...

Going back in time

The main PC is at the doctors with a nasty virus, I am blaming the girlies for downloading music. So I decided to dig through my Flickr archives for something to post :-)

Way back in March of this year, we went to Muricia where one of our camera club members gave a talk on the use of natural and artificial light in outdoor photography. We used fill flash, reflectors and off camera flashes. We had "real live" models and makeup artists as well. Fortunately we all met up rather early and as the girlies were with their Daddy, I didn't have to worry about them getting in the way, getting lost or getting a cob on as they weren't being used as models - hahaha!

This picture actually got to number 19 on Flickr Explore, which is my highest placed explore, laughable really as the original was seriously over exposed. However, there is still something about it that I like, which is what counts I guess.

The models were all complete professionals and so easy and fun to work with. Only had a few language barrier problems

with this one, where I wanted them to look lovingly into each others eyes! Don't think that the chemistry was there actually.After this shoot, we retired to a nearby hotel, for an absolutely splendid lunch, and then spent the afternoon wandering around Murcia taking more photos and generally enjoying the day. As evening came we tried a few nocturnals, a disaster for me and of course it was obligatory to round the night off with a fantastic Tarta Murciana, a lovely spicy meat pie.