Wow what a great start to the weekend. We just moved into our house and the most pristine white sandy beach is 2 minutes walk from our doorstep. How amazing!
We got up bright and early our first morning here to capture this sunrise.
We’re in love with you Northland!
Ruakaka Beach Sunrise Scene www.michellealisaphotography.com
Over the long weekend we were blessed with amazing weather for a change, summer is finally here on our door step. We spent a day driving around Whitford and Maraetai and took a few snaps while we were at it.
This was my backyard growing up, going to the golf club or on the boat in Pine Harbour to go fishing in the weekend. The area which I recall as being rural seems to be undergoing some urban development but not a lot has changed. I guess that’s the beauty of it all, we have the best of both worlds. As great as urbanization is for us city lovers, it’s great to be able to have the opportunity to step back from it all 20 minutes from your house.
On another note, I’ll be heading down to Queenstown for nice little getaway. I thought I wasn’t going to go away after the few too many little (and big) trips we have had this year but we somehow managed to slip this one into the calendar.
Michelle
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MUA: Mary Dawson Model: Manuao Ross
This is the first photo shoot I have shot. Hopefully won’t be my last. I am trying to plan a few more in the near future. When it comes to photo shoots I am not really sure whether it’s better being the model or the photographer I guess being able to do both means you have the best of both worlds.
This will be my last post before I go to Cairns, see you in a few weeks 🙂
The weather was fabulous this weekend. It was sunny, cool and crisp. I headed over to the domain at around 4pm to make use of the amazing late afternoon lighting and just for a breather. It’s one of these days that makes me appreciate where I am and what I am doing. Though my day to day job can be classified as some what tedious and boring at least there’s life outside the work right? It has occurred to me that the people around me don’t have lives outside work and by lives I mean hobbies or things they like to do perhaps on a more regular basis as oppose to shopping, movies, drinking etc. It’s somewhat disheartening to see people who hate what they do but they seem to be stuck inside the square called work and hence that’s all they live for.
Someone once said to me when you’re young you have no money, plenty of time and energy but when you are old you’ll have plenty of money, no time and no energy. That’s why we need to find the balance. What’s the point in working your butt off to earn a bucket load of money when you’ll have no time or health to spend it? Isn’t it more wise to earn some money spend some of it over and over again? I am probably just speaking for myself because I love travelling and that’s all I can think about everyday. But there’s not much time between the time you start to earn and the time when you have a family and settle down. No point in looking back when you are 40 and thinking that you should have done things differently – that is called regret and it’s probably the worse feeling ever.
I am probably just having an almost quarter life realisation, can’t really call it a crisis because I am happy that I have time to travel, work and play.
But honestly, even the slightest thing such as breathing crisp cool air or nature is better appreciated when you are happy. I use to visit this very park where I took these pictures everyday as I parked my car there and walked to uni, but never did I in the 4 years I was at uni appreciate the beauty of the leaves and trees there.
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Been out and about this ANZAC day. We headed up north across the bridge to Davenport & Takapuna for some photos. Great atmosphere, everyone was out, the weather was mint too.
Enjoy the photos!
Fishing For Fashion 