Perseverance, Persistence & Patience ...

Australia has over 1500 native bee species and for the last couple of days I've been trying really hard to photograph the Blue Banded Bees that are hanging around one of the flowering plants here at home. They are so fast and never sit longer than a nano second so I was really happy to have captured these 2 shots this morning!  This species are solitary bees and do not live in hives. 

What makes me smile

Continuing with this week's Project 52 theme What Makes me Smile I have just tried to photograph Jessie who is usually quite uncooperative as she continually moves her head. Still I managed to capture this one of her and it made me smile, as she does every day!

Project 52 - Week 1

So here we are in 2014 ... Happy New Year! 

Project 52 has started for me and I wanted to share a few photos that I took yesterday with this week's theme of "What makes me smile" in mind. I planned at least one visit to the beach as I always feel refreshed after dipping my toes in the water or taking a nice walk along the beach. A little challenging getting the lens to focus as I was walking towards the water, stopping and then trying to focus before the water disappeared. 

the bottom of my pants got wet too which made me laugh as well as smile

and it goes without saying that this man brings a smile to my face every day, I don't know where I would be in life without him, he's my life, my soul mate, my everything ...