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Eye Candy Actions Winner!

Kisha Bosworth, come on down!

Kisha Bosworthsays on January 29th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
“Would love to win this! I have just wrote my 30 before 30 list and learning how to edit photos was near the top. These actions would definitely help me achieve this one!”

Kisha, please email us at info@eyecandyworkshops.com.
Thank you so much to everyone who entered, I love giveaways :)

Sheye xx

Tucked Away Under // Eye Candy

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Joel, Jesse, Matisse. {Brisbane Powerhouse}

On a cloudy Brisbane afternoon, I was just a little nervous waiting to meet these Interstate clients.  Grey clouds are not really a bother but rain?  Open venue?  No thank you.   As Tanya’s car pulled up and I saw these beautiful smiling people excitedly waving at me, my heart let out a happy sigh. In an instant I remembered, no matter the weather or the location, it’s the people who really make a shoot. All my fretting slipped away and we got on with the business of playing chasey, chatting about our favorite films and throwing confetti.  Matisse held my hand, Jesse laughed at my sillyness and Joel chatted to me like we were friends from way back.  Thank you Tanya, for trusting me to capture your amazing children.  I drove home that day so thankful..not because the weather held off  but because I’d spent a wonderful afternoon with some very special people, little and big.

xx

Tucked Away Under // Photography

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Immeasurable.

When Ava was by my side, her presence was not just a physicality, it was a constant series of events.  Of course she existed as a separate entity but it was the events of each day, the interaction between us that defined her significance and our relationship.  It was an evolving, transforming,  ever-changing thing of spontaneous exchange.  She was not just present, but a presence.

When Ava left, when her small sweet self disappeared from my days, the void was immeasurable.  In every sense of the word.  As a presence, she was no more.  No interchange, no conversation, no misunderstandings.  No sharing of jokes,  no telling off, no long lazy cuddles as the sun rose.     Just no her,  no more.

Except the empty space was not really empty at all.  It was filled to the brim, and overflowing, with grief.  Brutal, black, all consuming grief that arrived with such ferocity I could not draw breath.  The vacant space that remained swallowed every thought, every sound, every waking, aching moment.   Grief became the new life force.

On a good day, the enormous grief loomed quietly beside me while  I’d think of a thousand beautiful ways to honor and appreciate and see differently.  I poured my soul into that place,  it’s what helped me find shallow breaths and face a tomorrow.   On a bad day though?  The grief smothered and blinded and drowned me.  For a whole year, we could not even make sense and for another year, we just tried to see through the debris.  And a third year?  Rebuilding and planning and busy making the best possible life for Luca, Mason and Ivy.  Finding joy, real joy, in the simple and seeing savage grief make way for a quieter and more stable grief.  A ‘liveable place’, the counselor called it.

But lately, I wonder.  What happens if the grief becomes too quiet?  What if the tears eventually come to a full stop and that energy no longer evolves?  If I should find that mourning became healing but then moved to healed?  If Ava is not present, and the all-consuming grief is not present, then what?   She, and time and tears and yearning and memories and prayers and hopes and regrets and wishes.  They have slipped through my fingers for fourteen hundred and sixty days and suddenly, the silence is deafening.

Four years my darling.  I cannot bear to forget and I cannot bear to remember.  I do love you, and miss you,  so very much. This is for you.

Tucked Away Under // Ava

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Eye Candy Workshops/Actions Giveaway!

Our first workshops for 2011 are about to begin!  The Eye Candy Explore Workshop (for beginners) will  begin on February 21 and the Evolve Workshop (for advanced amateurs through to professionals) is set to begin in April.   We have moved from ‘waitlists’ and now just do a general notification so if you’ve expressed an interest, you may  go and register your place now.   We have only very limited spots remaining for Explore and Evolve is filling fast.    Eye Candy workshops run for four weeks online and are open to anyone, anywhere.  Fran and I are always busy adding exciting new things to the workshops and can’t wait to share our latest additions..Hope to see you there :)

Annnd, something else…  I figure we might just have an Eye Candy Actions giveaway!  There’s no special conditions to win but if you feel the urge to share a favorite website, I’m always on the lookout for something new and interesting, like a frequent stop of mine, Little Miss Heirlooms who manages to find the cutest things.   Add a comment and make sure we know how to get in touch if you’re the lucky winner!

Never can do a nakie post so here’s some pretty from a recent session with Ms Krysta. I love these images and I love that she let me take them and even better, let me share them with you.  We took them in ten minutes and there may or may not have been champagne involved.  Before noon.  :)  Gorgeous? Yes.

Sheye xx

Tucked Away Under // Eye Candy, General

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(Small voice). Hello there.  Sorry I’m late.

I feel like I’m sneaking in oh-so-quietly and taking my seat at the back of the hall. I haven’t really done my assignment, which was to blog often when I returned, and I have so many reasons why I don’t know where to start.  So many photos taken over the last two months, I don’t know what to share.  I have the words and images, they’re all neatly assembled in my mind, but finding the time to proof and blog..well that’s where I’m struggling.   On top of the usual  busyness of business amidst school holiday chaos, Luca happened to acquire a fractured foot after moving his leg at high speed in the direction of his brother, Jackie Chan style.  We then all came down with a horror flu which is still lingering.  And, of course, the devastating Queensland floods have added another layer of  unexpected to this month.  So, goodbye routine…hello mayhem.

I’ll save the holiday chatter (oh it was wonderful) for my next post but for now, I’ll just share some snaps taken yesterday at mine..Aria and Ivy.  Long time blog readers will remember beautiful Aria..spoken of here and here.

Beautiful Sunday to you,

Sheye x

Tucked Away Under // General