I have been squirreling away on work that fills my cup that I can’t wait to share with you next month. I’m also still thinking about that head scratcher I mentioned last month, what makes design look expensive? Who decides? I’m really keen to hear your thoughts on it. I am trying to make sense of whether it’s an education thing, or a value thing. I welcome you into the conversation! I was sorting out a blog on this, but I seem to have tumbled down a rabbit hole.
Spring is around the corner, my favourite season. The blooms have started arriving early, I have seen daffodils and cherry blossoms that just make me smile. I am on the look out for places that have a good amount of magnolias (in the lower North Island), so if you know of anywhere or can recommendation places send me an email.
I've been out snapping away at both ends of the photography spectrum - up close with macro and wide with some astro. Scroll for snaps.
Latest Projects
100 days of Imaginating
Yes, that’s a word. It’s been made up and now exists. As you may have seen last month and perhaps on socials, I am creating 100 collages with the strict boundary of having no preconceived idea of what I am going to create until I sit down to create it. Creating for the sake of creating. As I am now over a month in, I have noticed some of the creations are reflecting my thoughts and my moods at the time. Here are few from the last month… what do they tell you about my mood?
The Horowhenua Company website is now live
I was thinking about these guys recently. I have recently helped them with some graphics for their updated website. After creating a new look and feel a few months ago for them, the website feels like a huge piece of the puzzle that has just been popped into place.
I have been designing for them since they were Economic Development Horowhenua under Council. I have watched it grow, become it's own entity, evolve, settle, evolve again over 10 years. Now they are bolder, brighter and ready for their next chapter. What a privilege to watch and be part of that evolution.
This refresh was all about the journey. Success is never a straight line, it's about paths taken, mistakes made, readjustments and finding new directions. I hope that comes across in the new design.
Out and About
Fungi Macro Workshop
A Saturday morning in the Wellington Botanical Gardens with THE Paula Vigus and Rebecca McMillan exploring the tiniest of spaces and searching for fungi. Who knew that was going to be as fun as it was. Learning new skills, allowing time to stop and really look (as much as one can at the tiniest of things, I was quite cross-eyed by the end of it) at what is hidden around us was just incredible. This is the second Sony Scene workshop I have been to in the past 3 months, and I have had the best time. I highly recommend if you are into photography.
Reflections
Macro. Ah the macro world. It allows me to stop and slow down, notice the tiny little things, now I have spotted fungi in unassuming places… I may have caught the bug
I am incredibly unfit. 3 hours crouching, squatting, contorting myself into awkward positions and staying put to get ‘the shot’ helped me identity muscles I never knew existed. Jelly legs for 2 days after the event has me acknowledging the level of ‘unfitness’ and now I just need a kick up the butt to actually do better.
The tease of spring – Though the weather is still absolutely freezing, I am seeing daffodils and cherry blossoms pop up, a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. Hope comes with spring, and I hope to frolic in the daffodils, look up at the blossoms, and soak in every natural dopamine hit!
Lemonface Lens
@lemonfacelens is a Lemonface outlet for creative expression, a place for play and joy. Here are a few views through the lens that stood out for us this month.
As I mentioned before, I've been playing with the opposite ends of the Photography spectrum, astro and macro. Here are my favs from August, I had no idea so many different variations of Fungi were in such a small concentrated space. Amazing.
Boo the Dragon
Boo has been moved into the home office, since I have been spending more time in that room than any other, I have been missing her terribly. If Mohammed won’t come to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammed…. Or something like that.
Catch you next month.
