Difficulties in Design

Hello there you lot… guess what? No polls for you (on this blog) today!  Aren’t you lucky?

I have just arrived back in from a lovely family photo shoot, and am contemplating several clothing conundrums, as we prepare for a 60s/70s themed 50th birthday party for a friend tonight.  My efforts in finding a kaftan (that all-forgiving outfit of the chosen era) at the op shops in local centres proved unrewarding… one woman said to me:

‘You do REALISE that was half a century ago, right?‘

Apparently I am being too old-fashioned for our op shops… *sigh*

Meanwhile, the votes are in and I am currently trying to sort out a good ‘balance’ of images in the 2013 calendar… I need shots that don’t look like ones similar to previous calendars, with a decent balance of landscapes and creatures and farm-related stuff.  Along with trying to keep the ‘Aussie-ness’ in the selection too.  Then of course there is the quote selection to go with each shot…

It’s a tricky process.

My Photoshop screen is a jumble of potential pages – looking like this!

I hope you like the end result – I hope to post up the final designs next week sometime.

In the meantime I am sharing a couple of the conundrums I found myself in (and mostly out of) over the past 24 hours.

I found this shot of cobblers pegs.  Hated universally by bush kids, these little burrs get into socks like nobodies business!  But I adore the focus and bokeh and strange colour from the background… what do you think? Maybe not a calendar pic, but suspect a version of this will find it’s way onto my wall (or at least screen wallpaper!).

I also adore this shot – Lord of All He Surveys from Up High!

As yet no goanna has made a BB calendar.  I think it’s about time one debuted? Don’t you?  My tentative quote to go with it:

‘Take a Walk on the Wild Side’ (Lou Reed). Heh.

Then I unearthed this one – taken during my mates’ visit here recently.

So delicate and Spring-y… see the little orange bug and the leaf insect exploring the flower pods?  I love it…. but where would I put it?

And I do think this dude needs to get his prickly little face in there somewhere too… my hurdling hedgehog echidna!

This one DID make it…

Among my all-time favourite shots from my corner of the bush.  It makes me happy (and my car is clean – worth recording for posterity!).

Now if you wouldn’t mind sorting this out for me amongst yourselves, I have to go transform my family into ABBA.

As you do.

😉

BB