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Miss Piper will gladly give as many puppy kisses as you can handle if you're up for it!

Miss Meg - Sleeping Beauty Waltz

I've been photographing dance students the past week, and this is one of the beautiful young dancers; Meg.
This is a montage of ballet i have put together from her photos and it will go on display at the upcoming dance concert in a few week's time.

These dance montages will be on offer for students next year that would like something memorable that goes way beyond the regular photo. They will not be restricted to ballet students, but also to the jazz/funk/tap students as well.
Perfect for a large metallic print or a canvas wall art.
Isn't Meg beautiful!?

My Beautiful Birthday Flowers

Yesterday was my birthday and i spent a good few hours of it with Miss Tina of Tina Moore Promotions- Performing Arts Studio, to photograph day 3 of her students in their gorgeous costumes ready for the upcoming annual concert.

I was so suprised when a group of young dancers and Miss Tina came out of the dance room with this beautiful bunch of flowers and singing happy birthday to me! Wow what a fabulous suprise :).. a big THANKYOU to you all! So very thoughtful of you Miss Tina!! -( Miss Tina is just such a wonderful lady xx)

Check these beauties out...love!

Nic

Busy , Busy, Busy!

Well it's been a hectic week once again, but even more so this week. It started with the wedding of Melissa & Brett on Saturday,and then madly getting a head start on editing those images. Squeezing in bridal consults throughout the week as well as 3 days of dance students photos. Add some formal shopping with my son Cameron for his special night next week,and getting ready for another wedding this coming Saturday between Teresa and Brett.. yes a different Brett ;)

So after all that i'm quite tired.. but still no rest for the wicked .... double it all up again next week..minus the shopping, but add a bit more chaos to the dance days and we have another huge week to come.

Not to mention a trip to Sydney on Sunday.....yep..i'm tired!

But before i get ahead i'll just post a quick shot of my daughter Shennae, becasue i really don't like posting and not leaving an image to pretty up the page. This is one of her dance routine constumes and i'll try to post some more later.

Make sure to come back for a sneak peek at Melissa and Brett, and then Teresa and her Brett to!

I'll squeeze them in soon i promise!

Ancient cultures : Miscellaneous

Well i hope you have enjoyed viewing a sneak peak at the past. Just seeing these artifacts first-hand really makes you stop and go WOW, makes you think of how much time has really gone past, makes it all real instead of just something you hear about.


I thoroughly enjoyed my visit and i'm now planning a trip to the Austalian Museum in Sydney to view their visiting exhibition of Ancient Egypt!


You can bet there will be more amazing ancient cultural images to come soon!

I'll end this series with a few miscelaneous artifacts that were not housed in their categories as they are new aquisitions to the Museum of Ancient Cultures.

I won't try to guess which civilisation they came from, though some i think i am fairly close...

enjoy :)

Tiny little trinkets.. so cute.

I'm not sure what these are, but i think they are little game counters or some form of currency , and they have tiny but very detailed little etchings on them that i couldn't photograph to show you. If you look very hard you can make out something on a couple of them.
a detailed little plaque

Giddy Up!

This is a small section of a pillar that stood about 2 meters tall. Its a prism shape and the etchings are on all sides.

Ancient Cultures: Near ( Middle) East

Well not much from this category, sorry to say, but more pretties for you to look at:

This one is a little lamp

i love this die! How amazing that such a little item from thousands of years ago is still used in almost the same form today!

Ancient Cutlures: Cyprus

Well i pretend to know nothing of ancient Cyrpus... so just look at the pretty pictures ok?

This one is an ancient brick.

interesting looking container
this guy cracks me up!




This is a glass ingot. How pretty it is! The glass blowers would heat it and turn it till they made glassware such as this :

This is one of my favourite pieces. i don't know why, but maybe becasue it is quite different to most of the other artifacts. it reminds me of a medieval helmet.

Ancient Cultures: Greek

I wish i knew more about the ancient greek history. So much amazing facts to learn.. will give me something to do when i have some spare time.. right! Actually i probably know a little more than i realise through my love of reading historical novels and watching epic style movies. I seriously will have to try to learn more though.
I found the Greek artifacts particularly appealing, the artwork and statuary very classical in design.
Enjoy :)
so classical
This one is Zeus. For some reason it scares me.. maybe it's the blackened out eyes...

reminds me of a cherub and makes me smile
lovely craftsmanship

reminds me of the statues of Easter Island for some reason


These coins depict Alexander the Great

Ancient Cultures : Rome

My second favourite would probably be the ancient Roman culture. I guess because i know a bit more about it than the Greek , Cypriot and Near East cultures that were on display. The Greek ancient culture would come a close 3rd, but this post is all Roman.

Most of the artifacts were from Pompeii. We had a 'hands-on' where we actually got to hold a few real artifacts. One of those was an actual piece of Mt Vesuvius and some of the pompeii- destroying pumice!

This strange looking little article is actually a brooch. It has a piece missing, but it was actually used to hold togas on etc...so , basically a very ancient safety pin!

Look at the details in the workmanship on these pieces.. LOVE!





This one is so cool! ( well i think so anyway) Amid all those letters and symbols it says my name! Can you see it?..NIC


This was my all time favourite piece in the whole Museum collection: A Roman coffin.
It's made out of lead and as you can imagine will weigh a ton! it is going on display in the main musuem area sometime soon. I love the intricate details, the whole shabby yet robust look of it...almost a delicate lacey look...yep.. my fave!

Ancient Cultures : Egyptian

Ok here is the first batch of my Museum of Ancient Culture images, and first up is my fave - Egypt!
Egypt is an amazing culture loved by many, from the mummies, the heiroglyphs, papyrus and artifacts of all types.

Now just to warn you, there is some hideously grotesque yet absolutely fascinating mummy shots here. Morbid curiosity will make your eyes feast on them yet you'll be screwing up your nose in distaste.. Oh yeah! Now to be nice i will start off with images of non-scary looking artifacts, but those that can't wait to see the mummified heads, then scroll to bottom of Egyptian images ;)

I wont show all of the images from the Eyptian series here, but you can check them out on my personal Facebook page.
Anyways no further introduction neccessary.. let's get on with the Egyptian artifacts!

Enjoy!


Amenhotep iii

some weaving

This one is an amazing display: It's a few feet long and a couple feet high.... and amazes me how well preserved it is..fabulous!

This is the front page of a newspaper dated FEB 1912. It's front page article is all about WW1. What makes it even more special? This particular paper belonged to Howard Carter, about 10 years before he discovered King Tut's tomb.
King Tutankhamun
A Mummy
OK.. now here comes Mr Grotesque and his mate. Ready?.........

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