Wave

You lay your head on your pillow and close your eyes. While your thoughts take over your mind you drift into a deep, or unsettled, sleep. 

You wake up. 

Not only is it no longer Monday, but it's not the same year either. It's Tuesday, first of January, 2013. 

8am, to be precise. 

And just like that a fresh start is handed to you. 

It's like 2012 was drawn into the sand with 2013 below it. Then a wave washed up and it swept 2012 away, blending it back into the smooth sand. 2013 has not been touched; it is safe from the water... for now.

What are you planning on doing with this fresh start that has been placed into your clenched fists? It's true, you weren't given $200 at Go and you weren't promised a bright and happy year. But that has nothing to do with it.

What are YOU going to do now that you've been granted another year? 

Wave goodbye to 2012. It has been blended into the sand with every other year before it. 

2013 is looking you straight in the face. 

My latest...

My next-door-neighbor phoned me on Saturday and asked whether I knew my photo was in the paper. Sure enough, the photo I entered for the Canberra Times summer competition went to not only the online version of C.T but also to the paper!!

I took the following photos with Jum's iPod touch and the quality isn't superb. But click to enlarge, I think it's readable! =D

(Caption) SUMMER HAZE: Rachael Axelby's photo Walking through Clouds shows a boy and a woman walking on the sand.

And I love this paragraph! I'm in the paper, guys! My face may not be there, but something even better is (there's something better? Well yes, of course.) My photography. 

My photography is being looked at by every news-reading-Canberran! 

Merry Christmas.

experiment #6

Water reflections are simply magical. They captivate me, I can't stop staring at them and I dream of one day being able to perfect an imitation of a perfect image.
This might be that day.

Original, found on Pinterest, master unkown, equipment unknown.

There are heaps of images like this one, with different concepts and objects but they all cover the same thing:

a flipped water reflection. My image was not imitated to this one directly, but the idea stays the same.

(Photo put in brackets. Also found on Pinterest.)

I like my take off better than the original top photo. 

My subjects are walking through clouds.

I think this will be an image I will always love, no matter how much my hobby improves or decreases. 

To me it has an infinite depth of meaning and magic.