"Heart Talk" Fine Art Print by Hayley Solich - RedBubble [2367919]

"Heart Talk" Fine Art Print by Hayley Solich - RedBubble [2367919]


Once in a lifetime you do something that creates a new sparkle in you. Something that is like this candle that has laid dormant for your entire life and you suddenly strike a match to it and your world is alive and wonderful.

This is what happened to me when I created Heart Talk. For years I have looked at other's artwork and thought how magnificent they were and longed to be able to create something that so resonates with my own soul that I immediately love it. Heart Talk is such a piece.

It is a collection of things I love - my daughter's eyes, my girlfriend's eyes, textures I love and my favourite font style. These pieces tied together with my favourite colour cause the picture to come into focus for me.

I truly hope that the world enjoys this piece as much as I have as it will be the first of many in my Heart Talk series.

They say that the eyes are a window to the soul...Let these eyes heart talk with you.

Enjoy and please comment.

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Praise is soooooo addictive!

A girlfriend suggested to me that I might like to add my photographs to a website called RedBubble. Basically, RedBubble is a community of artists who upload their works in the hope that someone will see something and like it and purchase it.

In theory it sounds great. The problem is, there are so many wonderful artists in there, all vying for their own space and I think that it may be a bit competitive for my level of expertise. However, in uploading my images, I have become quite hooked on commenting on other's work and receiving some praise for my own and it takes me back to the time when I was addicted to Poetry.com in 2005, then Helium.com in 2007. Is RedBubble.com my next big love addiction and do I really have the time to spare?

It does bring me to pondering about the human condition and how some of us are so geared towards praise that when we find someone willing to say nice things about us, we immediately want to chain ourselves to that person and suck them dry!

I guess I'll have to temper this new addiction with self-control. After all, I do have four children on school holidays to contend with. :) No wonder I'm still up at 1:39am writing this...

The Focus Shop - Finally uploaded!!!

Photos...photos...photos... This past 48 hours I feel like I have been sucked in the vacuum that is the world of photography, processing, watermarking, and uploading images to my new photographic gallery, TheFocusShop.com.

I have been amazed that as I have sifted through the 7000 plus images on my computer, I have been able to pull a sizeable gallery of decent photos together. Further, it has spurred me on to capture more photos, with even more interesting content.

From nature scenes to children, dogs to ducks, motorbikes to helicopters... I love capturing life in it's many aspects, especially people and the many emotions we experience.

A sample of a couple of my recent photos are...





Come and check out the photos and leave me some comments. I love hearing people's reactions to my photography, which I hope brings a new expression of life.

Photos...photos...photos - Check out The Focus Shop.com

It is with great excitement that I announce the opening of my photographic gallery, The Focus Shop.

The Focus Shop has an exhibition of my best photos taken over the past 12 months since I upgraded my camera and developed a real passion for photography arranged in galleries under topis such as nature, people, places, transport, my favourite things and beaches.

Please feel free to browse the galleries and to leave comments about the images. Some images are for sale, so if you like something, pop me an email with the name of the photo and I'll let you know if if it is for sale.

Enjoy!!!

Here is a sample to wet your appetite...

Was this a spiritual visitation? Can you explain it to me?

For my New Year's Eve, I arranged a progressive dinner for some of the girls from Women Can International Inc. The night turned out to be the best New Year's Eve I've ever had. We started out by spending time with three beautiful labradors down on Yanchep beach. While they were fetching stick, we sat and had our gorgeous picnic and I snapped off heaps of photos.

Then we went to a friend's house and had a lovely meal, sitting out the back in the candlelight and discussing philosophy. It was such a precious time.

Then we sped off to another friend's house, determined to be in her spa with a glass of champagne and a slice of the most goregous cheese cake I've ever tasted. It was just a slice of heaven. This stint lasted three hours and eventually we decided we should shelve our discussions and make our way home.

It was then that we decided to upload the photos onto one of the girls computers to see what they looked like. Apart from capturing the most gorgeous beach shots, we were very surprised to see that on about 10 of the shots there were light orbs. These are simply unexplainable. We didn't see them at the beach. It couldn't have been something on the lens as they are not in the same position. There is even a motion blur on one of them, indicating to me it was something moving. The only explanation I can find for them is that they are spiritual beings.

Take a look and tell me what you think.

They were on the viewer in the camera and initially I thought perhaps they were a tennis ball we were throwing, but then I saw there were so many of them and in different places.

For example, the sun was setting so it's not the sun on the horizon. There was a moon and a star above it but they were quite high up in the sky. There just simply is no other explanation for them.

I'd love it if someone else could come up with a plausible explanation, so please post your comments.

I guess this little mystery adds something special to what was a wonderfully, warm and thoroughly enjoyable evening with girlfriends.