Wow!

I am so excited because my fine art piece, Heart Talk - Expectations has been featured on the Live, Love, Dream group on RedBubble.com. This is a peer evaluated review.


"Heart Talk - Expectations" Fine Art Print by Hayley Solich - RedBubble [2371077]


Also, my piece, "Field of Pink" has been accepted on the Australian Photo Review website.

Considering that I have only just joined these sites, it was a real privilege. There is something very powerful about having your creations validated by your peers. Pop by and leave a comment.

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"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...