Jason Collage

 Jason Collage

As Jason had a birthday last week and I was disappointed at not able to see him for a suitable celebration, due to the Covid 19 Lockdown rules, at the moment. I decided to go through the photos of him as he was always a beautiful, cheeky, photogenic child now adult. What I miss most are his hugs.

This first collage are photos of him from baby to adolescent.

 

Jason more recently

Photo collage of Greg

 Photo collage of Greg

I have decided to make up collages of photos of various family members as I go through the mountains of photos collected.The hard part is keeping the selection under 10. It is a slow process and takes me a few days to consider how to put it together. Here is Greg , I try to capture many facets of his character as I can.

Photos of self over the years

 Photos of Self over the years.

I have always been shy of the camera. I have never been a natural beauty, always tall, awkward and unable to smile without my teeth protruding or a crooked smile. However, I found some I will accept as passable so I have played around with a collage app to present them here. Of course each one has its own story. Notice , I was a skinny chic in my younger years.

         Now I  have also made one from photos taken of my childhood.

Memories-Queen's Guide 1971

Memories - Queen's Guide 1971

 As previously mentioned as a child my main extra curricular activities centred around brownies and guides as I was not  sport inclined, too tall, gawky, awkward, uncoordinated and not encouraged to take up such activities. Guides was ok as I could walk to the hall, only 5 mins down the street. The testing for badges I was able to usually organise myself and get help with through our house keeper and other locals organised by the guide leaders. Mum and Dad encouraged me and helped with transport when needed especially for camps and hikes.My best friend at the time Jackie lived close by and we went to Primary school together and still remain friends today. Together we worked our way through the rigorous testing programme to finally become Queen's Guides together. This was a great achievement as I was only 14 and Jackie 15. This honour was presnted to us at Government House in Melbourne by the Victorian Governor, Sir Rohan Delacombe. Mum and Dad actually held a party for me at our Mooroolbark house to celebrate this event which was quite unusual.