Day 1 - A Hike to the Falls

The start of a New Year, the creation of some resolutions and the idea to finally (and I do mean finally!) join in on the craze so many of you have started and that I have always wanted to do!

Welcome to

365 Days with Katles!

A quick explanation about what this is all about. Basically, I'm going to take a photo a day for the entire year and post them here.  I'll add a little paragraph about what the photo is about or why I took it.  Hopefully they will be interesting but some days are bound to be boring.

Introductions! The name is Katles, this is said like Kate-ills. Don't ask me why, its been my nickname for years and it has kinda stuck. It's kind of like Cattle, you know cows?? But how it sounds like Cat (the animal cat) and ill (as in you're sick! cough cough). 

ANYWAY...

I'm 23 and live in New Zealand. I'm new to photography, basically that means I got what I think is a fancy camera and I like to take photos of things I think look cool.  I'm learning things like aperture and shutter speed and how to put a lens on a camera body properly! haha...

If you have any tips for me please let me know!

Todays photo was taken at the Kitekite Falls in Piha, Auckland. 

This lovely dog was certainly braver than I was! He was very friendly and definitely enjoyed his time at the falls. 

We had a bit of a paddle in the shallow end, water was waaaaaay too cold to go too deep. Maybe next time I'll be braver! I'm glad our NYE was just some quite drinks at ours, otherwise we might not have done the hours drive and short hike to these falls. This was a beautiful spot and I'd love to go back and do some of the other hikes in the area.  

I was originally going to post a photo of the waterfall but this photo just stood out way more to me (maybe because I'm such an animal lover!).

I hope you all have had a lovely start to your own new year and I'll see you tomorrow.