Photography
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DSLRs 101
On Friday I attended a course on how to use my new camera. It was fairly basic stuff: aperture, ISO, shutter speeds, what each of the preset modes do, the pros and cons of each setting, what you lose when you maximise one element over another, and what you gain when you focus on one…
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A Day at the Beach
On Wednesday I visited my mum and sister at the beach. When I was a kid we rented a house down the on the Mornington Peninsula each year for a couple of weeks, now my mum and sister carry on the tradition – this year, as usual they were at Balnarring. I went down to…
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Portraits – some first attempts
I spent some time yesterday with my very good friend Wade, and he was kind enough to let me take some pictures of him. They are really my first attempt at portraiture and I thought you all might like to see them. Looking pensively into middle distance. With lovely natural smile. With new harmonica. I…
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Healesville Adventure
Today I drove from Melbourneto Healesville with a friend and her dad, who was visiting from Dubai. Healesville is about 60km from Melbourne, it’s a lovely town with a population of about 6,500 (according to Wikipedia). There is an excellent eatery/winery there called Innocent Bystander Giant Steps which is where we ate the most amazing…
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Not your ordinary New Year’s resolutions post
I have been seeing a lot of stuff recently about New Year’s resolutions, about how 2011 sucked and how 2012 will be better and I wanted to write something about that. For me, a New Year’s resolution is largely redundant seeing as I started to radically change the way I lived my life two months…
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New Year’s Eve – Experiments with night pictures
Most of us would have been out celebrating New Years Eve in style last night. Myself I was at a friend of a friend’s apartment in Footscray (inner Western suburb of Melbourne) on the 8th floor. It was a fairly low key affair, there was a little drinking, a lot of eating, some movies and…
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My Christmas present to myself
Christmas was kind of fabulous – I got lots of lovely things from my friends and family and it was really very relaxed and cool. On Boxing Day I decided to brave the sales and buy myself an extravagant gift – a brand new digital SLR camera. After shopping around for a while I decided…
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Byron Bay Part 2
In my last entry I talked about finding some sculpture that I was going to post separately, well, here it is as a photo essay! This was on the foreshore in Byron Bay just up the road from the main pub strip. The plaque (below) says that the “Tree Theatre” was donated to Byron Bay…
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Byron Bay Part 1
I was recently invited to visit Byron Bay for a little over a week in exchange for dog and plant-sitting duties. I arrived on Monday 28th November. The pace of life in Byron is, well, much, much slower. Locals seem pretty chilled out and while there is some debate over whether Byron itself has become…
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Adventuring
I spent today feeling like I did not achieve very much. In the morning I made a bag from an old pair of jeans I found while cleaning stuff out to go the op shop. Here is a bad photo from my phone: At about 5pm I decided I needed to go on an adventure.…
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