I thought I’d search for myself (as you do) in the newest search engine in town – cuil (pronounced cool).  Disappointingly I was on about page 12 but it linked to a couple of pics I haven’t seen in a while

Houses of Parliament in London

Greenwhich tunnel under the Thames River

Hello from Melbourne. As is usual I awoke at silly o’clock on my first day in Oz and this time decided to get out and about early to get the blood pumping. I was out of the hotel at about 6am and thought I’d take a few photo’s.

These are all handheld at very slow shutter speeds and edited (well, resized) on my work laptop so I have no idea what they really look like.

My friend Rico and I crept through the fence of an old run down theme park at 07:00 this morning to take some photos just as the sun was coming up.  Both of us agreed that there really wasn’t anything worth getting excited about……

I was walking through the forest one day when this hideous beast appeared in front of me!  I snapped off a quick shot…..

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Hi everyone

Whilst my broadband speed leaves a lot to be desired (approx 700K down/650K up) it’s a whole load better than 56K up/down!

So what’s happened?  Well I’ve just finished my first week at my new job and so far so good.  To be honest it’s been mostly meetings and so I haven’t done a lot of “real” work but I think it will be at least a couple of months before I’m even vaguely productive as there is so much to learn….. I’ve also been told that I’m off to Melbourne for three days next week and then off to the US for two weeks early next month! Poor Vic

In photography related news the Wellington Flickr Exhibition is coming along nicely it seems.  I have had this image chosen to be exhibited and even better they are allowing us to put our prints up for sale.  The price will really only cover the costs but it would be my first sale (as long as someone likes it enough to shell out eighty bucks!)

I also had a fun night with my mate rico last week and we went into the city to do some moonlit photography.  Unfortunately the night clouded over so we just had a bit of a play around.  A bit into the night I remembered a technique called Painting with light where a dark scene is illuminated using a small light source like a mini-flashlight or flash as if it was a paintbrush to light the subject while the shutter remains open during a timed exposure.  In my case it was a 30 second exposure and the area at the front of the photo was pitch black when viewed with the naked eye.  It took four illuminations of my external flash as I walked around in front of the camera to get this shot.

You can also have fun by getting someone else to illuminate you as you walk around

I think that’s it for now – everyone here is well and the weather’s been lovely (unlike poor Gina **waves**)

Yesterday my friends Jay, Rico and I met in town for a morning of photographic exploration.  It’s been ages since I’ve had a morning/day where all I’ve done is take photos and it was great to get out there.

The only rule we had is that we all used a fixed focal length lens of 50mm.  The day was grey with intermittent rain and it took us 2.5 hours to walk around a block.

Here are some shots of mine

5 more after the link below:

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Quite some time ago I entered a submission to an online magazine (now semi-defunct) called 28mm. The submission was never accepted but I came across the sub-website that I put together for it today and it reminded me of the 30 minutes out of my life that it took to create it and how I quite like the photos.

Anyway have a look if you want.

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