Gear dust-off - Canberra Festival Balloon Spectacular

So... Canberra.

Well, it's much drier here so I don't have to worry about lens fungus as much, just dust and grit!

So I'm trying to get back in to the swing of taking photos now the worst of the relocation is over. I've managed a few photos in the last 4 months, mainly family things. The Canberra Festival Balloon Spectacular (Spectacular!) was a great op. for some cool photos. Again I suck with the 10-20mm, oh well.

Thunderstruck!

Jumped off the bus after work and turned around to a spectacular lightning show. I ran to the house to get my gear and exposed a few frames, managing to get this shot.

Quick and Dirty Floriade 2008

Had a quick lunch in Canberra last week with the Gorgeous (it was part of a trip, I'm not that rich as to be able to "nip" down from Brisbane just for a feed). She packed a delicious picnic and took me to Floriade from the airport. Canberra can be lovely, let's hope it doesn't get too miserable in Winter... though there is always snow to look forward to.





And the prettiest flower of them all.. (Geez I make myself nauseous sometimes)

Brisbane Eye(sore)

(Boring)

Well everyone else has done it and many better, but I thought I'd flex those photography neurons after a long couple of weeks at the grindstone.



(Better)





Ah well...

Studio course

Briefly, went and did a studio course with some of the boys from OCAU, got to use studio strobes and work with a model. Amongst the banter we actually got some photos in.

Note to self: need to find a new repetoire of compositions, we've done the one eye thing to death.





We also had to practice on each other so here's a sample of "The boys..." I think these were all our "Money" faces.




I'm a freek! (courtesy of Munkiboy)

Storms under the moon

Just quickly, since I should actually be working (on ANZAC Weekend Saturday no less! Damn this Ph.D!)



The storm was brewing over the bay and I initially thought it was a flickering street light till I opened the frosted window. It was a hard long exposure because of the moon being in the frame as well (not to mention the sporadic nature of lightning at the best of times). This is the best framing out of 12 exposures... sigh... getting rusty with lack of camera use.

note to self: If PPing on a laptop screen, make sure it's colour cal'ed to the brightest backlight setting and not lower so that you have maximum contrast, oops!

Adelaide Photo Night - Randoms

"No time for love Dr. Jones!", I've got a Ph.D fish to fry so posts will be sporadic for the next few months arriving in spurts.



FLARE?! and Northern Lights - State Library



Dang Frinks was right about the polariser!