I heart storm season
Thursday, October 16, 2008
We had a really active electrical storm go through last night, and instead of using the dslr, this time I thought I'd go with the video camera. Here's the highlights from about 25 minutes worth:
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Perfect weather for the beach...
Friday, October 10, 2008
I'm off down to the Gold Coast for a buck's weekend, and the mother nature decided to have some fun at our expense and it's supposed to be a wet weekend.
Oh, well - good weather for staying indoors and drinking :)
But before I go, here's yesterday's photo:
Emily got some roses the other day and I figured they'd make a nice subject. Unlike most of my photos, I've done a bit of colour adjustment on this to make it more interesting. Unfortunately I couldn't get Photoshop to play nice with the colour profiles, so it lost some of the reds when exporting :(
Photo a day (or so)
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
I'm trying to get back into my "photo a day" routine that I started (quite) a while back. (You can see past ones over at my photo blog.) I don't know how well I'll stick to this, but I'll try my best to pick up the camera as often as I can and find something to take a photo of. With our new view I'm sure that won't be too hard :)
First up, yesterday's:
Believe it or not, this was shot with the lens on backwards. This has the strange effect of turning a zoom lens into a macro lens, meaning super close up photos. I can actually get closer than this to the subject, but didn't want to get the lens too close to the flame. I'll probably post a few more like this in the coming weeks as I play with this technique.
And now today's:
Nothing too special about this - just a plain old shot of the sunset from the balcony. I missed a great sunset a few days ago, but today wasn't too shabby. Again, I'll likely post more photos like this. I'll try to find different things to shoot, but I'm sure it will be tough to resist.
It's been good to pick up the camera again after neglecting it for the last few months. The achilles really put the brakes on all my photography work as I couldn't get out and about to do it.
Oh, speaking of the achilles, Monday was the 1 year anniversary of the injury. I can't believe how quick the last 6 months have gone compared to the first 6 months!