Mr Byrd is Looking Down

Posted February 8, 2010 - 1:30pm
Mr Byrd is Looking Down

Taken with my iPhone, and put through a CameraBag filter then through TiltShiftGen.

Up In The Trees

Posted February 6, 2010 - 12:49am
Up In The Trees

Thanks to Joho for some help fine tuning this mess of a photo.

Rotating it 180° certainly changed up the whole idea of this photo, and allowed me to put another photo into the Abstract & Surreal category.

St James Church, Sydney - Window

Posted February 5, 2010 - 12:51am
St James Church, Sydney - Window

A side window, snapped as I was walking around the outside of this epically large church. Those convicts really knew how to build things back then.

St James Church isn't far from the Australian Museum, that I recently visited. It's Sydney's oldest church, having been constructed between 1819-1824 by convict labour. Even the architect, Francis Greenway, was a convict.

Canon 50D - f6.3 - 1/80 - ISO 100 - 17mm

St James Church, Sydney - High Contrast B&W

Posted February 2, 2010 - 3:10pm
St James Church, Sydney - High Contrast B&W

St James Church isn't far from the Australian Museum, that I recently visited. It's Sydney's oldest church, having been constructed between 1819-1824 by convict labour. Even the architect, Francis Greenway, was a convict.

Canon 50D - f6.3 - 1/100 - ISO 100 - 17mm

Buy art

Experimenting With a Lack of Colour

Posted January 31, 2010 - 11:50pm
Experimenting With a Lack of Colour

Further experimenting, this time with a lack of colour and a high contrast.

It's a skeleton of an emu, taken at the Australian Museum a few weeks ago.

My Digital Camera History

Posted January 30, 2010 - 11:38pm

My first experience behind a camera was taking control of my parents film camera at family outings. It often came to be that thirty-six shots was not enough to keep me entertained. With film and processing costs, they felt it would be cheaper in the long run to get me a digital camera.

The Fujifilm MX-2900 was to be my first digital camera and cast me as "that weird guy in high-school who always had a camera on him". Over the next few years I was to take countless shots with this little 2.3 megapixel beast. Many of them were lost over the years, a lot were deleted on purpose as I was far from skilful. But damn I had fun with that camera. Eventually I felt it was finally time to upgrade.

Orange & Limes

Posted January 29, 2010 - 8:03pm
Orange & Limes

Taken with my iPhone and run through a filter in CameraBag.

Tyrannosaurus Teeth at Australian Museum

Posted January 28, 2010 - 11:45pm
Tyrannosaurus Teeth at Australian Museum

I recently visited the Australian Museum. Unfortunately we only had about 3 hours there - which was a shame, as I know I could have spent a whole day there.

This was an open display (huzzah, no glass case!) and even though they were probably a cast, it was still quite amazing to look around and know that these bones were once massive creatures. It was almost humbling.

They are, of course, Tyrannosaurus teeth. I was quite proud how it turned out, especially considering the low light conditions.

Canon 50D - f5.6 - 1/40 - ISO 1600 - 53mm

Buy art

Man vs Nature in Sepia

Posted January 22, 2010 - 11:33pm
Man vs Nature in Sepia

As I was walking down the stairs of the Knight's Tower, I noticed the large bolts that held the sections of the support together and thought it gave an interest contrast with the landscape around them.

f/5.6 - 1/60 - ISO 100 - 17mm

Buy art

Illawarra Fly - Scrub - 1

Posted January 21, 2010 - 11:37pm
Illawarra Fly - Scrub - 1

Even though the path was predetermined, it still cut through some pretty amazing scrub-land.

f4 - 1/30 - ISO 160 - 17mm