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Visit to the zoo

19 January 2012 / posted in Australia, Photography, Wildlife / No Comments

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Last week I went for the first time in a while to the National Zoo and Aquarium, Canberra’s own little piece of animal heaven. It was an opportunity for me to give the Tamron 70-200 a good workout and get in some animal shots.
Unfortunately for me my laziness for not going the previous day had penalised me with the lack of big cats since they were all hiding in the shade from the sweltering sun.
Luckily I was able to get some good reptile shots and managed to get really close to get a few portraits of the Wallabies in the native animals display. Anyway I won’t bore you with more talk, enjoy the photos and if you like them leave a comment.

New Years Eve Concerts 2012

9 January 2012 / posted in Australia, Events, Live Music, New Years Eve, Photography / No Comments

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This new years eve I went out to photograph Ian Moss who was performing that night. He was the headlining act but before that local band Bridge Between were performing covers and their own original songs.
It was fortunate that I got there early and found a decent spot to photograph from because as Bridge Between was starting to finish up the spots near the crowd barriers were getting packed. Anyway the night was great, I got to enjoy music, watch two fireworks displays and gave my camera a good thrashing.

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This was the second occasion I was able to put the Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 to work, it performed okay for the night but as I found the lack of stabilisation made getting shots a bit less comfortable requiring more energy on my part to keep the camera and lens pushed against my face to reduce camera shake. Auto-focus was a bit on the slow side but kept up with what was happening.
One thing I can’t fault with this lens is the image quality the shots that I got were tack sharp though it was showing a quite a bit of aberrations wide open. Despite the slower autofocus, lack of stabilisation it performed admirably and produced the goods.

Anyway here are the fruits of my labor enjoy!

Skidpan Day Photos

17 October 2011 / posted in Australia, Gallery, Photography, Vehicles / No Comments

DSC_2736I went to a skidpan day with Lardman a few months back and got my first taste of photographing cars in action. Although I processed the photos of the day I never ended up posting them.
Until now after trawling through my hard drives I discovered them languishing and unloved. Unloved they are no more and have now been [finally] posted.
Enjoy!

Perth, Anime and Jesus?

25 January 2010 / posted in Anime, Australia, Convention, Events, Gallery, Photography / No Comments

So we went to the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre yesterday to drop in on the last day of Wai-con.

Before that since it was a Sunday we went to church service with our family friends who are kind enough to host us (props to them) here in Perth, the church was Sunset Coast Church.
It was a very eye opening experience to say the least, my old view of the classic preacher in church was blown out of the water in fact when we rocked up to service it was like entering some sort of rock concert with performers on a large stage and singing evangelistic music.
The service was pretty standard affair with awesome musical interludes in-between: Church news, explanation of scripture, prayer and passing around the donation buckets the general stuff you’d expect from going to church.
The musical interludes I have to admit were of extremely high quality and the whole operation was damn slick complete with charismatic preacher.

Anyway after service it was Wai-con time dispite having to take serveral detours, and parking 5 minutes short of the convention center we eventually made our way to the venue.





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