I noticed a large coil of irrigation hose propped against a wall which which might make an interesting subject. I tried and tried but could not frame a shot I found pleasing in its entirety. However when I got really close, no longer was it a coil of poly pipe but presented a beautiful combination […]
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So how to you make a trailer load full of garden rubbish interesting? Zoom in? Zoom out? Zoom while shooting!?! Well actually it’s not so simple because the effect really only works when you get a good combination of zoom movement and shutter speed. If you have a tripod, the more solid the better, then […]
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There is a beautiful vase of white lilies gracing the dining table. We try and keep fresh flowers in the house when ever we can so there is almost always a flower photo opportunity to be had. There are two things I found awkward about taking this image. The first was the stark contrast between […]
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Tonight was a blustery night with patchy cloud. My original plan was to take some comparative images of the full moon between a cheap 500mm fixed F8 mirror lens and a good quality 200mm lens with cropping. Well that was the plan but the wind played havoc and the only way I could get a […]
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I thought I had lost this beautiful chess set I made when I was eleven years old in primary school. It had gone missing around the time I moved to Melbourne to live about 17 years ago. What a wonderful surprise to find it in a box at the back of the bottom of the […]
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