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Well it's time to put on the party shirt, grab a party popper, get drunk and say goodbye to yet another erratic year. Other than the shirt and the popper, that's my annual ritual.
I could go on about the HUGE events of 2008 but I am pretty sure that's being done in places that take that kind of thing seriously rather than an art website. What I will say though is that 2008 was the year that I learned there is more to photography than setting a camera to "idiot mode" and pushing a button.
Since I got my new DSLR in March, I have literally taken hundreds of photos both horrendous and stuff I think is of a wall hangable (yes, that is a word now) quality. I have stuck some of the better stuff here and the photos that I am particularly proud of are the ones that you can buy as a print if you want.
The downside is that time gets away and I haven't managed to take anything worthy of posting either here or on my Flickr account in a few weeks. That will change very soon though. Tomorrow is January 1 and I already have a safari lined up down near Sydney airport. Fingers crossed that I get something worth looking at.
To anyone who reads my little journal entries, I would like to wish you a happy and safe New Year. Hopefully our collective creative juices will overflow in 2009 and we'll all be seeing more of each others work.
Cheers friends and keep up the good work.
I could go on about the HUGE events of 2008 but I am pretty sure that's being done in places that take that kind of thing seriously rather than an art website. What I will say though is that 2008 was the year that I learned there is more to photography than setting a camera to "idiot mode" and pushing a button.
Since I got my new DSLR in March, I have literally taken hundreds of photos both horrendous and stuff I think is of a wall hangable (yes, that is a word now) quality. I have stuck some of the better stuff here and the photos that I am particularly proud of are the ones that you can buy as a print if you want.
The downside is that time gets away and I haven't managed to take anything worthy of posting either here or on my Flickr account in a few weeks. That will change very soon though. Tomorrow is January 1 and I already have a safari lined up down near Sydney airport. Fingers crossed that I get something worth looking at.
To anyone who reads my little journal entries, I would like to wish you a happy and safe New Year. Hopefully our collective creative juices will overflow in 2009 and we'll all be seeing more of each others work.
Cheers friends and keep up the good work.
Bridges
I seem to have developed a fetish for bridges. They are wonderful things to photograph because they don't move. Non moving objects are my favourite subjects to take pictures of because I know I can make a go of them.
What I really wanted was a photograph of an interesting concrete bridge that carries the North F3 Freeway over Mooney Mooney Creek up towards the Central Coast but the lookout that I intended on using was closed - apparently a number of years ago but I didn't know that.
Since it took me about 90 minutes to drive to this now non existent lookout, I figured that I wouldn't waste the trip and headed back the way I came to take pho
Suburbia blues
Much as I love getting out and taking photographs, I hate having to travel the distances needed to get those great shots. Sure, there is a little bit of interesting stuff around where I live but I've just about exhausted the interesting aspects of this place. Being more interested in landscape/panoramic photography, suburbia tends to lose interest shortly after I emerge from my house each day.
My abandoned railway station photo that I recently submitted has a definite rural feel to it, but the reality is that it is only about 5 kilometers away from my house as the crow flies - in fact, it would probably take me about an hour to walk to it if
It's good to be back in the saddle again
Finally, pictures to be submitted and they are panoramas (my favourite kind). I recently was in the USA to attend a friends wedding and during lulls in shopping and drinking, I found time to set myself up and take some wonderful (in my opinion) shots that stitched together into panoramas.
The good thing is that they were all taken using my nice new Canon EOS 400D that I bought a week before Easter. Still have no idea what I am doing with it, but it sure takes purty pic-a-tures.
Cheers.
Dam, it's good
Have you really uploaded a new photo?
Yep. Well, actually, it's really a bunch of photos stuck together through the magic of software rendering because I have an uncontrollable need to create wide screen photos and it feels so good when one comes together.
Do you think the deviantARTists are gonna care? Like, you haven't uploaded anything since last November.
Of course they'll care - they're artists and artists stick together like peanut butter to the roof of your mouth and bear crap to rabbit fur. Besides, it's not likely they will have forgotten a fellow artist so quickly.
Okay, so what's it all about?
I'm glad you asked. I've always b
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