pointing

why do politicians and such people point at people in the crowd as they pass? waving, yeswalking over to say helloshake hands but point? they all do it – I dont get it.

lighting

I’ve been playing with lighting over the last week or so – outdoor fill flash and with the studio lights for portraits again. The outdoor stuff was nice and simple, well, apart from the fact that I forgot my flash and had to rely on the pop-up flash in the D300! Manual exposure using the 100/100/f16 rule of thumb (I’ll start to deviate from…

Christmas Tidings

Well, a hot Christmas is an odd thing, innit? It is if you’re from Blighty anyway.. Tts been nice – here warm long days, time to get out and about – was lovely. Got some wicked prezzies – a satnav, which I tested out today with a bissy English woman voice, very funny.. Got Jay a sigma 30mil f1.4 which is such a lovely…

first day

So its Jay’s first day of paid employment as a teachers assistant today. means she’s off the blocks and putting funds towards her D700. Or something. proud of you 🙂

work..

I’m working in Cannington (for you non Perth-ites, its a southern subburb of Perth) at a customer site at the moment, which is a bit of a pain. Its not that far away from where I live, but as I dont get to claim petrol and dont want big mileage on the car, the only way to get here without breaking the bank really…

progress

so, its been a while since an update, been busy with work and life, as you do. So, whats been happening since. Well, we had a few plays with the Bowens Gemini 500 lights First we had them out at Hallowe’en, taking shots of the kids dressed up as zombies and vampires etc. That was pretty cool, but it was trial and error and…

Daylight davings

I really dont get the resistance to daylight savings over here in WA. We’ve had it in Europe forever and it brings a wonderful extension to the day, especially during the week. It means that you can get home from work and have hours and hours of lovely summer light to chill out, do gardening, exercise, walk etc. It also means not having the…

lifestyle

Its amazing – empty beach on a warm (ish) Friday early evening. In the UK this would be heaving with people. Over here, its just part of the great outdoors and its a bit taken for granted. Hence the empty beach. Some kite surfers recognise how lucky they are though 🙂

warming up

its a bit warm today. just a little bit, but to a pasty faced cold weather climate person like myself, I can feel the Perth summer starting to build up just a little. Enough that I might have to abandon wearing a suit soon and switch to chinos and short sleeved shirts 🙂 lovely to be able to walk about without worrying about getting…

Only been here for 5 minutes when..

I get bitten by something. Presumably it was a small black house spider or something – anyway – I suddenly come over very dizzy. So dizzy that I cant even stand up, even kneeling on the floor was too hard so I had to go to bed for a few hours. I have a welt on my left hand today and feel a bit…