Bits and Bobs

Merry Christmas, dear readers! So – I’m taking some time out chilling after a lovely morning and lunch with the family on this perfect Perth Christmas summer day. Being born in the northern hemisphere, Christmas in summer will always feel wrong, despite it being an almost perfect day – clear blue skies, 30 degrees and light breeze. That said – I did get up early…

Sunsets with the big ‘un

Having all this time is quite handy, so one evening, Anja and I went down to the beach so we could take sunset photos and I could teach her to do the movement pan/intentional camera movement/motion shots. We had a great time and the look on her face when she realised that she was creating something that she had no previous idea how to…

Experiments with motion

Timing is everything. Usually, work and my commute dictate my timetable and I don’t get an opportunity to get to the beach with the camera, but weekends are a different story. And as luck would have it today, timing lined up perfectly and I got down to the beach with the versatile little X100T to take some abstract sunset pictures.  

Winter sunset.

As winter approaches, the skies become awesome again. Not that clear blue skies with endless sunshine over summer isn’t awesome – it’s just that autumn and winter do sunsets better. I was on the roof at the weekend, clearing out the guttering, as you do (well, as we do here in Australia – the gutters are stupidly designed and can’t cope with the rainfall…