Soft Light

Useing my Nikon D90 with my 70x300 lens, on a night shoot a few weeks ago, these 2 photographs were taken on the steps of Parliment House in Melbourne on a very cold winters night.
The softness of the 2 photographs is suttle as it has a depth of warmness. The framing is not to bad as I really couldn't see the shot to well, as it is a bit of a guessing game for me at times. I love these 2 photos a lot.

Rainbow lorikeet

I caught this wonderful bird in my back yard last year. This was the first time I could see his wonderful colours and I was amazed on what I saw. Magic.

Macro Photography

Starting to get a little better at Macro Photography, (I think).
Red Orchid bud.
Nikon D90 x Nikon 85 Macro.

Sky in Colour

I took these shots tonight as the sun was setting. Using my D90, 70x300 Lenns the images looks amazing. The colours was in one tiny spot in the sun setting in the night sky.

Changing Colours

I took this photo today in my backyard. Another yet again shot of my red Orchid. I started playing with the image in NX2 and got some interesting effects with colours. Was very hard to watch and see what I was doing with it but had a lot of fun trying.

The end result is not the best but with more practise, I should be able to nail it. It's not the end result that is important to me, it is my terpertation on what I see wih my eyes and not yours.
Makes it even more challenging to the viewer.
Don't you think?

Tunnel Vision.

The Big Culvert / Tunnel Vision.. What a differance this makes in Black & White. The detail is awesome. The arigional image was in colour for an exhibition I did last year.
Couple of friends suggested to try it in black and white. I must say I love this much better. Using Capture NX2, the process was easy to undertake and the effect is magic.

Playing in Black & White

This was one of my winter shots of the city. The day was cold and foggy.
Using Capture NX2, I was playing with some of the functions today and I ended up with this out come. Very much suits in Black & White.

Red & Yellow Orchids.

I have 2 magic Orchids. One yellow and one red orchid. I am so excited watching them grow as their buds change colours and bloom. Very magical to watch them develop with such great colours and smell.

Hanging Jeans.

This photograph was part of my very first exhibition in December 2008.
The exhibition was "My Eye My Melbourne", 15 photographs on what I see around Melbourne. With the help of Photography Made Easy, this journey in my photography wouldn't have been possible.

Day Trip to Warrnambool Victoria

What a magic trip I had last Monday July 5th to Warrnambool.
After catching a train at 6am to catch the West Coaster at 7.50am I arrived in Warrnambook just after 11am. What a huge journey. Once their I met up with a good friend and we set out driving around Warrnambook and then down to Port Fairy.

The day was over cast but not cold. It wasn't the ideal day for photographing but manage to get some good imagies.

After a great day of exploring the areas, I was on the 5pm train back home arriving at my front door at 9pm.

I am looking at doing another trip down to Point Campbell in Spring time to capture some of the wonders of the sand stone clifts of the coastline..

New photo of Eamon and myself

The above photo was taken today at Nikon School by one of the Nikon staff. Showing me by having the settings on manual you can get much better photo effects. Now all I got to do is remember the settings and go for it.

The fustrating thing is that I love my photography so much but not being able to see well to read my settings and menus makes the job just a little bit harder.

As most of you know me, I like a challange and I'm going to push on until I win and make my D90 work for me, not me working for my D90. :)

Nikon School..

had a sensational day at Nikon School in the city.. Lets see what I can come up with, useing my manual settings and not on Auto. Was the first course I have ever done where they really looked after me... Well done to the staff at Nikon... ;)

Arts Victoria Funding

This was hard work.
I got word today that my application for this funding round was knocked back as they received
over 200 applications.

Bit disappointed as it's now not looking to good for my new exhibition for later on in the year. Seems that Arts Victoria has a great formula for applying but their seems to be not enough money to go around in the fielf of the Arts.

Fingers crossed to see if I can come up with the funds as my new works is really good..