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“We are passive onlookers in a world that moves perpetually. Our only moment of creation is that 1/125th of a second when the shutter clicks, the signal is given, and motion is stopped…”
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But remarkably good.
Calamondah Shiraz Cabernet 2005. This bottle of wine cost only $6.99 at Aldi. I’d happily have paid $20 for it, it was that good. Tegan wasn’t going to have any, but then she tasted mine. I had to get a new glass, becasue I didn’t get my original one back.
And the cheese in the background was also exceptionally tasty.
This was a very interesting project that I noticed on Flickr and decided to participate in. You can see details here.
We had a pretty great and in some ways surreal day yesterday.
First up, we overcame the residual effects of a viruss we’d both been suffering from during the week to make it to a photoshoot with a bunch of other people from the Canberra Photographers group on Flickr. That in itself sounds fairly normal, but our subject matter was a local burlesque troop that one of the Flickr group members is also part of. This was fantastically fun and interesting – playing with studdio lighting and having as subject matter a bunch of people who are performers already and therefore were quite good at posing. Tegan shot a couple of hundred shots with the digital camera and I shot several rolls fo B&W film. Tegan got a few quite good shots and I can hardly wait to develop my film and see the results.
After the shoot, a few of the Flickr group members came back to our place for coffee and to review our results on the computer. This was also fun.
More surreal, a stranger came to to the door. The stranger was the woman who had designed our house. She was in town, down from Brisbane, and asked to have a look around as she had never seen it before. She also told us the story behind it: she and her fiance had designed the house and they were going to live in it with her father, who was quite elderly. However, her father passsed away and she and her fiance split up, which is why it was available for us to buy it. This explained some of the design elements of the house e.g. why there are two master bedrooms. She also explained that the octagonal windows in the stairwell were designed that way because her engagement ring was octagonal.
Later in the day we had a wonderful afternoon tea, catching up with friends we don’t see very often. And then we got to have a nice relaxing evening and watch Australia thump Wales in the rugby. Excellent.
All in all, a fairly relaxing day, which was exactly what we needed.
As some of you know I’ve been gettign photography in a big way in the last six months or so (those whom I have ‘forced’ to sit for portraits for me would know it even more so). While this was largely sparked by the purchase of a digital SLR (a Canon EOS300D) back in early 2004, I’ve now gone back to film – black and white and high colour slide film (especially Fuji Velvia) in particular. This suits Tegan and I quite well, as she prefers to use our digital camera, and I enjoy using our film cameras themselves a lot more than the 300D.
To further this interest, I have finally taken a course in black and white photography, which really means in darkroom skills, at Photoaccess in Manuka. And it’s great!
Last night I printed my first ever contact sheet, which was a whole lot of fun:
In contrast, Tegan had a day off work yesterday to attend a one day course on post processing photos using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. Ironically, these are basically “digital darkroom” skills. Tegan found the course fantastically useful and interesting and also picked up some good tips on how to take better-looking digital photos. At first she was a bit intimidated – she was the only amateur there – all the others were either professional photographers or graphic designers. Still, it sounds as though she held her own and (certainly by the end of the day) knew just as much about post-processing as any of the others.
So between the two of us we now (or will soon) have both old school and new fangled darkroom skills pretty well covered.
