Wild weather

Just a couple of quick pics I took yesterday. The weather here was so bad - gale force winds, rain, hail, thunder. The sea was incredibly rough. I was nearly getting blown over taking these. Thankfully it has been better today - we are off camping on Monday, so fingers crossed for fine weather.

somedays the light is just perfect

iso 100, f 16, ss 1/50

A couple from this weekend

iso 100, f 22, ss 1/2 sec

I took this one tonight with my 17-85 lens. I was aiming for a long shutter speed (misty water), but I don't think it really works as the water is too far away. I think it is probably a bit over processed looking - hummm. I was hoping for a nice sunset, but this is the only colour we got.

iso 100, f 2.8, ss 1/3200

This one was taken yesterday with my new Canon 100mm f2.8 macro. It is interesting using it for portraits - so far i really like it but so different from my 50mm - you have to be so far away. This is my DD - I have know idea where she got those beautiful full lips from - certainly wasn't my side of the family.

iso 100, f 16, ss 1/60

Another one with the macro - I was out stalking bees yesterday. Not sure if I have the patience for this kinda stuff though.

Sticking with what I know best

It seems like so long since I have taken any landscape photos and I have to admit it is nice to get back to it. I have been wanting to take this shot all winter, since the trees turned yellow, but I could never get the timing right. The weather has been lousy here (typical Warrnambool weather, wet and windy), but Saturday was just glorious - warm and sunny. This is the Merri River (I take so many photos of this river) just on the outskirts of town. The yellow trees are Poplars (I think) and the green ones on the river bank are Willows. In the second photo there is a shadow from a light pole on the bridge down the bottom of the photo, kinda in the middle. Do you think it is distracting? I cloned it out of the top one, should I clone it out of the second one also?

Thanks for the comments on my last post. I'm loving the new lens, it certainly is a learning curve though. I'll post some more photos when I get some good ones. Shane is really into bug photos so I think he will use the macro more than I do.

New lens

iso 400, f 18, ss 1.3 sec

Today i got a new lens (it's actually for my DH, but I'm going to steal it sometimes) - Canon 100mm 2.8 macro. Unfortunately I didn't get home from work until late so i only had a chance to play with it inside tonight. This was probably my best photo. Its very noisy and not really sharp, but it certainly is close up. I can't wait til tomorrow afternoon and I can have a play outside. The shallow DOF takes some getting used to. I used my tripod and flash with this. The flower is the centre of a mini Gerbera.

Some flower shots from the weekend

These are some more shots from the garden we went to last weekend. They aren't
great, but it gives you an idea of what the garden was like. It was a macro
photgraphers dream. Now I just need a macro lens. The Canon 100mm 2.8 macro is
the next on my wish list.

And these last two are taken in my garden - these are about the only flowers I have out at the moment

A perfect Day

Today was a really great day.


It is Father's Day here today, so Happy Father's Day to my DH. Yes, that is me reflected in his sunglasses.










This morning we went to watch DD play soccer - she is the one in red.









In the park next to the soccer is the dog obedience school, so we watched the cute dogs (this one was my favourite)











Then we went to an open garden at this place. It is a really eclectic garden, lots of succulents and artwork. It really inspired me to do something with my poor sad overgrown garden and the owner gave the kids a plant each so they were happy.







And I took lots of photos.







Perfect Day (and the weather was nice, but a bit cold still).




I would like to say huge thank you to the people that look at my blog yesterday ( and other days) and took the time to leave my some comments and CC. I agree they are a bit dark and too contrasty. Sometimes it's hard to know when to stop :)