Hydrangeas in the garden
Welcome 2012!! Happy New Year! Hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year break. How quickly did 2011 go? And before you know we’re already racing through 2012! Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous and great 2012. May all your dreams take flight and may this year bring you lots of joy, [...]
Lucky bamboo plant
Can you tell am running out of ideas to post? Well here is the salubrious view from the potty The young lucky bamboo plant was an addition to the family today. Isn’t it a nice view even though its right out our bathroom window? Both in summer and winter this window offer beautiful soft filtered [...]
Jagos Café at North Sydney
Consider yourself lucky, very lucky, when all you do is point your camera at your friends and they put up with you. But then friends happily pose and love to play model too, right? Tray, Pete, D and I went down to Jagos for brunch a fortnight back. The weather was good. Well HOT. Much [...]
Rain droplets on the window
It isn’t exactly summer yet, but when the rain descended on us this afternoon I was really thinking of Belinda Carlisle’s ‘Summer Rain’. Oh how I love that song. Homeward bound this afternoon there was a bit of traffic delays following a 95 year old man who drove his car into the rail tracks accidentally [...]
No more a Nikon lurker
Remember how I constantly bitched and moaned about Canon’s less than perfect imaging on the DSLRs? Well the moment of truth for me arrived on Wednesday the 9th of November. I got my first Nikon body a D7000 with a AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G Lens to boot! (Thx Kreeson for organising the lens) I know [...]
Sochi posing for the camera
Kiley’s gorgeous cat Sochi posing for me. Can you see me in the photo?
A rainy long weekend in the Blue Mountains
We went up to the Blue Mountains on the June long weekend. Great to get out of Sydney but it has been raining since last Friday and it still hasn’t stopped. Things have been busy round here… and no matter how much I burn the midnight oil twenty-four hours seem such a short time to [...]
Colours of 2011
It has been a little quiet here lately but some nice travel updates are due soon. You’d have to wait till Saturday morning for the next installment, but in the mean time I thought of sharing some colourful moments of 2011 I’ve shot so far. Yes, all in 2001 Make sure you click on the [...]
Autumn 2011
Autumn is finally here. Horrible summer be gone already. Its not always the start of the month that mark the cut off…. but nature sure has its own way of reminding you how time does pass by. I walk by this tree everyday to work but it wasn’t until today I noticed the big change [...]
Pillow talk
Hand-made cushions with Indian sequence and mirrors handicraft. Click image for a larger version. Pillow talk is exactly what Doris Day would have in mind if she was reading this from her beautiful paradise in Carmel… These are Robyn’s cushions. Aren’t they gorgeous. One never has to go far to shoot a good (subjective, I [...]
Hanging Lanterns at Hoi An
Hanging lanterns in a shop in Hoi An, Vietnam, 2006 Good old memories of Vietnam came flooding back as I was looking through my old photos tonight. On our last day at Hoi An just before we left the cute little artsy town, we did the rounds of local crafts market. And gee there is [...]
Beautiful Sunday Morning
Sunday morning outlook from our balcony
Rose
Rose at Naremburn. Click for a larger viewCanon EOS 5D Mark II, 1/1,600 sec, f/2.8, 50mm, ISO 320, Bias: -1/3 EV When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong Just remember in the winter far beneath [...]
Kookaburra
Kookaburra perched on a tree at ClontarfCanon EOS 5D Mark II, 1/160 sec, f/3.5, 200mm, ISO 1000, Bias: 0 EV Kookaburras are large terrestrial Kingfishers native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Very typically known for their loud call that somewhat echoes a human laughter. There is more on Kookaburra at Wikipedia. This one in [...]
Sydney AMP Tower
This view was from Market Street at the start of the day. I was lucky to get a bird in flight while shooting this.
Incense black & white challenge
Smoke rising up in black and whiteCanon EOS 5D Mark II, 1/250 sec, f/3.2, 85mm, ISO 400, Bias: +1/3 EV This is part of the Photo 5 EOS challenge from Canon Australia and New Zealand. Brief number 3 is Incense black & white challenge. This is a moody brief. It is not just about shooting [...]
Eye dropper challenge
Water drops from Sydney on marble studded with semi-precious stones from Agra This is part of the Photo 5 EOS challenge from Canon Australia and New Zealand. I’m taking part in the Photo challenge this year even though I never win anything This brief was to look closer using the eye dropper and place drops [...]
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Hydrangeas in the garden
Welcome 2012!! Happy New Year! Hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year break. How quickly did 2011 go? And before you know we’re already racing through 2012! Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous and great 2012. May all your dreams take flight and may this year bring you lots of joy, [...]
Lucky bamboo plant
Can you tell am running out of ideas to post? Well here is the salubrious view from the potty The young lucky bamboo plant was an addition to the family today. Isn’t it a nice view even though its right out our bathroom window? Both in summer and winter this window offer beautiful soft filtered [...]
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