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November 29, 2005
red berries
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November 28, 2005
rainy monday
testing out the waterproofness of my crumper. go the chickentex
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November 27, 2005
Thanksgiving Down Under
Thanksgiving dinner was Saturday night, this was my plate and that's 'truducken' on the right, you can see the turkey and the duck, the chicken is under the gravy. There are more photos from Thanksgiving on flickr Thanks Rodd and Kris for a great Thanksgiving!
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November 25, 2005
robot
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November 24, 2005
santa's horse
the horse puling Santa at the Sydney Christmas Tree lighting ceremony
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November 20, 2005
EF ultra wide zooms and pizza
Lunch with photobloggers - this is what happens when the food comes. Everyone starts taking pictures of: the food in front of them, the food next to them and probably the person next to them taking a photo of their food. (above photo with Canon EF24mm F2.8)
Amy and I met up with some of the Sydney photobloggers at The Sydney Camera Market in Ultimo. I was hoping to find a good deal on a second hand Canon EF 17-40 F4.0L or a (discontinued) EF 17-35 F2.8L. I found a F2.8 and while it wasn't dirt cheap (1300) it was in pretty good condition. The 'thing' is - this lens has a pretty bad reputation. It's not meant to be very sharp - particularly wide open and this is rumoured to be why Canon rather quickly replaced it with the (way expensive) EF16-35 F2.8. The guy selling this 17-35 was kind enough to let me put it on my 10d and snap of a few shots. They are basically boring photos, so I won't be posting them. I shot it at 2.8, 3.5 and 4.0 - I'm not really sure about the F4.0 shot, it seems soft but was also taken at 1/30 of a second so that could be camera shake. The F2.8 shot on the other hand was at 16mm and 1/100th of a second - should be no camera shake. I really didn't expect to see a noticeably soft image but there it was - it's just... soft. A few tables down was a guy selling a 17-40 and I was again able take a few frames - this time all at F4.0 and while these are again terribly boring photos but they are clearly sharper than the 16-35. So in my totally unscientific comparison of the (discontinued) Canon EF 17-35/2.8L lens and the EF 16-40/4.0L lens, the f4.0 lens comes out on top. Too bad the used one at the markets was priced higher than new lenses available on line.
I just checked out the 16-35 v 17-35 comparison at The Luminous Landscape - the softness I saw in my 2.8 test is similar to the softness in his tests. With this confirmation, my choice is clear - as much as I want F2.8 - I'd rather the sharper lens.
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November 19, 2005
group portrait, luna park, sydney
That's Jes and in his glasses from left to right; Trent, David, Jessica and me. Oh, yeah and the Sydney Harbour Bridge - from a corporate outing to Luna Park yesterday.
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November 17, 2005
the towing paparazzi
no gaggle of photographers - just me and the TV crew - the Channel 9 studio is less than 1 km from here. There are several more photos of the various automobiles that the bus took out on its way to the footpath to the left. Fortunatly no one was injured. While I was shooting, a lady asked me if I would take photos of her car for her insurance. I obliged (many of those are rather dull, but I did post a couple on flickr.)
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November 16, 2005
chairs
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November 15, 2005
chewbacca, tape and stapler
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November 14, 2005
ikea abba
Ikea is selling Abba (really, Abba) herring. I love this stuff (thanks to my Swedish mom) but Amy on the other hand - well, not so much
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November 13, 2005
short hair self
pretty uneventful Sunday, got a hair cut. that's about it.
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November 12, 2005
Glenbrook Skate Park
This wasn't my destination in the Blue Mountains. I actually got lost after forgetting to bring a map. Fortunately, 90% of the roads up there are either dead ends or lead to back to the highway. So I gave up, headed back to Sydney but not before stopping at the Glenbrook Skate Park. There were about 20 kids there and they were kind enough to let me shoot some photos. I've been wanting to give skateboarding a go (as a photo subject) and was surprised and just how much speed these guys get. Tried a lot of different things - overall I'm not thrilled about the sharpness of most of them - I was using the 10d's AI Focus mode - next time I'll use continuous.
The rest of the photos are in my Glenbrook skate park set over on flickr - and I told a few of the kids who asked, how to google their way to my site. Guys - if you are here, thanks for letting me get in your way. Please feel free to give me some names to go with the photos on flickr.
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November 10, 2005
artarmon bolt
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November 09, 2005
wall
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November 07, 2005
lo us
This car is always covered and parked down the street from our place. It was windy today and while walking home I notice the cover blew off (it is out of veiw, but sort hanging on to the tires on the other side.) I always thought it was an MG - turns out, it's a Lo us.
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November 06, 2005
bondi sandstone
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November 04, 2005
corner table
this is my new desk, err, table - it's really more of a table, but with that view - hey, who's complaining?
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November 03, 2005
treet me
looking up again
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November 02, 2005
crows nest
I've been pointing my camera at the sky a lot lately. Don't know why.
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November 01, 2005
Melbourne Cup
I'm not really a betting man. I mean, I was married in Vegas and fed a few quarters into a few slot machines while I was there. And sure, I've purchased the occasional lotto ticket - I've even been to the horse races in person (like about 15 years ago) but Melbourne Cup Day is different - nearly everyone in Australia stops whatever they are doing to watch the 3:00 race on the first Tuesday of November. Every office has a sweeps and since we all get together to watch the race, well heck it's just a bunch of horses if you don't have any money on it. This year I lucked into the favourite in the $5.00 sweep - and since Makybe Diva did in fact win the race - I won $70.00 - woo! hoo! - that's going right into the 17-40 F4.0L fund!
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