New point n shoot
Well been busy getting the house ready for sale, painting for the last 4 months non stop and finally all is ready! Meanwhile I have signed up to do an advanced Photoshop course here in Darwin. Its been 10 long years since I was in a formal photoshop class so I figured I was well overdue and with a little one at home it’s alot harder to study online.I have been thinking (not surprisingly) alot about real estate photography recently…and with all the market research I have done the images that go with most house sales are really crap! Anyways before I buy my dream camera when we finally get to WA I thought a good travel camera for the family would be good so I bought a Panasonic LX3 and gosh I am impressed for a little point n shoot! I love the fact that it can be used fully manual and it has a superb Leica lens. To tell the truth I also got it for the real estate pictures as it has a wonderful wide angle lens and was cheaper to get than a wide angle for a DSLR. I wouldn’t have thought twice about getting a L series Canon wide angle lens but with the possibility of upgrading to a medium format camera I thought this the best option. Logic in the madness well thats what i tell my other half!
So below is one of the first images I took with the Lumix not a remarkable image by any means but not too bad either! My daughter and I watched these two crows smooching and preening each other at Fogg Dam. We don’t see too many crows up close so it was nice to watch. The second image is the Fogg Dam road a road I have seen many a tourist and local stand in the water to take photos which is super SUPER scary as there are crocs everywhere!!! Infact if they look around they’d see the very large croc trap set in the lillies trying to catch a fairly decent sized scaly handbag. Infact if you look closely at the last image (bottom left hand corner) you will see a little croc just sitting there, a freshie but a croc no less! Every tourist car drove straight past it oh how easy it really is to get eaten up here!!
Croc Tails
So I braved my fear and agreed to go out in the boat, its been nearly 10 years since I was last in a boat of any kind and thankfully it was uneventful! It was when I worked for Paspaley Pearls in my twenties (some time ago) that I was thrown out of a boat at high speed. I had been working out at sea as a deckhand for over two weeks during a pearl harvest when I was tranferred to Kuri Bay to work. There was a few of us in the boat with our belongings (clothes, doonas, pillows etc) and I remember being so excited at the prospect of walking on land again as I had been at sea nearly three weeks.
Well anyway, the idiot skipper decided to have some fun with the boat next to us and with some serious high speeds and a few water boat donuts thrown in for good measure about 3 of us were thrown clean out of the boat. Unfortunately I was carrying my doona at the time, so first thing I remember was being underwater not knowing which way was up and completely entangled in my doona. What felt like ages I finally made my way to the surface to be nearly hit by the other boat!
I still have an area on the back of my leg where the muscle was pushed & mishaped from the impact of hitting the water, I had a purple leg for about two weeks from the bruise arhh, a reminder of my time with Paspaley. But dispute being thrown into croc and shark infested waters I am not overly worried about the crocs up here, so it was a pleasure to come across this old man croc on the bank.
I got out an old lens that is covered in mould esp for the journey, so don’t look too closely but you’ll get the idea. We saw quite a few crocs swimming about but this guy got our attention, laying on the bank as if he didn’t have a care in the world…well he doesn’t really does he? By the shape of his tail we suggest he would be about 60- 70 years old and no sooner had i finished taking the pics when he turned quickly to disappear into the murly waters, I didn’t catch this action as I was holding my daughter a little too tight by this stage.
Still thinking about what camera to get when we sell the house, CF is certainly making it difficult by showing the best of nearly ever camera brand out there!!
