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!!
Will get there one day?
Lately its been all too much, feel like I’ll never finish painting the interior of this 60 year old house and who’s silly idea was it to paint before we sold the house anyways? Oh crap that’ right, my idea! Bugger !! Still waiting is paying off as house prices are still climbing here in Darwin, people that have been here 30 odd years or more are now selling up and moving to a saner climate somewhere else. Still I have 2 rooms to finish and touch ups here and there are we’ll be ready to go to market. Thoughts are turning to the journey down to WA , oh can’t wait as its been a while since I’ve driven NT to WA or vice versa last time I drove my Mum up here from Margaret River, my mum and my trusty ole dog, it was the best trip, camping roadside and I have to give my Mum points for roughing it. The trip before that was just me in my old 1965 Ford Falcon XP, now that was a journey to remember, even did parts of the Gibb River Road. Arhhh those were the days !!
Image above is a recreation of The Quarries Cape Natraliste. -Draging out old stuff now since the untimely death of my apple mac and alas Photoshop!
Old habits die hard..
Taking more pictures of trees I can’t help myself …sigh…Can’t wait to see what the ttv style comes up with in the big tree country in the SW of WA.Still haven’t moved, as I write I am sitting in the loungeroom surrounded by boxes.It’s a hot time of year and I’m holding off packing all my thousands of large prints and negatives as the 20ft packing container reaches 40+ degrees!
Good news is I’m flying to WA to attend a 20 year high school reunion at Busselton in Decemeber so I could probably take the most important negs and prints on the flight with me and store them with my folks in Margarets.Arhhh problem solved, blogging does have a reason! too sort out problems as you type! I still feel as though I’m talking to myself though…
Cheers for now Jules
