Nov 19 2009
Panning can be a challenge at the best of times, but trying to follow a miniature car zipping around a mini racetrack with a camera lens was a new experience for me.
I’d never been to a model car race track until recently and I was amazed at what a big enterprise it is! This is an activity that attracts young and not-so-young, men, women, kids, teenagers, you name it!
Here are my attempts to capture some of the smaller speed demons on the track…
Oct 08 2009
It’s been a bit of a lack lustre photographic week. I haven’t made the time or effort to go out and find something to photograph, so this will be a pretty dull post.
This week has been one of those where very mundane issues seem to have forced their way in. That will change this weekend though. I’m determined to grab my camera, jump in the car and head out somewhere - maybe the beach…
Hopefully it doesn’t rain…
I’m sure you’ve had one of those periods where creativity just doesn’t seem to be as forthcoming. That feeling change when I recently began reading Edward de Bono’s new book “Think: Before It’s Too Late”. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it to you. What a great read. He has an incredible mind and explains concepts which seem so obvious once you read about them.
He spends a chapter discussing creativity and how it’s not has devoid of logic as most of us think. It’s newly inspired me to go out and look at my environment differently and take photos with this new outlook.
So, watch this space! 
Dec 17 2007
For the amateur photographer, a good magazine for techniques, tips and great photography is, Australian Photography.
In the November 2007 issue, there was an article on “Copying Transparencies“, which I found pretty interesting, so I thought I’d share it with you.
Slides are a little before my time, but my parents and grandparents have hundreds of slides from family holidays and other occasions. It would be a shame for them to be forgotten and eventually thrown away.
Scanning them in though is a tricky, time consuming process, which requires special equipment and knowledge of how to really use this equipment.
