Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Have you ever read the 1940s classic The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, or the sequel Love in a Cold Climate? The books are largely autobiographical so fans of the book may be interested in seeing the house where Nancy and her sisters lived in their childhood. This is Batsford House in the Cotswolds, [...]
For most of my Camera Craft II course at the Australian Centre for Photography, we studied the rules of photography – exposure, tonal range, colour theory, composition, and so on. For one of my previous assignments, I played with shadow profiles in black-and-white photography. But in the final week, our assignment was to break the [...]
We did several hikes in Death Valley, but my favourite by far was Golden Canyon. We started at the Zabriskie Point look-out with stunning views over the canyon and down towards the Badwater salt flats. There were three options – we could hang out at the lookout and then take the bus to the other end [...]
I feel absolutely shattered tonight, having just returned from a trip to Canberra with my husband and the babies. We went to help celebrate my husband’s aunt’s 70th birthday and to catch up with her and various cousins. I’m glad we went – we all had a good time, especially introducing the twins to their [...]
If you are in Sydney and have the opportunity before next Saturday then get ye to Paddington to see the Murray Fredericks’ Salt exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Fredericks camped solo for weeks on end at Lake Eyre, the vast salt [...]
Do you remember Polaroids? You’d take a photo and the machine would spit out a square print with a white border. The image would develop from blank through to sepia and then finally full colour as you watched. Polaroids still exist but they are now very specialist. The film, which was always expensive, is now [...]
Instead of working on the blog post I intended to write today, I have spent the past few hours messing around with my new copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I’m trying to get a grip on my photo file management because I have been using iPhoto and I find that everything is scattered across random [...]
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