Jun 22, 2008 9:22 am0
Melbourne, Montage
This is an unintentional double exposure on my Flexaret TLR, which produced a rather spiffy (in my opinion) montage of the Melbourne CBD.
Scanned from a Velvia 50 exposure and digitally processed.
Feb 9, 2008 11:04 pm0
Trip to Melbourne
In a nutshell:
- Melbourne’s traffic is crazy (hook turns aplenty), but somehow seems more pedestrian friendly than Brisbane. Much larger footpaths in the CBD.
- There are a hell of a lot of little alleys with cafes, and many alleys with decidedly more dodgy things.
- The Great Ocean Road is spectacular, Torquay is a dusty glary overpriced mediocre town, Port Campbell is much nicer … amazing picturesque sheltered bay, nice cafes.
- Warrnambool is a very well maintained, beautiful town with many beautiful buildings. If I had more time I would have taken some photos there.
- Bojangles Pizza in Warrnambool is highly recommended. Far from being a stock standard pizza takeaway, it is a friendly dine-in and takeaway establishment providing quality service, decent prices and spectacular fare.
- There are many chocolate shops in Melbourne
- Max Brenner is Satan incarnate.
- If you ever have the opportunity to see and Iron Maiden show once in your life, take it. F-cking Awesome. Twenty foot flames, pyrotechnics, and an 8 Foot Eddie walking around the stage, anyone? Not to mention Bruce Dickinson’s downright amazing vocals and stage presence, and a nearly-thirty-year back catalogue of classics. Brilliant.
- Go to Imax and see a 3D movie. Doesn’t matter which one, just give it a shot. Also, the museum is great - okapis and live funnelwebs!
- Next time I’m going for longer
Here’s a photo from the great ocean road - more to come later.
Jan 29, 2008 8:17 am0
Update and some Photographs
It’s been a while since I last updated. A couple of things have happened in the interim period, nothing too outlandish though.
I bought an eeepc, which is an ultra-portable laptop, which I intend to set up as a tethered shooting computer with my 400D. At the moment though it’s more of a web surfing / portable entertainment device. I’ve hooked up a Lacie portable hard disk which expands its capabilities somewhat. I also installed Age of Mythology on it yesterday and it seems to run pretty nicely.
I’m pretty excited about going to see Iron Maiden next week, however I have to say that I am actually more excited about going to Melbourne for a week and hopefully going on a road trip down the Great Ocean Road. I’m going to take the Flexaret TLR and the Horizon 202 with me so I’ll be stocking up on film before I go. I’m also (obviously) taking the 400D with me. Should be pretty sweet.
I finally had some medium format film developed from the Flexaret on the weekend - here are the results (images link to flickr):
And a couple from the Horizon 202:
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