My photography

My photography has been neglected of late, mainly because I’m not getting out of the house as much as I used to and I’d like a new camera. Consequently, there has been hardly any mention of it here on my blog.

So I thought I’d remedy that by doing a short post on some of my attempts at taking a decent picture.

I’m an amateur, by far. I have a wonderful digital camera, well, it was wonderful in 2002 when I spent a huge pile of money on it. Wow, thinking of the $1500 I spent then and comparing to what I could get for that now…yowser.

Anyways, my meagre equipment is a Nikon Coolpix 4500 (4MP, 4x zoom). Other than a UV filter added to the lens, I have no other equipment with it (though I would love a zoom lens). Not that I would really know what to do with such equipment anyway, because I’m very much a point and shoot, love my auto mode, dibble with the macro mode kind of piccimaker. I wouldn’t know an F-stop if I was hit over the head with it. I know what an aperture is, but I’m not too sure exactly what to do with it, and my lens is that thing I tend to get fingerprints on if I’m not careful.

But I do know one thing and I rely on it like crazy. I can compose a piccy. So with that and the digital capability to take umpteen zillion shots, I can often come up with something that looks okay.

My favourite topics include bugs, flowers, and natural landscapes. I’ve been known to stand on a beach for three hours waiting for the sun to set because I knew it was going to be a brilliant sunset (and it was a brilliant one, the wait was very much worth it). I’ve perched on the edge of a sea cliff in the rain to take a picture of a beetle. I’ve stood in the rain a lot, come to think of it. Seems to be a good time for a good shot.

So here are some examples of my dabblings.

Eagle Bay, Western Australia

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Rejuvenating forest, six months post-bushfire, Port Lincoln National Park, South Australia

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Man running, Piccaninnie Ponds Beach, South Australia-o

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Sun orchids, Mount Crawford Forest, South Australia

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Green Bay, Western Australia

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Tree, Eastern Victoria, Australia

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Banksia hookerana, flower detail, my front yard, Adelaide, South Australia

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Sunset, Piccaninnie Ponds Beach, South Australia

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Eremophila buds, my front yard, Adelaide, South Australia

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Brighton Jetty, Brighton Beach, South Australia

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There you go, a good array of the types of piccies I like to take. Hopefully I will be able to get out a bit more in the next couple of years and take some more.

Nutty
(whose old faithful camera has been taking baby piccies more than anything else for the last three years)