Well, while I’m in the midst of re-learning 3ds Max, editing some more images, working on some more animation, and building Bowie’s new website, I thought I’d take a time-out to tell you about the mini-meet last weekend that occurred.
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Yes, it was one of those days… you know the sort I mean.
Crisp air, picnic baskets flung open, children playing, fisherman fishing, and… well… photographers… photographing of course.
And that’s what we all headed out to Bradley’s Head for… a photographic mini-meet.
One of these days I’m going to have to redefine what a “mini-meet” actually is as the whole concept seems to be getting a little bit too silly for our group, but regardless, a bunch of us clamored out there and sat in a nice part of Bradley’s Head eating and taking pictures.
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[i]Stubbsy behind his D2x.[/i]
Really, there isn’t a lot to say actually. It’s hard to come up with a cap-up for the day similar to what I’d normally come up with for the other meets because, really, it was just a nice picnic amongst friends. New friends, old friends, friends with food, friends with cameras, friends who are friends because they are really your friends… it was a day of seeing and talking to friends and we did it on the North-side of Sydney which isn’t to suggest by saying that that it alone is a rare occasion…
…even when it is.
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At one point, after a lot of the eating and drinking of wine had occurred, Patrick, his wife Alicia (I think that’s her name), Stubbsy, Yi-P and I headed along one of the paths to see if there was anything to take pictures of along the coast.
In my opinion, there wasn’t a whole lot… unless you really happen to like pictures of seagulls doing whatever the hell it is that seagulls do while they’re standing on rocks against the coast.
I did, however, happen to get some nice shots of a couple of our members including the ones below of Yi-P looking up at me and Patrick’s wife heading back from a long trail in Infrared…
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One of the trails we headed out on was long… and really… it went nowhere.
So we started to head back to the picnic group and when we got there, Glen had arrived.
Shit, I didn’t mention that he wasn’t there, did I?
Bugger. Well he wasn’t. We had a bunch of people but not the guy who was organising it. And when there were less of them there (and after I’d taken a few pieces of watermelon from Firsty — thanks Firsty!), Glen had come, it appeared.
And when we got there, they must have been there for a fair bit because Dad it looks like had taken some pics of Glen’s wife Terri.
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[i]Glen’s wife Terri on the left and a girl I’ve never met on the right.[/i]
It was around this time that a couple who looked like they’d just gotten married came with their photographers in tow along the path and down the steps to take no-doubt wonderful “Just Married!” photos of the newlyweds along the harbour.
With fishermen fishing behind them.
Seriously, whoever or whatever photographer thought that would be an intelligent or romantic thing to do really needs to do some proper location scouting next time.
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[i]Awwww…[/i]
It didn’t take much for both Yi-P and I to get out our 300mm f4’s, attach them, and start taking enough pictures of a couple we neither knew or cared about.
It was something to shoot and there was a fairly decent looking blond in the images. Shit, I’m not one for blonde’s myself, but even I’ll take photos of a decent-looking one when there’s really nothing else to take a photo of.
Yi-P had an even better view mind you. We may have been shooting from the same place and using the same lenses, but he’d added a teleconverter to his and as a result got somewhere between 1.7 and 2 times as close as I was (I’m not sure if it was a 1.7x TC or a 2x TC… I can’t recall).
Either way, I’m not sure if they were aware they were being photographed from above, but they were still putting on a decent show for their photographers as I was able to grab this before they left…
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When they’d left, there was very little to do. We ate a bit more. Drank some soft drinks.
And then Glen pulled out his torches.
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[i]Glen practically holds the sun when he shines his new torch at me.[/i]
They’re very cool, get very warm, and are bright. Very bloody bright.
And I’ll have more on them when I can pry a freebie out of Glen’s hands for testing with the Bungee Balls, macro-photography, and some IR imagery… as well as anything else I can think of.
It was a longer day than I’d expected mind you, and a very hot one to boot.
Considering that only one day prior, I’d walked the inside of the Sydney Harbour with Sheepie, Stubbsy, Matt K & his wife Philo, I was already tired and somewhat burned. This didn’t help, but it was fun nevertheless.
I got to see some old friends like Joe & Chryssine among others and meet some new ones like Colin.
All in all, it was a pretty good day.