On Saturday night Chris and I went to “Let’s Go”, David Campbell’s show at The Palms in the Crown Complex.
He is an all-round performer and entertainer. We saw his show last year, and this was also great.
And the bonus – The Palms restricts the use of flash photography, but with my camera and a fast lens, I don’t use flash.
Got some great photos. Check out the gallery http://www.daryllynchphotography.com/galleries/Concerts/20120317-DavidCampbell/
"Let's Go"
I’ve had some busy days and nights recently so this is another catchup blog
24th Jan – storage day
Today we moved Grant’s “stuff” from his apartment around to a storage facility he has leased. it took a while to sort out what came from the flat into storage crates and work out in what order to load it into the storage unit so maximise the amount that could be stored.
Some of Kelly’s home collection is being stored as well.
This was taken in the caged operator section of the goods lift at the storage unit.
Grant - caged at last!
25th Jan – Frankston Pier shoot
I am a member of the Frankston Photo Club, as it is simple to get to now Eastlink is open, and they had a club outing to the Frankston Pier.
Frankston Pier
26th Jan – Australia Day
One of the events on a Australia Day is a 21 gun salute at the Shrine of Remembrance. I try to photograph the cannon muzzle flash with each firing but last year they moved all spectators a long way back because of safety and noise concerns. I discussed this with them at the time, as I couldn’t get a good photo through the trees in the area.
This year, I went with my Pocketwizard remote triggers allowing me to set up the camera on a tripod close to the cannons and I triggered the photos from behind the safety tape barrier.
Camera set up for wireless remote operation
Check out my photos of Australia Day in the two galleries, one of activities and performances on the day, and the other of the fireworks under the fireworks section.
27th Jan
I left late from work after a software upgrade and setup the new functionality included in the upgrade. I hadn’t left the office all day so I still had to take a photo. I missed the sunset, but was able to capture the dusk light on clouds over the city from across Albert Park Lake.
Melbourne from Albert Park Lake
Sherlock is Kelly’s dog.
But Sherlock spends a lot of time sitting on my lap chewing on his toys. I had not taken a photo today, and decided that it was easier to just take one with the G12 held at arms length.
Sherlock
Kelly made a berry cheese cake to take to a birthday celebration lunch for a family friend.
This is her attempt, and a really good effort – it was delicious, to make this after first tasting it at Christmas time when it was made by Kendall, my niece.
Berry Cheesecake
While it is warm during the day, I’ve been cooking a barbeque for tea most nights. Tonight I had some fish.
BBQ'd fish
Over the past decade, Chris and I have been FOTZ (Friends of the Zoo) members and attended a lot of Zoo Twilight concerts during summer.
The concerts were free to zoo patrons when we first started going, so we would go every weekend or two, then a couple of years ago the Zoo managed changed the concept to reduce numbers but charge an entrance fee for the concert as well as entering the zoo. It was about $18 for FOTZ members. But they also changed the entertainment, so we didn’t go too often.
We decided to go to some this year, and invited cousin Tracey and her daughter Jess along, giving them the option of the concert over a few weekends. They chose Babba.
But the interesting part is that in 2012 the zoo has changed the costs again. Headline acts are charged at about $45+ for FOTZ members, while cover bands are $20.
Zoo Twilights tickets for Babba
I went to the St Kilda Botanic Garden at lunch time, one of my favourite places to go when I need to escape the office for a while.
To my surprise the roses were still in bloom, I get used to roses being scheduled around Melbourne Cup, but that doesn’t allow for the Valentine’s Day rush on red roses.
The rose
For some time I have considered framing some of my photos for display, but wanted to get the frames custom made while I did the matting and design. To get to the advanced matting course, I had to complete the pre-requisite frame making course.
Today is frame making course day at FrameCo. The tools we used are displayed together with the small frame that we made. I was fairly happy with my frame – I got 3 of the 4 corners perfectly joined, pity about the last corner.
Frame making course tools and my practice frame
Well, I’ve been working on the redesign of website and not posting my photos even though I have diligently taken a photo a day.
So, I’ll post them in one blog post
15th Jan – Best seats in the house
Best seats in the house, or should it be stadium
Taken at the State Netball and Hockey Centre when it is converted into NBL basketball mode for Melbourne Tigers.
16th Jan – Melbourne sunset
Melbourne sunset
With the warm weather, and clear days, Melbourne has been getting brilliant yellow sunsets. Today I photographed this silhouette of the Melbourne CBD as the sun set from Wurundjeri Spur Lookout.
17th Jan – Port Melbourne freighter
Port Melbourne Freighter
My website has not been maintained for some time, but I have decided I need to republish it with new software release, and a fresher look.
I was going to do it during the middle of 2011, but I use The Turning Gate web engines and templates, which, with minimal programming knowledge, allow me to create my pages, indexes, and galleries in Lightroom. The Turning Gate provides Lightroom plugins. I missed the CE development series and jumped straight into CE2, the most current release, issued in late December 2011, and being updated regularly just at the moment.
I have started this process, and developed the basic pages, but bringing galleries on line will be a work in progress for a few weeks.
