Weekend Wanderings: Melbourne’s White Night
This is a fairly new thing for Melbourne, but every year in February we have White Night. The city centre is closed to traffic, all of it, even trams, for the whole night and the […]
Weekend Wanderings: Reposting Yackandandah
Things have been changing around here. I haven’t been able to get out as much as I would like to take photos, and when I do what I get is very different. I might need […]
Weekend Wanderings: Churchill Island at Phillip Island
This last week I spent a couple of days down on Phillip Island. An old friend of mine, Teresa, has a house down there and I went to spend a couple of days with her. […]
Weekend Wanderings: Reposting a visit to St Paul’s Beach
I hope you don’t mind, but I am doing a repost of a blog I did on my old blog. It is hard to think straight right now. A horrible tragic thing happened in […]
Weekend Wanderings: Phillip Island Wildlife Park
This past week a friend and I traveled to Phillip Island to visit a place called the Phillip Island Wildlife Park. I hadn’t heard of it before and, if I’m honest, I wasn’t really that […]
Weekend Wanderings: Healesville Sanctuary
With my friend Marsha here from the US, I had to take her to Healesville Sanctuary. It is part of Melbourne Zoo and where you go to see everything Australian. All the indigenous animals, birds […]
Weekend Wanderings: Silo Art Trail
Welcome to another Weekend Wanderings, today we are going to look more closely at the Silo Art Trail. In the past I have shown you photos of the silos that they are painting up in […]
Weekend Wanderings: Sunset along the river
A couple of days ago I was loaned the new Nikon camera, the D500, from Nikon Australia. It is Nikons new flagship DX camera and last night I took it into the city for a […]
Weekend Wanderings: Parliament House Tours – Revisit
Looking back an older Weekend Wanderings post. It is one that I did just after doing a tour Parliament House. I hope you are okay with that, I haven’t been out much and when I […]
Weekend Wanderings: Bridges of Melbourne
Often when people contact me for One on Ones Photography Lessons the area they want to photograph is along the river with the bridges. The Yarra River, that goes through the city, has many bridges […]
Weekend Wanderings: Alowyn Gardens in Yarra Glen
This last week has seen me out and about a bit, and this morning was no different. I went to Alowyn Gardens in Yarra Glen, really for my weekend wanderings. It is a display garden and […]
Weekend Wanderings: State Library of Victoria
Last weekend I got to experiment with the fisheye at the State Library of Victoria. When I was first loaned the Samyang 12mm fisheye lens I knew that I wanted to try it out at […]
Weekend Wanderings: Docklands through a fisheye
The other night I went into the city to take some photos of the Bolte Bridge. I had wanted to do the sunset there. I met my friend Chris and we made our way to […]
Weekend Wanderings: An afternoon in Trentham
Recently I had a day out at Trentham. It is a small town, but very nice and very quiet, almost laid back. It is close to another town Daylesford, which has a reputation for spas […]
Weekend Wanderings: Cairn Curran Reservoir
Cairn Curran is a place I have visited quite a few times, but this last time was a little different. First let’s take a look at the first time I went there. This is from […]
Weekend Wandering: Another day at the Royal Melbourne Show
One of the big plans for the Royal Melbourne Show was to photograph the fireworks in the evening. We needed to go back on a night where rain wasn’t expected. Thursday was that night. In […]
Weekend Wandering: The Royal Melbourne Show
It happens every year at this time, and for a long time there was even a public holiday so people could go. We lost that holiday years ago. We were told we had too many […]
Weekend Wanderings: Looking Back at New York
Today reminds me that it has been twelve months to the day, pretty much that I met some amazing people in New York and had an incredible day looking around some of the sites. I […]
Weekend Wanderings: Butterfuly House with the Velvet 56
While I have the Lensbaby Velvet 56 it is my intention to use it as much as possible to see what I can get with it. I do hope you won’t get sick of the […]
Weekend Wanderings: Flora at Healesville Sanctuary
It has to be said that one of the main reasons I wanted to go to Healesville Sanctuary was to use the Lensbaby Velvet 56 on the flora that I knew would be there. The […]