This year I was fortunate enough to head into AVCON, the Anime and Video game Convention. AVCON is held each year in Adelaide and is run by a fabulous and dedicated group of individuals who just absolutely love what they do, the Cosplay, the art, the mingling. I only spent a short time at AVCON this year, but I was lucky enough to get to know these few, and take time out to get some shots for...
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In less than a week I will be back in Japan. It has been a couple of months since Kurt and I decided to head off to Japan together, and during that time, I have been (in my spare time), organising the trip. Well, I now have most of the critical parts of the trip booked and organised. Hotels: Tokyo – Hotel Villa Fontaine – Standard Twin Room for 7 nights. Breakfast included. Total cost...
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In exactly eight weeks from today, I will placing my feet on the foreign soil of Japan. I say foreign, but only in the sense that it is another country. I feel however, that I am heading back to a place which is very much my home. Japan was my home during 2007, and while it was only one short year, I become very comfortable in the land of the rising sun and would happily make it my home if the...
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Details: A children's festival in the small town of Izushi-Cho, Japan. Nikon D70s with Nikkor 50mm | 50mm, 1/500 @ F5.6, ISO 200 David DuChemin stats in his nice little pdf book “10″: There is a tendency when you frist start out to shoot everything in sight. Do it. Shoot it all. There are shots we all need to take to get out of the way; they help us learn the basics and go towards the...
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Miyajima Torii - Nikon D70s with Nikkor 18-200mm | 44mm, 1/750 @ F16, ISO 200I have been using Aperture 2 since its release and have been extremely pleased with its power and speed at cataloging and adjusting my images. When Lightroom 3 Beta came along I heard a lot of hype, mostly from those with connections with Adobe, and thought I would give it a try. Now, as I have said in earlier posts, it...
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