March 22nd, 2009
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Week 12 takes us to the National Botanic Garden:
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Today I was mainly looking at plants using settings with really small depths of field.
Sturt’s Desert Pea:

A banksia:

A daisy:

A white flower (OK, botany isn’t my strong suit):

And a tree with stripping bark:

That’s all for this week. The rest of the full session can be found at Flickr.
March 19th, 2009
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The second catch up for this week. This time I went to Black Mountain in the middle of Canberra.
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Telstra tower, at the the top of Black Mountain:

The view over the lake towards the Parliamentary Triangle:

A path through the bush at the top of the mountain:

A thistle:

And to finish, a log:

The full set is on Flickr as always. That’s me up to date with photos again, so expect to see another set this Sunday.
March 17th, 2009
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I’m a couple of weeks behind, so expect to see three lots of photos this week.
Today I went out to Namadgi National Park, south of Canberra, specifically the Corin Dam region.
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The first photo was taken pointing south towards (I think) Gibraltar Peak:

From here I moved on to Gibraltar Falls:
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The falls themselves:

And a skink who was on the rocks here:

And the view from the top of the falls:

Finally, I drove on to Corin Dam, one of the water catchments for the ACT.
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The view to the South from the lookout:

As always, the full set can be found on Flickr. More coming this Thursday.
March 2nd, 2009
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Week 9 starts with a quick shot of a swimming Penguin from Sydney Aquarium:

For the rest, I went to Pine Island near Tuggeranong:
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A shot of someone swinging at the playground:

Helen by the river:

Finally, a few High Dynamic Range photographs, edited using FDRTools. Basically this combines several photographs into one, to give more color and light range.
The clouds:

And Helen by the river:

The full set is on Flickr.