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22 degree moon halo

I had to look up what it was called – 22 degree moon halo

Sim gets creative

Long exposure with deliberately placed shadow.

More early photos from my 40D. We have lots of flowers in our front yard which make good subjects for experiments with camera features.

Another Rose in our front yard

Another of my early photos. Once again, depth-of-field is a problem – especially with close-ups I’m finding. I took a heap of photos over the first couple of days and then went and started studying some photography basics to learn how to more effectively deal with stuff like this. I also had to read the user manual for the camera to learn how to adjust all the settings correctly (there’s so many things this camera can do – you almost need a degree to use it!)

Anyway – we have a large family of skinks living on, around, or under our front steps. Every time we walk in or out, we see them sunning themselves on the bricks and scurrying off to hide when we come along.

This one sat still long enough for me to take a couple of photos. At this point I was still experimenting with some of the file format settings and hadn’t got to playing with depth-of-field yet.

Skink on our front step

Icebergs in Adelaide ? Dec 1998

We bought our first home in Jan 1998, and lived in it for only 9 months before I was offered a job in Sydney. Leanne’s sister had already been living here for a while, so it was a good opportunity to be closer to her – and Leanne had no trouble getting work either.

This photo was taken just before Leanne moved over to Sydney (I had already been over for several months after starting work in October). Looking across the front yard towards some of the lovely standard Iceberg Roses that the previous owners had planted.