Another year done and alas not one as full of photography as I would have liked. However Jim Goldstein is once again running his “Your Best Photos” blog project and I do have a few I’m happy with.
The one above is a Golden Stag Beetle that flew onto our balcony just a few days before the end of the year. Was very co-operative with the camera although the iridescence turned out to be trickier to capture than I thought it would be.
New year, new lens. In 2014 I decided to get myself a circular fisheye lens as I’ve always wanted one. The Sigma 8mm fisheye lens was reasonably cheap and has been a steep learning curve. This shot was an early one of a domed walkway area in the Block Arcade, Melbourne.
The next three shots were from a failed attempt at a photo365 in 2014. I just didn’t have it in me to do it and will be looking for some other challenge this year which I can hopefully work around my life which is some flux at present.
Fun little shot with some LEGO bits and pieces that turned out better than I expected.
A yarn bombed set of iron rods I found in one the many alley ways in the Melbourne CBD.
A macro shot of a masquerade mask with narrow depth of field that bokeh’d rather nicely.
Towards the end of the year I was fortunate enough to get enough time and spare cash together to head to Queenstown, New Zealand for Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk which was a fair bit of fun. The first of my two favourite from that trip was surprisingly not from my DSLR but rather my phone:
And the other was of a plant making its way through the pebble beach on the lakes edge.
A few other shots from the year. First up a wasp resting on a leaf.
A shot using a ring flash from my last photowalk of the year. I’m very pleased with how the detail of the insect came out.
And finally a shot from a lucky little walk I took on a whim where I happened to arrive in the gardens with frost still on the ground allowing for a really fun series of shots.
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