New Tripod

I had waited all week to be able to get out with my camera and new tripod, it was a long weekend for Easter and I had wanted to get out more than one day, but with the weather here it stopped us even putting one toe out the door. One of the days it rained, when it rains and it's cold all you feel like doing is curling up in front of the fire. with your hands wrapped around a nice warm cuppa.

I always seem to have a plethora of photos to go through when I've been out, and deciding which ones to use is a task in it's self.

As I flick through my weekly photos I see some that are quite outstanding, others I look at I think hmm what was I thinking at the time. Everyone's opinion on things is quite different and what I see as something spectacular others may say something quite different, but really does it matter, we are all different and made up of different thoughts and views. I use my photography as a bit of a stress relief from the daily chores, it gets me out of the four walls which surround me and into the wide open spaces of the beautiful country I live in.  We decided to brave the weather the grey clouds which promised rain hung high in the sky. Autumn had arrived with a blast of cold air and increasingly thick coats.

It wasn't an easy decision to decide where my other half and I would go for the day, we wanted to go somewhere exciting that made us feel good and happy and not too far from home.

 

Melbourne over looking Brighton bathing boxes

 

City of Melbourne

 

Bathing Boxes Brighton

There are many things I like to photograph, if I started to list them all, it would take me days to write them all down so I promise you I wont bore you with them...

One thing I will share with you is my love of sunsets, although you do have to wait for the right moment to get the best effect when you take the photo sometimes you might have to wait an hour other times might be quite a bit longer.

I have taken many sunset pictures over time and some are better than others, but all I have had to wait for the right moment, this time was much better, I was able to line it up precisely due to having my new fancy tripod with a spirit level in it. I sensed relief when I knew it was lined up correctly and the horizon line wasn't leaning to one side as it used to be before my purchase of the elusive tripod. I felt like a real professional photographer standing behind the camera, out of the corner of my eye I could see the glances of people looking at me as if I was something real special.

A group of Asians came along with there small cameras or phones to try and get a shot so spectacular that they could beam home via the internet to family and friends. The internet has provided us with instant mail no longer the need for processing of photographs and then writing a long winded letter and rushing to the post office the next day to get it in the next mail delivery, hoping that the receiver gets it before you return home. But that has all changed, one click of a button and it's gone to who ever and where ever you want it to go.

 

Sunset Brighton Beach

 

Through the trees