The blog entry for Japan Day 2 has been done for a while, but I've finally labelled the photos on conspiracy (link at bottom of entry).
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Altho really most of them were all on the one day..
First up, we have the Immigration Red Nose..
Before going to see Harry Potter (since it was a 9:30 movie and we weren't going to spend all that time having dinner), we dropped into the Wig and Pen to try some of their winter beers. On the left is the Russian Imperial Stout, and on the right the Spies'd
Next it was off to Shogun Japanese restaurant for dinner. It was pretty good!
Then we went for a wander around Civic
And back to the Canberra Centre
Stu contemplating the gym..? :)
Captured some ghosts outside the Dendy
This kid had a broomstick.. although perhaps not your traditional broomstick!
This morning Mt Ainslie was missing for a good chunk of the morning..
And finally the fondue candle and Hedwig
If anyone's interested I've put some more photos up on conspiracy - Canberra Airport Open Day 2008, Booze Train to Tarago 2008, and Canberra Festival Balloon Fiesta 2009.
The Airport Open Day last year was totally awesome. And yet for some reason I never blogged about it?? Go figure. The best part was getting up close and personal with some of the jets that I've flown on. My favourite of course being the 767. They told people not to touch, but I couldn't resist. I was walking under its belly and it was *just there* so I had to give it a pat :)
The Booze Train to Tarago (actually the "Dance Train") was definitely an experience. Me little brother begged us to go to make up numbers, so we went along. Fortunately Y was there as well. Unfortunately for her she had a sprained ankle at the time, but it did mean she sat with us the whole night ;) I have to say though, I've never seen so many Canberra bogans in one place. Most of them were pissed before they got on the train. They drank what they could all the way out to Tarago where they all got off to go down to the local hall with their entire eskies full of booze. We stayed behind and enjoyed the atmosphere of the train with the staff who were all having their dinner. Then the power went out and my brother scrambled off to fix it. Then all the bogans came back. Some of them continued to dance in the dance car, and others passed out in their seats. If we could get cost price again and good company again I'd probably go again.
Tonight Windy and I went on a mission to photograph Black Mountain Tower in different colours. We mostly succeeded. Windy was more successful than me tho... oh well....
I took some photos of stars too, here's the Southern Cross (on its side :) )
And then we went up Mt Ainslie
I took some photos of stars too, here's the Southern Cross (on its side :) )
And then we went up Mt Ainslie
We were going to get up close to the tower next, but of course we didn't realise that the lights all turn off at 10pm - doh! So just came home.
This arvo I had another play with the macro lenses, this time being a little more systematic and writing everything down as I went.
The next four are the far extreme - the macro lens, the 4+, the 2+ and the 1+, and zoomed to about 100mm equivalent. The depth of field here is about as shallow as you can get, and the camera had to be within a certain distance range or it just wouldn't focus at all. Again, just resized for comparison.
And here's a cropped version of a couple of them, actual pixel size...
Because of the distortion with all the additional lenses attached, I think I'd just use the "macro" and "4+" ones in combination if I was going to do general macro photography. You don't get a whole lot extra by adding the other two, and it does weigh the camera down somewhat.
Took fourteen rounds of photos of four objects using some of the different combinations of macro lenses and zoom settings on my camera. I've just included the extremes here.
The first round shown here is about the best my camera can do with macro photos by itself. Photos are simply resized to show how much of the frame they fill. The zoom is about "50mm" (equivalent).
The next four are the far extreme - the macro lens, the 4+, the 2+ and the 1+, and zoomed to about 100mm equivalent. The depth of field here is about as shallow as you can get, and the camera had to be within a certain distance range or it just wouldn't focus at all. Again, just resized for comparison.
And here's a cropped version of a couple of them, actual pixel size...
Because of the distortion with all the additional lenses attached, I think I'd just use the "macro" and "4+" ones in combination if I was going to do general macro photography. You don't get a whole lot extra by adding the other two, and it does weigh the camera down somewhat.
Fun fun :)
It took nine minutes to republish the entire site. So all old entries should be commentable now. I didn't change the side bar much, just updated it to match the front page.
Now I can go back to thinking about Japan photos...
So had Mishi over for dinner tonight and to see Japan photos. We put them on a memory stick and played them through Stu's dvd player to the TV. Which worked fine except that I wasn't able to skip through the more "boring" ones. So the whole night was very long. So I guess some more culling is in order.. but I've *tried* over and over again. *sigh*
On a lighter note, my beef stew was well received. I haven't cooked one since I moved to Canberra, and it was oh so delicious. If I'd had the time I'd have documented the process.. maybe next time!
Have got pretty much what will be my final cut of "highlight" photos, although I may still add a few more in. Almost fifteen hundred photos - eep! Having a slide night on Saturday, which is always a good way to force you to do these things :) Still need to pull out food, hotel, Engrish and man hole cover photos for separate "albums".
Said goodbye to Stu's grandma today.
Were nearly late because Stu put the wrong street (same name) into the GPS and we ended up 7km away. But made it just in time. The service was fairly simple but nice. Little Squishy even spontaneously said goodbye as the hearse was about to be driven away, was very sweet.
Afterwards went back to her flat with Annie and Potty and hung out for a few hours while Little Squishy had a sleep. Then headed over to Aunty Jan's for a few drinks and then some delicious dinner with just about all the family, was pretty cool.
So all in all quite a nice family day.
Came back to J&G's and played Wii with the kids and then showed them some of our Japan photos. They thought there were too many blossom photos.. oops.. :)
Were nearly late because Stu put the wrong street (same name) into the GPS and we ended up 7km away. But made it just in time. The service was fairly simple but nice. Little Squishy even spontaneously said goodbye as the hearse was about to be driven away, was very sweet.
Afterwards went back to her flat with Annie and Potty and hung out for a few hours while Little Squishy had a sleep. Then headed over to Aunty Jan's for a few drinks and then some delicious dinner with just about all the family, was pretty cool.
So all in all quite a nice family day.
Came back to J&G's and played Wii with the kids and then showed them some of our Japan photos. They thought there were too many blossom photos.. oops.. :)
Had a fairly productive day today. For a while I was setting a timer and doing 15 minutes of computer stuff then 15 minutes of non computer stuff. Non computer stuff was mostly tidying tho heh.
Spent a good chunk of my afternoon locating my flight photos on Google Earth. Got freaked out when I saw the ocean was *moving* !!
Then Stu went and got Nat and also James came over and I did a lamb roast - yumm! And so doing christened our new dining table :) Then we wiied and generally had quite a lot of fun.
This moonrise was actually yesterday
It's good to have the sweetie back home. Altho I did enjoy being able to make the bed in one second flat - instead of the usual several minutes it takes me to straighten out the bedding that Stu puts all over the place when he sleeps ;)