Jeeze, yesterdays shot was quite well received. Thanks to everyone for the comments, I appreciate them.

One nice thing about the macro lens is that there’s so much to shoot out there. So even if you’re short a fantastic view or koala (for the non-aussie photographers that is), there’s usually something small around that’ll do quite nicely.

A father walks with his two kids as he checks out how high the MegaDrop is. It’s pretty high alright.

This is one of those scenes where I saw something I thought might work, snapped one shot, and walked away – without even taking at least a few other variations. Sometimes you hit it right on.

Taken on the weekend group photo-walk, in an old slate quarry area.

On my recent macro visit to the Botanic Gardens I stopped by the cactus garden to check out the manly plants of the gardens. They look that bit more evil close-up. I like it!

Double points go to testmeat and Dave for answering yesterdays question with some YouToob links. Funny stuff guys, and they were each new to me, so tip o’ the hat to ya there!

No heads in this box, but there was a candle, a crayon, a cocktail umbrella and a bottle of bubbles. The fifth item was the ribbon wrapping the box itself, which I thought was a nice touch. Now I just need to come up with some cool shots for the competition. Go watch their video, there are some damn good shots in there – so good they’re intimidating! But I’ll do my best and see what rolls out.

Good ol’ Canon. I bloody love my EOS!

My Canon Photo5 box arrived last week. But before I get down to the business of taking photos with the 5 objects they’ve sent, I thought I’d post the box itself - just as it arrived in the mail.

And for those of you who aren’t up on your movie quotes, the title comes from the closing scene in the film Se7en. Remember what was in that box?

It’s funny, I look at the small things a bit more closely these days, searching for anything that might be good for a bit of macro action. Heck, even my damn notebook (the analog kind) starts to look interesting.

In other news, the month has clicked over and that means it’s time for the next Detour monthly calendar. I always intend to be proactive and make it available half a month in advance, but anyone who reads my shit should know by now that I’m a procrastinator. So to my 7 faithful downloaders, my bad!

The macro lens continues to be bloody awesome, but in the field the seriously tight depth of field can be absolutely fuckin murder when the wind is blowing the flowers even slightly. Most of my macro shots from the weekend group wander were write-offs, so in desperation I settled on this seed pod lying on the ground. At least it didn’t move!

Went on a photo-walk with some friends today, which was a new one for me because usually I just head out on my own. We hit a national park up in the hills, so there was a lot of bush and not much else, but we were lucky enough to spot this koala perched up in the crook of a tree. He was a good height up the tree, but we were on a ridge that put us at the same level as him, so out came all the zoom lenses and away we snapped.

They really do look very cuddly, but they can be viscious little bastards – being wild animals an’ all!

I couldn’t go to The Show and not take a photo of the big wheel. The last time I took this shot was about ‘04 or ‘05, way back when Detour was just starting. Few years later, different/better gear, and the wheel still looks the same.

Who goes into haunted houses these days? They always struck me as fairly lame, but I guess there’s a market for them.

I’m tired, so I’m not gonna write much for this one. Besides, these shots from The Show are fairly self-explinatory, and; picture = (words X 1,000).

I found this ride a bit trickey to get a good shot of due to bad/low vantage point, barriers in the way, and generally I just didn’t think the movement was all that exciting for a long exposure. But I did what I could on-site and put my faith in a healthy dose of RAW processing – and sure enough Lightroom came to the rescue alright. Now I’m pretty pleased with the shot. Go me!

I remember the first time I went to The Show to take photos (a few years back now) I was a little hesitant to plonk myself right in-front of rides and have everyone gawk at me. But this time round I didn’t really give a shit, and besides, I’m not particularly interesting to the punters so they readily ignore me (good idea punks!). Although I did get asked a handful of times “Are you from The Paper?” Eh, no. To which one fugly bird replied “Awah! There goes my one chance of fame!” I was just about to explain to her that even if I HAD been from The Paper, there was no way in HELL I’d take a photo of her, but then her neanderthal boyfriend appeared by her side and I just smiled. And moved away, quickly.