Photography Travel

Photo of the Week

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I stream on Saturdays (www.twitch.tv/davidtheaussie) I also upload all my images to this site and export the video to youtube (www.youtube.com/@david_theaussie). As part of that routine, I’ll pick a favourite image for the week and add it to my site. I may forget or may not do this every week.

This week’s photo is from Goa, India. I spent about a week there lounging on the beach and doing very little. That’s the point of Goa … to forget about the world. As with all things in India, street kids are very open about begging. Most speak zero English and don’t even speak, they just walk up and put their hand out hopeful of getting something. This is not an indictment of India, it’s an incredible country, but just the nature of a place with incredible poverty mixed with fat white cashed up tourists!

This young lady walked up to me at a cafe and held out her hand. I indicated that I would give her some money if she let me take her photo. She was happy to agree and leaned on the railing at the edge of the cafe and let me take this snap. I got one photo – this one!

Sometimes your best photos aren’t planned. They’re not the ones you’re looking for and they’re not photos that you get 5-10 shots or more and pick the best of the bunch. Sometimes your best photo walks right up to you, you get a shot, and it’s beautiful!

Gear / Equipment Photography Travel

National Arboretum – Day Out

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The weather was clear but the wind was chilly. It’s a good enough reason to jump in the car and find a place to explore. We settled on the National Arboretum (https://www.thenma.org.uk/) located north of where I live. It’s a huge place with hundreds of memorials to various wars, conflicts and those who’ve given their lives across a multitude of causes. While it’s a sombering place, it’s also a lovely grand park to walk around, with statues, signs, monuments and lots of hidden nooks and crannies filled with lovely memorial tokens.

I ended up with a few photos I liked, but the one above is shot of the day. I was shooting with the Hasselblad X1D and 45mm lens. I did have a polariser on for most of the day.

On an unrelated note, shooting with the Hasselblad has presented a few logistical issues that I did mention on my editing stream. I moved 50 images to my server so that I have redundant backups. The problem is that 100mb files quickly rack up the file sizes!!

Yeah, that’s a lot of memory! I’m going to quickly burn through the 4TB I have on my server shooting with this camera … that said, the images are glorious and lovely to work with!

Photography Social Media Travel

Getting my Social Media on!

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Last night was (hopefully) the start of something bigger for me. I spent 2 hours streaming my photo editing and talking about my photos and my travels. I actually had a lot of fun looking back through older photos and albums that I had taken in 2006 and 2013. I started with some nice photos from Korea in 2013 when I visited a Buddhist temple. There were some gems in there that I enjoyed rediscovering and editing. I also had a look at some photos from a trip to Cambodia in 2006 with some mates of mine (shout out to Craig). It made me realise how different my photography was back then, and the limitations that I had with the gear I was using and my re-emergence as a photographer after so many years away.

From last night’s crop of 25 photos that made the cut, this one is my favourite – Sunset over Ankor Wat, Cambodia

I’m streaming to twitch: www.twitch.tv/davidtheaussie

And I’m uploading the VODs to youtube: www.youtube.com/@david_theaussie

Last night’s video is available here: https://youtu.be/K5o3lSDAYa4

I’m going to make my instagram public once I can figure out how to schedule posts automatically. Come find me there @david_theaussie

Gear / Equipment

Cameras

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An older photo from 2010 with the cameras that I bought while I was in South Korea. Left to right is a Nikon FM2 (with 50mm f1.2 lens), Hasselblad 500CM (80mm f2.8 lens) and Leica M6 with a summilux 50mm f1.4 lens.

I still have all of these cameras … I haven’t shot them for a while, but my future plan is to either get access to a reliable developing and scanning shop, or find the space to do my own negative developing and scanning at home.

Life Photography Travel

A New Beginning

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This is the first of (hopefully) many posts … a new blog as a way to get myself back into photography, get active, get shooting and get better at my favourite craft. I’ve been messing around with various site platforms and, at least for now, I’ve settled with wordpress. I’m not entirely happy with it, but it’s going to have to do for now. I wanted to run a gallery specific software, but I realised that most don’t allow comments, or have a ‘blog’ function, which means I can’t occasionally post discussions about where I am and what I’m doing.

Who am I? I’m David … an Aussie! 🙂 But more importantly is that I’ve been a photographer for 30+ years and have traveled around the world having fun, causing mayhem and taking photos. I’ve lived in Australia, South Korea, Egypt and England. I’ve been settled in England for a while so that my family would have more stability, but my feet are itchy and I’m keen to get moving again. For now, that will be short stints checking out this merry, muddy island called Great Britain … but soon it’ll be a little further and my ‘country count’ will hopefully start ticking up again. FYI, my country count is currently 55 and I’m looking to keep steadily increasing that number.

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