Well, bliss means many things to many people. I thought,’ what does the word mean to me?’ After going through many options, some significant and others totally meaningless, I concluded that to me, as a young old bloke, ‘Bliss’ is being alive and out and about on the bike, camera readily accessible, just in case.

Just recently, I had gone to see a friend at her workplace and parked my bike between the trees in the shade near her office. As I got off the bike I glimpsed my image in the rear view mirror and immediately thought, ‘selfie’. Off came the helmet, grabbed the camera from the saddle bag and hopped back in the saddle. 

My friend had recognised the exhaust note and popped out of her office,  camera in hand and made the following image.

As for my selfie, I never got to take it. That’s what happens when you are in a state of bliss.

G’day fellow students of photo101. Today’s topic couldn’t have suited me better.

Reason? Just a short stroll from home is a weir damming the Wollondilly River. Making the spot all the better is that on the banks of the river is located the town’s original water pump house, now a steam museum. Both the weir and the pump house are clearly visible from the road bridge that crosses the river. The pump house is the brick building with the large smoke stack and green roof you can see in the background.

The spot really suits Day 3’s requirements because it suits both landscape and portrait photography and can dramatically illustrate the difference between the two when photographing  the same scene using the identical point of focus, aperture, focal length of the lens and of course point of view.

Here is image No1 in landscape mode :

This was shot at 1/1250th second at f16, ISO 200 and using a zoom lens set at 70mm.

Here is image No2 in portrait mode

This too was shot at 1/125th second at f16, ISO 200 using the same zoom lens set at 70mm.

In portrait mode, you can see that both the foreground and background are larger than in landscape mode but the image does not capture as much of the overall scene as does landscape.

Neither image has been cropped. Both taken about 4.30pm this afternoon and within 15-20 seconds of each other.

Hope you enjoy looking tag them as much I did did taking them.

I know I said in a previous post that I wouldn’t waffle on but I just can’t help it.

Hoo roo till No 4 pops up.

Day 2 has come and gone, the assignment is completed.

Finding a busy street scene in our country town on a weekday afternoon is no easy task. We are also graffiti free, so a colourful lane was out of the question.

So, i sat at an intersection on our main street, waited for the traffic lights to halt through traffic and pedestrians. The lights turned to green, people began to walk across the intersection and I made

the following image.Technical details, Aperture priority, 1/320 seconds @ f11, 24mm lense, ISO 200.

G’day

after reading a lot of other posts, I’ve convinced myself that I’m waffling on too much.

Henceforth my blogging will be concise, to the point and most importantly, short.

Thanks to reading Sky Blue Daze in Commons, I now know how to create an image of the size I require.

As a consequence, I was able to update my blog and now Photography 101, assignment No1 has grown to the right size. Ripper.

Well, here we go. Thought about the house we live in, looks OK in the viewfinder in brighter daylight. Then thought what would it look like just after sunset. We have daylight saving here so I thought just after 8pm, Eastern Daylight Saving Time might be ok.

I put the camera on the tripod, set aperture priority with the largest aperture on the lens, f4 and selected ISO 200 with auto focus and matrix metering.

I had a look at the back of the house and there wasn’t much light under the verandah roof and the yard itself looked jet black with little or no detail.

So, around the front where the street lights show a soft light and the trees cast a little shadow.

With some of the interior lights turned on here was some detail in the house and I could see vaguely some detail inside the windows.

My viewpoint was roughly mid centre ands far enough away from the house so that I could get the whole front into the frame.

The resulting exposure was 10 seconds at f4 with the lens set at 16mm.

Now all I have to do is work out how to get the image into my blog.

Well, that’s it for No 1.

Hope you like it.