Ye Olde Melbourne Town

I know it has been over a week since I returned from Melbourne, but I have been incredibly busy with uni work...

Anyways, into the trip!

My dad and myself made our way to Brisbane Domestic Airport on a rather pleasant day for this time of year. In fact, the weather was almost identical to what it was like last time I flew to Melbourne, right down to the type of clouds in the sky. We arrived at the airport at a rather good time, no line for check in and we only had 15 minutes to wait before boarding by the time we got through security (they thought my camera bag x-ray looked interesting and then wanted to swab my and it for explosives).

So onto the plane we got, Jetstar had moved us from my original requested seats to second row by the window. Was a bit miffed about this but what can you do? We taxied out to the runway, the pilot gunned the engines and we took off with me snapping out the window the whole time. We flew out towards the city this time, so I got a nice view over the river to the west.

Two hours later, we landed at Avalon airport, collected our bags and made our way towards the CBD. After a short cab ride from Southern Cross Station to our hotel and we had somewhat settled in. What do two photographers do when they go on holidays? Meet up with other photographers and take photos of course. We met up with some people from POTN and had a bit of a night shoot. So, I'll give the words a rest and just show some photos...

Friday saw myself wandering around town by myself for a bit before meeting back up with dad. We both headed towards Docklands on the free tourist tram (free is always good), with a stop at the Queen Victoria Markets on the way. It was incredibly windy this day and we had to be careful that we weren't blown into Port Phillip Bay. As before, I will let the photos do the talking for Friday heh.

And so came Saturday. Time to get ready to head back home. It was freezing and wet so no photography was done by me. I just "enjoyed" the weather... We ended up heading back to Avalon a tad earlier only to be told that because of storms in Brisbane, our flight home would be delayed by an hour (meaning we didn't land until about 12:15am Sunday morning).

There are however, more photos from my trip than this. Check them out here.

I'm Leaving On a Jet Plane

This time next week, I will be wandering around Melbourne with my camera, tripod, my dad and couple of friends. Kinda forgot I was going down until yesterday when I was at uni and realised, crap I'm going to be in Melbourne in just over a week...

Getting down and back thanks to some ticket I won from Jetstar late last year so hey, free flights, awesome right?

I was down there for a few days towards the end of last year but I didn't get to see everything I had wanted to. Still came back with some half decent photos but this time I'm hoping to return with a few more keepers. Especially since this time, I'm taking my tripod, a new camera and a new lens hehe.

But yeah, don't know how I forgot to talk about it in the last entry, but last Saturday I scored a new camera. A Canon 40D. Certainly a tad of an upgrade from the 20D I had before. Already had a battery grip so pretty much everything I owned already stays. And tomorrow, I'm getting a Sigma 30mm f1.4 just in time for the Melbourne trip. So tomorrow, expect some first impression shots.

Sorry about the lack of photos this time. Really haven't taken anything since Tuesday. Tomorrow though, shall be different....