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Had so many good opportunities for photos tonight on the way to and from the weekly cruise to the Central Coast, but shooting photos while driving isn't the best idea, unfortunately, especially at freeway speeds. :(

Still, I managed to get a few good shots today in the front yard at home, so I'll post those up by tonight or, at the latest, the end of the weekend.

Had so many good opportunities for photos tonight on the way to and from the weekly cruise to the Central Coast, but shooting photos while driving isn't the best idea, unfortunately, especially at freeway speeds. :(

haha, i know what you mean. i regret not stopping a few times too when ive seen awesome stuff, specially this one shot at dusk that would have been epic as I've never seen a similar scene since. makes me want to just go driving in the country a lot more but i just cant afford to. ah well.

anyway, a couple more from me...

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and ive been trying to take more closeups of graff. really hard to work out how to frame it properly tho, I guess i'll just keep practicing every time im near awesome graff that is heaps technical.

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added some more graff panoramas to my website ( http://photos.jay019.com/graffiti/panoramas.php )

makes me wish i had a DSLR and a real T&S lens tho, photoshop takes ages with all the geometric distortion correcting it has to do. doesnt help that P&S cameras pincusion images badly. ah well, makes it more of a challenge, lol.

Sweet pics Pezhead, cant wait to get back to NZ are those geysers/hot springs in Rotorua?

Yeah was at Te Puia absolutely incredible to witness the geyser and bubbling mud. Also saw my first Kiwi bird there in the night house - they are a lot bigger than I imagined.

some great shots pez!

Those disney shots are awesome too. the snowmen one looks like it could be a postcard or something. I don't think you could take a better picture of that. everything's perfect.

Jay look up a program called Autopano Giga 2

Jay look up a program called Autopano Giga 2

looked it up, saw the price and decided to stick with photomerge in photoshop, lol.

would probably work better if i manually de-pincusion all shots first, but meh, its only graff shots and im not making money from them.

Some sweet pics in here!

Owen - Lolz0rz even more then. Poor Zennon.

Hey Eric, it looks like you have seen the light and realized photography is better than videography?!?!

As always rad shots Jay.

Sidd - Your missus's head looks tiny in that shadow shot! Was it shot really wide?

Farris - That first shot would be sick if you did a composite! Exposed for the sky and then exposed for the tree thingo. Your making me want to go to disneyland :(

jeffpasko - Just click on the image you want to share here, then click "Share this" and then go to the "HTML Code/BBcode" part and make sure you select a size (low/medium/high) and then out of the below code, copy the text in bold.

<a href=" old mill title="old mill by jeffpasko photography, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5165/5315879190_5c8e259a68.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="old mill" /></a>

When you make a post, there is an image icon next to the hyperlink button, click on that, and insert the link above :)

Edited by FST513

Gday gang. I am pretty new around here but as I am a keen photographer, I thought I would share some of my most recent pics.

Sent a few PM's back and forth to MaTBoy in December 10, and he spured me on to post up what I got :thumbsup:

Just come back for a trip out to white cliffs and back. I am mad keen on landscape shot for some reason..,. Here is some of my best.

Cobar Railway Station

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Tilpa pub.

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Mine at Cobar.

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Plenty more where that came from.

Let me know what you all think. Good and bad comments are allowed!

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