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G'day from somewhere in Oz

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Colin McKie

New member
Today's location is Port Hedland, Western Australia.

My wife, Linda, and I are Grey Nomads - semi retired, semi pro photographers, living in a bus on the road. We ditched the rat race 16 months ago, and shoot stock photos along the way to pay for diesel.

Our personal website is

http://www.travelling-light.net

and stock portals at

http://www.scotstock.net - Alamy

http://www.lcstockphoto.com - Acclaim

We've been shooting industrial and shipping pics here for a few days, then next week we're going bush again to do some scenics. Hard life? My bl**dy oath, mate!

Colin
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hi Colin,

Welcome from sunnny Southern California! (and when it rains, it pours!)

You have a fascinating life in your escape space ship!

I love the pinhole camera shots. They draw in the eye to a new world. I must say I am fascinated and would love to hear more. I think they are special and impressive.

Were they taken in England and are you still doing that tpye of photography now? No, the LensBaby just do it for me get to that feeling of those pinhole pictures!

I like your stock pictures too.

You must have good generator for all the computer work. Do you have a mini dark room?

Asher
 
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Colin McKie

New member
Hi Asher,

Thanks for the welcome! The pinhole work is partly UK and partly Australia, and is mainly shot with a Pinhole Sieve fitted to an old Ikoflex TLR, using Delta 3200 to get handholdable shutter speed. The camera needs some attention, and we haven't done much lately. We have another pinhole sieve in a Pentax bodycap, but it just doesn't give the same look, on film or digital.

The Lensbaby has its own approach to 'impressionism' and we particularly like how it works in Oz's harsh sunlight, softening things nicely.

As for working on the road, we don't have a generator, just a lot of solar panels plus engine charging and a huge house battery and inverter. That Aussie sunshine is useful for something! Darkroom work is confined to B/W film processing at the sink, then Minolta Scan Multi Pro to get it into the computer. Everything else is digital with Canon and Pentax kit.

Colin (and Linda)
 
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