Travelling Lens

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A Long Weekend in Melbourne

Lune, Melbourne

A few weeks ago, I took a Friday off to have a long weekend in Melbourne. It was an awesome weekend of eating and catching up with old friends. Food photography was actually one of the genres I got into when I first picked up a DSLR many many years ago. Melbourne is well known for it’s food and drink culture. So I was not short on opportunities to take photographs of food! In this blog post, I’m sharing some of my favourite photos from my weekend in Melbourne. All my photos were taking with the nimble Fujifilm X-T10 and the 27mm f2.8 pancake lens.

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On the road in Iceland

These are some one my “on the road” photos around Iceland after leaving Akureyrarkirja. The Icelandic landscape is truly unique. The golden/green rolling mountains, long open roads and ever changing skyscape makes for some pretty awesome on the road shots. I’m glad we decided to go for a Toyota Landcruiser to take us around the island. It served us well through very rocky roads and questionable weather conditions!

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The Church of Akureyri, Iceland

Akureyrarkirkja

Half way through our 14 day road trip around Iceland, we made our way to Akureyri, the second largest urban area in the north of Iceland. Akureyri  is a harbour-side city and is an important port and fishing centre in Iceland. The Church of Akureyri or Akureyrarkirkja is one of the famous icons in the city. The prominent Lutheran church is located at the centre of the city, towering above the city on a hill. Unfortunately we didn’t get to go into the church to check out the interior. It was the perfect sunny autumn morning to walk around the city before heading to our next stop.

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HDR of Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall, Iceland

Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall, Iceland

As I mentioned on the last blog post, we pretty much had Aldeyjarfoss all to ourselves. Two of us photographers stuck to photographing from the top of the falls while the other two daredevils climbed down to the bottom of the falls. I experimented with taking a few different exposures and merging them in Aurora HDR. The colours of the photos came out pretty well. All the photos posted in this post were processed in Aurora HDR, I had a lot of fun experimenting with it.

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Godafoss and Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall, Iceland

Aldeyjarfoss waterfall in Iceland was one of my favourite waterfalls we visited. It was a bit out of the way, at the edge of the Icelandic highlands. It also required us to cross a F road to get there. F roads generally considered more challenging to drive on and require a 4×4 rental car which thankfully we had. This meant we almost had the whole place to ourselves. The only other people there were a small group of photographers on a photo tour. We knew we were in good company if photo tours take photographers there! 

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