Canberra Roadtrip

I've always liked the idea of going for a road trip, and doing one with friends is even better. It's been a long while since I went on a proper road trip (packaged tours don't count), so I was pretty fired up a day or two before we even got to the Photoclub's Canberra / Floriade road trip on 02 - 03 October.

Overall, the trip was a good one, even though the weather was far from favourable. I did not get as many great photos as I had hoped, but it still felt great to be on a trip with friends. Special thanks to Benny for being such a good driver, and to Clarissa, Alfred, Andrew, Nick, and whoever else who helped planned the trip!

Can't wait for the next one!

(P.S. Hopefully, I'll have practiced enough driving by then :D)

Floriade Vistas – A trip down to Canberra

From 11 - 13 September, I went on a trip with a groups of UNSW Photoclub members to Canberra for the Floriade Festival (Among other things).

There were really quite a lot of flowers to be seen and photographed (though not as much as I had imagined).

The three days was pretty fun, and apart from the Floriade, we visited a twilight market, a museum, and Australia's new Parliament House, which was rather impressive looking, I'd have to say.

Day View:

Night View:

Before we left Canberra on the third day, we also visited the Telstra tower, which gave us panoramic views of the city and its surrounds (Click the thumbnails for large images).

Flowers in the West

On 05 SEP 09, I went for a Tri-alliance photoclub outing (UNSW, UTS, USYD) to a park in Concord West.

The outing started out on a funny note, as we missed the train that we were supposed to get on at Central station as we were waiting for one guy, not knowing that he was waiting at a different part of the station, and had to wait for the next train, which was half an hour later...

At Concord West, we spent quite some time walking through the suburb to get to the park, whic hI found to be a rather random place. But happily, I did get some nice photos of flowers, even as we rapidly lost sunlight (The longer days of summer had yet to arrive)...

While at the park, we also saw some curious (and probably hungry) Cockatoos wandering around...