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A quick and short post to let you all know that I’ve snuck in a few albums in our photo gallery.

Enjoy.

Oh, and if you want to drop me a few comments on what you liked or disliked about the photos, that would be tops too.

Yesterday, Alwin, Shu and myself went walkabouts around the south side of the harbour near The Rocks, swinging around Circular Quay to the Sydney Opera House. During most of that time, Alwin and I had our tele’s slapped on and we walked around with our non-subtle lenses. As mentioned in a previous post, my tele lens is big enough to instill fear into the average compact point-and-shoot camera owners and it generally makes you stick out like a sore thumb when you start aiming the beast around.

One thing I noticed was that people have this tendency to think that people with big cameras must be pros and this was illustrated yesterday when Alwin recounted an incident where a sculptor saw his camera and thought he was a professional artist and gave him a business card and chatted about art, etc. People also come up to you and ask you to take photos for them.

By now, you might be wondering what this has anything to do with the title of this post. Well, the spiel above reminded me of an interesting conversation I had last Sunday when I was doing a bit of soloing with my newly acquired behemoth around Milsons Point.

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It’s been a while since my last post… been pretty much busy with work and a bunch of other things. Thankfully, I got some time to de-stress when Shu and I went on a photoshooting trip last Saturday night in the city. Shu got to try out his new rangefinder camera and I got a bit of practice trying to produce some panoramic scenes.

On a related note, I bought the tank lens. This 1.6kg beast is built like a tank and feels like a tank. It takes superb quality photos in low light thanks to its 3-stop IS to help against camera shake, and also because it’s pretty damn fast at f/2.8. Now, it’s time to start saving again and give my poor wallet some time to recover…

My EOS 30D with the 50/1.4 finally arrived last Friday and I got to play with it over the weekend, so expect to see some photos in our gallery soon…

I now understand why photography is an expensive hobby. I’m already eyeing a number of lenses, a flash, a decent tripod+head, some filters, a camera bag, and the list goes on. The only consolation is that the equipment generally lasts a very long time if looked after properly, and has high resale value.

Time to start budgetting for the next few years…

Edit: You can find some of the photos I took over the weekend here and here.