Just had a few days break on the farm at Narrawilly so feeling refreshed and freshly inspired.
I fell behind with blogging when my camera broke (and my coffee machine and my tooth). I still had the old 10D backup and still took photos but the 'magic' was missing.
It didn't take long to get the camera serviced (and coffee machine parts) but I only got my main lens back yesterday. That's over a month for the lens repair (dentist is worse, thats in 3 weeks).
It's been hard shooting without my main lens, the Sigma 18-125mm. I have plenty of other lenses to play with but that's the most useful everyday range and it's a good sharp lens.
It's going to take me while to get things up to date here. Even lens handicapped I have a lot of photos to share :)
Let's start with this week.
We had been wanting to go away for our wedding anniversary in September but it just didn't happen. We looked at going to VIC for a few days but things were too expensive, we didn't know what to do with Alex and Graham didn't have time off. It looked like we weren't going to get the
break we craved. Finally Graham surprised me with a couple of nights at Narrawilly. It's a farm with a couple of mudbrick cottages, lots of kid friendly space and not too far away. We went there 5 years ago, a sort of honeymoon after we got married, our bestman gave us 2 nights there as a gift. We loved it so much we've been wanting to go back ever since. It's just so relaxing, no internet, no TV, no work etc.
This time we had Alex with us so not quite as relaxing but it was worth it because he had so much fun. He could get up in the morning and go straight outside and see the horses, chickens and sheep and we didn't have to worry about anything except the electric fences :)
Alex slept and ate well while away and we relaxed and ate well and I am once again the trivial pursuit champion!
I took photos of course, over 600. I think most of our luggage was camera gear. It's a good thing I took the notebook too because I kept filling my memory cards and needed to offload the photos. Still have to go through most of them but here's a few I've prepared for web.
On our second afternoon there we went on one of the walks around the farm. A nice easy walk with lots of flies, bulls and electric fences :) It took 2.5 hours at toddler pace.
My intention was to photograph the sunset from the lookout at the top. Only problem is that would have meant walking back in the dark. So we did the loop, took some photos as the sun bathed everything in golden light and long shadows, and ended up back at the start in time
for me to still go get some sunset shots nearby.
These were taken with the Canon 40D and mostly the Canon 70-200mm f4 L IS (my anniversary present).
That's our cottage down there in amongst the trees.
The second night there Alex woke up crying after just a few hours and wanted his shorts. So we put his shorts on over his PJ's and put him back to bed and he slept until about 8:30am. Here he is when he got up in the morning.
This is the back of the cottage, the TV aerial is a new addition and the honeysuckle and plumbago has grown a lot since our first visit.
part of the view from the backyard
and the horses out the back. It was pretty much dark when I took these, the sun was down and I used ISO 1600 and 800. It was still really hot!
There were heaps of flies and bees. Indoors and out.
Alex loved going in and out all the french doors. Hence the flies indoors.
We tried to take him to the beach, he wasn't very impressed,
but he thought the lighthouse was cool.
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