The Photo Journey

Well its been a little quite here on the blog the last few weeks as we are on holidays in the UK and Europe. We are 2 weeks into the trip and so far have been to the UK and Turkey for ANZAC Day at Gallipoli.

The Icelandic Volcano did its best to upset our trip but with some last minute changes we still managed to make it to Istanbul all be it 2 days late. We just had to tag onto our tour and miss seeing some great parts of Istanbul.

It was decided we needed a shot of our tour group and well since I have decided to drag my tripod around for the 6 weeks of travel it looked like a fine time to put it to good use.

So to all the guys we traveled with here it is. I’ll upload more of my Anzac tour photos once I get home and process them. It was a very moving experience to do the dawn service in Gallipoli.

Well this is just a quick post to keep you updated and there will be plenty more to come as we head off to Greece, Italia, France and then back to the UK in the next month.

15 years ago I was spellbind by the cover of my year 7 science book.  I didn’t care too much for the words inside, but the cover was amazing. It was a star trail above an observatory dome. It was the first star trail photo I had ever seen and I remember asking the teacher how it was taken. Ever since that day I have dreamt of taking such a shot.

Well I have been doing some research into this style of photography for the last year or so and I finally got myself organised to give it a go here in Brisbane before I head back to the Mid North Coast of NSW next weekend where there will be a nice black night thanks to the new moon. The perfect conditions for star trails.

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