Last week I went to Darwin on a business trip, very interesting as I have never been there before. On some of my free times I was lucky enough to be able to snap the few photos below.

For your information, the crocodile and the lizzards were taken inside crocosaurus, which you can see in one of the photos below.

This weekend we decided to go around the Tullamarine Airport location for some plane spotting. Fortunately it was a nice day, bit cloudy but not raining at all. It actually helps that the sun wasn’t so strong, had it was stronger we might have problem with back-light.

With any photo-shoot like this one, where most of the time the subject (in this case the aeroplanes) are mostly backlit, I set the camera to spot metering mode most of the time. . This way I can lock the exposure on the plane, preventing the plane from being capture as a silhouette. 

As for the gears, I used my trusty Nikon D300s and 70-300mm lens. Now, my lens is not exactly the latest and greatest, in fact it is almost 10 years old now, I used to use it when I was photographing with my film SLR. Meaning it doesn’t have any VR technology which should reduce vibrations. So, in order to get a sharp shots at the maximum zoom level, I followed the ‘golden rule’ which is maintaining the speed above the lens focal length. Therefore most of the picture in the gallery is being shot at around 1/400 s.

Anyway, enjoy the gallery below :

As an extra, we went for a meal at Footscray after the shoot. Great place to get some Vietnamese food!

The Queen’s Birthday long weekend has given me a great opportunity to do some photography. With that extra one day myself and a friend were able to do a short daytrip for photohunting. The trip was unplanned trip, starting up with a simple idea to go to Frankston beach we ended up hoping ona bus to Portsea. From there on we walked all the way to Sorrento while snapping up some scenery pics.

Fortunately for us, the day was very good indeed. A little foggy in the morning to begin with, but clearing up during the day. The view on Portsea and Sorrento was amazing, it was certainly a good photo trip. I can recommend these two places for any photographers wanting to take a picture of sceneries.

The gears that I used:

- Nikon D300s
- 18-55mm Tamron lens
- 70-300mm Nikon lens
- Corel Paintshop Pro Photo X3