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Would like to say a big thankyou to all the posters/members/moderators/admins in this forum for helping to make this the nicest forum it has ever been my pleasure to be a member.
I am also posting this because it is my 200th post and I could not leave the counter on 199. The few short weeks I have been a member has made my pleasure that I get from photograpy improve at least a thousand fold.
By the way the avatar I use is actually a drawing of me done by Andrew Fife (from Hey Hey It's Saturday).
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I am tomorrow, taking my wife to Wollongong (about 200km from here on the coast) for the day, she will be working and I will have a bag of cameras to play with.
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Then we expect to see a wall full of pics when you return.
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Have a safe trip, bring back pictures!
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Cool, have fun!
Are you going via the Great Ocean Rd?
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Hey Pete,
You can get some great scenics from around the Kiama bends (just a bit south of Wollongong), and for beaches, you can't really go past the Shellharbour area. About 5 mins away from Shellharbour to the south is Bass Pt, which is a great spot for oceanscapes - you can also see a bit of a wreck poking out off the point, and there is a huuuuuuuuuuge jetty there that they load gravel onto big ships with. In Wollongong itself, the lighthouse is great - and speaking of lighthouses, there's another nice one at Kiama, near the infamous blow hole. If youve got an ND filter and tripod, a slow speed shot of the blow hole in action would look amazing...
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shuttertalk Wrote:Cool, have fun!
Are you going via the Great Ocean Rd?
Great Ocean Road is a little to far out of the way, I think that would about an extra 2,000km on the trip, perhaps on the weekend!
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loopy Wrote:Hey Pete,
You can get some great scenics from around the Kiama bends (just a bit south of Wollongong), and for beaches, you can't really go past the Shellharbour area. About 5 mins away from Shellharbour to the south is Bass Pt, which is a great spot for oceanscapes - you can also see a bit of a wreck poking out off the point, and there is a huuuuuuuuuuge jetty there that they load gravel onto big ships with. In Wollongong itself, the lighthouse is great - and speaking of lighthouses, there's another nice one at Kiama, near the infamous blow hole. If youve got an ND filter and tripod, a slow speed shot of the blow hole in action would look amazing...
Cheers,
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Awesome, I was hoping someone might have some tips for around Wollongong. I also was thinking of Port Kembla which is a little south but has a huge industrial area. I actually go rock climbing just south of there at Nowra, beautiful area along the Shoalhaven River.
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Have fun Peted. Also I was curious. Am I the only one here who pronounces Pete's name as Peted instead of Pete D?
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Enjoy your trip, and take a lot of pictures...
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Petographer Wrote:Have fun Peted. Also I was curious. Am I the only one here who pronounces Pete's name as Peted instead of Pete D?
Yeah, me. I don't call EnglishBob "Bob" though...
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Hey Pete,
I was born at Port Kembla hospital, grew up in Shellharbour then moved down about half hour south of Nowra to Jervis Bay until I was about 18. The Port is a nice place, but it's not my sort of photography - it's more "city" kind of stuff, if you get what I mean? I can't think of many really great scenics.... Further north of Port you get up to the cliffs where that kite dude (Lawrence Hargraves I think) used to fly his stuff, lots of hang gliders up there. Also a lot of nice beaches.
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Petographer Wrote:Have fun Peted. Also I was curious. Am I the only one here who pronounces Pete's name as Peted instead of Pete D?
No you're not....I've always mentally pronounced it that way and it was only when I actually said it to R the other day that I realised it was Pete D! R said he didn't know who I meant, then he twigged and said "Oh you mean Pete D". I felt like such a dimwit......I'd assumed he was from some East European country (don't know why)
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shuttertalk Wrote:Yeah, me. I don't call EnglishBob "Bob" though...
I just realized few weeks ago my big mistake addressing EnglishBob as Bob when his name is...... is..... you see I don't remember... As for me he is Bob... Sorry Bob
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Craig, you must tell us where "Bob" came from...
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..........................................am tomorrow, taking my wife to Wollongong ..
WOLLONGONG?
No such place.
Wollongong..............INDEED!!!
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Apparently they even have a University there.
http://www.uow.edu.au/
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OK...so howdid you ake afake web site so quicly
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....and why can't I learn to type more slowly/check my posts before sending?
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I doon nut knoo
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noisynoodle Wrote:OK...so howdid you ake afake web site so quicly
Well I cheated, I had it done already.
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