Study of Red

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I've been experimenting with my new camera for some time. I'm getting used to using some controls and loving the camera's large optical zoom, while hating its insistence on not letting me take full control even using the "Manual" mode.

Another thing that's been bugging me is the colours. To me, the camera does not deliver correct colours. Too much blue, too much pink, not enough yellow, not enough … whatever! I initially thought it must be something to do with NZ's strong Sun, full of cancer causing ultraviolet light. But I get those colour incorrectness even in indoor photos.

So I've been experimenting with camera's colour setting, in quest of what delivers most true colours in certain conditions. I share one of those colour experiments in this post, my study of how to get most true colour of the bright red bottlebrush flowers just outside the lounge window. …

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Walk to garden

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Wellington City Botanic Garden held the Annual Rose Festival last weekend at its Lady Norwood Rose Garden. Unfortunately the weather wasn't that great for photography, so as the expected big crowds, which would have a disproportionally large number of people named "Rose", who would be offered a free coffee. 😉

Tuesday was a much better day weather wise and I was also free. So a friend and I had a spontaneous tour of the garden with out respective cameras. Our chosen mode of transport was two legs. …

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Right or left old or new

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During the past week or so I've been trying to reintroduce some moderate exercise into my daily routine as a means to calm down my unruly alien in my chest. Having to live with this alien (aka Premature Ventricular Contractions or PVCs) has certainly changed the way I walk. I used to charge up the hill via the steepest but quickest course and stopped only when I got there to take in views. Now my preference is less steep, undulating uphill so that I can build up a steady pace, which my alien seems to like. Because I'm slower, I can catch a sight of interesting, pretty or unusual things more often than before, and, more shutter chances for my new camera. …

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