Nick Rains - Australian Landscape Photography

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Last week I went along to the State Surf Lifesaving Championships at Kurrawa Beach on the Queensland Gold Coast. It was a grey day with threatening clouds, certainly not your typical 'Beautiful one day, perfect the next' sort of day, but that did not daunt the competitors and the choppy waves made the surf boat competition that much more exciting. More than one competitor was spilled out into the surf, some oars and sweeps were broken and in one case the whole boat up-ended throwing the five crew members in all directions.

 

I've recently been working with an illustrious group of photographers on a  'Day in the Life of Australia' style project. Ken Duncan, Peter Eastway, Bil Bachman, myself and others will be shooting with Panasonic cameras around the country. I'll have more about this on April 1st but since today was Clean Up Australia Day I took one the the cameras I'll be using on the project, the Lumix ZR1, along to see how it performed...

On a completely non-photograhic subject, we had an unwelcome visitor to our chook shed last night and this morning I had to deal with the results...

 

Big news from Canon, a firmware upgrade to include 24/25fps and manual sound controls!

Press release follows:

I have posted a list of my public appearances for 2010, looks like being a busy year!

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A little white box just arrived in the mail from Apple - the hugely reworked Aperture 3. It's installing now, and I'll make some  comments over the next few days or so, as I get the hang of it. First impressions from the spec list in the press kit are good, there are tons of new features including - yay - local adjustments and proper geotagging.

Check out the Apple site here:

Aperture 3

 

Whilst I’m in Perth for a workshop I will also be speaking at the Visible Light conference on Feb 6-7 and presenting two seminars on Monday Feb 8 in conjunction with Iconic Images International.