an old friend
i found my old slr film camera among our boxes, my canon eos500, so i've been having a play and giving it a trial run to see if i feel it's worth taking it back to the uk with me. i probably will - i suspect my poor little sony dsc-v1 may be on its last legs, thanks to an heroic effort to capture a magnificent wave in wales which then drenched both it and me. and now the lens cover doesn't close any more. oops. i'm going to put it in for a service when we get home, but i thought it might be worth digging out the eos500 to see if i can produce some decent photos with it, now that i've experimented a bit with composition, macros etc. i'm still a bit hazy about the manual options, but it always made nice photos for me in the past, so i took it out on tuesday when my mama whisked me off to lavender bay to see wendy whiteley's beautiful garden.
wendy whiteley is the widow of the great australian artist brett whiteley, and the garden isn't officially hers - it was railway dump land which happened to be right by their house, and over a period of years she just started building a garden on it and fortunately the railways didn't object and apparently helped to remove some of the larger bits of junk, such as old train carriages. now it's the most fantastically beautiful garden, hidden away down near the water (if you're looking for it, you go down the steps in the pedestrian side of walker street in lavender bay - i hunted all over google trying to find where it was, and couldn't find an address anywhere. in the end we drove around where we thought it might be and eventually found a gallery which had someone who could tell us where it was!) with scattered benches in quiet spots, lovely secluded paths and the most wonderful random bits of junk transformed into sculptures. very inspirational.
photos to follow, when i finally get them processed... grrr film :-)
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