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My experience using the Fujifilm X100F for life and travel

Look up, Melbourne street photography — *Melbourne, 2019*

The Fujifilm X100F was release back in 2017 and the X100V replacement was announced earlier this year. As I mentioned in my previous blog post on my initial impressions of the X100F, I was curious to try out the X100F to see what the fuss was all about (spoiler alert, it’s a fantastic little camera and I loved using the little thing). The X100 series is Fujifilm’s first foray into the mirrorless market and is one of it’s most iconic cameras. This blog post wraps up my experience of using the X100F for a month. During this time I took it on a trip to Melbourne, photographed Open House Perth 2019, used it as my primary camera on the last Fuji X Aus Perth photowalk for 2019 and shot some behind the scenes candid photos and videos for my brother’s wedding.

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Fremantle Photowalk around WA Maritime Museum

It’s March 2020 as I’m writing up this blog post. I haven’t been as active on my blog as I had hope for 2020 due to personal and professional reasons. As COVID-19 has evolved into a global pandemic, my professional work has gotten much busier as I work in the healthcare industry. On the flip side, social distancing measures has meant all my social and personal commitments has dropped off. This has also meant I’ve found some time to work on editing my very large backlog of photos over the weekend. I finally finished culling, reviewing and editing the last chunk of photos from my New Zealand roadtrip from a few years ago (more on that in future blog posts!). I also picked out some keeper photos from my photowalk around WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle last year.

Around 6 months ago, I spent the a few of hours of a Sunday afternoon exploring around WA Maritime Museum and the streets of Fremantle. Coincidentally the day we decided to walk around Fremantle was also the day there was a massive number of photographers and models doing some group shoots around Fremantle. They spent a lot of time shooting around the museum so it was hards not to bump into a photographer!

I haven’t seen these photos since I first took the photos in the first place. I was pleasantly surprised at how many photos I liked from this afternoon of shooting. Unfortunately I didn’t bother taking my tripod with me for this photowalk. Otherwise I might have been able to get some nice long exposure photos as around sunset/after sunset time. I also decided to experiment with some high dynamic range photomerge images for a bit of fun when I was photo editing. See if you can spot which ones they are!

Bather's Beach, overlooking the Indian Ocean

Lighthouse near WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle

WA Maritime Museum after sunset, Fremantle

Fremantle port area after sunset, Fremantle

Green lighthouse near WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle

Thanks for stopping by today and happy shooting (indoors).

Wandrd Duo backpack – Dual purpose bag for travel and client work

The best products are always the ones that try to solve a problem. Wandrd is founded by a band of brothers who couldn’t find the “perfect camera bag” for their travels and decided to make one themselves. Wandrd started with wanting to make the best travel camera bag in the world. Now they have expanded beyond the camera bag into a variety of related products. Their simple and bold mission is to create products that inspire people to get out to explore, create and live in the moment. It’s a mission that I can definitely resonate with and feel that come through in their products.

While I wish there was the “perfect” camera bag that would meet all my needs, I know the reality is you may need more than one camera bag to ensure you have the right bag for the right purpose/job. I have been following Wandrd for the last few of years and always had my eye on their PRVKE bag. I know so many people who rave about the PRVKE and they do seem like fantastic bags. There was just something about it that didn’t fit the bill for me. When Wandrd launched the DUO kickstarter campaign last year, that was the bag that caught my eye. I eagerly waited for the bag to go into production, be shipped and be reviewed.

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Documentary Family Photography – Day in the life of the Un Family

Manning market, day in the life, family documentary photography

A couple of months ago I spent half a day with a dear friend, her husband and her cheeky little daughter for some family documentary photography. I have been interested in delving into Day In The Life photography for a little while now and I offered to do some family photography as a birthday present for her little one. For those who don’t know, Day In the Life photography is a niche style (that is become more popular) of family photography. It’s photojournalism for your daily life. It’s capturing your family’s emotions and activities in their everyday environment. It’s a time capsule of that season of your life that you can look back upon in 20 years time.

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2019 Year in Review and looking towards 2020

Fremantle at sunset — Sunset at Fremantle, 2019

Every year I have the tradition on this blog to do a year in review and what I am looking forward to in the new year. I spent the last few weeks reflecting the year that was 2019 and also the previous decade of my life as the 2010s came to a close. I also thought about my goals for 2020 and to some degree my life in the new decade. A word of warning, this ended up being a fairly lengthy post.

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