Travelling Lens

A Travel, Photography and Points Blog

ASCA Regional Championships, Perth Optus Stadium

ASCA Coffee Competition, perth, optus stadium

Back in November, I had the opportunity to photograph one of the baristas from Veneziano Coffee Roasters who was participating in the brewing category of the regional coffee championships hosted by Australian Specialty Coffee Association. While I’m a coffee drinker and enjoy a variety of coffees from espresso coffee to cold brew and pour overs, specialty coffee competitions was a whole new world to me. I learned quite a bit about the coffee competition in my few hours of hanging out to watch and photograph the event.

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My second shooting experience for a wedding 2013 vs 2019

Elizabeth Quay, 2019

Wedding photography was never really an interest of mine. I’ve tried it (as a second shooter) twice so far. Once in 2013 with a Canon DSLR and the second time this year in 2019 with my Fujifilm X series XT10 camera. On both occasions it was to second shoot for a friend who was starting out as a wedding photographer. This blog post will be more image-heavy than normally but also dives deeper into my thoughts about photography.

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Shadow & Light, a Fuji X Aus Perth Photo meetup

We had our last Perth Fuji X Aus photowalk meetup for 2019 at the beginning of December. We decided to change it up a bit and do a social coffee catch up for half an hour before kicking off the photwalk. It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces on a Sunday morning eager to explore the streets of Perth with their camera. We ended up with 12 people for the meet up which is a great turn out for the Perth FXA team. To add a bit of focus to the walk, the theme of the day was “Shadow and light”. Since my visit to Sydney, where I had such a great time shooting some street photography with the Fuji X Aus Sydney crew, it was a theme I was eager try in Perth.

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My initial impressions of the Fujifilm X100F

Fujifilm X100F, product photography

I’m so used to using interchangeable lens cameras coming from the Canon DSLR system followed by the Fujifilm X series cameras. I like the option of having a variety of high quality lenses to choose from depending on the kind of photography I’m doing. Over the last 4 years, I’ve built up a nice little kit of Fujifilm x mount lenses. However I’ve noticed since I’ve purchased the 23mm f2 lens, it’s been the lens that seldom leaves my XT10 when I’m looking for a general purpose lens.

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Unoffical Fuji X Aus Sydney Meetup

My favourite street shot from the day
My favourite street shot from the day

I spent 4 days in Sydney at the end of September to attend a friend’s wedding (who also happens to be a photographer) and took the opportunity to explore a bit more of Sydney. During this short getaway, I met with with fellow Fuji X Aus Sydney-siders as well as John from Adelaide for a Sunday morning photo walk. It was so timely that both myself and John were in Sydney the same weekend. We kicked off our meetup with some coffee at Kurtosh then walked around Darling Square, Darling Harbour and a bit of the CBD. The Sydney crew was so welcoming towards us interstate visitors! Couldn’t have asked for a more friendly bunch of photographers. It was great to put some faces to the names and online exchanges that I have had with some of the photographers in the group. That has always been the best part about the Fuji X Aus community. I didn’t expect more than 2 other photographers to be free to catch up, but it turned out to be a group of 7 of us!

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