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As we had a few days off for Chinese New Year, we decided to take the opportunity to take our parents out for lunch and dessert mid-week. We drove up north to Scarborough to Island Market for lunch. It was such a beautiful day out. We were sitting by the window and could see the blue ocean and white sandy beach. It was calming to be enjoying a lovely middle eastern inspired meal with the family. I definitely recommend Island Market to those who haven’t been before.
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A couple of weekends ago, I met up with some friends at Manning Farmers’ Market. From my previous blog post you know that I recently took the Wandrd Roam Sling camera bag to the market with me. It was able to carry my camera gear and my every day items to the market. The camera configuration for the day was the Fujifilm X-T4 and the XF 35mm f1.4 lens. My favourite combination for casual shooting out and about. It was a lovely Saturday morning at the market.
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When Presto Photo got in contact with me asking if I was interested in reviewing one of their products my ears perked up. I noticed they offered a range of photo products including photobooks, wall art, calendars and so forth. I have yet to try my hand at printing wall art for the home so I was keen to check out their products and try out their online ordering system. This is my impressions and review of the their canvas print and ultra gloss metal print.
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This blog post is a bit different to my previous ones. Like many people around the around, 2020 was a year of very little travel. We were fortunate in Western Australia to relatively low levels of COVID-19 cases and life for the second half of 2020 was relatively normal. We did a number of local WA trips and even did a staycation at COMO Treasury in Perth City as a special celebration. At the time it was a 2-night special deal offered by COMO Treasury which included daily breakfast, champagne, valet parking and a $100 voucher to use at one of the many restaurants in the building.
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The latest square format instant film camera from Fujifilm called the Instax SQ1 was released in October 2020. This is the second instant camera I’ve used so far. The first was the Instax LiPlay. The Instax SQ1 is different to the LiPlay in that the SQ1 is a straight analogue instant camera and also shoots square format film rather than mini format film. I got to road test the camera during my trip down south to Pemberton and Margaret River as part of my collaboration with Instax Australia. The article is a now published on Instax Australia’s blog if you want to check it out.
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