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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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For Father’s day last year in September, we spent a day in Perth Hills with the family. We kicked off our day at Masonmills Garden and Restaurant. We enjoyed the autumn sunshine while we had lunch outdoors. After lunch we walked around the gardens. We were greeted with an amazing bloom of cherry blossoms around the gardens. After lunch we enjoyed a late afternoon snack and drink at Core Cider House to finish off our day.
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Over the Easter Long weekend back in early April, I went on my first proper photowalk in 2021 with my Fujifilm X-T4 camera with the Fujifilm 23mm f2 lens. It was the first time I was using The X-T4 for full on a casual walk. So far I’ve only used the X-T4 for client work and just haven’t had much free time this year to just do photography for fun. For the walk I decided to use Ritchie’s Kodachrome II Film Simulation recipe. It has a bit of an old school nostalgic look.
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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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