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Paul Dudley | all galleries >> 28 Australian trips >> 2005 Outback Trip (9 galleries) >> Album 3: Carnarvon Gorge > Moon and Venus: Clear skies at Takarakka
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07-SEP-2005 Paul Dudley

Moon and Venus: Clear skies at Takarakka

Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland view map

On the walk from the platypus pool, after I had missed out on photographing a platypus.
Another couple were following, within earshot. "Look at the sky!" she said to her husband
(who had a movie camera and had earlier got some wonderful shots of the platypus swimming).
"I want to take a photograph," she said. "No, it wouldn't be any good." he said. She had
a very expensive new digital SLR, so I turned round and offered my advice: "Use manual
settings. Focus at infinity, flash off, sensitivity up, longest exposure you can hand-
hold, lens wide open." She didn't know what I was talking about, she only knew how to use
it on "automatic." What is the name of the emotion you experience when you encounter
someone using just as a point-and-shoot a top-of-the-range camera you really covet ?

Minolta DiMAGE A1
1/20s f/3.5 at 50.7mm iso800 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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