Road Trip Photo Post 1

Hey All,

Well Bec and I have had a very busy week now.. We’ve been traveling all over the place and have had very little internet connection (must get one of those Telstra NextG USB things I think.. better than my current “3″ connection).. which is why there has been a delay between my last post and this post. So today while we were in Adelaide we stopped into a internet cafe to chew some bandwidth and upload a stack of photos..

In other news.. I have been nominated (thank you to those who nominated me) for the Australia’s Top Photographer 2009 awards in 4 different categories:

http://www.yaffa.com.au/atp/nom09_art.html – ART
http://www.yaffa.com.au/atp/nom09_land.html – LANDSCAPE
http://www.yaffa.com.au/atp/nom09_wed.html – WEDDING
http://www.yaffa.com.au/atp/nom09_port.html – PORTRAIT

Fingers crossed I guess.. I’m in amongst the greats like Peter Lik, Ken Duncan, Marcus Bell, Yervant, Rob Heymen and Rocco.. it’s truely humbling to be amongst such awesome photographers. Voting finishes on March 6.

Anyway.. on to much more interesting things now.. the photos.. I’ve got a mixture of photos that are for sale and those that are just up on this blog.

Saturday: Bec and I left Lismore around 5:30am, heading towards Tenterfield to meet up with my parents for the migration south.. Seeing as we were up so early, we had the dubious pleasure of watching the sunrise while we drove.. something I’m not overly keen on.. because I’m not really a morning person if I can avoid it.

It was a rather foggy morning, Bec took some photos with my little Canon G9 while we were driving. I’ve got to say.. it’s one of the best point and shoot cameras I’ve ever bought.. I love it.

Not too bad considering Bec’s only real photography experience has been what I’ve taught her.. and considering that we were doing 100kph at the time.

We arrived in Tenterfield with no incidents and met up with the parents and had some breakfast. The trip through the day was fairly uneventful not too many photos were taken through out the day.. with the exception of a few tourist snaps and photos of a garden gnome we stole from a friends place…

After a very healthy dinner of red rooster in Dubbo, we carried on to the iconic town of Parkes.. home of The Dish. We stayed overnight in Parkes.

Sunday: We woke in Parkes Sunday morning and decided to go to The Dish Cafe for breakfast.. well that turned out to be a big mistake.. first they stuffed our order up completely.. we had to repeat it 5 times (how hard is it to get a “bigbreakfast with no tomato”), then they over charged us for it.. an hour and 20 minutes after ordering we still had no breakfast.. they had completely forgotten us! We ended up going to Maccas in Forbbes for breakfast after getting a refund.. a real disappointment indeed.

Anyway, after a bit of a disappointing start to the day we carried on and got some great photos as we crossed the very appropriately named Hay Plains.. all you see is Hay for over 2 hours.. very plain indeed.. but kind of cool in it’s own way as well.. there’s not too many places where you can see “absolutely nothing”.