Lightroom Adventure - Day 1

The adventure doesn't officially begin until Friday, but photographers are trickling into Hobart one by one. Yesterday there were only five of us, British Photographer of the Year, Jackie King, National Geographic wizard, Bruce Dale, Lightroom wiz and all around innovator, Peter Krogh, brilliant Japanese photographer and documentarian, Aihara Masaaki, and our host, Mikkel Aaland. You'll see images from all five in the video I whipped together from our first foray into Hobart last night. Peter did that amazing 135 image montage of our plane landing in Hobart. The infrared images are by Bruce Dale. Many of the rest of the stills are from Mikkel Aaland. I shot and edited the video using the new Canon HV30 and Apple's iMovie '08. Thanks to Inverted Silence/Jim Kang for the song Berimbau. We've been having so much fun, and the adventure has barely begun. If you're in Hobart, please join us for our closing reception Sunday evening, 13 April at the Henry Jones Art Hotel. We'll have prints on exhibition and for sale to benefit Save the Tasmanian Devil. I spent part of the day exploring the waterfront and just got back from the Female Factory and the Cascade brewery. We're going to do some Lightroom work tonight and I'll start posting images tomorrow.

Comments

[Chris Miller]

Man Leo you are on the trip of a lifetime! I hope you have a blast, even if I do have to do without TWiT for a couple weeks... I feel like such an addict...

-Chris

[Julian Russell]

Add me to the list of fans interested in a meetup...

[carol karr]

Nice video...can't wait until you get back and we hear about your trip. Another twit addict here, will definitely miss my podcasts while your gone :( But enjoy your amazing journey!

[Steven Smith]

As Manager of the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program, I am both very interested in your photographic adventure in Tassie, and also grateful to you for supporting the program that aims to ensure the survival of this charismatic species. Thanks for your support, good luck and I hope to make it on 13 April to check out the photos. Hasta luego.

[Derek]

Hey Leo...the pics look great! We'll miss you on MacBreakWeekly.

Take care and enjoy the trip.

[James]

Yes me to! I want a TWiT meet up in hobart before Leo leaves...

[Jason]

Huge storms in Tassie last night with cyclone strength winds, hope all is ok down there Leo.

[Tim]

Very nice job :) and the 135 image montage is fantastic! Looking forward to seeing more of Hobart!

[Bill Janis]

Hi Leo, a fan here, I was about to tell you that Scott Simon of NPR fame (BRILLIANT) will be in SF tomorrow night. But alas you are off having fun. He was AMAZING here in Seattle tonight. Anyone that does not know Scott, please check him out. Those that do know what I refer to.

Leo, great stuff from down under man. That is why I thought you'd like Scott. You guys both are real.

Bill Janis

[Missy]

Hi Leo,

Love it that you have come to town - hope you appreciate this special weather we have put on for you.
I live and work around Salamanca/Battery Point, so I can really connect with how your group have captured the locations and light.

Suggestions for other random locations 10-30 mins from your hotel that are worthy of your time - Snug Falls, Kettering marina, penguins at Blackman's Bay, The Springs, Royal Botanical Gardens, Rosny lookout, Hobart Community garden, the old Battery Point shipyards, or the deserted old mental institution buildings in New Norfolk.

If possible, avoid the twee "historic" but mostly rebuilt tourist town close to Hobart but don't miss the forgotten georgian villages of Bothwell and Oatlands. Not much has changed in Oaty since Lord Snowdon photographed it in1980, or ever in the last 150 years really. Tech heads will shrivel up and die if left there for too long, but so worth it for photo buffs.

This tour guide is available if you need more true local insider's help.

PS I highly recommend The Drunken Admiral for top, fresh seafood, right opposite the Grand Chancellor monolith.

[Lloyd]

Another tasmanian fan here... would be great to have a meetup before the 13th. Hope the storms last night didnt turn you off tassie :)

Enjoy your time down under which im sure you will!

[Jonathan]

I love reading your posts Leo. Makes me look out of the window from my desk at work and dream of better places!

Keep the posting up!

[univrsltransl8r]

Man, that video is awesome! Makes me wish I was there!!

[Gerry]

Welcome to Tasmania Leo. I hope you enjoy your trip and I look forward to the meet up.

I hope you can get into some mountain areas and get photos of the Nothofagus gunnii in autumn foliage (our only winter-deciduous plant!). We have a lot of spectacular true wilderness here.

Also if I may, I'd recommend that you check out the photographic work of Peter Dombrovskis, he is a true Tasmanian icon and his work has changed the course of Australian green politics, probably more than once.

BTW, don't listen to Robert L. Thornburgh. I have lived in Tassie my whole life and I have hardly ever been bitten by deadly snakes ;-).

Save the Devil.

Gerry

[Justin]

Something geeky for you to see in OZ
Remember in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson when Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse ends up in Australia? He builds a computer that uses long tubes of mercury as RAM ?

Well you can see the computer that his is based on. Its the oldest surviving computer, and its in the Melbourne museum. Its the CSIRAC, here is my (bad) pic http://www.flickr.com/photos/withoutdirection/116171305/

Enjoy...

[Brian]

Leo,
Welcome downunder.

We do not have Hedgehog's in Australia it would have been an echidna/ant eater you saw.

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[Peter]

Hi there Leo

Im Peter, from way over the other side of Australia, in Perth.

I have been a fan of yours, since stumbling onto Call for Help, on the old TechTV channel, on Foxtel.

Hope your enjoying Tassie, despite the weather. The pics and video you have posted already, has inspired me to finally check out Tassie in the near future.

Anyways, something that has nothing to do with tech or Tassie ;-) Have you ever wondered Leo, what you might look like, if you had actually grew up in Australia, and became an Australian politician ?

Well have a look at Malcolm Turnbull's site below. It might give you an idea!!

http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/default.aspx

I think you two, could easily pass as brothers.

I am looking forward, in seeing more of the pics and videos, of your Tassie adventure (or is it classed as work?).

Cheers

[Hirsty]

Hey Leo welcome down under! The video was great ( no lag here ).

As you know you have a large following of fans here in Australia and probably learning fast that Tassie is one of the most scenic places on earth so we're looking forward to hearing and seeing how the trip goes down here.

All the best mate

Dave
Byron Bay

[Wiill]

awsome

[Steven Smith]

Hi Leo, the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program has some new attractive pull up banners and flags with images of the devil and the program name and website (www.tassiedevil.com.au). Would you be happy to have some around on 13 April at the exhibition in the Henry Jones IXL Hotel Atrium? If someone could let me know, I will arrange for them to be there. Cheers Steve (Program Manager, Save the Tas Devil)

[Ken G]

Good news recently on the Tasmanian Devil front, in the form of a devil named Cedric. Seems as though he's immune and might hold a clue.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7323794.stm

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