Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-04-13

• Stopping in Campbell Town for a meat pie. Joe Samesh says Zep's coffee has revitalized the local economy since the stove factory closed. #
• Joe Shemesh is also #2,020 in line for a Red camera. He'll get one soon. He plans to shoot 4K video of Tasmania for posterity. #
• Off to meet Valerie Khoo, biz reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald for an interview. Then the press reception at 3:30. Public reception 5p #
• We raised $7,000 auctioning off prints from the Lightroom Adventure to benefit Save the Tasmanian Devils - that's amazing. Thanks SO much! #
• I'm off to bed - my flight leaves Hobart at 10:30a tomorrow and I'm back home by 3p. Podcasts will resume Tuesday. Thanks for your patience. #
• My pictures are backed up to two separate external drives. One checked, one in my carry on. No wukkas, mate. (That's Aussie for all's well.) #
• Dvorak did it - this is The REAL Dvorak: @THErealDVORAK. Of course, he forgot to mention it on his podcast. #
• As usual @therealdvorak really gets it - even on Twitter it's all about the content. Won't be long before he has 20,000 followers. #
• Heading home. In 10 days 24 photograhpers travelled 1354 miles, took over 100,000 photos, and drank uncounted Boagsies. So long Tazzie. #

Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-04-12

• We're choosing shots to print on the Epson Pro 3800s. If you're coming to the reception in Hobart pick yours now (to benefit the Devils). #
• Turns out one of the other photographers here in Tasmania is also on Twitter: Melissa Gaul of the Lightroom team (aka @hyvetyrant). #
• I had an encounter with a wombat. Looked just like the giant stuffed gopher from caddyshack. And we saw a bandicoot on the drive back. #
• Wombat pix on Flickr, SmugMug (http://snipurl.com/tasmania) and my blog (http://leoville.com/category/tasmania). I want to take one home. #
• Heading back to Hobart from Cradle Mountain this morning. Reception tonight - selling prints to Save the Devil: http://snipurl.com/248dl #
• Phil, Darren and Rob are teaching me Aussie slang. Arvo is afternoon. Good onya is well done. But my favorite is "no wuckin' furries, mate!" #
• Using Chronosync to backup all my pictures and video to two separate external drives. Peter Krogh taught me Best DAM Practices on the trip. #

No Wuckin' Furries Mate

Today was our last official day of shooting on the Lightroom Adventure: Tasmania. Winston, Matt, and I headed to an Australian Rules Football game in Ulverstone. It was a league match with Devonport and a blast. I think have a new favorite sport. I understand there's even a US league and a team in SF. AFL is kind of a full contact soccer meets rugby with lots of scoring and precious few penalties. The players wear no pads and never stop running. Next door there was a much quieter game of bowls going on. I left the footy to Winston, who is a sports photographer, and I stuck with the bowling.

After the game we drove home, stopping along the way at Cradle Mountain to look for wildlife. We found it in the rotund shape of a wombat. These peaceful little creatures are marsupials, but they seem to like humans, too. Winston took this shot of the wombat wobbling my way, which gave me a bit of a scare until Matt told me they only chewed on grass.

If you're in Tas, don't forget our little soirée tomorrow from 5-7p at the Henry Jones Art Hotel. We'll be auctioning the best prints (including a few of mine) to benefit the Save the Tasmanian Devil fund. And I'll be glad to hang out after for a final Cascade with anyone who cares to join me. I head for home on Monday and it's going to be sad to leave Tasmania. I'll take plenty of memories of a wonderful land and friendly people with me. If you'd like to see the photographers with whom I've been travelling, visit the Gallery on Mikkel's xyzadventures site. Or visit my photo gallery for my favorite shots and my new best friends, human and animal. I'm gonna miss you Tazzie!

Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-04-11

• We're in the conference room working on the two Epson 3800 printers. Print driver issues are making the prints too dark. #
• Just came back from a night tour of Tasmanian caves - pretty amazing pictures. Tomorrow: Footy! Winston and I are photographing an AFL game. #
• @labmistress Don't tell me Bri is almost college age? Where has the time gone? @abbylaporte is a sophomore and heading to France next year!! #
• Nearly all the pro photogs here use Gitzo carbon fiber tripods. Bruce uses the 2540LVL with a pano head from Really Right Stuff. #
• Never travel with photographers if you're in a hurry - it took us three hours to go on a 1200 m rainforest walk. http://snipurl.com/tasmania #
• I'm dual posting to SmugMug and Flickr - but there are more photos on SmugMug. I fear the approbation of the Flickr crowd. #

Live On Tape

This weekend I'm in the remote northwest of Tasmania so we'll be airing two shows I've recorded earlier - not reruns mind you but all new shows with new callers and segments from all the regulars including Scott Wilkinson on home theater, the Weekly Giz Wiz, Steve Gibson on security, Paul Thurrott with a Vista tip, Gadget Guru Ron Rosberg, and photo wizard Chris Marquardt. I'm back from Australia on Tuesday and I'll be back live on the radio (and video) April 19. See you then!