Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-04-04

• All day at Bruney Island with Peter, Bruce, and Winston. Ate lunch in a secluded lagoon. Lots of landscapes and one hedgehog. Video soon. #
• Ugh. I had some dust on my sensor for every shot from yesterday (over 200). I think I've blown it away now. Break out the heal tool. #
• It's breakfast time in Hobart, TAS. Then I think I'll head out to shoot the Saturday farmer's market. #

The Long And Winding Road To Bruny

Yesterday Bruce Dale, Peter Krogh, Winston Hendrickson, and I took the morning ferry to Bruny Island, a secluded vacation retreat off the southern coast of Hobart - population 600. Bruce drove, because he'd driven on the left before - in fact, he'd driven all the way from England to India following the gypsies for a book some years ago. After hearing some of his harrowing stories from that trip we feel pretty lucky to have returned in one piece. We stopped many times along the way and spent the entire day there. Our goal was the Bruny Lighthouse, but our best pictures were from Cloudy Bay lagoon. That's my poor attempt to capture its beauty below, but Bruce took a panorama that should be amazing - we waited an hour for the light to be just so. All of these pictures were taken with my Canon 5D. Most with the 24-105 zoom except for the Farmers' Market pictures which were taken with the 50mm f1.2. All of them were adjusted in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 and most of the Bruny Island pictures were re-touched in Photoshop to remove a dust blotch that was on my sensor.

I've uploaded around three dozen shots from our first three days in Hobart to my SmugMug page (try the slideshow). Let me know what you think. I'm learning so much from these amazing photographers, and enjoying my first visit to Australia even more than I expected. I'm taking today (Saturday in Australia) off to go through the thousands of pictures and hours of video I've shot. I also have to rest up because I'm doing the radio show tomorrow morning at 4 local time. After the show I hope we'll get a chance to go up to the Tahune Forest AirWalk. After the radio show Monday morning we take off for Basecamp 2 at the Diamond Island Resort in Bicheno on the east coast of Tasmania.

Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-04-03

• Back after a long day visiting high tech companies with Keith Wheatland of Tas Economic Dev. Tomorrow I'm following Bruce Dale on video. #
• Up early to see the dawn (and a Princess cruise ship filling the harbor). Today I'm going to attempt an "inner process" video with Bruce. #

Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-04-02

• I am awed and humbled by the photographers on this adventure. Bruce Dale, Nat'l Geo photog, is the god of light. http://www.brucedale.com/ #
• Bandwidth is very dear here in Hobart. I bought 7 days at the hotel for $90 but I've already used up my 500MB and now it's 10¢/meg more. #

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.