Welcome to the ninth edition.      11/01/2006
After gathering the information for the Resource Page for the Wenatchee, WA camera club (Photography Association of Wenatchee - PAW) I've come to the realization that the page is now too long and some entries don't go into enough detail.
PAW Resource Page

I'll have a chance here to tell more about my personal involvement with photography. If you haven't visited my web site "Eleanor's Travels", here's the HOME PAGE.

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November 1, 2006 - Home from my month long "trip of a lifetime" to the Australian outback. In a nutshell the first two weeks were spent traveling the Gibb River Road in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (that's a state). The third week was spent doing various day-trips out of Darwin in the Northern Territory. The final week was spent with friends in Melbourne in the state of Victoria. During this time I was able to revisit parts of the Great Ocean Road, which I had seen last year in less than good weather. I'll get the new ones up soon, showing a bright sunny day and beautiful waves. Forthcoming slideshows will include: Strange Rock Formations, Aboriginal Rock Art (I'm very happy with this collection), Flightseeing over the Mitchell Plateau and the Bungle Bungles, Echidna Gorge as well as Catherdral Gorge -revisited and several others. (These links all go to last year's photo slideshows. My trip covered the area on this map. We stayed in the four wilderness camps mentioned on that page. We traveled in a 20 passenger 4 wheel drive air conditioned truck. There were 13 in the group.

I was pleased again to only take my new SONY DSC-H2. I did not shoot RAW (now I wish I had) nor did I take a tripod. The first three weeks were extremely hot, well over 100 everyday, so a big jug for water was the most important item to carry. Coping with the heat was a struggle in itself! Luckily I took along an Epson P-2000 viewer to dump my filled cards into, because my laptop gave up early in the trip. None of the safari camps had powerpoints.

First Slide Show: Australian Aboriginal Rock Art  These were not particularly easy to photograph. I used a flash for a few and, of course, did some tweaking with Paint Shop Pro. My workflow was quite simple: I cropped and resized to 600 x 400, touched up the exposure with a histogram adjustment, used Clarify set at 1 occasionally, then Unsharp Mask: Radius 1.00, Strength 50% and Clipping at 5. Finally I set the JPEG optimizer compression at 25 0r 30 to produce files between 60 and 100kb. I did nothing to alter the colors.

So, I imagine now, after six trips to Australia, I have covered all I need to,
some places several times. New slideshows will be forthcoming soon.


Loch Ard Gorge - the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia

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Alain Briot (Beautiful Landscape) has recently written another really fine article "Reflections on Photography & Art -5 The Eye and the Camera". You'll need to subscribe to his Newsletter. If you are serious about landscape photography you will want to explore this site thoroughly! A good starting point would be here with this series of essays.

NEW from Canon: Canon Outdoor Photography Tips - a good read!

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