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Wally

Matt Corr — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:45:21 +0000

Now I am settling back in at home in Australia, thought I would post a simple update.

Around our pool area there is a lizard that appears occasionally. My folks have christened the lizard as “Wally”. According to them, Wally likes to hang around the pool. He has been known to swim through the water, drink from it and generally stands and poses (in an upright position) next to it.

When I first came home I saw him a few times and thought it would be good to get a zoomed in photo. For the next week, whenever I came out onto the back veranda I would look for Wally. But he was nowhere to be seen. I began to wonder if he has gone. Recently I did see him a few times, but by the time I got my camera he was gone.

Yesterday during very heavy rains I was finally able to capture him. He was just sitting next to the pool in the pouring rain.

It was a bit hard to focus through the rain, but this one shot below came out ok. So here’s Wally, the guardian of the pool!

Camera Upgrade

Matt Corr — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:39:24 +0000

On the 28th of October, I was able to upgrade my Canon 30D DSLR (which was sadly damaged in New Zealand) with the new Canon 50D.

After checking out the features of the new body I am incredibly happy. However I found out that the old battery grip was also damaged a bit. The vertical shutter button had a noticeable lag. Sometimes it would not even activate at all. As a work-around I could just use the main shutter button but it would be awkward for portrait shots.

So thanks to an early Christmas present, today I got the BG-E2N battery grip!

This now completes my camera upgrade and I am extremely pleased to have this before I go to Europe (3 days from now!)

Things I like about the 50D:

New menu system
Massive high resolution screen
Lens illumination correction
Better weather sealing
Higher mega pixel rating. (gone from 8.2 to 15)
Takes great shots from what I have seen so far

So all European blog posts will be with my new camera! Can’t wait!

(thanks to gav for the photos of my camera above!)

Smugmug galleries updated

Matt Corr — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:34:00 +0000

I finally got a chance to do some smugmug updates. So some new galleries are online now from our time in Auckland.

We have the Auckland Sky tower visit here.

Also a trip to the Auckland Museum is here.

All of the New Zealand photos will be in a new category called “New Zealand” from my smugmug page.

You can get directly there by http://www.mattcorr.com/New%20Zealand

Enjoy!

Offical Photographer?

Matt Corr — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:12:00 +0000

Thought I would make a new post.

Last Sunday, Jo and I went to a meeting of the HIP club at south west Brisbane. It was good to catch up with old friends and meet some new people. Sandra who is a member of the GOC for the Australia Deaf Games asked if I wanted to be an official photographer for the event to be held at the Gold Coast in January 2008.

Wow.. now this should be interesting. and busy! Nothing is official yet, but it will be interesting to follow especially when it come close to January. Should get some good exposure for my main website. Which one? This one. Think I have linked it enough? No? Ok, I am done.

New Camera Gear

Matt Corr — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:53:00 +0000

I figured I might make a new post for a new year

Well I finally got my second L glass lens… the Canon 24-70mm F/2.8 L EF lens to be exact!
If you want to see what it looks like, click here.

I love this lens. It is most likely my new main lens. with the 17-40 L now for wide angle shots and the 70-300 IS USM for long shots.

Some sample shots so far are:

and

Some samples of shots I have shot are available on my smugmug site.

I look forward to using this lens in the future. More to come.