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Clare and I just got home from a very relaxing little holiday in Fiji. We went over to visit my sister and brother-in-law who live there in paradise now as he is an executive chef at one of the large resorts. We caught up with them for a few days and then headed down to the brand new Intercontinental resort and spa, on the ‘worlds best’ listed Natadola beach.
I picked up a cheap underwater housing from here the day before I left to play around with and see if I could get some cool underwater shots. I wouldn’t have trusted the housing enough to put the D3 in it, but I had absolutely no problem putting my old D200 with 20mm 2.8 lens attached. Surprisingly it worked really well and stayed totally dry (even in rough seas), although it was a bit of a hassle to access a lot of the camera functions I use regularly like exposure compensation and ISO. Here’s a few snapshots from the trip, I will try to do a full review on the $149 AUD underwater ‘housing’ in the near future. More photos below the cut. Continue reading ‘Snapshots from Fiji’
Yesterday the weather turned quite nasty here in Sydney and I noticed the swell was pretty big and that dangerous surf warnings had been issued.
I grabbed my cameras and headed down to my two local beaches, Coogee and Bronte. Coogee is usually a pretty mellow beach and doesn’t often get big waves but it was like a giant washing machine, windy and super messy. Bronte was much the same except that there was a bunch of young groms hanging on to the rope on the edge of the ocean pool and getting themselves smashed by the double and sometimes triple overhead sets that were coming through.
All in all, great entertainment for a Sunday arvo!
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