On Saturday night, I went along to a PIP get-together in Como.
Steve had made a few steel wool spinners, designed to hold some burning steel wool while someone swings it around their head.

Once it got dark, the fun began! Here are a few photos:

Como, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @10mm, 5 sec, f/5, ISO100

Como, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @10mm, 3.2 sec, f/5, ISO100

The previous two photos were taken using a tripod. The next photo was hand-held, as my daughter was using my tripod at the time.

Como, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @16mm, 2 sec, f/4.5, ISO500

For more photos from the evening shoot, see my gallery.

Last week, while driving down Mounts Bay Road, I noticed that as the sun rose above the hills, it provided some interesting silhouettes of the traffic on the Narrows Bridge that crosses the Swan River between Perth and South Perth.
With the Mandurah train line also crossing the Narrows Bridge, traffic across the bridge includes cars, trucks, trains and cyclists.

I immediately started thinking about returning to take some photos...so on Friday morning, Adrian and myself made our way to Perth, with the aim being some silhouette photos of traffic on the Narrows Bridge as the sun rose. We positioned ourselves on the north shore of the Swan, between the Narrows and the old Swan Brewery, where we would be almost orthogonal to the Narrows bridge.

Narrows Bridge before dawn

(3 image stitch)

Narrows Bridge, Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @24mm, f/2.8, ISO400

With the sun still below the horizon, some great orange colours began appearing in the sky, resulting in some great silhouettes of traffic on the Narrows bridge.

With a train crossing the bridge in each direction every 5 minutes, we had quite a few opportunities to capture silhouettes of the train.

The image below shows some easily-recognisable shapes, with a Transperth bus, a van, and a train, all heading north (ie, right-to-left) into the city.

Early this morning, a few keen souls met in South Perth to catch some dawn photos. We had the following group:

• Andreas
• Bas
• Adrian
• Sam
• myself

After catching some photos of the somewhat disappointing sunrise, we wandered up the river to the Narrows, had a hot breakfast at a nearby cafe, and then headed off to work for the day.

Here's the very first photo I took this morning:

Perth skyline before dawn

Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @22mm, 15 sec, f/8, ISO100

I'll post more photos from this morning once I find the time to go through them.

In response to a blog post by Jamie for a meet and greet session for photographers in Fremantle, a few work colleagues and myself made our way down to Fremantle on Saturday afternoon.

It was a cold, wet and blustery afternoon, and some of us got a little damp making our way to the agreed meeting place at the E Shed markets.

If my memory serves me correctly, the following people turned up:

• Jamie
• Neal
• Kirk
• Mel
• Clint and girlfriend Bree
• Adrian with wife Pauline and 1 year old son Chris
• Sam
• myself with 10 year old son Ashley

Dylan joined us briefly when we stopped at Kailis for a drink.

Apparently Jamie and Neal had met at one of Christian Fletcher's workshops, and so had Kirk, Mel and Clint. Sam, Adrian and myself work together, and have been out shooting together numerous times.

After introductions and a chat at the E Shed markets, we wandered around Fremantle, looking for the perfect door to shoot ;-)

Later in the evening, the majority of the group decided to head across to the North Mole, but as my car was in the opposite direction, and it was getting cold and late, we split up.

It was great to meet these guys, and share some stories. I'm certainly interested in getting together with them in the future for some more photography action.