Looking up into a beach umbrella.
This photo was taken while on a recent holiday to Patong Beach in Phuket, Thailand.

beach umbrella

Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand
Canon EOS 350D, 100mm f/2.8 macro @100mm, 1/250 sec, f/2.8, ISO100

Some beach chairs and an umbrella waiting for tourists.

Beach Chairs

Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand
Canon EOS 350D, 100mm f/2.8 macro @100mm, 1/2500 sec, f/2.8, ISO100

Producing bookmarks with your photos provides another mechanism for you to share your photos, and can also provide a way to publicise your website. Bookmarks can also make attractive gifts, and can easily be slipped inside an envelope along with a card.
If you run a photography business, you can also use these bookmarks to advertise your business.

completed bookmarks

With photo-quality printers becoming cheaply and readily available, many people will be able to make these photo bookmarks at home. (However, many people may not have a laminator at home. Laminators are reasonably cheap, and many printing places provide laminating services. Alternatively, your workpace may have one, so ask if you can use it.)

While in Phuket recently, we visited the Phuket Monkey School. This is one of the monkeys at the school (note the chain around its neck).
I thought the duotone conversion adds to the gloomy feel of the photo, as the monkey waits for the next show to start.

waiting

Phuket Monkey School, Phuket, Thailand
Canon EOS 350D, 100mm f/2.8 macro @100mm, 1/50 sec, f/2.8, ISO200

Another photo taken with one of my favourite lenses, the Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens.

red gerbera petals

home, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 100mm f/2.8 macro @100mm, 1/5 sec, f/11, ISO100

A couple of photos taken at AQWA (Aquarium of Western Australia), through the aquarium glass.
Despite the high ISO, I was pretty happy with these shots.

a shark speeding past

AQWA, Hillarys Boat Harbour, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 17-85mm IS @44mm, 1/8 sec, f/5, ISO1600

The low angle of the soft evening sunlight provides warm colours on these Norfolk pine needles on the ground.

Norfolk Pine Needles in the evening sun

Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 70-200mm f/4L @200mm, 1/160 sec, f/4, ISO100

With Australians being forced to switch from incandescent globes to compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), it's important to be aware of the fact that CFLs contain mercury. Breaking a CFL will release this mercury, and there are some significant health and safety issues associated with cleaning up this mercury, as well as disposing of CFLs.

On February 2007, the Australian Federal Government announced that incandescent light bulbs would be banned in Australia by the year 2010. Apparently that makes Australia the first country in the world to announce such a ban (ref 1, ref 2).

The primary reason for this ban is to encourage the use of compact fluorescent lamps instead of incandescent globes, as CFLs use approximately 80% less electricity, thus reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
Apparently by 2015, the switch to CFLs will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by up to four million tonnes per year.

Being somewhat captive subjects, my children are often asked to be models when I'm practicing my portraiture photography.
This shot of my oldest daughter is from April 2007.

big eyes!

Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 17-85mm IS @66mm, 1/60 sec, f/5.6, ISO100

I found this spider spinning a web on the washing line in the back yard.

All photos were taken with the Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens, along with a Canon 430EX flash with a homemade reflector attached to it.

spider keeping watch

back yard at home, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 100mm f/2.8 macro @100mm, 1/100 sec, f/9, ISO200

A lonely tree on a roundabout in Burswood, Western Australia.

roundabout tree

Burswood, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 10-22mm @10mm, 1/250 sec, f/9, ISO100

Another photographer, silhouetted against the early morning sun on the Swan River in South Perth. This photo was taken on an early morning photo-shoot with a few other amateur photographers.

photographer silhouette

South Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 70-200mm f/4L @70mm, 1/1000 sec, f/4, ISO100

Here's an overview of all the photos I blogged during the month of March.






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