I've previously written about how you should Tag Your Camera by adding a cheap pet tag containing your contact details. If your camera is ever mis-placed, or stolen and discarded, with your contact details attached to it, you have a chance of getting your camera back.

That blog post continues to be particularly popular, so I thought I'd do a followup post.

I've found a source of cheap pet tags, so there's definitely no excuse for not having a pet tag on your camera!

The tag shown in my previous post was a computer-engraved tag, and I wasn't particularly happy with it, as the engraving wasn't very deep, making it a little difficult to read, and I suspect it'll get worse when the tag has some scratches from wear-and-tear.

Egon from Ozengrave, located in Queensland, Australia, sells hand-engraved annodised aluminium pet tags for just AUD$5.95 each, with free postage to anywhere in Australia. Postage overseas is just AUD$3.

Ozengrave provides a choice of over 40 shapes, ranging from a circle, heart, star and more, with most shapes available in a choice of sizes and colours.

RedBubble.com are having a great canvas print sale, with prices on all canvas prints reduced by 20%. This sale will only last until Sunday night, so if you've been considering a canvas print, now is the time to order one (or more)!

I've previously written a detailed review of a canvas print, and I can definitely recommend the RedBubble.com canvas prints, as they are very good quality.

Note that RedBubble recently introduced a larger sized canvas print. The largest size used to be 610mm on the longest side, but they now have an extra large size at 762mm long.

Have a look through the many canvas prints available on RedBubble, and be sure to have a look through my own prints on redbubble too.

Another shot from Liffey Falls in central Tasmania, taken last year while there on a brief holiday.

This is one of the minor falls, namely the third cascade. A slightly longer exposure helps smooth out the water in this photo, giving it that smooth silky look.

Third Cascade at Liffey Falls

Liffey Falls, Tasmania
Canon EOS 350D, 10-22mm @22mm, 8/10 sec, f/13, ISO100

We're making the most of daylight savings, which is due to finish in a couple of weeks. With the sunrise occurring at around 7:10am, we can get some photos of the pre-sunrise colours, and the sunrise itself, without having to get out too early.
However, once daylight savings finishes, the sunrise will be an hour earlier, and it'll be a bit harder to get out of bed to catch the pre-sunrise colours!

I got together with some colleagues early on Thursday morning, in South Perth. The forecast for that morning was for a chance of a shower, so we were hoping for some clouds over the city, along with some sunrise colours in the clouds. The clouds were certainly there...but the sunrise didn't produce much colour in the sky.

Here is one of the better shots from the morning.

city skyline in black and white

South Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @34mm, 5 sec, f/10, ISO100

I recently reviewed the Phottix Cleon wireless remote, which was released by Phottix in February 2008. Since that time, Phottix have not been resting on their laurels, but were busy designing a new and improved version.

A new model, the Phottix Cleon II, was released earlier this year, in January 2009. It provides a number of improvements and enhancements since the Cleon.

Thanks to HK Supplies for providing a Phottix Cleon II C8 for review purposes.



Most of the functionality of the Phottix Cleon II is the same as that of the Phottix Cleon. Having recently reviewed the Cleon, rather than duplicating much of the information from the Cleon review in this Cleon II review, please refer to my earlier review of the Cleon.

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.

Here's a shot from early this morning, looking east over the Swan River from Kings Park.

While a sunrise can be interesting, I prefer the colours in the sky in the 45 minutes prior to the actual sunrise. While they may look a little dull to the naked eye, a long exposure can provide some great results.

This photo was taken about 30 minutes before the sun started to peek over the horizon.

pre-dawn Perth sky

Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @15mm, 1/2 sec, f/8, ISO100

The Phottix Cleon is a combination wired and wireless shutter release for cameras. It was released in February 2008 at PMA 2008 (Photo Marketing Association tradeshow).

The Cleon consists of a compact wireless transmitter and wireless receiver, and can be configured to use any one of 16 wireless channels.

The receiver can be used as a wired remote shutter release, and supports single shot mode, as well as bulb mode for long exposures.

Alternatively, the Cleon can be used as a wireless remote, with the transmitter used to trigger the camera's shutter remotely. The specifications indicate the wireless range is upto 100 metres.

Thanks to HK Supplies for providing a Phottix Cleon C8 for review purposes.