First Visit to Adelaide Botanic Gardens

This morning, we visited a camera store at Westfield Marion Shopping Centre to print 23 of my RedBubble photographs in 8″x12″ format.
We also picked up three small folders that can hold about 120 photographs in 6″x4″ format.

These folders will serve as ‘easy-to-display’ books for my online gallery in a real-world location. I’ll share more about this in another article.

Later, we headed into the city to collect some photographs I had forgotten to pick up on Friday: an additional 25 x 6″x4″ prints, adding to the 58 we got last week.

Once all our errands were done, we spent the afternoon at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. It was the best four hours I’ve had in the Adelaide CBD in a very long time – because it was free entry and my camera was welcome without people asking why I had it. Good times!

I discovered buildings, structures, lakes, and cacti that I never knew existed in the city. We even found a cactus and palm house I had never seen before. We photographed ducklings -luckily I had my zoom lens, because they move so fast! We also found native flowers buzzing with bees, and Sarah’s Macro lens came in handy for those shots.

But I stuck with my standard old 28mm lens.

The wide-angle was used when the 28mm failed to perform. It is old – it was built for an SLR, not a dSLR. I thought it wouldn’t matter, but it does. Once you get accustomed to having a stabilizer within your lens or body, either better manual control and motor-driven glass – it’s near impossible to go back to old lenses.

I found glass-houses, lamp-posts, petrified tentacles, concrete mushrooms, a glass wave, a rose-bush archway and heaps of other shadows and tricks of light.

Want to see the photographs we shot in the Botanical Gardens today?

Go through all my flickr photographs tagged Adelaide Botanic Gardens dated 01 September 2007. Only 12 out of 34 selected, cropped, and compressed photographs were uploaded from the 600 shots taken over the four hours we were there. That return ratio isn’t too bad!