USA tour Oct 2011 - Death Valley

The first photo is taken in Death Valley itself, the second was en-route between Mammoth Lakes and Death Valley

USA tour Oct 2011 - Yosemite

USA tour Oct 2011 - San Francisco

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, behaved perfectly for us. One day swathed in the famous fog, the next in brilliant sunshine.

USA photo tour Oct 2011 - Niagara Falls

Yep, another tick off the bucket list - a helicopter flight over Niagara Falls

USA tour - Oct-Nov 2011 - New York

Yes it's time to put some USA photos up here. Along with 4 other members of the photo tour, I was invited to share some pics with club members at our meeting last nights. This is what I put up:

New York:

Benalla Camera Club Feb 2012

Another year has started for the camera club, and an new year of challenges.

The February challenges are: Mounted Prints - Animals, and EDPI - Open
Here are my entries:

Mounted print: Abby (taken with my new macro lens)

Mounted print: The squirrel (yes - taken in America)

EDPI: The skier (yes I am putting this up again as I like to keep all my competition entries together. This photo also appeared in out local newspaper.

EDPI: Antelope Canyon (again this is the second time you've seen this)

The Skier

This is my entry in the Australian Photographer January on line competition. I took it while sitting in the back of my friends boat with the camera on continuous. I've cranked the ISO to 1600, set the aperture at 5.6 and just hoped for the best.