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September 22, 2007
Ruairi at Willowbank
Ildica & Evie went to the Ballet this afternoon, so Ruairi & I headed off to Willowbank. Ruairi's favourite animal there is the carthorse, who taps with his hoof on the feeding chute beside his paddock when he wants you to feed him. There were plenty of ducklings around, and the lemurs especially were enjoying the spring sunshine.
Posted by conor at 6:00 PM
September 17, 2007
Baaaaaaaaaaaa
Evie's friend Amy is currently looking after a lamb in her back garden after the little fluffy bundle was orphaned on her grandparents' farm out at Rangiora. Evie was very chuffed at being able to give Bella her bottle.
Where's Ruairi, I hear you asking. Amazingly, once he realised there wasn't going to be a horse there (he's very into horses currently), he wasn't interested, and headed off indoors to play with toys.
Posted by conor at 3:27 PM
September 10, 2007
Got a new lens recently
I finally took the plunge and got myself a new lens for my camera. So far (2 weeks later) I'm very pleased with the results, which I should be given the price (gulp). It's a Canon 17-85mm IS USM, meaning it's got Image Stabilisation, and Ultra Sonic Motors for autofocus etc, all contributing to much sharper images, and faster focussing in lower light, with less audible noise. Some sample photos in this folder here, which I know I would never have been able to capture with the kit lens. For a start, it wouldn't have been able to focus fast enough. I think the range is a good combination for what I want to shoot. There are some suggestions about a bit of barrel distortion at wide angle, but I've bought a Photoshop plugin called PTLens, which is reckoned to successfully iron out any image distortions introduced by particular lenses.Posted by conor at 2:48 PM