Australian Landscape Photography by Nick Rains

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The Safari

The Flinders Ranges is an unspoiled wilderness area brimming with wildlife in its natural state, displays geology and fossils of world-class importance and has some of the most spectacular scenery in Australia. It is a place where those with an eye for capturing stunning landscapes, gorges, ridges and magnificent gum trees must go…..

This Flinders Ranges (Wilpena Pound) based safari is about enjoying your photography and is aimed at teaching you how to “Communicate” through your photography in a relaxed and creative environment. A real opportunity to learn, enjoy and experience in such a wonderful environment.

Up to 1000 photographers are expected at Campbell's Cove in Sydney on Sunday making it possibly the biggest gathering of photographers ever in this country. Please turn up if you can spare an hour or so on Sunday - and it will be a lot of fun too.

Full details will be posted on the AFA website

Please turn up at 10.00am, Ken Duncan and I will be making a couple of short speeches at 10.30 and then we will be doing a group photo of the whole group. After that feel free to shoot as many pictures of the Opera Huse and Harbour Bridge as you like and we have some really good prizes for the best photo taken on the day.

We finish at about 12.00pm and will head to The Orient Hotel in The Rocks for a well earned beer.

Lumix announced a bunch of new cameras yesterday, including a 3D video camera for under $2000. What I was most interested to see was the new LX5. The LX3 was generally regarded as a very fine compact camera and one of a very few that shot raw and was capable for reproduction quality images. The LX5 keeps those features and adds some more.

There is enormous interest in the video making abilities of the various new DSLRs from Nikon, Canon and Panasonic. I have been shooting videos for web delivery for about 12 months now and have learned a huge amount about the whole complex realm of video - something that is a lot harder than it first appears.

Pieter de Vries ACS and I have teamed up to offer a workshop for those who have recognised the need to incorporate video into their businesses; Pieter brings decades of experience as a documentary cameraman working with high end video and film cameras and I offer the perspective of 28 years as a stills photographer who has recognised and developed the potential of HD video for my business. Read on for more details...