I’m a couple of months late on this one. We were moving and I didn’t have access to my computer. I couldn’t process and get all our shots sorted. No further explanation needed – Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks, taken from an apartment party in Rose Bay.
Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 55 mm | f/4 | 2 sec | ISO 200
Today, we’re going back to Melbs. This is another shot of St. Paul’s Cathedral in central Melbourne. We spent the day walking around the city. We saw a few of the various neighborhoods. We walked back along the river. At one point, just after this shot, we were right on the Yarra river. We looked east towards the Melbourne Cricket Grounds and Rod Laver arena. The Australian Open is held there. Additionally, we looked west back into the CBD. The weather was incredible for most of the day. I think I could follow the summer. I could spend Nov-Feb in the Southern Hemisphere. Then, I could spend June-Sept in the Northern Hemisphere. I’m not really sure who would pay me to do that. However, I keep hearing about winemakers. They spend the late summer and harvest in California, Oregon, and Washington. They ferment the wine and lay it down in barrels. Then, they travel to Australia and New Zealand. They repeat the process during the summer and harvest in the Southern Hemisphere. Now, that sounds like the good life to me!!!
Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 43mm | f/7.1 | 1/400th | ISO100
During out stay in Australia over the holidays, we went wine tasting in the Yarra Valley outside of Melbourne. We visitied Sticks Winery, which was good, relatively easy drinking, fruit focused wines. We visited Domaine Portet Winery, which was much more refined and classy. Finally, we visited Tarrawarra winery, which was generally good wine, but had a feel of mass-production behind it. We also had lunch at Tarrawarra, which was really good food, but the service was a little pretentious. The photo below was looking out from the tasting room and over the grounds, which were beautiful. Again, used HDR technique to give slightly more depth.
Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 31mm | f/18 | 1/250th | ISO400
In 7 days I’ll once again be on a jet – this time headed back down under for a two week trip to Melbourne, Australia and Queenstown, NZ. Last time we went to Oz, we drove half way around the south island and only got to do a little wine tasting. This time – we have our adventures set out for us!!! I’ll be posting from the road and uploading some photos. Until then, you can have a few pictures from our Africa trip.
Canon Rebel XSi | Canon EF 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5 | 35mm | f/7.1 | 1/200 | ISO100
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