Recent content by Laurence Griffiths

During the early 1980s, I used an Olympus OM2n, with an Olympus XA as a backup. In about 1984, I sold the XA to a colleague as I wasn't using it very much. I am still regretting that sale. The little XA was just so portable and produced some amazing results. I never found another compact 35mm...

Last one - From Mountain View Road on my way back to the car park. Mountain View Road after Sunset by Laurence Griffiths, on Flickr

I am cropping in post. That gives me more flexibility in how I crop and helps me give the photo a more "balanced" look.

Looking the other way from the photo above: Mountain View Road by Laurence Griffiths, on Flickr

Thank you. I was referring to Queensland's Sunshine Coast. This photo was taken in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland: One Tree Hill viewing point Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the Glass House Mountains.

Usually it is a lovely place to spend an evening..... Watching the encroaching darkness and the change of colours in the sky. I just wished I lived closer. I live about 100km away. - Just a bit too far to do battle with the traffic on the Bruce Highway on a whim.

Thank you. Much appreciated. The view certainly lends itself to the 65:24 / XPAN aspect ratio. - That gave me the opportunity to crop out the fence in the foreground and the excess sky.

On Sunday evening, while on my way home from spending the weekend at my brother's place on the Sunshine Coast, I took a detour via Mountain View Road, Maleny to take a long promised (to myself) sunset / golden hour photo of the Glasshouse Mountains from One Tree Hill. The light wasn't all that...

When my grandmother gave me this as a 6th birthday present: I think that she realised that she had awakened a monster. - She gave me a Kodak Instamatic 33 for my 13th birthday. I must have carried it everywhere. - So many photos of me during my high school and university days show me with...

Thanks. If you have never used Pro Capture, have a play with the ProCapSH2 setting with all focus points set. The Oly 100-400 is a seriously underestimated and undervalued lens. For bird photography, you just have to accept that you'll use it wide open most of the time with high shutter...

Thanks. I was lucky as I just set the OM-1 to use Pro Capture when I thought that the bird was about to take off and "prayed and sprayed".

A week ago I went out with my local camera club for a Coffee & Camera session trying for the "Aussie Trifecta" of Kangaroo, Kookaburra and Koala at Edwards Park, SE of Brisbane. I had no luck with the kangaroo, only managed a vaguely distinguishable photo of a koala through the branches of a...

On 18th April 1980 Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. All sanctions that had been put in place against Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) were lifted. The Zimbabwean Electricity Supply Commission (ESC) decided to complete the construction of the coal fired power station at...

You, the driver and the girls. - Quite the lady killer in your early days, weren't you. That rego on the Land Rover looks Zambian. Was it? PS: In 1975 I was a second year civil engineering student at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, a couple of thousand...

On the way to South Straddie: Taken with a Canon EOS 6D using a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM lens.