leannesphotos: Melbourne, 2007

I went to Melbourne with a friend back in 2007 and stayed for a week. I love Melbourne. There's so much to see and do, and of course, Melbourne museum is famous for having the hide of Phar Lap, a legendary racehorse that won a number of races in the early 1930s and died in tragic circumstances. Sadly I cannot use the photo here as I have a friend in it, and don't have her permission to use her photo. I'm very strict on this.

I'll be posting photos in random order and not all of them will be perfect. As I said in my introductory post, I am strictly an amateur and I think it's a good idea to post your bad ones as well as your good ones.

In Melbourne, I was using a Fuji digital, similar to the 8600 Ultra Zoom out today. I liked this camera. It looked and felt like a 'real' camera. By that I mean the ones used by professional photographers as opposed to the 'Instant Photo'. Don't get me wrong, those cameras are good, but even as an amateur photographer I like feeling the camera lens in my hand.

I was once in a class at university on news journalism (about 20 years ago) and we had a newspaper photographer come in to give us a talk. These guys are fantastic and have a great eye for what works visually. This photographer told us it's not the camera, it's the photographer and I do believe that. He said it is possible to take even a disposable camera and take artistic shots with it, if you know what you're doing.

I don't have a lot of photography experience, so my photos do tend to look amateurish in comparison. I also don't have the confidence to take pics with a disposable camera, although One day, perhaps, I will be able to take a course in photography to take it to the next level, but meanwhile I will keep doing what I'm doing.

So without further ado, here are some shots from my visit to Melbourne.