Blog has moved.

This is a note for those few of you who read regularly or who may have subscribed to the blog.

I have opted to take it out to its own domain again. Sadly, I have been unable to acquire hamarana.com again except at huge expense. This might even be a bit of a boon, I’ve now taken hamarana.net instead and that’s where we will be for the forseeable.

I will not be removing this blog, one never knows when changes may occur again. Suffice to say that for now, there will be no posts here, after today, unless something really critical to both sites happens to occur, or if I move back again. This is all highly unlikely.

Blog Themes

Whilst the free wordpress.com account has over 170 themes to choose from, I am still finding a great deal of difficulty making a decision about which to use. What I was using for what was mostly text, is not necessarily suitable for photography except in passing, and vice versa. There is a distinct argument to be had with regard to moving the blog to private hosting again.

I can’t get hamarana.com back again, and I’m not sure I want it anymore, given its chequered history since I let it go over 2 years ago, but hamarana.net is available and if its possible for me to substitute that for my current domain, I’ll do so. I’ll email VentraIP or hit their forums fairly soon. Its a shame I never liked the e-sack.com domain beyond the day I thought of it. Its rubbish and I have not been able to bring myself to use it in any serious way.

More updates soonish.

Olympus XZ-1

Just recently bought this one, instead of the Fuji X-10 (which, knowing me, I’ll get sooner or later anyway, along with the new Canon G1X)… The IQ from this camera, even though its a compact, is just amazing.

Big Aussie Sky

Glass ornament

and if you wondered about how clear and crisp the shots could be, take a look at the following. Its a 100% crop of a shot I took of a friend, across a table. The shot of her right eye is as good as it gets in a compact.

Anna's eye

I’ve more shots on my flickr site, in the Olympus XZ-1 Set, and if ever you wanted a compact that fits in your bag or can be carried in your baggy pants pocket (its never going in those tight jeans) this is the one. Brilliant.

January: Week two

Week two was a bit of a washout for me. I didnt really like much of what I shot.

Almonds

I love almonds so this one is it. I don’t quite know why I didnt submit it…

January: Best of week one

Eucalypt leaf

The leaf was just laying there on this old weathered picnic table. It seemed like a good subject for the single in January, and was the best of my week one submissions.

Weekly shooting

Because of my involvement in the Single in January quest at Serious Compacts I thought I might do a whole year.  I know I cannot commit to shooting every day, but there’s never a week goes by that I don’t go out with the cameras.  So I am going to try to organise myself well enough to post at least one photograph every week. Sometimes there will be more than one.

I had intended to do it on a new blog but really, what a waste. Here is just fine. I’ll use a different theme as well, one which is more in keeping with a blog which now has a stronger leaning toward photography.

Recent from the K-5

I’ve been spending more time with the K-5 lately, as well as my new XZ-1 (Shots from XZ will come in a separate post or 6). I’ve also been spending more time with my old Minolta lenses. They are working out really well (look at the weeds, the callistemon, and the rose). I think points of light, the grevillea, was done with my FA43 or the DA35. Not sure.