Author Archives: Geoff

Melbourne dusk, a photo by GRehmet on Flickr. The days might be getting shorter, but the opportunities for photos during my commute are improving again!

It’s Autumn.  That means Winter is on its way.  That also means calm mornings and sunrise on my ride to work. Autumn also means that it is much more worthwhile carrying a camera while on my bike on the way to work!  That means the anticipation of spectacular sunrises and sunsets.

Facebook integration for a blog tends no longer to be an option – it is a necessity now. One of the aspects of this is getting the correct thumbnail image to display when sharing a post to Facebook.  Getting it working properly has frustrated me no end.  I am in good company, as can be [...]

I am a keen follower of David Hobby’s strobist blog.  One of the shots that he described, which probably impressed me the most was his levitating compact fluorescent light bulb.  So much so, that I could not resist remaking the shot. Before going into some of the detail, I will do exactly like David, and [...]

For the record: I never get on my bike without my helmet. This picture would be all wrong though if these two were wearing helmets.  While I might benefit from a skid lid if I were to hit the tarmac at 40km/h, these two would hardly benefit from brain buckets while tootling along at 15 [...]

Infrared photography is a relatively new pursuit that I have been dabbling with.  In fact, it is about six months ago that I had my old Canon Powershot G5 modified to shoot near infrared photos. I have found shooting infrared to be a totally different experience.  It has been a very rewarding one. Now I [...]

Probably the most rewarding time to take photos while commuting by bike is on the way home in the evenings in winter.  The light of dusk especially creates some of the most magical scenes.  When summer arrives and it is light until late, I sometimes miss the early dusk and the magical light of winter. [...]

I hate the wind.  More precisely, I loathe and detest the wind!  When you are on a bike, there is no such thing as a good wind.  The wind that pushes you from behind for a minute will obstruct you for an hour when you turn a bend.  That is not true if you are [...]