The Island of Inspiration

I'm sitting in the Qantas lounge in Sydney, waiting for my flight back to the States. Peter Krogh, Bruce Dale and I spent an extra few days here doing workshops on Lightroom, Digital Asset Management, and Panoramas for the AIPP, Australia's premier photographic association. What a great bunch of people! I was particularly impressed with my students who are very qualified professional photographers. Here is a link to a Lightroom gallery of the images they created in the workshop.

Sitting here with some time on my hands I also am reflecting on the last several weeks. Even though I wasn't able to take as many photos as I would have liked because of my other responsiblities, I did take a few that I'm fond of. I particularly like the shot shown here which was really an accident. Jeff Pfleuger and I were eating our sack lunches on the beach south of Bicheno, on the Tasmanian east coast, and I purposely threw bread at a few birds to attract enough of them to make a good photograph. Jeff, seeing what I was up to, jumped up with HIS camera and stepped in front of me, runining, I thought, my shot. Well, of course, the shot with Jeff turned out to be the best of the lot.

I look at it now, an I'm struck with the title that Diane Byrne from the Events Tasmania office gave it when she saw it at our benefit auction. She titled it, "The Island of Inspiration" and she got it right. It's truly been a few weeks of inspiration and I'm happy to be going home to my wife and two daughters, but I am already scheming ways to come back.

(Click on the photo to enlarge it.)

PS. Island of Inspiration was shot with a Nikon D3, 800 ISO, with a 14mm focal length set to f/14 @ 1/800th of a second.