G'day before we start in to the photography details of my blog, let’s start by introducing myself to you all. By trade I'm a mechanical draughtsman, having completed a four year apprenticeship in Mechanical draughting in a Sydney dockyard. After five years working in a dockyard I moved on, took 7 months off, and spend 7 months in in Europe mainly based in Dublin Ireland where my wife comes from. During my time in Ireland I spend most of it with my Minolta X 700 SLR. Upon return back to OZ I found a job as a Mechanical draughtsman in a local Slurry pump company where I stayed for 23 years working my way up within the company till I became the drawing office manager of the development Engineering office, After 23 years there the mining industry hit a few rough patches and the company went through a series of redundancies, I was one of them. This was a great benefit to my photography as I had already picked up a new job, knowing the redundancies were coming, so work wise I was Ok, so with a portion of the redundancy package, my local camera shop benefited and so did my camera bag, not my back, 3 new L series canon lenses came my way as well as the 1.4 extender. So all worked out well, work wise, and photography wise, my camera bag is now quite health with 5 L series lens to fill it out, much to my backs delight, but still each weekend I load up and head out, I try and get out each weekend. A lot of the time I head to the local botanical gardens the Australian Botanical Gardens, Mount Annan, these are a great spot for Photography, about 12 km of roads and plenty of spots to stop and walk, either on boardwalks paved paths or dirt tracks depending on what you want, there are over 200 different bird species in the gardens so plenty there for everyone, You'll often find me there Saturday Afternoons as each week I try and add in a shot to the google plus #shroomshotsaturday +ShroomshotSaturday group, a great bunch of people from all round the world. So as you see from this blog I'm not a trained photographer and just play around each year getting better. I can still see room for improvements and hope to be getting better each year so far that seems to be working for me. In future blogs I'll cover some of my gear and also try and come up with some behind the sense blogs of how I get some of the shots and lighting I get. Hope you enjoy the blog and shots, I'll add to them as I get good ones.

Thanks for dropping by, hope to see you here again one day.

Glenn.