Happy, Lazy Snapper

Anyone who's known me for a while, knows me as a prolific snapper (read photographer) which was brought about from a love of photography instilled into me as a teenager when I was given an old camera by my grandparents as our family moved out to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the early 80s.
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​The landscape of picture postcard perfect islands and a family of five venturing onto this tropical paradise gave me plenty to capture. I think I still have the foggy, not quite focussed first few snaps somewhere in our family archives. Shortly after we arrived and I had been snapping away, one of my teachers offered to sell me her old camera. Well that set me off snapping Island life and my friends and family even more intently!

The restrictions back in those days were that I had to save my pocket money or sweet talk Mum into buying more film and paying for the processing! Then there was the wait once you'd sent your precious roll of film off! Sometimes it would take a month to come back to you! Imagine these days having to wait a whole month to see if you'd chopped your subject’s head off in that happy snap you took at their birthday party!

​​Fast forward about 20 years to the early 2000s. The advent of higher resolution, cheaper digital cameras! Add to that a young family of my own (THE CUTEST kids EVER! if I do say so myself!) and a new adventure into the East Kimberley.  Well!  There was endless subject matter, inspiring, stunning, magnificent children, and the landscape wasn't too shabby either! ;)  Add to that my new job as Telecentre Co-ordinator in Wyndham, which was responsible for producing the monthly community newspaper, The Bastion Bulletin. Well that was all the encouragement I needed! I do possibly need to check through my iCloud Photo Library and reduce some of the 106,000 (yes, THOUSAND) images I have in there! The only restrictions on snapping these days are data storage and my energy levels!

I was always a lazy digital photographer. Now I’m a lazy iPhone-ographer! And am I impressed with the swag of new features engineered into the iPhone 11 Pro! I love the optical zoom (been around for a while now!) and the 120˚ super wide-angle option (watch the hand placement when using this mode - it captures very close to the edge of your phone!). The 12mp resolution hasn't changed in years, and I will admit to photo envy from time to time when I have seen some of the Samsung Galaxy snaps! They are crisp and clean! They cram those pixels into their 16mp snap to stunning effect!

​​I think though, the latest addition to the iPhone, the low light feature, is my favourite to date! The engineering in the native camera app, definitely makes it easier to be a lazy snapper these days!
On my recent trips away, I spent some downtime walking through Sydney's George St. Now I’m not usually a cityscape type of person, but the lights and the lines drew me in for a shot, straight down the middle of George St, the Queen Victoria Building and Town Hall all sang out to be snapped too!  I am pretty happy with the results!

Transiting through Darwin on the way home, we wandered down to the Waterfront, where we chanced upon the "Bruce Munro: Tropical Light" exhibition. well, we captured his work and the evening sky with 'attempted build-up' clouds! I was again a happy snapper!
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It might just inspire me to start being a more prolific snapper again! Watch this space!