101 Dalmations but instead it’s 101 Photos… and now 101 Posts.
And 101 Friends. 
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Just wanna say the apple blossoms are beautiful, the view of moon against daylight is pretty, Moogle holding controller is precious and nachos are real, real delicious.
Without the context of today’s photos I sound like I’m off my rocker. 
But they’ve such a great variety and I love them all.
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That’s no moon!!
I like the lighting in your submission! Are you painting something currently with the canvas in the photo?
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Thank you! I didn’t even notice it until after I’d taken the picture, but I like it too.
Those are my mum’s canvases—she was painting last night and was leaving some of her work to dry on the veranda. She started teaching herself how to paint last year; it’s become her big creative outlet. So we’ve got art all over the place! I think it’s great. As Photo Club continues I’m sure you’ll see some of her work here and there.
I’m very bad at painting and drawing and any kind of visual art, but I love writing fiction. Lately I’ve been waking up super early to write all morning and it’s been very fulfilling for me. That’s my outlet of choice!
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Such a creative household! And how nice for your mum! My mum got into art the last couple of years too and she does it every evening now! The creative writing sounds like a really nice outlet and I love that feeling where something fulfills you so much that you can’t wait to wake up for it, such a bliss feeling. I’ve been wanting to write my own animated show as a creative project, I haven’t taken on a creative project in such a long time but it’s what drives me and I really want that back in my life again!
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Hey hey it’s day eleven of The Grouvee Photo Challenge. We’ve got more wonderful glimpses into everyone’s day which continues to bring me joy. Happy snapping everyone!
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Perhaps the swaggiest diary to ever exist
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I forgot to ask, how long have you been doing bird / wildlife photography? Do you have a setup you’ve been using for a while?
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Pretty sure if I had a diary today I’d have all the exact same pictures stuck all over it. Hell yeah, Gamecube!
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Fewer than nine months at this point, I believe. I am/was primarily a film photographer and was still shooting 35mm film as my main medium until recently. I still shoot film but I split my time also shooting digital.
I only just started shooting digital, and digital is a much easier medium to work with than film for wildlife photography. It’s also much less expensive because I don’t have to buy film and pay for colour processing.
I’m shooting a Fuji X-T5 that I purchased last year as my primary digital body and am currently using a Fuji 50-140mm f2.8 as my telephoto for wildlife. It’s far too short, and while I am extending it with a teleconverter I do need to eventually invest in something with greater reach for birds.
I’ve largely picked up wildlife photography because of partner. I would say my main subjects the rest of the time are cityscapes, architecture, abstracted objects and scenes, and some landscape sprinkled in. I used to work as a photographer ages ago and shot things like events and weddings. So wildlife is very new to me. None of my own film cameras even have autofocus which makes the a terrible choice for wildlife compared to contemporary gear.
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I had a notebook that I hodgepodged Nintendo Power cutouts onto. I think I still have it. I never fully covered it but what little I did was a lot of fun and I felt so much pride about expressing my interests hahaha.
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It really is adorable and kind of informative looking back through this stuff and seeing all the things I was super passionate about!
I can’t share a photo of this for obvious reasons but I can at least share an anecdote: while it was a lot of video game stuff that I thought was sick as hell on the front of the diary, the space on the back is fully taken up with a photo of me and my friends from school. When I flipped it around I let out an audible “aww”. 
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That sounds so precious.
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Nice to hear you shoot a lot of film, I feel like it really teaches you to get to know cameras well and some of the technical stuff to make shots look nice, but it also gave me a deeper appreciation for the photos I got wrong! I found it quite expensive so I don’t really do it anymore but definitely valued those photos I did take a lot more.
That’s a nice lens range and a nice low fstop too! But yeah must be difficult for bird photography. You’ve done well to capture things in motion, I always struggled with that. Should probably have turned the burst mode on though! I have a 70-300mm lens but it’s a pretty awful cheap one I got years ago! And I get the city and architecture shots from your previous photos! Really nice stuff:)
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I’m very comfortable shooting film because it’s what I’ve shot my whole life, and I think I look at the world with the way light affects film in mind so It feels like a second skin. Digital has been hard, it forces you to think differently because light affects a sensor differently than it does film, and there is no chemistry as a second layer to the way images are produced. I’m still really getting my bearings with digital.
It can be. Black & white is more reasonable especially since I can process my own. I’ve thought about getting a colour chemistry set for home to bring my costs down, but it’s more temperamental than black & white. I try to develop when there are discounts offered on processing, which means I shoot fewer rolls in general. At least digital can pick up from there and keep me busy.
It’s not bad. With the 1.5 crop of the X-T5 sensor the 50-140mm is equivalent to a 75-210mm, which isn’t terrible. I have a 2x teleconverter which gives me a 150-420mm equivalent, but the teleconverter does slow the lens down a bit and soften the images slightly. I need a bit more reach than that to really get things like shore birds.
The bonus is that the sensor on the X-T5 is 41 megapixel so I have a lot of room to crop and get in closer in post. But having greater optical range would be ideal.
One key for this is to shoot at 1/2000th of a second to freeze flight motion. I recently learned that crop sensors like my Fuji sensor amplify the effect of motion so the ideal is to shoot at 1/3000the of a second. I haven’ really put that in practice yet, so a lot of shots I don’t end up sharing have been less than crisp in terms of sharpness.
Lenses like that can still be pretty handy, as long as you have enough light to support them. But since a lost of wildlife photography is done when there is ample light, they can be great compact telephoto zooms.
Thanks!
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Day twelve of the Grouvee Photo challenge is already here and brings with it another wide variety of vistas.
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Getting lost in @georgeypoorgey’s baby blues…
Everyone better get ready to take their SCARIEST snaps for Friday the 13th! 
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Day thirteen is here, and we have some new submissions for The Grouvee Photo Challenge for Friday the thirteenth!.
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I took a bunch of photos but they’re on my camera…
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You can submit one for today later. I still have two days where my photos were on film and are waiting on developing so I’m posting them later. No worries if you need more time, anyone can submit late.
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