Volkswagen Show in Darling Harbour / Convention Centre
Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. Looking forward to test the same shot on the 5D with the 20mm/2.8 lens instead of the 20D with the Sigma 10-20mm/4. Raw, no post-processing or cropping.
24.5.2008 / Sydney, Australia
Charitable Work
Fountain of Hope is an Australian government accredited charitable organisation founded recently by Anthony Lang. It supports homeless children in Australia. We have provided Anthony with a temporary holding page, and will be creating a full website shortly.
The program aims at helping homeless children achieve a better position to be able to find work, manage their finances and build more self-esteem.
Integrated with Paypal’s donation system, the website will help Anthony with his fundraising efforts and will hopefully allow him to grow the charity to a larger size.
The Eye Institute is now Vision Eye Institute
In the light of its recent takeover by the Vision Group, our long-standing customer, The Eye Institute, has now been renamed to Vision Eye Institute. We have just updated the website to reflect this change, and updated the visuals to reflect the updated corporate identity.
Swiss Watch Jewel Bearings
We have launched a small contest… Swiss Watch Jewel Bearings is a competition between John and me, where we want to see which site can be generate more orders.
Swiss made high precision watch jewel bearings at competitive wholesale prices. All orders come with free worldwide shipping from our Australian warehouse.
GTT in Canberra
Biking in Canberra. Shot by Richard Ward on his brand new Canon D40. Thanks, Rich!
4.5.2008 / Canberra, Australia – Photo by Richard Ward
Canberra Footage: Poor result
Still battling with getting some video of our cycling happening… our tripod attachment did work this time, and with the footage still quite wobbly, we figured our camera is not really fast enough to capture enough detail while filming – probably better stick to still images. The result is as follows…
In other news… Canberra is cold but great for cycling. We did one lap around the (artificial) lake, and enjoyed the extensive bicycle path network. Impressive compared to Sydney, to say the least… we also visited the Kingston Markets in the former bus depot for brunch.
Unfortunately, Richard was a bit unlucky this time battling a few flats… frustrating experience, and hopefully his tubes hold up for the next trip!
Nevertheless, we had a fun trip, with lots of riding and freezing.
Now it’s back to Monday Blues.
Cessnock / Newcastle Bike Weekend
While it started on a rainy note, our weekend with Richard and Susanna turned out to be a full cycling success. We headed to Cessnock in the rainy Hunter Valley, but decided to drive rather than ride towards Toronto, spent the night at Morisset, from where we continued on to Belmont South, our camp.
Starting from Belmont, we rode towards Newcastle and joined a good bicycle path at Whitebridge station (pictured on the right). Sorry, the videos are too wobbly to be of any value… still working with Daniel on our tripod attachment.
Other tour notes: We did a total of about 100km, had only about 2 cars honk at us for weird reasons, found some good coffee shops and managed to increase our speed record to 79.4 km/h – on a stretch of Floraville Road from Floraville towards Pacific Highway (see this Profile). Good stuff.
This weekend’s plans: Canberra.
