Thursday, September 10, 2009

Day 9 “Middle Earth”

As I’ve not seen the “Lord of the Rings” or “Narnia” movies, much of Tuesday’s activity was lost on me. Queenstown frequently hosts  Hollywood  movie crews, and the “Photo Safari” I took went to many of the locations.

_IGP7097 8-09-2009 3-25-45 PM Forest at Paradise, near Glenorchy.

I was more interested in seeing a dense, moss covered forest than the fact several movies were shot there.

Another unintentional side benefit was to add to my collection of photos of WW1 War Memorials. The one at Glenorchy is similar to the ones in most Aussie towns, save for the hat being worn like a scout’s.

_IGP7097 8-09-2009 1-34-48 PM
The Photo part of the Safari was a bit overwhelming. The revelations of what happens when you set your digital camera to Manual instead of Auto, and have an expert show you how to use it, open up a whole new world.

Consequently, the next few days photo’s may be different as I force
myself to only use the Manual mode.
This was the last shot of the day:

_IGP7097 8-09-2009 4-05-20 PMCreek near Paradise

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