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Canberra Meet! Botanics Gardens 29/1

PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:17 pm
by MHD
G'day Guys!
Well for those who can make it lets have a Meet in the Botanic Gardens meeting on the grass outised Winfreds cafe at 4.30PM next saturday 29/1

Bring your family (My wife, Louise and 4 month old Daughter Izzy will be there... Izzy is a great subject for photos!)

I will have my G1227LVL and acratech head for people to play with and my lenses (very short of Birddogs but I have the 70-300G plus the 50/1.4 and the sb-80DX)

At 6pm Jazz in the part is on for those who wish to stay (we will) which is a fun event!

Come along and meet your local members!

Just so I know let me know if you can make it by posting here!

PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:42 pm
by christiand
Hi,

My wife and I will be there.
See you at the Botannical Garden.

Cheers
CD

PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:23 pm
by MHD
Awesome! Peter? Thommo?
Everyone else!

Come along!

PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:35 pm
by ru32day
We'll be there. Will probably bring our son and stay on for the Jazz as well.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:53 am
by MHD
Excellent! We were there for the Jazz last weekend and it was great....

I just have to talk to some one about organising the weather!

PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:57 am
by birddog114
MHD wrote:Excellent! We were there for the Jazz last weekend and it was great....

I just have to talk to some one about organising the weather!


Bring along with you 10 men tent and aerogard + stove etc...!
It's gonna to be rain! :lol:
:D :D Hope not and wish you guy have a nice day! :D :D

PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:52 pm
by MHD
hehe... thanks for the weather forecast!

But it looks like we may get showers... fortunately there is shelter!

Were are the others... hmm... I may have to start PMing!

PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:32 pm
by Link
Thanks for your message MHD :D

I don't think I can make it this week-end but I'll make sure I keep my week-end free when the next meet is announced in the Canberra locale.

Link.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:45 pm
by MHD
No worries :)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:05 am
by MHD
Any theme or anything you want covered in particular?

At the moment I am thinking a particularly laid back meet with a bottle of sparkling at the gardens with some gear to compare...

If anyone wants anything in particular let me know...

PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:11 pm
by christiand
Thank you everyone who came along.

We had Mr and Mrs christiand, Mr and Mrs MHD, little MHD and Mr and Mrs ru32day plus their son attend. I allmost forgot Steve and his sons.
Steve is lurking for the time being.
This was a first get together with Canberran members who hadn't met before.
We were checking each other out and quickly engaged in friendly discussions about our camera gear, the temptations of Birddog114, and where we were coming from, our back grounds, photographic experience and why we were doing this.
We were sharing our experiences.
We had quite some fun putting our flashgun power into gear.
Everyone has an external flash that can be turned into a remote flash.
It was very interesting to have three flashguns illuminate an image.
We are starting to plan and implement shooting meets and tutorials.
I believe that we have great potential and also the right environment to form a cooperative (so to speak) that will beneficary for every member.
We are in the process of defining the framework for a night shooting mission in a fortnight.


Thanks again and let us know what the members would like to do in a fortnight.
I'd like to suggest that we concentrate on the area between National Library and National Gallery just before sunset, Saturday 12-02-05
19:00 at the National Library.

Cheers
CD