{"id":490,"date":"2006-05-31T08:39:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T16:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=490"},"modified":"2006-05-31T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T17:02:40","slug":"sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drew pointed out that I never posted about the rest of my Australia trip (oops!), so here goes. My next and final stop after Ayers Rock was Sydney.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t post about Sydney right away because I wasn’t very happy with many of my first photos there. My camera had by that time acquired a lot of debris among the various parts, putting in a lot of blurry black squiggly marks on the actual photos themselves. I didn’t even notice it the day I took them until I reviewed the photos later on the LCD display and saw the worst of them. Most of them were too subtle to see on the small screen.<\/p>\n

The photo above is one of the relatively clean ones. I took it at Darling Harbour, which was just across the street from my hotel. The next one below is also from there, but I had to clone out some of the blurry dust from the sky.<\/p>\n

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When I did start to notice the debris, I cursed a blue streak and went back to my hotel to clean my camera … because even blowing on the lens or on the mirror apparatus inside the camera body wasn’t clearing out the dust and hairs.<\/p>\n

This is the way back to my hotel from Darling Harbour:<\/p>\n

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If you look closely, you can see “Crowne Plaza” on the left.<\/p>\n

I swear. I tried, and I tried to clean the darn thing with my cleaning tools—the little brush thing with the air pump, the swabs, the special tissue paper for lenses. Nothing helped. So I knew that even though pro shops would never recommend it, I needed to get myself a can of compressed air somehow. And since H.E. sent me on a mission to back up the photos on my now full 2GB chip, I decided to hit two birds with one stone and try to get both things done at some photo shop.<\/p>\n

Here’s where I went:<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, they didn’t have any compressed air cans, but at least I got the photos on my 2GB chip backed up to two DVDs. In fact, this photo was the last taken on that chip. Hereafter, I was on the smaller 1GB chip for the rest of my trip. I had to get the air can at another shop, where I also finally<\/em> bought myself a circular polarizer.<\/p>\n

So the photos taken the next day were much better.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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Drew pointed out that I never posted about the rest of my Australia trip (oops!), so here goes. My next and final stop after Ayers Rock was Sydney. I didn’t post about Sydney right away because I wasn’t very happy with many of my first photos there. My camera had by that time acquired a lot of debris among the various parts, putting in a lot of blurry black squiggly marks on the actual photos themselves. I didn’t even notice…<\/p>\n

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