View Full Version : New to APUG, new to Australia
Joachim_I
09-22-2009, 01:30 AM
Hi,
I recently moved from Europe to Melbourne. Found this regional group and thought it might be a good idea to join. My main interest is landscape photography for which I use 6x7 cameras. For everything else, I use 35mm rangefinder cameras. I only shoot slide film since I like to see my results projected.
I am always interested to join any group meetings in my area. It's a pity I missed the Melbourne large format meeting. I could have contributed with a small Linhof 6x9 technical camera which I use with a 6x7 roll film back.
Hope to meet many of you soon.
Joachim
Kevin Caulfield
09-22-2009, 01:33 AM
Hi, Joachim, and welcome from Melbourne. :) There are quite a few of us here in Melbourne and we try to meet reasonably regularly.
SMBooth
09-22-2009, 02:00 AM
Welcome Joachim. Hope you brought lots of film with you, it quite dear here..... :)
Joachim_I
09-22-2009, 03:26 AM
Thanks, Kevin and Shane. I knew about the film prices. Therefore I brought plenty of film from Europe.
Poisson Du Jour
09-22-2009, 04:00 AM
G'day Joachim, from another APUGger.
Remember always that film is cheaper than a return trip, but if both are equal or competing, keep going until you exhaust one of them! :)
Mick Fagan
09-22-2009, 04:03 AM
Hello Joachim, hopefully you'll find a suitable niche, camera wise, in Melbourne.
Plenty to see and do and the day trips, let alone weekend trips, are really easy to do for landscape.
Are you north, south, east or west from the centre?
Mick.
munz6869
09-22-2009, 08:02 AM
Hi Joachim!!
Marc
Jeff Kubach
09-22-2009, 08:12 AM
Hello Joachim, welcome to APUG! Even though I'm not from Australia (I love to visit there one day) I hope you enjoy this site.
Jeff
Chazzy
09-22-2009, 03:22 PM
Welcome to APUG, Joachim.
Joachim_I
09-22-2009, 06:18 PM
Thanks a lot, everyone!
Mick, I live south-west from the centre but I work in Carlton.
I can reach many places without too much driving.
fotch
09-23-2009, 11:52 AM
Welcome from SE Wisconsin.
mikebarger
09-23-2009, 12:46 PM
Welcome from the oldest mountain chain in North America (Ozarks).
Mike
OldBikerPete
09-23-2009, 10:40 PM
Hello Joachim. Welcome to Melbourne and to APUG. I'm also a landscaper but I use color neg. on a 5x4 camera.
We'll have to pursuade Poisson Du Jure into leading us to another waterfall in the Otways. There's a thread on the subject on this board.
Cheers, Peter.
Poisson Du Jour
09-23-2009, 10:50 PM
Hello Joachim. Welcome to Melbourne and to APUG. I'm also a landscaper but I use color neg. on a 5x4 camera.
We'll have to pursuade Poisson Du Jure into leading us to another waterfall in the Otways. There's a thread on the subject on this board.
Cheers, Peter.
Get a move on, Pete. That mentioned "another waterall in the Otways" should read waterfalls, plural, and it is this Sunday!
Ah, and I am not the leader. I chose a Drill Major for this walk to make sure the troops keep up! :D :D
Poisson Du Jour
09-24-2009, 12:23 AM
Joachim_I:
Great Otway National Park waterfalls walks link: ->http://www.apug.org/forums/forum49/62282-great-otway-national-park-rainforest-waterfall-photography-group-workshops-2.html
Note I will lead a group to Yannathan Falls, Yannathan Cascades and Upper Cumberland Falls at a later date so nobody misses out. :)
nick mulder
09-24-2009, 02:21 AM
Gidday mate,
Kiwi here currently working in Melbourne (Jersey Boys)
So far have done Nth Fitzroy, Northcote and am now in Albert Park
'Go the Saints!' I think might be appropriate ? heh heh
Poisson Du Jour
09-24-2009, 02:28 AM
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'Go the Saints!' I think might be appropriate ? heh heh
Oh, really now! :o
The Cattery is primed to strike. Go the CATS!!!!! :D
Joachim_I
09-24-2009, 03:02 AM
Thanks again. Peter and Garyh: the waterfall walks sound great. Once I have settled down a bit more, I am ready to join. At this moment I am still waiting for all my belongings to arrive from Europe by sea container. This includes essentials like film magazines and my tripod and less important things like furniture and clothes ;)
Poisson Du Jour
09-24-2009, 03:21 AM
Thanks again. Peter and Garyh: the waterfall walks sound great. Once I have settled down a bit more, I am ready to join. At this moment I am still waiting for all my belongings to arrive from Europe by sea container. This includes essentials like film magazines and my tripod and less important things like furniture and clothes ;)
We'll wait. Plenty more walks planned over Spring-Summer. Good recent rains mean the falls are flowing at their best since the Winter of 2003 and 2007.
and less important things like furniture and clothes...
Let's hope those "less important things like...clothes" arrive very soon. You can't wander around the Otways in a loincloth! :p