The Asylum project wrapped up over the weekend, and I managed to get back to the Old 505 Theatre on Thursday and Saturday to photograph the last two blocks of scripts I hadn't had an earlier chance to photograph...
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Last night was the second group of plays presented as part of Asylum, by Apocalypse Theatre here in Sydney - and another great group of performers, and scripts...
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Another Lost & Found test with the Canon 1Ds Mark II and 85L f/1.2, from a beach walk in Waikanae. (Obviously I wasn't testing the tracking focus, this time!)
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I was just saying in the last Lost & Found that I probably had more photos of the Ferns sculpture in Civic Square than anything else, but then I remembered this: Seatoun Wharf. I would walk down there every morning for many years in Wellington, just as a good way to start the day, but of course the light was nice, and I usually had a camera with me - probably one I was trying out, too.
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Another sculpture is this week's Lost & Found, from my old home town of Wellington New Zealand. I've always been fond of Neil Dawson's Ferns sculpture, which hangs above the city's Civic Square in the centre of town - I was at the unveiling of it at the dawn ceremony to launch the 1998 New Zealand International Arts Festival, which was my first festival in that country not long after I'd arrived there.
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Happy Diwali, everyone! This image wasn't entirely lost in my archives, in fairness - much to my surprise, it appeared on the cover of a book some years after I'd taken it, which took a little sorting out with the publisher. But unless you own a copy of that publication (or got it from the library), you probably haven't seen this!
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Today's Lost & Found is another test with the Sigma 12-24mm and Canon's 1D Mark II - hard to think this was ten years ago already, actually!
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Today's Lost & Found is another Canon 85L f/1.2 test with the 1Ds Mark II - I happened to walk through Miramar one afternoon when there was a rugby game on, and got to the corner of the field - just as they finished. I'm not sure now if they won or lost, but he looks happy enough with the result!
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Today's Lost & Found is another testing outing - this time with the Sigma 12-14mm lens, which was relatively new in 2004. Of course, this is on a slightly cropped camera body, the 1D Mark II, so it's effectively more like 16mm - I shot a few on film (remember FILM?!) that day too, just to see what the difference was like. 12mm is quite wide, it turns out!
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Funny how many of my lost & found images are from trying out gear - often I'll get something new, go a bit mad with it testing things, and then move on to using it for work without ever really giving much attention to the test shots. But some of them I really like, now that I do look!
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A little while ago, I had the idea of doing a series of posts of photos I'd found on my hard drives that had, for whatever reason, never seen the light of day - the lost & found photos, some of which I barely even remember taking!
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If there's one piece of camera gear I spend the most time talking to people about, it would have to be this: my Jacobson Sound Blimp.
When I'm talking to clients about it, it's my 'silencer' - which lets me photograph in near silence during filming, concerts, operas, and theatre performances with an audience. When people do (occasionally) spot me during these kinds of shoots, mostly they imagine it's a giant old film camera, and wonder why I'm not into digital like all the kids are today!
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