City snaps

As I said yesterday, I wanted to bond with my new camera, so I went to the city looking for some scenery. I started off with a walk through The Goods Line, which opened a few weeks back. It's a leisure space/park built on a disused railway line, like The High Line in NYC, but The Goods Line is currently only 500m long so comparisons are a little premature.


It kind of runs through the collection of buildings that UTS calls a campus (ha I'm just bitter that whenever I need to go to uni I have to get into The Bus Line From Hell).



As I'm sure all Sydneysiders know, that crumply building is designed by Frank Gehry, part of UTS.



It ends at the Powerhouse Museum, which I haven't thought about for years, and wasn't in the mood for because I was starving, so I continued on through Darling Harbour.


I won't comment on what I ate apart from the fact that a certain fast food chain is once again doing their peely stickers promotion and it's basically my favourite time of year.


I ducked into a cafe to study for a few hours, and emerged after it was dark to test out settings for city lights.



Better than an iPhone, definitely!

Introducing...

The latest addition to my family, my new weapon of choice.



The Sony A6000. Look at how small it is! So dainty! So elegant!

I'd been thinking about getting a mirrorless camera for about two years. My trusty Nikon D40, now in its seventh year of life, has never let me down, but it came to the point where the quality payoff vs. the weight and size wasn't worth it anymore. My iPhone camera is almost as good in bright lighting and less conspicuous to use. However, I'm never 100% pleased with my phone photos, and I still wanted to be able to have more control (and lens options) than what a point-and-shoot would give me, so a mirrorless was the natural choice. I went with this one because it has an APS-C sensor, (electronic) viewfinder, a built-in flash and was generally well reviewed.

I'm really excited about taking this travelling this summer (no more back spasms!), and will probably have it on me a lot more often than my DSLR was. I've got a prime lens all picked out as well, but I'm holding back for when I've used it a bit more and know what I need. I will take it out for a walk tomorrow and will be back with photos!

VFNO '15

On the first Thursday of September each year, Pitt St mall holds Vogue's Fashion's Night Out, when stores have promotions and discounts to try and create a general feeling of excitement to get people to spend their money. My friends and I attend, swing into the participating stores, grab what free food we can get our hands on, abuse the photobooths, and leave without buying a thing. I propose renaming it "family photo night", because it's the only time of year we have photos taken that get printed. Real talk though, I love it and it's always fun, if not slightly stressful with the pressure of needing to hit up every single store which is handing out ice cream. I can't believe it's been another year and September already...

Rabbit Hole

Last week, we had a birthday get together for a friend at Rabbit Hole a bar which is just slightly too pricey to go to on the regular. The mains weren't much to write home about but we did discover they have these damn amazing parmesan truffle chips which are massive and almost like wedges, and a really nice cocktail called the White Cloud which had marshmallow foam on top. Would return for those.