Photos of Our Christmas Dinner

I said I'd post up photos for yesterday's dinner thingy, particularly the fish and the chocolate fountain :P so here they are... My photography skills are coming along, learning by experimentation, though the chocolate fountain photo is still slightly out of focus :P... I also made a chocolate banana bread today too and that tasted pretty darn good haha... Anyways... yeah...

Capturing Lightning

Last night when I was taking photos of my massive steak dinner, I realised that I had some older photos from another time when I was trying to take photos of lightning strikes a few weeks earlier during those stormy nights. I was hoping to catch fork lightning... but obviously I was unsuccessful cos lightning is lightning quick. I did get a few flashes tho :P but yes... here is a few more successful shots...

I was doing this from my room so I had my window open while it was raining and taking photos of nothing :P I would've looked like an idiot haha o well...

Indescribable DVD

Well, last night I was up watching Louie Giglio's Indescribable DVD from his Passion series to about almost 4 am (yes, I am crazy and I did actually sleep at 3:45am)... I can say for certain that it was absolutely amazing. The images of space and stuff are just incredible, and like he said, their existence just screams of how huge our God is. Clearly noone can say, all of that could have possibly come about out of pure CHANCE in which trillions upon trillion of stars and bazillion tonnes of mass came out of nothing spontaneously with no stimulus. And that these trillions upon trillions of stars just by pure chance arrange themselves into the most incredible and beautiful celestial collections we know as galaxies. We are so insignificant by size in the scope of God's creation, our pale blue dot of a planet is so miniscule and insignificant, yet God loves us and called each and everyone of us into being and knows each and everyone of us by name and knows everything about us, sending his son to pay for what we deserve and have rightfully earned from our sins, and to invite us to have a relationship with him. I'm sure most christians would say that they have heard of stuff like this before, and before watching it I would have said that too, but that talk just placed things into their true perspective, to really show how big God is compared to us and how great he is. That X-formation in the whirlpool galaxy thing was really something too. Just incredible, a galaxy at exact 90 degrees to us, in its very centre habouring a cross. No way that things like that happen by chance.

But yeah... I'm gonna need to go buy Alive, Hope, and How Great is Our God from Word soon. Great stuff

Which also leads me to taking photographs of the Venus and Jupiter thing next to the moon. So here's a few snaps that I took tonight on my camera.

Throwing Cards

Those who know me well would know that I am an avid ninja fan :P and have ceaseless bitter arguments with pirate supporters for some reason they have pirates vs ninjas thing going and believe (misguidedly) that they are superior. However that's beside the point :P I could blog endlessly just on that topic alone haha... In any case, I am a pretty darn good card thrower, and last night I was throwing cards around my room, which resulted in 3 cards being stuck in the blinds that cover my windows... they are stuck cos they are paper cards and they hit with enough force for the blinds to cut into the card and hold them there haha... good plastic cards could actually start doing some real damage to plasterboard walls if u throw them hard enough... and for the absolute freaks out there that manage to get their hands on metal cards? they could probably kill someone with them... and have them stuck in like bricks and stuff lol...

in any case here is some proof :P

The Moon

I noticed that the moon was full tonight, and so I decided that it was perfect time to start practising photography skills... using a 200mm lens (which is moderately powerful zoom tho the moon was still tiny...) I began experimenting with a different settings, like aperture, shutter speeds and stuff like that which on one of those dummy cameras, as my mum calls them, would never have available. Technology is getting quite incredible, as the vibration reduction (or steady shot on dummy cameras) was so noticable that even when using quite slow shutter speeds like 1/100 or 1/80 that they were still quite ok with a bit of blur cos I'm still a noob at photography. But yer... So I thought I'd post a few cropped photos of that wonderful rock floating above our heads in the night sky. I eventually got some settings that could really pick up all the details on the moon's surface. Looks pretty neat

Shopping

Today, David Jones was doing one of their pre-christmas sales... late night shopping... and I went there with my mum to do some shopping... I swear that the electronic department guys mustve thought we were absolutely loaded lol... cos we bought so much stuff haha... Well, shopping with parents are a good thing, some times its rewarding too :P well my mum said that she'd get me a SLR camera when I get into architecture... well I guess I have one now haha... Gives me some time to start practising and learning how to take good photos... from none other than my mum... who seems to be able to do absolutely everything better than I can... except for swimming... yes my mum did photography and even did film exposure stuff... and has several of the old film type SLR cannons... I am the noob of my family haha... o well... I guess you guys might start seeing random photos appearing on this blog... lol...