m4/3 – A 2017 Review

I was browsing through my photography posts and realized that I should do a 2017 update to the annual m4/3 review – a possible camera system change later this year notwithstanding. And so: In Jan, the one year old then

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Staycation Activities @ Downtown East

We’ve got a rule of thumb, and it is to avoid 3D2N holidays as much as possible, even if it means forking extra to stay for a longer period and having to wreck our brains thinking of how to fill

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9 Days in Melbourne – Equipment comments

Whoops. Spoke too soon about the last post on our Melbourne trip being the third and last of the retrospective posts. This one is about things that worked especially well equipment wise, and things that broke and just didn’t work.

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Melbourne – Day 9 – Queen Victoria Market, Flagstaff Gardens and Homebound

Our last day of our stay in Melbourne. Pretty much free and easy for the day, and after four days of rain, the weather was decent and sun out for good parts of the morning too. Our activities were planned

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Melbourne – Day 7 – Healesville Sanctuary

Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery was just a couple of minutes drive from the Fergussion Winery & Restaurant, and we stopped here for a short 25 minutes before continuing on.  As is fashionable in many Chocolateries these days, the

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Melbourne – Day 6 – Melbourne Museum, Gardens and St. Patrick’s Cathedral

According to our planned itinerary, Day 6 was to be our Gardens and Museums day where we’d visit the Melbourne Museum, Royal Exhibition Building, Cook’s Cottage, Carlton, Parliament, Treasury and Fitzory Gardens and finally St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Lots of walking

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