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Photos from our recent trip to the US. Headed up the Empire State building around 10:00am one morning.

Strobist  is a great site for information about using strobes in photography, unfortunately it will probably induce the compulsion to spend money. 

http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html

These parrots were snapped up in Port Douglas in Far North Queensland. I love the way they are looking back over their shoulders.

This photo was taken of a tree that had recently been cut down. The gum tree was already sprouting new growth.

This is another photo from a walk between Bitangabee Bay and Boyds Tower in Southern NSW. These pilars were erected by other bushwalker to guide people to the path on the other side of a small bay. The smooth rocks made it easy to create a stack of rocks.

This spider had made it’s web across a path that we were walking along. He was found along the walk from Bittangabee Bay to Saltwater Creek in Southern NSW. Along the way their were heaps of spiders, obviously we were the first people to walk along the path for the day.

I have produced a couple of photo books using iPhoto. The books look fantastic and are a beautiful way to present your photos. Obviously not everyone has a Mac and such a simple way to produce these books. In Australia, Apple doesn’t provide photo printing services, and the printing is handled by Digital Da Vinci in Adelaide.

For the PC user I have found a similar service. On the PC you need both the software and someone to print and bind the book for you. The one company that I have found that can do this is Momento. I haven’t used Momento, but it looks like a very similar service and pricing to the Digital Da Vinci once. In fact there are a couple of options such as cover sleeves and embossing from Momento which are not available from Digital Da Vinci.

If these books are even half as good as the Digital Da Vinci ones they make a fantastic coffee table book and are an excellent way to preserve you memories.