Our Camera Club

Regular readers of this blog will know that Diane and I are tutors of the local U3A (University of the Third Age) Camera Club, where twice a month, a bunch of seniors  interested in photography and video get together at the local library for a couple of hours to compare cameras, photographs and videos and to learn more about these things. We've been doing that now for over twelve months and the club is going from strenth to strength. What started with a handful of members has blossomed into a sizeable crowd, with 40 people attending last Monday. In fact the staff at the library had to bring extra chairs into the meeting room.

Here are a couple of pics, taken with my little 'pont-and-shoot' camera so please excuse the bad quality.

Roy, our first speaker and a member of the club, told us all out flash photography and when and how to use it.

Then we had Gabriel, a TV producer, director and editior come along and told us how to shoot video with our digital still cameras. He also showed us a video he shot on his DSLR camera on a para-gliding trip in Switzerland.

Then the members got their cameras ready and started filming in and around the library which we quickly made into a little movie clip to show the group.

Lamington National Park

We took a trip up to O'Reilley's in the Lamington National Park, with our Swiss visitor, Silvana, who is moving on to Surfers Paradise on Sunday. It was a very pleasant day out.



No doubt Diane will write more about it on her blog ADVENTURE BEFORE DEMENTIA

We have a visitor from Switzerland

We have a visitor from Switzerland, Silvana is the granddaughter of a school friend of mine. So what better chance than to show off Brisbane. We took a trip into town yesterday starting off with a trip on a City Cat and ending up on Mount Coot-tha for a cup of coffee.

On the Indian-Pacific to Sydney

We travelled from Peterborough in South Australia to Sydney on the Indian Pacific train:



It was quite long enough.

Änis Chräbelis - Swiss Aniseed Cookies

I know I shouldn't eat cookies, trying to control my weight but, hey, it was Christmas and I missed a few cookies, especially aniseed ones, so I googled a recipe and found one on a Swiss cooking site, so I set about making some of those delicious cookies and in all modesty I can say they were a success, especially with Diane, Carol and David.

After I made the dough and let it stand overnight as per instructions, I made rolls about 15mm in diameter.

Being Swiss, I used a rouler to cut pieces 70mm long

Again as per instructions I cut slots in the rolls

Shaped them into the right shapes

And placed them into the oven for baking.

I would love to show you the final product, but we ate them, sorry. But they were delicious.

THE DIGITAL STORY OF NATIVITY - ( or Christmas 2.0 )

Merry Christmas Blogger friends with a little fun!


On the opening screen click WATCH ON YOU TUBE 

And a HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

Our Baby Surprise

Sonya, Bernie and Fox are back in OK Magazine. After another succesful 'Beauty and the Geek Australia Series,  OK Magazine foundout that Sonya is pregnant with their second child.

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