Lounge but Australian

[night hound]

ewwwww sweat

[errant linden]

💀

[woeful belfry]

and the 3rd one .. just being on tiktok in the first place

[night hound]

wipes the monitor

[errant linden]

bro the year 8s bouncing on the medicine balls in school uniform and sitting on the benches on their phones 😭

[late parcel]

The gym is great. The dress code just sucks

[coral crescent]

Weird dress code for a gym

[errant linden]

why I go to the gym from 9pm-11pm

[static ruin]

Caught the end of the era where you didn't have a phone, was basically ride bike and be told to be home by dark

[coral crescent]

you been to a real one before?

[errant linden]

only go for like an hour at a time

[coral crescent]

I wish

if I lived in sydney I'd be doing that every night

[woeful belfry]

It's the attention span thing that boggles my mind.

There is one good thing that I see in a lot of it though .. is people being creative. Creating things. Making things. Coming up with fun/cooll ideas.

I respect people who create and express themselves more than those who just consume consume consume

[fleet edge]

I was on the very tail end. Probably the very last or close to the very last graduating year. I remember vine hitting in the last year or two

[coral crescent]

Whenever I visit, I stay with my cousin and he's also a gym mf

[errant linden]

yeah ppl have the attention spans of a goldfish now

its constant stimulation

[coral crescent]

so we end up going at like 12am and then driving around till 1

well

he drives

I sit there

[errant linden]

just bombarding you with bright colors and lights and loud music is nauseating sometimes

geez I sound like a boomer

[sharp steppe]

Back in the day it was Myspace with autoplay music or Bebo with horrific customisation and whiteboards covered in dicks

[fleet edge]

Everyone sharing around the 8-16gb USBs with 500mb movies is my notalgic tech memory

[late parcel]

Sorry for all the slow replies. It’s not the gym code, the whole school. I used to go on Tuesday and Thursday when I was allowed to wear shorts but I’m not allowed to anymore

[coral crescent]

You don't have a sport uniform?

[static ruin]

I was the typical teen that had linken park playing on my page

[late parcel]

We do but I don’t do sport

[coral crescent]

At our school gym, you just have to switch into sport if you wanna go in

personally I don't go to it

[sharp steppe]

Also me

[coral crescent]

I spend my breaks playing volleyball

[feral herald]

That was way before I started learning about myself.

[static ruin]

But I guess in the end, it doesn't even matter

[feral herald]

It’s reaching to that point for me

[fleet edge]

I was singing this in the shower the other night and I think @quaint comet wanted to waterboard me

[late parcel]

Our gym was so amazing. Had literally everything a normal gym has including rowing machines (my favourites). Just sucked they were on the 1 m platform that faced the rest of the gym so I had to move it before and after each use

[errant linden]

bro some kids in highschool are fucking sociopaths

like they are the biggest assholes for no reason

[woeful belfry]

My nostalgic tech memory is copying and sharing 5 1/4 floppies with copies of Alley Cat on them

[errant linden]

like just be nice to ppl for once in your life

[coral crescent]

Thankfully I've never had to deal with many assholes

[woeful belfry]

https://www.playdosgames.com/play/alley-cat/

[static ruin]

Why would you be waterboarded after singing classics from our era, so rude

[feral herald]

It’s always my fault anyway.

[static ruin]

I was excited when some of the unreleased songs were released somewhat recently, were supposed to be part of the metora album

Took me back

[errant linden]

some of the kids in my school are just fkin pathetic bums

[gentle wind]

as if u drink beer m8

[fleet edge]

Ikr, ageist bullying

[errant linden]

gasp

[gentle wind]

you’re more likely to do exercise than drink beer

[coral crescent]

Some kids at my school are weird

[errant linden]

hi augie

[coral crescent]

but thats fine

[gentle wind]

hi ben!

[woeful belfry]

Some people gravitate towards assholes and people that aren't good for them. Sometimes it comes from a misguided need to want to feel the part of something and even bad attention is good attention.

[errant linden]

some of the yr 9s are furries

[quaint comet]

theres more context than that

[coral crescent]

yeah never let me come to your school

[foggy steppe]

Nothing wrong with furries inherently

[quaint comet]

IM 8 MONTHS YOUNGER THAN U

[errant linden]

like 14 yr olds figuring out they are bisexual and trans Im like what

[coral crescent]

tf

no joke they'd get fkin jumped at my school

[quaint comet]

oh i remember that

[coral crescent]

Alice springs is uh

[woeful belfry]

Kinda yea. Kinda nah.

[errant linden]

very

[coral crescent]

not very freindly to that lets leave it at that

[fleet edge]

LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERYTIME I DO, IT MAKES ME LAUGH

[foggy steppe]

Not inherently just a lot of them aren't great lol

[gentle wind]

my old school was ppl having identity and gender crisissss every 2 weeks LOL

[coral crescent]

[fleet edge]

I know some pretty nice furries

[coral crescent]

[errant linden]

this one girl dyes her hair every week Im like how do you still have a full head of hair

[quaint comet]

for a catholic high school my year sure had a lot of queers (me included)

[errant linden]

[coral crescent]

God Sydney schools sound like a fkin comedy show

[woeful belfry]

Not allowed!!

[fleet edge]

I was in denial about being gay in HS lmfao

[gentle wind]

“hi arson!” “oh you changed your name again to bug?” (i’m queer for the record 💀)

[errant linden]

honestly they are

Maths is so fucking hilarious since im in standard and not advanced or extension

[coral crescent]

I don't get it

[gentle wind]

that’s me but as long as they’re not bleaching it every time hair dye doesn’t actually damage ur hair

[coral crescent]

[gentle wind]

ppl just changing their name all the fckn time lol

at my old school

[coral crescent]

ohh

that happens???

[quaint comet]

it was great a group but up pride stickers on muck up day bc plebiscite year and some teachers were homophobic

[coral crescent]

jfc

[fleet edge]

Me in uni, cool it's happening earlier these days. I feel like I missed out on my youth and early uni years.

[errant linden]

what how

[coral crescent]

Maybe I should visit a syd school one day

just fukin laugh at people

[gentle wind]

at sydney inner west art school it does

[coral crescent]

Try an alice springs school

[fleet edge]

Better to experiment early tbh, it's not nice to lose your 20's

[errant linden]

https://tenor.com/view/hakkengabber-hakken-gabber-hardcoregabber-thunderdomehakken-gif-21291176

[fleet edge]

Biggest regret in life by far is pushing the whole queer thing back into the closet in my teens and refusing to think about it

[woeful belfry]

I've worked at a Cathoic school and they weren't particularly hardcore about that sort of thing. They didn't try and stamp it out, but they sure as shit weren't going to celebrate it either.

The way some of the girls wore their uniforms lead me to believe that modesty wasn't one of the key tennents that some of the girls followed either.

[fleet edge]

I didn't truly begin living till I sorted myself out

[errant linden]

Im pretty comfortable with my sexuality n stuff

[coral crescent]

Boobs

[errant linden]

All jokes aside I have no problem with trans and gay ppl

[errant linden]

ass

[coral crescent]

[feral herald]

Driving home while not able to think straight is a bad idea.

[errant linden]

my weakspot is pretty eyes

[errant linden]

ye

[woeful belfry]

mine is dark hair and bangs ... i'm 80% on board at that point usually

[errant linden]

and nice ass

[late parcel]

Cuts my hair

Lol

[coral crescent]

Personally if they can make me laugh

[errant linden]

if ur wearing one of these Im wifeing u up rn

[late parcel]

If I can cry infront of them and not get awkward and they can successfully cheer me up

[woeful belfry]

do you offer to give them one if they don't have one?!

[errant linden]

maybeee 😏

[woeful belfry]

filth

I'm shocked

slightly

[errant linden]

one girl said "Ben you take really good photos"

*proceeds to like my friend instead *

[coral crescent]

[feral herald]

[errant linden]

MMMM FUCKKKK

I wanted to drop on one knee right there

✨ 💍✨

[feral herald]

So I walked into him in the kitchen…

[errant linden]

thats cute

[coral crescent]

Meh I already explained my story

[errant linden]

I bumped into my year 6 crush and made her drop her spaghetti

but she baked me these bangin christmas cookies

I am still not over her

[quaint comet]

i wish i had a string of pearls to put on my dog and take a pic for u

[errant linden]

almost 6 years later

she may or may not have a pic with a pearl necklace on her insta

[fleet edge]

Simp

[errant linden]

no

[fleet edge]

Simp

[errant linden]

"I sHiP iT" 🛳️ 🛳️ 🛳️ 🛳️

[fleet edge]

[errant linden]

!ban Robin!

fk

[woeful belfry]

is that a euphamism for something?

[errant linden]

what no

I just bumped into her

[foggy steppe]

Ben wishes it was a euphemism

[errant linden]

and her spaghetting went 💀

[fleet edge]

I bet Ben loves bumping spaghettis

[errant linden]

whats a euanurism

[errant linden]

so what If I do

[woeful belfry]

"wanna taste my sauce?"

dun worry .. this too will pasta

Although you did miss the opportunity to say to her "I'm tortellini love with you"

[errant linden]

I love getting to know u guys

even though Ive never seen or heard any of you

except for olive and angie actually

[woeful belfry]

I shall remain mysterious until a later date

[errant linden]

oohhhh

[errant linden]

woahhh

your a cat

[woeful belfry]

"you're a cat"

[fleet edge]

I reckon Ben would make a great next generation Matt Granger

[foggy steppe]

Should've come to the last meetup

I'm in syd like 2 weeks from now finally

Gonna find an actual nice landscape to shoot

[woeful belfry]

I'm not really a cat. I'm a rabbit.

[errant linden]

lemme find a pic of me

[fleet edge]

Yeah

[fleet edge]

I think this interview went well

[woeful belfry]

https://tenor.com/view/i'll-be-back-terminator-police-station-gif-1102374317952270849

[fleet edge]

https://tenor.com/view/olhar-rápido-akemy-akemy-sama-gif-26048609

Olive irl

[errant linden]

I was bout to say

[foggy steppe]

Ay nice

[errant linden]

https://tenor.com/view/cute-gif-27468005

olive

[foggy steppe]

Oh I got tentative acceptance for my master's degree lol

In sendai

[fleet edge]

Yay!

[errant linden]

ughh

I assume thats a good thing

[foggy steppe]

Good stuff

[errant linden]

[fleet edge]

Japan photography

[foggy steppe]

Hell yes

[errant linden]

ahhhhh

[foggy steppe]

If I get full acceptance that's 2.5 years to travel and photo japan

[errant linden]

praying u get rejected

acceptedf

typo

[foggy steppe]

Hahaha cheers

[night hound]

Man. I thought I would see what the 135mm lens would look if converted to b&w with textures. I'm too fucking short and had to stand on a tub to take this photo which I had to place on the floor just to use the lens. Being short sucks.

I do like how the wood grain looks like I added fake textures on editing.

[feral herald]

Wrong word choice. It started off great and it just went south.

[late parcel]

I had the nicest walk

Found more feathers for my collection too

[foggy steppe]

the hecks going on with the wood grain yeah

around each leaf its so odd lol

[foggy steppe]

niice

[night hound]

That's quick mask cause I wanted to see what the High pass would look on the leaves vs no high pass on the wood grain

[fleet edge]

Yeah!

Kinda keeb

Partner was in the room

They said I got the regular job in the bag

[foggy steppe]

ah gotcha haha

[fleet edge]

And the senior one I have a decent chance at

[foggy steppe]

nice work damn

[night hound]

High pass on the wood grain was too much so I quickly masked to see with and without

[foggy steppe]

you mustve done real well in the interview

[foggy steppe]

pretty damn nice lens tho

[late parcel]

Congrats!

[night hound]

Did you ask what kind of bag? It better be LV

[fleet edge]

I don't think I did

But I am a unreliable narrator

Because imposter syndrome

[night hound]

So far I prefer the 135mm on the GFX but for some reason, I prefer the 105mm on the xt5. I don't know why it made a difference, or I'm fucking misremembering and mixing lenses up.

[late parcel]

I managed to land my job with no interview

[foggy steppe]

interviews always feel bad coz nerves and all but good job

[late parcel]

I knew one of the managers and I just got sent straight into a 3 month probation with no issues

[foggy steppe]

maybe the 105 is just slightly sharper since xt5 is so demanding?

who knows haha

[late parcel]

My other job, unpaid, had the most terrifying interview

[fleet edge]

I have a 100% success rate with interviews

Praying this statistic continues

@quaint comet has said that they've never seen me that nervous before lmao

[late parcel]

Good luck

[foggy steppe]

thats impressive shit lol

[fleet edge]

I've always said that if you get me into a interview I can charm the pants off of a snake

The hard part is getting the interview

[late parcel]

The most nervous I’ve been may have been when I started my job as an assistant in a vet clinic. Thought they’d judge me so bad but they didn’t

[fleet edge]

After that I just let my charisma go at it

[foggy steppe]

good charisma

just need more shit on the resume

[night hound]

@foggy steppe This is original - can you see slight vignettes on the corner, right? or is it just me?

[late parcel]

My resume was way too long lmao.

[fleet edge]

It'll be really good to have this on my resume

[late parcel]

Very slightly

[fleet edge]

2 or 3 years of it

[night hound]

And then retire.

[late parcel]

I’m not looking forward to uni interviews though

[foggy steppe]

its there but its not big enough to care

[late parcel]

My brothers just about to do his for med

[foggy steppe]

looks like a lot of ff lenses wide open tbh

[foggy steppe]

fuck yeah then

[foggy steppe]

med interviews need a lot of bullshitting mostly

[night hound]

So far. all the super takumers have only had very tiny vignette on the GFX which is great.

[foggy steppe]

does any other degree require interviews here not sure

[late parcel]

Yeah. But you have to be confident in your bullshiting

[foggy steppe]

yeah i went through a few of em

not super fun but not as bad as job interviews for me

[late parcel]

Im not looking forward to interviews for law

[foggy steppe]

impressive for 135 lenses

[late parcel]

Why do you want this degree? Because my other life plans fell through and I need money

[foggy steppe]

you just have to find a convincing fake reason

[late parcel]

I wanted to be a vet but after doing work experience realised it wasn’t for me. I want to help improve the life of others and I can achieve this through this degree

Bleh

Yuck

Doenst sound like me lol

[foggy steppe]

more specific good

[fleet edge]

Any ideas on what you want to try next? :3

[late parcel]

I’ll probably just call my lawyer cousins and ask them how they got in lol

I have no goal in life lmao

Just survive I gues

[fleet edge]

I wanna take photos

[late parcel]

I just wanna be able to walk around and pick up feathers lol

[foggy steppe]

ornithologist

[late parcel]

No thanks

[late parcel]

I don’t want to end up hating birds

I can’t stand Bindi…

Dokt think I coukd live with her as my boss/coworker

Does farming count lol

[foggy steppe]

probably does count tbh

to some extent at least

[late parcel]

I had chickens for two years

And I’m a dog groomer

Oh and I worked in a vet clinic as an assistant for a year. I’m on the hire again lost so I coukd go back for another year

But I don’t like Bindi

Robert though…

[fleet edge]

Simp

[late parcel]

Lmao

[late parcel]

You know what. I have a Singapore citizenship. I might consider studying there and working at the bird paradise

[night hound]

I’m on the rooftop of a mall to try out my wide angle on the gfx. Great, right? I’m trying to touch asphalt. But wtf. I get here only to realise I didn’t check to see if I had an sd card in it.

This is what I get for trying to go outside.

[gentle wind]

... 💀

[late parcel]

Noooo

[night hound]

Yeah. Your mother is a loser.

[foggy steppe]

you solved your battery issue and now theres no sd card lmao

[night hound]

Fuck this. I’m buying cookies instead.

[foggy steppe]

if youre at a mall tho surely you just buy an sd

[gentle wind]

oooooo

can u buy oreo

[foggy steppe]

ooh im baking cookies tonight

[gentle wind]

we dont need more we lose enough in a day 💀

[night hound]

Imma buy this for you instead. It’s like Oreos, but healthy and just kinda missing chocolate and flavour. Good for your teeth, too.

[foggy steppe]

just bought the ingredients for choc chip cookies

half a kilo of chocolate

idk how this happened but i bought ingredients for 72 cookies

[night hound]

That sounds smart to me

[late parcel]

Mmmmmm

With Vegemite or salmon

I really want to make not so healthy loaded fired

Fries*

[night hound]

@gentle wind we need this

[gentle wind]

why are you in coles smh

oh wait cookies

need those

but also wtf

[night hound]

For your room.

[gentle wind]

oh god

[late parcel]

Lmao

[feral herald]

Well, there goes nearly 19 years of our lives…

I’m guessing some things don’t really last all that long.

[coral crescent]

Huh

Leave my kpop hair alone

[coral crescent]

Oh sick

To study right?

[foggy steppe]

Yeah 2.5 years master degree

Full scholarship and living stipend if I pass too

[coral crescent]

Gl

God that just reminded me I have to start learning Japanese again

[feral herald]

It didn’t work out.

[night hound]

@gentle wind dinner is sorted.

[gentle wind]

aiyai

[night hound]

Would you rather have this?

[coral crescent]

[sharp steppe]

Extension tubes 🙂

[fleet edge]

Toilet rolls taped together

[foggy steppe]

Thanks haha

[late parcel]

Lmao the news played the wrong video

They played alien footage stuff while talking about the electricity prices 😂

[late parcel]

Give

[errant linden]

mmm yummy

[foggy steppe]

Make the trip to Brisbane and sure lmao

[late parcel]

We don’t have a car at the moment 😭

[errant linden]

sit tight AJ im coming for you

[late parcel]

They’re all being repaired

Thanks Ben

[errant linden]

well I had an interesting night with the boys

[inner ether]

DUDE

SAVE ME SOME

[foggy steppe]

I'll bake some if you make it to a syd photo meetup someday

[foggy steppe]

Hurry up and get to aus we have cheaper cams here too

[errant linden]

brisbane right?

give me 2 hours

[foggy steppe]

Lmao easy

[errant linden]

alr waiting rn

save me at least 4

[foggy steppe]

hell yeah lol

bitcoin accepted here is a cursed sign

[errant linden]

alr leaving rn

im coming sit tight

[inner ether]

damn you dont got Airplane Mode turned on

[errant linden]

ummm

[coral crescent]

[errant linden]

@foggy steppe sorry I cant make it

[foggy steppe]

lmfao

just swim over

[quaint comet]

robin had never seen this before so i give yall a great representation of being overqualified
https://youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg?si=cSCOlmGoeHmdZTXd

[timber spruce]

If no one in the crowd becomes a drummer after watching this guy we're doomed

[karmic lily]

Holy shit I'm jelly

Finding a barn owl active at day

[late parcel]

I’ve never even seen one

[coral crescent]

Domesticated

[karmic lily]

Oh a bird of prey show?

[coral crescent]

Basically yeah

there's also a falcon and an wedge tailed eagle

[woeful belfry]

Wedgies are fukkn huge.

[karmic lily]

anyone here had luck photographing echnidnas in the wild?

[woeful belfry]

I almost got one a week or so ago, but they were just a tad too far away

about 14-15 years ago i snapped this with my Canon G10

I knew next to nothing about photography then

so a smidge less than I do now

[quaint comet]

whY IS IT GONNA BE 30C OVER THE WEEKEND

ITS SEPTEMBER

[timber spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/first-time-meme-first-time-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-gif-24656975

global warming go BRRR

[quaint comet]

@oil execs if it gets one degree hotter im coming for ur asses

30 c is normal in like. late nov. NOT SEPTEMBER

[timber spruce]

rip

it only gonna go worse from there

[coral crescent]

I've been dealing with this since August lmao

Alice Springs things

30 isn't too bad

[quaint comet]

no incorrect bad times

[timber spruce]

lol

[static ruin]

El nino doing it's thing now, it's also a fairly strong El nino

So going to be mostly hot and dry for a while

[karmic lily]

Might try doing Rottnest this spring

It's kinda where the birb obsession started for me so I should go back

[quaint comet]

robin continues t9 give themselves head trauma: this time on the ceiling of my childhood bedroom lmao

[fleet edge]

:O

[quaint comet]

there is a clearly defined imprint of where a pigeon slammed into the kitchen window LOL

[fleet edge]

Splat!

[quaint comet]

splat indeed

[inner ether]

This is the type of mf you see in Australia

Have you guys ever seen one of these irl

[quaint comet]

i can happily say the last time i saw a snake in the wild i was 10
i am a city kid though

[inner ether]

this snek was very cute

[acoustic lark]

Beau, do you not understand that Australia has no cities???? We all live in the country! Among the snakes and kangaroos! Car technology hasn’t reached out far away colony yet

[quaint comet]

oh shit nearly broke the act abort abort

[fleet edge]

G'day m8

[inner ether]

ay :)

[night hound]

You all staying in the city today to hang out?

[fleet edge]

What city

There is no city

[night hound]

CBD

[fleet edge]

Not sure tbh

We're meeting up in Alexandria

And probably winging it from there

[inner ether]

Damn yall getting even more meets

smh

[night hound]

Oh right!

Go to Newtown

There’s a cool cemetery there

[quaint comet]

Spoppy

[night hound]

Little streets etc

[fleet edge]

Oooh

[night hound]

Eat gelato

[quaint comet]

will things be open on a sunday XD

[fleet edge]

I need to obtain a tripod plate

[night hound]

Yup

[quaint comet]

when we went to a hipster suburb in melb on a sunday everything was closed :(

[night hound]

This is Newtown - they thrive on weekend

[quaint comet]

cool cool

[night hound]

I’ll tell Augie

[quaint comet]

oh hey maybe we'll get to go to that film shop in newtown then

[night hound]

It’s tiny

She knows where it is though

@gentle wind

Newtown. Take them.

Do you remember where the cemetery is?

[fleet edge]

Need to figure how to pass by digidirect or George's to grab a tripod plate

Maybe leave car in Alexandria and train in?

[night hound]

Meh. You can park in the city.

[fleet edge]

I kinda only want to stop off for the plate

Happy to go anywhere else

Go for a drive sonewhere

[night hound]

Just drive abs park on York street or Clarence

[dull copper]

my photos downloaded finally

Left = edited
Right = not edited

[acoustic lark]

Pretty sure trains are down from green square to central

So it would have to be a bus

[fleet edge]

F

[night hound]

Don't forget to bingsu today! I reminded Augie.

[errant linden]

this a monaro right?

[gentle wind]

what are we doing huh

[acoustic lark]

@gentle wind you almost at central?

[errant linden]

CENTRAL

[gentle wind]

i’ll be there at 9:23

[acoustic lark]

I’ll be there 9.30

[gentle wind]

i’m waiting for a train now

which should’ve been here a minute ago

[acoustic lark]

I’m about to be at Strathfield lol

[gentle wind]

damn imma be ahead of u :P

[acoustic lark]

Meet you at the bunch of benches at the grand concourse?

[gentle wind]

yeah

[acoustic lark]

Ez

[gentle wind]

i have like 2 camera bags i look like a crazy person

[acoustic lark]

Pfft I’ll spot ya

[gentle wind]

yeah u will

[errant linden]

[gentle wind]

god it’s so fucking hot

i’m not even wearing that much black

[acoustic lark]

Pffffffft

I forgot to put on sunscreen this morning lmfao

[gentle wind]

oh my god i forgot to put deodorant on

ew

i’m gonna be sweating my fckn balls off

[acoustic lark]

LMAO SAME THOUGH

I’ll buy some today and we can use it lmao

[coral crescent]

Another meet

[timber spruce]

[feral herald]

Shit I won’t be eye to eye with you though

[coral crescent]

[feral herald]

Snipped

Arm Rest

Discord is broken.

[dull copper]

Monaro HG

here is the info of the car

[errant linden]

I havent taken pics of many old holdens or holdens in general

I mostly see JDM and euro

[errant linden]

[timber spruce]

W

[errant linden]

intruiging

[acoustic lark]

Vroom

@coral crescent you’ll be proud- I worked on panning today 😎

[errant linden]

panning

[timber spruce]

oooo

angie did photogragh

[acoustic lark]

oh Sal I was told to tell you that I’m now obsessed with mono

[timber spruce]

good

very good

[acoustic lark]

:D

[timber spruce]

monochrome >>

[acoustic lark]

Agreed

Monochrome makes any photo look professional

[timber spruce]

it's harder to master tho

well for some ppl

for me it's easier than colors

[fleet edge]

I did it!

I converted Angie to the mono cult

[timber spruce]

proud of ya robin

[timber spruce]

did ya let her use the good stuff

[timber spruce]

Nice

[coral crescent]

Show

Also what cam

[acoustic lark]

40D

[coral crescent]

[foggy steppe]

im a fan of the dutch angle pan

dramatic as heck

[acoustic lark]

Tamron 18-270

[coral crescent]

[timber spruce]

oh yeah i forgot what cam @acoustic lark has

[foggy steppe]

it genuinely looks fun

[coral crescent]

Personally I don't think car pans should be done in mono like that

unless it's an incredibly smooth pan

[timber spruce]

shush

mono >

[acoustic lark]

You’re just a hater

[coral crescent]

[timber spruce]

i've some car pans as well

[coral crescent]

I'm just helping you get better

[timber spruce]

?ban

[coral crescent]

You couldn't even if you wanted to

Unless you summon reqy

[timber spruce]

hey man

all i can do is @ reqy

[foggy steppe]

mono is superior indeed

[coral crescent]

It's fine, easily puffin bribable

[foggy steppe]

panning bicycles is where the funs at tho

[coral crescent]

^^^^^^^^^

Motorbikes as well

Cars are whatever

[coral crescent]

Yes it's teal and orange but

[cobalt blade]

no

[coral crescent]

This isn't changing my mind

[coral crescent]

Why does your smurf cat have an axe

[cobalt blade]

don't question it

[coral crescent]

[timber spruce]

shit

[coral crescent]

wait lemme make you guys like it rq

[timber spruce]

i got some as well that i need to edit

[coral crescent]

(Credit to windows editor)

[timber spruce]

this is from windows thingy since i'm TOOO lazy

to open it

[coral crescent]

I should be studying rn

[errant linden]

OHH PANNIG N SHOTS

NEOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM

[timber spruce]

do you need a mute for the study time?

[foggy steppe]

but in b/w instead of piss yellow, glorious

[coral crescent]

nah

I'm almost done here

[timber spruce]

yes

[coral crescent]

just a little bit of revising on chem and I'm good

[timber spruce]

gonna do that when i open C1

[coral crescent]

You edit on C1?

[foggy steppe]

ive never saved a car panning shot

theyre all instant deletes

[errant linden]

same lmao

[coral crescent]

Mine are all practice

I keep my bike ones

[errant linden]

I have a couple good ones

[timber spruce]

lol

[coral crescent]

God looking at what you guys like for street photos I have so much shit I've scrapped that would be your style

hold on

[foggy steppe]

car panning shots are great for passing time

[timber spruce]

only car photo i got

[foggy steppe]

like when someone else is taking too long to get a shot with me lmao

ill turn around and do some panning

[errant linden]

wasnt really in focus but good enough for instagram lmao

wouldnt notice on a phone screen

also tf is this angle I should have changed it

[coral crescent]

See this was an insta scrap for me

[foggy steppe]

yeah shouldve rotated the car clockwise more

have it going down the hill proper

[errant linden]

never edited this but was suprisingly sharp

[errant linden]

looks like your in a sandstorm

[coral crescent]

Similarily I don't like this

I just genuinly despise mono street unless it's patterns or smth like that

[foggy steppe]

average 10 upvote human made pic

[coral crescent]

yep

[static ruin]

I see the Sydney car photography meetup continues

[errant linden]

honestly ffs 😭

[fleet edge]

I gave it some teal

[foggy steppe]

now its basically every street photo in this server

[coral crescent]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1035801287742206043.webp?size=64

[foggy steppe]

whats wrong with mono street tho lol

[timber spruce]

based

[coral crescent]

Not my thing

[foggy steppe]

you hate fan ho i see

[timber spruce]

it's based

[coral crescent]

Exception

the one exception

[timber spruce]

@coral crescent is a damn hater

[fleet edge]

Can't teal and orange all the city lights

[coral crescent]

Fan Ho's work was just above everyones

[timber spruce]

the only good street photo on this server 😎

[coral crescent]

Sure it was street but it was street in a place completely different, both time and architecture wise

[errant linden]

banger photo fr

[coral crescent]

But in Sydney? I haven't seen any impressive mono street

ever

[coral crescent]

This is

[errant linden]

honestly I should do more nature street or just anything thats not cars

because apart from my car buddies

no one gives a shit

[foggy steppe]

selective colour teal and orange with b/w base eas

[timber spruce]

[coral crescent]

Show me impressive Sydney Street Mono and I'll accept mono street

[foggy steppe]

this one was nice

[timber spruce]

just wait until i get there

[coral crescent]

Hurry up

[timber spruce]

hey i'm a broke okay

[coral crescent]

Swim over

[timber spruce]

i need time to get the money

[timber spruce]

no

[coral crescent]

You're literally "The Buoyant"

[quaint comet]

but ur sal the buoyant

[coral crescent]

Float over dammit

[timber spruce]

i will get lost!

and will end up in the US

🤮

i need someone to guide me

[coral crescent]

What part of ending up in the US makes you give head to shrek

[timber spruce]

and my phone is not water proof

[timber spruce]

;-;

[coral crescent]

[timber spruce]

none of you business

[errant linden]

[fleet edge]

I did it dude

I saved street photography

[timber spruce]

first one

[foggy steppe]

now just saturation up to 50 and youve copied olives street

[foggy steppe]

this is so much nicer lmfao

[coral crescent]

[foggy steppe]

lmfao

[timber spruce]

nice

[quaint comet]

i love people being the colour of orange creamsicles

[errant linden]

4th one is pretty bangin

[coral crescent]

I only teal and orange when it works with the pic

when the pic doesn't work with it

[cobalt blade]

i copied olive bird photography

[fleet edge]

I did some funny stuff today

[coral crescent]

I just scrap it

[errant linden]

should have invited me

had to play basketball in the fkin heatwave instead

[fleet edge]

Mostly experimenting today so I don't think I have any good keepers

[coral crescent]

Looks better than your previous stuff

[errant linden]

woahhh

mojito is aussie

everyones aussie fr

[quaint comet]

nah we're just too awesome for reguler lounge

[cobalt blade]

[quaint comet]

bruh i think ur gonna get murdered

[timber spruce]

this is a gatekept lounge

[night hound]

holy fuck i'm dead. just got home. Augie has passed out.

[coral crescent]

[foggy steppe]

piss yellow photography is the thing today

[coral crescent]

That I like

[timber spruce]

this good

[coral crescent]

Well except for the fkin unicycle

and I wish you had a longer exposure and turned it into a composite

[cobalt blade]

why rope next to him

[timber spruce]

meh

[errant linden]

did you use a tripod for this one?

im guessing not

[coral crescent]

but still

[errant linden]

I couldnt get that without a tripod

[acoustic lark]

It was a v experimental day 😎

[fleet edge]

Nah, I handheld them

[errant linden]

ive seen these girls before in town hall

they dance n stuff aye

[coral crescent]

I remember walking into a live stream in Syd last time I was there

we opened up the stream

[timber spruce]

imagine having OS and IBIS

[coral crescent]

and we went in the background

[timber spruce]

cringe

[quaint comet]

he used it to mark out his performance area - pitt st is known for its busking but its a very busy pedestrian only st

[coral crescent]

and we just looked at ourselves on stream lmao

[coral crescent]

Yes, iirc theres dedicated busking spots

[errant linden]

olive was hittin the

https://tenor.com/view/sam-sulek-weight-lifting-bodybuilding-tren-cbum-gif-6404531823055266066

[fleet edge]

We killed Augie

[errant linden]

on stream

[quaint comet]

theres all kinds of kpop dance troupes in syd

[coral crescent]

Nah, this was before I had a decent enough physique

[acoustic lark]

We did do a lot of walking today lmao

[coral crescent]

otherwise

yes

you best fucking believe I wouldve done that

[fleet edge]

Yeah, I was shooting 15mm as much as I could

Cursed

Very difficult

[quaint comet]

i like dance photography :D its hard but i LOVE dancing so i always stop when i see groups

[acoustic lark]

I got some good ones of the group!!

[night hound]

Angie, let me know if you have issues with the 40D and the tamron. I have a 30D or a 7D with a kit lens I can give you instead.

[quaint comet]

me too :3 but i wanna check and edit them properly so wont be posting until tmrw at the earliest

[fleet edge]

We have a bet going, Beau gives it 1 month before Angie gasses

[acoustic lark]

No it’s really great!! I figured out how to use it properly and I’m enjoying learning how to manually change settings. Thank you so much <3

[cobalt blade]

u got body euphoria now

[coral crescent]

Dismorphia*

[acoustic lark]

You think it’ll take longer?

[night hound]

That long? I reckon 2 weeks.

[coral crescent]

I actually do as well

[acoustic lark]

Oh shhhhh

[cobalt blade]

..

[acoustic lark]

It’s a $10 bet if anyone’s down to pool on how long it’ll take

[errant linden]

ok question

[coral crescent]

My right lat is way fkin larger than my left

take that as you will

[night hound]

Now I have to see if the fucking 24-105 has issues. If it does, that's 2 gaddamn 24-105 now I have that have issues.

[cobalt blade]

shh angie take the 7d

[errant linden]

Im gonna bring my D3400 with me to shoot at the beach, and other than wrapping it in a plastic bag is there any other way of protecting it I dont know about?

[night hound]

I can still give Angie the 7D if she likes.

[cobalt blade]

7d is great

[coral crescent]

I need to do smth with my 600D

[night hound]

It is a good cam

[coral crescent]

Genuinly have no fkin clue

[night hound]

Keep that as a second.

[acoustic lark]

Angie will take anything you don’t want

[coral crescent]

If I was in syd

sure

[night hound]

Let me clean the sensor and then I'll give it to you after Europe.

[coral crescent]

Oh wait what batteries do you need angie?

[cobalt blade]

does the 600d record video

[acoustic lark]

You’re too kind <3

[errant linden]

nvm

[coral crescent]

Quite shitty

[acoustic lark]

I have no freaking clue

[coral crescent]

ehhh

I mean

[coral crescent]

Waht cam

[acoustic lark]

But I have 3 of the batteries I need

[night hound]

Angie, you need batteries? We have fuck tons of those

[acoustic lark]

40D

[coral crescent]

Ah fk nvm

[acoustic lark]

No you gave me 3 batteries! I think I’m set :))

[night hound]

Yeah, you should be. Those last a long ass time.

[coral crescent]

I have 3 spare LP-E8's

I don't need them

[acoustic lark]

I used one today and it didn’t run out after a whole day of use

[quaint comet]

BY THE WAY robin nearly got us lost

[acoustic lark]

HOW

[night hound]

Wait, I have a battery grip even which I don't use. You can have it if you want.

[quaint comet]

they typed half my parents addy in and selected the first result on google

[acoustic lark]

What’s a battery grip?

[acoustic lark]

Lmfaoooo

[coral crescent]

big battery

[timber spruce]

wait nearly?

[coral crescent]

like mega big battery

[timber spruce]

got lost?

[coral crescent]

and it acts as a grip

[timber spruce]

only?

[night hound]

You can use 2 batteries instead of one on the camera. Just makes it heavier, though.

[quaint comet]

which was
45 mins away from the ACTUAL address

[timber spruce]

come on man i expected her to lose ou a long time ago

[coral crescent]

LIGHWEIGHT BABYYYYYYYYY

[timber spruce]

someone can't use google maps :P

[coral crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/light-weight-gif-21674454

[fleet edge]

Rate my wildlife

[timber spruce]

10/10

[coral crescent]

11/10 left facing

wouldve been negative if it was facing right

[night hound]

I can't rate that. It's fucking one of a kind.

[fleet edge]

Some more random shit from today

[errant linden]

https://tenor.com/view/bodybuilder-bodybuilding-gif-6930526457594161498

[fleet edge]

Absolutely random shit

[coral crescent]

1st one is nice

the rest

[fleet edge]

Nothing good today

[coral crescent]

uh

[fleet edge]

But it was a fun day

[errant linden]

13/10

[coral crescent]

well at least you tried 15mm

[fleet edge]

Yeah, it's my unfiltered dump of stuff lol

I wasn't even shooting half the day

[coral crescent]

Best way to spend the day in syd I can't lie

place is so fun

[foggy steppe]

is next meetup gonna be uwa only

[coral crescent]

uwa?

[fleet edge]

Let's see your unfiltered 15mm dump :3

[coral crescent]

16mm

I don't have one, I delete all the unselected Raws

Narrative Select changed my whole workflow

[fleet edge]

16mm FF equivalent

[coral crescent]

Oh yeah

[fleet edge]

Dew it

[coral crescent]

I have a ff

now

Which means next shoot will actually be at 16mm

[night hound]

What did you think of Augie? Was she a pain in the ass today?

[errant linden]

uwa

[fleet edge]

She was quiet most of the day haha

[night hound]

That's a surprise

[coral crescent]

Takes a while before 15yo's get used to each other

[night hound]

Wait no. Sometimes she gets low key.

[coral crescent]

Frauxgie using gen Z words????

[errant linden]

[fleet edge]

Yeah, it's almost like I'm unused to shooting 15mm for street and I wanted to share my messing about :P

[night hound]

Low key has existed for decades

[timber spruce]

quite kid

[fleet edge]

It's not like any of these is going on my folio lol

[acoustic lark]

Augie and I vibed, she’s great

[timber spruce]

can't wait for me to meet robin as well

[night hound]

She said this the first time you guys met at the con. She said it was instantaneous

[timber spruce]

@fleet edge did y'all took portraits with the 15mm?

[fleet edge]

Yeah lmao

That was hilarious

[night hound]

Oh what? I didn't see any

[timber spruce]

show pics plz uwuw

[acoustic lark]

We kept saying shit at the same time it was great lmao

[timber spruce]

lol

[night hound]

You kids. I can't wait for our next one.

Did you bingsu?

I know you gelato'd

That's all I know though

[acoustic lark]

We didn’t have time for bingsu :(

[errant linden]

next meet is in december right?

[acoustic lark]

Smth like that

[errant linden]

oh shit imma be in yr 12 by then

[night hound]

Yup, December. Iona wll be in town and we can do like holiday meet up.

[errant linden]

lesgo

imma bring my olympus with me aswell

[acoustic lark]

Maybe we can get Danky again? Only if he comes back from the abyss lmao

[night hound]

Yeah where the fuck is he anyway

[acoustic lark]

@sweet egret come back we miss you

[coral crescent]

I fucking hate balancing equations

[cobalt blade]

don't worry guys I will fly to sydney so that I can bully olive in real life

[coral crescent]

fucking 6CO2+6H2O --> C6H12O6+6O2

[coral crescent]

You can bully as me as far as you can throw me

which probably isnt a lot

Shit wait he has farmer strenght

[cobalt blade]

what

[coral crescent]

Balancing equations

hate it

[cobalt blade]

I haven't had chemistry in 3 years

[cobalt blade]

I'll throw my husqvarna at you

[errant linden]

tf is this

[coral crescent]

Balanced form of CO2 + H2O → C6H12O6 + O2

[errant linden]

lucky I didnt pick chem

[coral crescent]

I have to

fkin doctor this doctor that

[errant linden]

[quaint comet]

lol all that fell putta my head the moment i finished my chem hsc

[foggy steppe]

its just dimensional analysis

quick maths

[fleet edge]

Just don't suck

[foggy steppe]

basically

[errant linden]

Im not even dumb I just hate school

[cobalt blade]

yeah I think that was easy when I had to do it

[errant linden]

If they would let me take photography in yr 12 ffs

[fleet edge]

Skill issue

[quaint comet]

all i remember of chemistry class is the story my teacher told us about accidentally getting a class of 15 yos high on chemicals in his first year of teaching

[foggy steppe]

photosynthesis is basic stuff

[quaint comet]

esters are no joke

[coral crescent]

why can't I have this

[fleet edge]

Shoulda spent time on brain day instead of arm or leg day

[cobalt blade]

accidentally

[coral crescent]

We ain't doing photosynthesis

[foggy steppe]

looking at the photography hsc its a bit shit

[cobalt blade]

how does that happen

[coral crescent]

Photography hsc is bs

[quaint comet]

it. wasnt a fun high. one girl theew up and my teacher saw in black white and purple for 2 hrs

[coral crescent]

I get to do in y12

Free atar please

[foggy steppe]

whats this then

[coral crescent]

That'd be an interesting way to do mono photography

[foggy steppe]

carbon dioxide and water to glucose and oxygen

[coral crescent]

Equation Balancing

practicing that

[foggy steppe]

sure looks like photosynthesis

[coral crescent]

yes it's photosynthesis, but that's not what we're learning

it's just one of the practice equations

[foggy steppe]

yeah i mean the equation is basic

[coral crescent]

Very

I mean there's stuff like SiCl4 + H2O → H4SiO4 + HCl

but that's not so bad either

[foggy steppe]

esters are scary more than fun lol

and all organic chem along with it

"how toxic is this new colourless liquid"

[timber spruce]

thank god i don't do chem anymore

[errant linden]

Ill move to alice springs

end of this week Im pullin up

[quaint comet]

but how else can u get banana smell

[coral crescent]

why not

BANANAS

[fleet edge]

It's literally just counting if you break it down to its most ELI5 form

[foggy steppe]

getting high off bananas

[coral crescent]

Probably possible

let it ferment and boom

[foggy steppe]

basically yeah, dimensional analysis is like step 1 phys/chem

[timber spruce]

i might as well do

[quaint comet]

eventually i wanna learn more about org chem

and physics

[fleet edge]

Applied addition

[quaint comet]

i loved maths until i did a philosophical/pure math course and killed my mental health bc of it

[foggy steppe]

what a coincidence same

[coral crescent]

[foggy steppe]

but 5 years of pure maths courses

[coral crescent]

I'm doing y11 math rn

[foggy steppe]

nonstop

[coral crescent]

it's not too bad

[fleet edge]

I think pure math kills everyone's mental health, and people who continue doing it are just unhinged

[coral crescent]

Calculus is next year thankfully

[foggy steppe]

addition but its useful

[foggy steppe]

im swapping to applied for my postgrad lol

5 years of pure sucked out every inch of joy

[timber spruce]

i hate math

i hate math

[quaint comet]

see the course that i did has a 50% carry over rate to the next semester
its infamous at my uni for how hard it is
i was doomed from the start

[timber spruce]

it can burns in hell

[foggy steppe]

yeah fuck that, we had a course like that too

its basically designed to say fuck you to maths students

[quaint comet]

i remember one lecturer basically bragged about the carry through rate
should have been my red flag to move into the applied course but i wanted to impress ppl which was STOOPID of me :,)

[coral crescent]

Math dedicated uni courses sounds like hell

[quaint comet]

applied math courses r fine
pure math is not

[errant linden]

math past yr 10-11 sounds like hell

[fleet edge]

I keep thinking about that comment HS students always make about wanting to learn math that is useful irl. But being able to apply basic formulas or compute quick maff in your head is legit one of the most underrated skills

[foggy steppe]

yep sounds about right

[coral crescent]

So y12?

[foggy steppe]

my 1st year advanced course had sub 50% pass rate lol

[errant linden]

[foggy steppe]

the pass rate raises after but the mental health declines

[coral crescent]

Whats your degree again?

Just pure math right?

[errant linden]

[foggy steppe]

pure maths and physics

[fleet edge]

My 1st year math course made me suicidal

[coral crescent]

Ah yeah physics

still can't wrap my head around how you did all of that

[foggy steppe]

maths is super fucking useful, even uni maths

it just is pain too sometimes

[quaint comet]

it destroyed my love of maths rip

[foggy steppe]

yeah, my 4th year one did for a good bit

[coral crescent]

I think I did well on my most recent math test