Alex Wise Photography

This was right before I dropped my 50mm 1.8 arg! Fun lens too.

Another final shot with my Canon 50 1.8 (nifty fifty) before it broke, argh. Cap­tured in Sandy Bay, Tas­ma­nia along a busy stretch of road dur­ing a quick break at uni. I really love play­ing with auto focus points (Click for the con­fused) with the nifty fifty as I use it some­what dif­fer­ently to if I was shoot­ing landscacpe.

Flower phase over for a while haha back to nature photography

Taken on a quick break dur­ing lec­tures at uni today in Sandy Bay, Tas­ma­nia. I noticed these flow­ers as I was trav­el­ling home yes­ter­day from uni and per­haps it may be just me but they reminded me of Japan in some ways with the beau­ti­ful colours they have in dif­fer­ent seasons.

A lit­tle dis­s­a­pointed that I dropped my cam­era just a tiny bit and the Canon 50 1.8 now has focus issues. Four­tu­nately it’s a cheap lens to replace but still bit of a downer argh fun lens too! I recomend it for every­ones kit.

It’s so cold at the moment, 7 degrees for most of the day until it warms to a scorch­ing 10 degrees. To keep warm I love my daily fix of cof­fee as I read of the prob­lems encoutered by less devel­oped coun­tries who receive haz­ardous waste for quick finan­cial gains. The read­ing is not by choice but for an essay but four­tu­nately it’s not too bor­ing as my playlist of down­tempo music like tosca, kruder & dorfmeis­ter and blah adds a nice back­ground tune.

This was shot with my Canon 350D, Canon 50 1.8 (nifty fifty) of a Ran­cilio Sil­via espresso machine with freshly ground indone­sian beans.

Any Aus­tralian stu­dent read­ers may be inter­ested in this web­site which offers dis­counted mag­a­zine sub­scrip­tions. I’m decid­ing whether to sub­scribe to the econ­o­mist at the moment, deci­sions.. (Click)

From time to time I like to make small updates about lit­tle things which I’ve learnt about my Ran­cilio Sil­via and make a small post for any­one trolling around google. As such the rel­e­vant shots for each arti­cle aren’t taken for artis­tic merit but just to jazz things up a lit­tle so excuse my dirty machine and drib­ble

Anthony at Ace Tam­pers has recently intro­duced an afford­able range of tam­pers, great for any cof­fee snob. Mine arrived last week and has proved to make a huge dif­fer­ence in com­par­i­son to the crappy plas­tic tam­per which Ran­cilio pro­vide when you order your Sil­via. The plas­tic tam­per which you receive doesn’t prop­erly fit which in turn can affect over or under extrac­tion. I can’t rec­om­mend an after-market tam­per enough as it prop­erly fits my bas­ket now and pours have improved dramatically.

My new found obses­sion.. The Ran­cilio Sil­via and Rocky grinder have arrived and am slowly get­ting the hang of it

Shot with the Canon 50 1.8 nifty fifty mmmm!
(yes, aver­age pour)