Sunday, 20 July 2025

“Photography is a love affair with life.” – Burk Uzzle

I've been spending a bit of time at the Baptist Street Rec Club and Wunderlich Lane, the Solstice Dinner and the great music trivia. The other Saturday, a friend and I went to a photography workshop where you spent 2 hours playing around with a Fuji GFX camera. 











It was great value - for $25 you got a cocktail, a slider and 2 little workshops. You handed over your phone to get the camera, to be in the moment, so to speak.




The camera had some great video and still combination features for Social Media but we were not the most skilled at following the very basic instructions (and blogger struggles with video for me so I'm not bothering to post those here). 







We both loved the workshop with the filters, though both of us needed more time to master the camera features.










Mirror, blurry, fisheye and more.








It's a great little camera with an old school look. I did find it interesting, at no point was there the hard sell or even the mention of price. So I can't tell you anything about that.







It was a highly enjoyable afternoon, and a good time spent with a friend, so I will definitely be keeping an eye on what else is on there....


As Frank Turner says 'It's supposed to be about snapshots, not oil paintings....Remember the moment, be proud that you were there and then move on and find another moment"













The song is NSFW because he swears in the introduction of it but the song and video are fine.


Linking with #MondayMusicMovesMe #TheRandom #ThruMyLens and #WBOYC

4 comments:

  1. Interesting workshop! Those quick moments are often the ones that truly matter and capture the heart of things.

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  2. Cool workshop and fun snapshots! I have an old Nikon SLR that I used back in the day when film had to be processed. I do have a Nikon DSLR but haven't used that much since 2019. I keep saying I need to get her out to brush up my photography skill set which isn't anything to brag about but it's a lot of fun. Oh before I forget I owed a Polaroid camera when I was a young girl. My grandparents got it for me for my birthday one year. That was an amazing gift! Your song pick is an introduction, so thanks for sharing and for joining us on the 4M dance floor, Lydia. Have a boogietastic week, m' dear! xo

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  3. One of my aunts owned a Polaroid camera back in the early 1960's when I was growing up. Being able to see a picture a couple of minutes after taking it was so exciting back then, but the film was expensive and you had to rub smelly developing chemicals on the picture after it came out of the camera. I liked the song. I probably would have enjoyed the workshop, too.

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