Night owl

On my last night in Amsterdam I went on an awesome night photography tour with David (from Perth, small world again), who is living in Amsterdam with his partner on a house boat (awesome!), and working as a photographer. I had bought a new fancier camera for my travels before I left home, but hadn’t used it much before I left, and I’ve been learning how it works on my travels. To the amusement of my tour-buddies in Iceland, on my first day all of the photos I took were 1 second videos ha ha 🙂 and I am immensely grateful to Sam for putting me right and showing me the basics. We laughed til we cried when she found all the tiny movies I had made, and not the killer photos I thought I was taking. David offers photo walk tours at night for people who want to master long exposure photography, and as a local, he knows the best spots to set up, and he is an awesome tutor. Highly recommend you look him up on Air BnB if you go to Amsterdam and book his tour, I really enjoyed it. And despite me being an enthusiastic novice, he divided his attention equally between the three people who had booked the experience and made sure we all knew what we were doing. He’ll even bring you a camera and tripod if you don’t have one. We walked all over the city for maybe 3 hours, stopping at his favourite places, setting up the camera and adjusting for light and shutter speed, and had a play. It was so cool! And I learned heaps about my own camera, and I feel more confident to have a play on my own now. I even bought myself a tripod 🙂 which is proving tricky to fit into my luggage, but I don’t care because it’s cool and I will have lots of fun with it over the next few months. Nice to talk to someone from my part of the world too, and to compare travel stories. My first amateur efforts are below. I found I had written this but not published it when I logged on tonight, hence the late sharing 🙂