Some shots are as much a personal story as a good shot. The opera house
has been photographed thousands of time by others but it defied me. We
were staying
at manly and my idea was to shoot it from the manly ferry. The
first ride over, I just scouted how the ferry went in. Perfect right by
the opera house. So on the day
I was at David Connely's (shot soon) I got the right seat, but the
ferry left before I was set up completely. I caught a bit, that's what
you see here. Also I got a couple
of other shots that I've added on here. On another trip over, the ferry
was full and I didn't get a good place to shoot. On the way back (after
shooting the fish shots)
I got the perfect spot, and was set up in time! Then I learned a hard
lesson. The ladybug/laptop power scheme will only work to about 35%
charge. After that windows
crashes and I missed the shot again... The music here was from a great
street act playing on the pier there called the Web.