Successful Trip – New Artwork
Hey All,
Well I had a very successful trip away, the flight with tiger airways was smooth, service was very friendly.. and if I didn’t know better, I would swear that the service girls at the airport had read my blog.. Both myself and Steve received free upgrades to the front row! Got to love the extra leg room.. my only 2 hesitations in using them again would be the luggage restrictions (15kgs unless you are willing to pay extra) and the fact that they only fly out of the Gold Coast at the moment.. if they flew out of Brisbane it would be a whole heap more convenient.. it would also be nice if they did a Brisbane to Perth flight (hint hint)..
We got into Melbourne fairly late, hired a Nissan Patrol for 24 hours, Avis gave us a very good deal on a diesel model, $126 including extra insurance to reduce the excess down to $300.. always take the insurance option. If you need a good deal on a hire car in Melbourne, go see Nigel at the Avis desk.. he was really helpful… anyway enough plugs for other companies ;-)
We headed out nice and early Friday morning to the Otways.. one of my favorite places on earth. Did a lot of driving and exploring.. met up with some other photographers and some nice tourists from Western Australia (well he was from the USA.. but they live in WA now), they advised us to go for a walk to the bottom of a water fall.. I’m really glad they did as I got some great shots from the bottom of the falls.. (if you are the tourists we met, please email me.. I’d love to get in contact).
Here are some of the shots from the Otways (click on them to buy them from RedBubble):
I’ve got some more shots coming from Erskine Falls and a few other places too.. I’ll have them up in the next couple of days..
We left Melbourne in the middle of the night and drove on out through the middle of Victoria.. dawn arrived while we were in the middle of nowhere… which turned out to be a very good thing, here are some shots from dawn:
I’ll have some more shots from the trip up in the next couple of days.. If you are looking at buying a print, I would really recommend doing the mounted print in large with the black border, it looks great, although if you are just after a little momento, check out the cards as well, they are $6 each.
All comments appreciated
Regards
Paul Pichugin
http://www.paulpichugin.com
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