Adelaide 1st Grade District Cricket Grand Final

Over this weekend the Western Eagles West Torrens Cricket Club have been playing Kensington for the first grade premiership.

It was played at Woodville Oval.

I was able to be there for a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon and was able to stay long enough to see Leigh Drennan make a match winning century.(104)

It has been a wonderful year for the Eagles who were under the threat coming into this season of merging with another club.

Fortunately due to the hard work of some people this did not happen and now they have won the premiership.

Below are some pics I captured while there on Saturday.
Below is the link to the Western Eagles website where you can catch up with all the latest and I am sure a match report soon.

http://www.westerneagles.com/

The Eagles won the match and the Premiership.

They have had an amazing year.

Well done to everyone.

Eagles all out for  334 and Kensington all out for 176.

My friend  "Edge" would have loved to have seen this.

Ian was a past Captain of the club, past president and also a key figure in the anti merger actions.

If anyone know the names of some of the players in these pics please email me at
geoff.g.thompson@gmail.com and I will caption accordingly.

Some Eagles legends?

Leigh Drennan driving to bring up his century.

Congratulated by Trent Kelly

"Edge" Ian Edgley and myself.

Photography Course for Young People by Geoff Thompson

Update:This course was held today 27/4/17. We had 7 young people take part and they showed much promise in photography.
Thanks to Jennifer Mann of the Burnside Council for organising this and thank you young people for being a most attentive group and best wishes for your photography endeavours.

In the upcoming school holidays in Adelaide I have been asked to teach photography to
 young people in the 12-25 age bracket.

Thursday 27 April
12 pm – 4 pm
Burnside Civic Centre and Hazelwood Park

Time is running out. There is a low cost of $15 only.

If anyone is interested they can book their space by clicking on the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/burnside-youth-photography-workshop-tickets-33030607436
 

In the upcoming school holidays in Adelaide I have been asked to teach photography to
 young people in the 12-25 age bracket.

I have many years experience in photography including Wedding Photography and teaching photography. I started weddings in 1975.

There is an online place where you can book your place and take part.

https://www.burnside.sa.gov.au/Whats-On/Youth-Events/Burnside-Youth-Photography-Workshop-12-25yrs?BestBetMatch=photography|d13b95b2-5146-4b00-9e3e-a80c73739a64|4f05f368-ecaa-4a93-b749-7ad6c4867c1f

If you are coming below are some questions I would like answered before the event and you can do this through Jennifer Mann at the Burnside Council through the above enrollment process.

I look forward to seeing you there.

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Teenage Photography Course at Burnside Council

Questions in advance for students:

1.What is it you like about photography?

2.What type of photos do you like to take?

3.As a photographer, how do you rate yourself from 1-5?

           1= absolute beginner

           5= Very good or competent

4. Do you put pictures on face book or similar?

5. Are you interested in old cameras and film technology as well as digital?

6. Do you have a camera of your own?

   Digital compact camera

   Digital SLR camera

   Phone Camera/iPad

   Film Camera

James the Lyrebird

I love finding old books in bookshops that highlight Australia's Fauna and Flora and the many past authors who investigated Australia's wonderful diversity of Animals,Birds and Plant Life.

I found one such book the other day called the "The Lore of the Lyrebird" by Ambrose Pratt.
In it I found the wonderful story of Edith Wilkinson and "James" the wild Lyrebird she befriended.

James became a celebrity in his day and you can find many references on the internet including
the short film in the link below.

As yet I have never had the pleasure to photograph a Lyrebird and have had one fleeting glimpse of one on Mt Buffalo in Victoria.

A children's book has also been written based on the story by Jackie Kerin.

Here below is Jackie telling the story on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7H7drsjvxg

Sidetracked by Ambition?

One of my constant struggles is to not be sidetracked off into following my ambitions rather than seeking God.
I am retired but still chase after things that surely are often just seeking approval from others and not from God.

The below is the wisdom from Oswald Chambers in his "My utmost for His highest."
It is found in the 17th March devotion.

https://utmost.org/classic/the-worker%e2%80%99s-ruling-passion-classic/


“Wherefore we labour….” It is arduous work to keep the master ambition in front. It means holding one’s self to the high ideal year in and year out, not being ambitious to win souls or to establish churches or to have revivals, but being ambitious only to be “accepted of Him.” It is not lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but lack of labouring to keep the ideal right. Once a week at least take stock before God, and see whether you are keeping your life up to the standard He wishes. Paul is like a musician who does not heed the approval of the audience if he can catch the look of approval from his Master.
Any ambition which is in the tiniest degree away from this central one of being “approved unto God” may end in our being castaways. Learn to discern where the ambition leads, and you will see why it is so necessary to live facing the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul says — Lest my body should make me take another line, I am constantly watching so that I may bring it into subjection and keep it under (see 1 Corinthians 9:27).
I have to learn to relate everything to the master ambition, and to maintain it without any cessation. My worth to God in public is what I am in private. Is my master ambition to please Him and be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how noble?

Wisdom From Oswald Chambers

TRAINING IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS (Those over 65)

Myself at Breakaways near Coober Pedy South Australia

No digital camera in sight but well exposed and able to be enlarged almost ad infinitum

I am at week four now of a course I am conducting for people over the age of 65.

I have a group of interested and intrigued, but at times bewildered students.

I say bewildered not because of  whether they can grasp the fundamentals of Digital Photography(Photography in general) but because the cameras they have purchased that may have been recommended by a family member or zealous salesperson, are often too confusing to use to their creative capacity.

There is simply too much  choice on even the simpler mirrorless or compact digital cameras.

If they want to use  all the great features on some of these cameras the symbols,touch screen and hidden menus are a maze to work through.

We did an exercise today to take a light meter reading( I did so with a hand held meter) and then set an array of older film cameras to the correct shutter and aperture settings.

Even though they had not seen these cameras before, and some were pretty ancient, (the cameras I mean) they managed to do that with not too much trouble.

The earlier digital cameras such as my first Digital SLR, the Pentax *istD, were so much more like a real camera and so easier to learn photography on.

Maybe the camera manufacturers should take note as the ageing population is living longer and going on overseas trips and wanting to take photographs and unless someone gives them some clues they can come back with over exposed and under exposed and blurry pictures.

The phone cameras are really useful for the main part but they also have their limitations.

Not withstanding the above it is a great time for any one to get into photography but I reckon everyone starting out should use a film camera with appropriate setting alongside their digital camera to really appreciate the fundamentals and what their modern camera is trying to do and capable of.

That was long sentence.