One fine day in Coffs Botanic Gardens not long ago...

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One fine day in Coffs Botanic Gardens not long ago...

Postby ozimax on Fri Apr 28, 2023 5:06 pm

Grandkids (8 and counting) are great excuses to take photos. Just happened to stumble across a Sigma 105mm F1.4 behemoth and here's a few shots, SOOC. The lens is as sharp as the proverbial razor with magnificent background blur.

Image089A3157 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Image089A3417 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Image089A3779 by Ozimax, on Flickr
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Postby Matt. K on Tue May 02, 2023 10:20 pm

WOW! Professional quality children portraits that just jump off the screen. Great colours and background beautifully handled. Well done....these are lifetime keepers.
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Postby ozimax on Wed May 03, 2023 12:20 pm

Matt. K wrote:WOW! Professional quality children portraits that just jump off the screen. Great colours and background beautifully handled. Well done....these are lifetime keepers.


I am humbled after reading the comment from a sage like you Matt. Thanks!

(Unlike me and my ugly mug, my grandkids are very photogenic and it's hard not to get a few keepers whenever we do a shoot with them!).
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Postby zafra52 on Sun May 07, 2023 12:35 pm

Fabulous portraits, Ozi. You got a gift for photographing children.
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Postby ozimax on Tue May 09, 2023 9:46 pm

zafra52 wrote:Fabulous portraits, Ozi. You got a gift for photographing children.


Actually Zafs, my grandchildren are the gift ! I am very blessed indeed.
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Postby zafra52 on Sun May 14, 2023 11:43 am

Actually Zafs, my grandchildren are the gift ! I am very blessed indeed.


You just triggered a memory of when I was very young. My grandfather, on my mother side, used to take me for walks in the public gardens, pushed my swing (he tied a rope to a tree branch in the back yard of his orchard, take me to fetch water sitting between the terracotta water jugs on a wooden push cart from the public fountain. Francisco, his name, has been gone for sixty years now, but those memories of his love and generosity still remain.
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Postby ozimax on Mon May 15, 2023 7:19 pm

Mate Robyn and I am expecting our 8th grandchild any day now. (Little girl). I have no idea why I am so blessed in this old world but I am. And yes I have grand memories of my grandpa who died many years ago. He was my hero and still is to this day.
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