Who needs to buy these pictures off John Fairfax when you can take them yourself. Although admittedly this is not ideal, far from it, but at least I can say it is mine, and I took it. The ground was moving beneath my feet due to the number of people and the amount of body mass around me, but I still, well, you can see for yourself how well I have managed. That person in front of me unfortunately got in the way of a 'would be alright' type of photo. The lens was open for about 2 - 3 seconds, you could almost measure it if you knew how fast those firecrackers moved onced exploded. (ahh remember the old tickertape)

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This was taken on the bridge on the way to the city, just near North Sydney. This was taken with Dave's camera, a Minolta.(I'll put the details up once I get a copy of them). The lens was open for about 15-20 seconds I think. When I printed this though, it came out a little green. I tried to print it again, adding some magenta, but being such a tempremental machine, it didn't want to work. I think it was going through a phase, just before it died. Hehehe, so that's my explanation for it's greenish tinge. I used Adobe Photoshop 5.5 to fix it up the best I could in the shortest time possbile. I took many a photo like this one that evening.

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