Greg Cromie Photography

October 21, 2018

A weekend at Werribee Mansion – With Fujifilm X Series

This weekend we travelled to a western suburbs area of Melbourne called Werribee. When I say we, I mean my kids and me, my sisters and parents and my mother-in-law (Isobel’s mum) as it was her 80th Birthday! We were all getting together to spend a night at the Werribee Mansion Hotel and Spa to…

October 15, 2018

A little ‘boaring’ Shinto Shrine – Kyoto 2016

Of course, I kid. I have never come across a boring Shinto Shrine in Japan nor have I ever made a spelling mistake! But whilst in Kyoto in 2016 I did come across a Shrine was that dedicated to the boar. Yes of all things. Another reason why we love the Japanese. So why am…

October 8, 2018

Photographing mostly ourselves – with the ORP and the Fujifilm X Series….and a Sony too!

As you will have noticed in some of my past blogs, I catch up with a good mate of mine now and then for various photographic endeavours. He calls himself the Overrated Photographer. I prefer to call him many other nasty things but for now, I will refer to him as the ORP. You can…

October 6, 2018

How I deal with my withdrawals from Japan – I booked a new trip to Tokyo!

Well, well, well. I have gone and done it again! If you have been following my blogs for some time you will no doubt see that I have a fixation with Japan and Japanese culture. And of course, a big part of this has been my ability to travel there in 2015, 2016 and again…

October 2, 2018

My photography workflow with Fujifilm X Series – Part III – Post Processing.

This is the third and final part in my more instructional or guiding blogs series about how I manage my workflow. In today’s blog, we finally take a look at how I manage my workflow once I am home from the shoot and am ready to start editing. It goes a little something like this.…

September 27, 2018

Hawker 88 Night Market with Fujifilm X Series

Ever since I have been writing this blog I have talked about my love for two key locations. Melbourne and Japan. Now as many of you will know I live in Melbourne and travel to Japan whenever I can. And one of the key things that I have written about my hometown of Melbourne, is…

September 23, 2018

Fuji X Aus – A recap of my recent blogs.

I have mentioned a couple of times throughout my musings here that I am a member of a Fujifilm community here in Australia. The group is a Facebook group and I have been a part of it for a couple of years now. In recent months they have built a WordPress website where people can…

September 19, 2018

Day Tripping – In country Victoria with Fujifilm X Series

In my younger years I spent a lot of time in the country especially as a result of my being involved in Cubs, Scouts, etc. My older brother was also involved as he was a leader of our group and of course my father was also heavily involved as he was the groups quartermaster. So…

September 15, 2018

Photographing bags – with the ORP and the Fujifilm X Series.

I have written in recent weeks about a day I spent hanging out with my friend The Overrated Photographer (Or ORP as I have come to think of him). It was a great day as we snuck into an abandoned mill in inner suburbia Melbourne and took lots of shots of various things. The factory…

September 9, 2018

How I deal with my withdrawals from Japan – Even more craft!

In my last blog in this ongoing series about my eternal longing for Japan, I showed you all images of a small craft build I undertook. Take a look at that one here. On that occasion it was a small kit build that I purchased from a Japanese online store. Last time the build was…

A weekend at Werribee​ Mansion – With Fujifilm X Series