21st October 2008, Philipa’s garden. This nasturtium is under the low branches of a tree. I liked the shadow and light caused by the branches.

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15th October 2008, my garden. I found these hidden in amongst another bush.

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12th September 2004, Gippsland. This sign always made me laugh. For those of you who don’t know the origins of the title, here is a link to its description. 

The sign was on the boundary fence of the Dutson Downs bombing range out of Sale in Gippsland. It reminded me of some of the bizarre signs I’d seen on the Indonesian islands, such as a man with a bleeding stump where his arm used to be because he crossed the road at a random place, not at the crossing. I suppose the intended message was something like “you could get hit by a scooter (there were only scooters and bicycles), and then the angry scooter rider might hack off your arm with the machete that he always has with him for…”, I have no idea what the message was. No such problem with the bombing range sign.

Because it was a bombing range, it was relatively pristine. A lot of swampland and big snakes; because of the heat the snakes were quite comfortable in the swampy water. Ella was never quite comfortable with them, or traipsing through the swamp, and was always happy to leave.

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27th October 2008, Philipa’s fridge. It is covered in magnetic words, that Philipa arranges. Most of what she creates makes me laugh. The kitchen window has those cedar wood blinds which are causing the shadow lines across the fridge.

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21st October 2008. From Philipa’s place you just keep climbing up the hill - it’s steep. I got to use the lowest gear on my mountain bike. The top is called Knocklofty Nature Reserve. For the last kilometre or so there is a walking track, meandering through little gum trees. There are great views of Hobart and all the water that surrounds it.

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4th August 2004, Sale, Gippsland. I bought this canon a300 camera to carry on the motorbike. No zoom, no manual creativity, just a basic point and shoot. I liked it’s simplicity. I remember this evening, wandering around in Sale and playing with blurry shots. The lack of manual control eventually led me to selling it. Although I still have fond memories of it and it’s simplicity, and wonder if I shouldn’t have such a camera just lying around for those one handed candid snaps of people.

Just in case you can’t tell: the top picture is a green mini, the bottom one is a log (evil) truck.

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June 2004. This is across the road from the Loy Yang power station. It was early in the morning and cold. Most mornings I used to have a view like this on my way to work. Actually, I rarely got on the road this early, it was too cold. I can’t imagine why I was up so early.

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19th October 2008, my garden. I posted a pic earlier this year of a bee on the same daisy bush. Then it took about 20 mins of harassing the bees, chasing them around from flower to flower, before they seemed to just accept me as a benign annoyance and let me get close. This time I was able to get right up close straight away - so I’m wondering if they have a memory like that? I was nearly bumping them with the camera lens.

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19th October 2008, my garden. The colour and light. The lushness and life. Everything is Spring.

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17th October 2008, my garden. There is pigface growing around the front gate, and these are their flowers. The colour changes so much in the light that I thought there were several varieties.

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