28th December 2010 Kelvedon beach

We stopped here for lunch on the way back from Swansea. I gave up trying to get close to this butterfly and just used my telephoto zoom lens instead

Congratulations to Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for causing the early end of the Japanese whale slaughter for this year.

Sea Shepherd has often been criticised for its direct action as opposed to the whinging and whining of Greenpeace and various governments, especially the Australian Government. Australia has wasted millions of our dollars sending ships to observe the illegal whaling of the Japanese and take video footage for who knows what. The Japanese have only called an end to whaling this year because Sea Shepherd has mostly blocked their efforts to slaughter whales – this has caused the whalers to lose money!

The Japanese whaling business has been operating under the childlike and idiotic ruse of scientific research. They have bribed and threatened smaller island nation members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in an effort to sway voting in their favour. They have lied, lobied their own government, and bullied in an effort to slaughter whales that they have no right to slaughter.

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12th December 2010 Wellington Park

We were sitting for lunch on some ledge overlooking Hobart and the Huon Valley when this Currawong turned up hopeful for a feed.

Currawongs always make me laugh; they make comical sounds and leap about like Zulus and seem to crash through trees when they are flying. When they do stand still they have an unfathomable look like an emu.

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12th December 2010, Mt Wellington

This is actually on the upper Hobart Rivulet. I accessed it from within Wellington Park, but apparently it can be accessed by a nearby road.

I was on a club walk and managed to get in two shots; that is change lenses, set up tripod, postion, fart around, take the shots, pack up, run up a steep hill to catch up with the other walkers who decided against walking down.

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24th October 2010, my place

I named this a classic study, because flowers are something that many aspiring photographers initially work with.

I’m not as enthusiastic as I used to be with things that I’ve previously photographed. There is a lot of scope for creativity: depth of field, focus point, light, composition. It is all interpretation.

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28th November 2010, Nth Hobart

Roey the cat, is Gail’s cat. He sleeps and meows and dribbles and demands attention and Gail makes fun of his middle age paunch.

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19th November 2010 Nth Hobart

I started off trying to take photos of the lips in this picture; they are so good. My photos did not do them justice though.

This is another picture from the exhibition of student art work displayed at The Friends’ School in North Hobart.

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2nd October 2010 Maria Island

There were young geese and wallabies all over the place. The young geese seemed to do everything in unison, with the mother watching over them and the father standing guard. They’d even eat together while sitting down.

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