20th May 2010 Hobart

This is part of one shelf in a room with shelves from floor to ceiling on all walls. I don’t know what the criteria is for shoes to be stored in this room; most of Vanessa’s shoes are stored elsewhere in plastic boxes.

It is a collection that has been over 20 years in the making.

Another of Vanessa’s collections is rubber ducks.

Again this is only a selection. All these ducks get used on occasion by the children of friends. Each of them has a name, like Police Duck, Firefighter Duck, Soldier Duck, Devil Duck and so on.

Another of her collections is watches. There is a small tree dripping with watches.

And I forgot about the hats!

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2nd June 2010 Lindisfarne

I always eyed off this pedestrian overpass as I drove under it as a possible good vantage point of Hobart, the Derwent river and the Derwent bridge.

The shot above is a crop from the shot below. These were at full zoom on my telephoto lens, 400mm equivalent. I kept the iso at 100, finding that noise reduction is better than high iso on my camera. The exposure time was 50 secs with another 50 secs for noise reduction; so one minute forty seconds all up.

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Sunday 7th March 2010, Ranelagh

We went to the Taste of Huon yesterday. We went early, which is a novelty for me. I really enjoyed it. If it wasn’t for the camera though, I think I would have been bored.

I took lots of pictures.

Families with young children seemed to be the main visitors.

There were different musicians playing. The two guys I’ve shown here (below) played really good blues. If they had cds for sale I would have bought one.

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21st November 2009, Salamanca market

There isn’t much good about this photo, I just like it

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21st November 2009, Sullivans Cove

Sea gulls are one of the lucky animals that coexist  reasonably well with people, sometimes profitably. Although I’m guessing the quality of their diet isn’t too good especially in these fast food areas.

In the busy streets of Hobart you can see them flying along just above the traffic. If you stop and watch them, they are pretty amazing. Sea gulls and sparrows seem to go unnoticed by most of us, so they get more comfortable in our presence. I have seen the same with cows, willy wag tails sitting on their backs, sometimes even trying to pluck out hair for their nests. Or standing attentively by the cow’s nose while it eats in the hope that some insects might get stirred up in the process.

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21st November 2009, Salamanca market

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21st November 2009, Sullivan’s Cove

These were taken a while ago, but today is Christmas day.

Wiebke took the one of me above, I took the one of her below.

I think I was shooting a seagull poking it’s head over the top of the wall.

Wiebke is huddled up on the ground to look through the view finder for a low shot of me taking a low shot of her. One of the advantages of my camera is it has flip out screen

I hope you all enjoy your day.

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21st November 2009, Hobart

This picture has nothing to do with the following blurb. It was taken on Davey Street as we were leaving the Salamanca market.

Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th November 2009, Eagle Hawk Neck.

Well, the rain doesn’t ‘fall’ up.

I stayed Saturday night at Eagle Hawk Neck with a friend. It rained non stop all of Saturday. From my kayaking days I knew it was the sort of rain to bring up the rivers.

On Sunday morning we headed off, in the rain, from Devil’s kitchen to Waterfall bay. It’s graded family, meaning easy enough to do it with a class 4 hangover (class 5 being comatose) or a broken leg

It is a spectacular piece of coast which is mostly sheer cliff. Water was pouring off the rock; this mixed with the rain and was picked up by wind driving up the rock face and blowing the big drops in our faces. We could see curtains of water suspended in mid air, folding and floating like the Aurora Borealis, then rising upwards over the cliff edge.

I don’t have any pictures. It was too wet for my regular camera, and the batteries for my waterproof one have just died of old age – at the same time!

This was the start of my holiday – I’m off to Boat Harbour, slowly.

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19th November 2009, Sullivans Cove

In the world of seagulls there is usually competition for food from other seagulls. In Salamanca square Wiebke laughed when she saw a harassed seagull doing circuits through alleyways and the square with five or so fellow seagulls in close pursuit; the seagull being chased had a huge cookie in its beak.

Wherever you see a bunch of seagulls vying for the possibility of food there is always one who tries to chase away the competition.

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19th November 2009, Hobart

Some shots of the Hobart Rivulet under Hobart. Yep, that’s the rivulet, that little bit of water running down the middle (see below). But, it does flood, and sometimes to the ceiling. These tours are run depending on the weather.

Most of it is fairly dark, especially when the lights are off. In the above shot, there is an opening to the street above.

Apparently this crowd is fairly typical for this tour; middle aged and middle income. They have invaded the traditional haunt of graffiti painting youth.

Cave Clan is something I first saw graffitied at the exit of a huge stormwater drain running into the Yarra river in Melbourne. I have since seen it in many such drains while exploring. I always associated it with explorers of urban drains, which is apparently what the Cave Clan is. And, they did originate in Melbourne.

I saw Cave Clan graffitied in the Hobart Rivulet, along with their tags.

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