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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28th August 2010, somewhere in Hobart

I think this was outside JB Hifi. It is another blind shot, taken from a hanging position next to my leg, with a telephoto lens.

I don’t know why I like it or why I’m posting it , but I reckon the two reasons are connected.

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28 August 2010 Elizabeth St Mall

This is a second ground shot taken at the mall.

Sparrows and seagulls fascinate me with their comfort around people and their apparent invisibility.  This pigeon has taken the same freedoms.

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28th August 2010 Salamanca Market

We were standing on an ancient stairway at the end of this alley. I was composing a shot down the alley when this woman started doing the same down the other end.

I think I won because I had the bigger zoom

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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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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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21st November 2009, Sullivan’s Cove (above) and North Hobart (below)

These seemed like similar photos, both the dog and the child being driven around by their responsible adults. And both looking at the world outside with curiosity and interest.

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