28th August 2010 Salamanca Market

While I had the camera hanging at my side next to my thigh, I was taking some blind shots with a telephoto lens, everything on auto. Sometimes the results give me ideas on different angles and composure. Sometimes I get shots that I like.

It is something that started accidentally while I was travelling in a Sydney bus. I think I was reviewing something on the camera when I accidentally took a shot, captured a woman’s hand with rings, holding onto the seat rail in front of her. I really liked the shot.

This is one of the results. It is a lucky shot with a main subject, but the story is to the sides. Even the framed background of the muso works.

The muso in the background had a surprisingly deep and rough voice.

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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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28th August 2010 Elizabeth Street Mall

We were in the mall having coffee at one of the outside tables. I was taking photos with the camera on the ground.

This is one of the shots I like.

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4^th July 2010 Moulting Lagoon

Moulting Lagoon is near Coles Bay. It is shallow and calm. When the tide goes out it goes out a long way leaving a lot of exposed sand.

Because the slope is gentle the water drains out slowly, creating these channels in the process.

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12th June 2010 Coles Bay

The Sound of Music – boring.

Alladin – good.

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4th July 2010 Coles Bay

I feel for this fellow. He was struggling along with two of his legs tangled in seaweed. He waited patiently and trustingly while I removed it. Not long after this he started doing the soldier crab thing of spiralling into the sand on some sort of universal soldier crab signal. They all disappear within 15 minutes or so.

It wasn’t till looking at these pictures that I saw he has a bung eye.

They are so tiny that people walk on them, often indifferently or without even knowing.

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25th July 2010 Geeveston

Another fungi from the track to Kermandi falls.

I’ve been reading a book during my breaks at work. I don’t read that often unless I’m on holiday. I’m really enjoying this book, so I’d like to recommend it.

It is Creatures that once were men, by Maxim Gorky. I downloaded it from the Australian Gutenberg site.

Another great book I have read, also downloaded from Gutenberg, is Last of the Mohicans. It is an old book – 1826. English of the day, although understandable, is different to what we speak now.

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25th July 2010 Geeveston.

This photo is to celebrate the arrival of my new neice, born to Joanne and her partner Jason.

It is a young fern. The stalk is about 50cm high, but the first leaves are just starting to unwrap. The ferns probably grow so tall because there is minimal light.

It is beside the track to Kermandi falls.

The track used to be fairly faint, with a lot of climbing over and under fallen trees. Someone has cleaned the track up with a chainsaw and brushcutter. The track itself is just not as interesting now.

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10th May 2009,  Near Geeveston

These things are tiny, just a few millimetres across. I’ve only seen them on the lower half  of horizontal (fallen) trees. They reach out to get some light, although there’s usually not much light available where they grow. They are translucent.

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22nd August 2009 Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart

Plants have been flowering for months now. It always seems that the plants themselves are trying to make Spring happen – they start to flower in miserable weather.

I think the above photo shows this; Winter and Spring coexisting.

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