Solar...

Yes, we have solar panels on our roof....
Really, in some ways they are a little bit pretty.
Maybe it is just me!

sunrise...

little photo I am entering this month....

"Yet, the sun still rises"....

I think this is one of those photos you see after it has been taken.

Maybe just cause I was looking for something different to what everyone else was taking.

You never know what you will end up with!

At one of the local Dams

Which of course now have water in them... which makes the visit much more pleasant.
Lots of just playing around going on.  A very pleasant way to spend some of Easter Monday / ANZAC day..

illumination

topic for the challenge for the photo meeting - illumination.
So here are Izak and Alexander starring as...
"the only people who are handy that I can convince to be models for me!!".

Not quite right

Ever wake up in the morning and think that things are not quite right.
That maybe there is some flaw in the way you are seeing things?

Self awareness..

It was only a few years ago that we thought that the only animals in the world that had self awareness were humans.

We now find out that animals from dolphins through to chimps are able to recognise themselves in the mirror.

BUT... the amazing thing is that crows / ravens and magpies have shown the same awareness... that is a lot of very interesting consciousness packed into a tiny little brain.

So what is the point of this?
The point is, that despite the fact that some of  the people I have dealt with recently appear to have no discernible brain, there is still the possibility that they might, just might still recongnise themselves in the mirror.

Subversive....

There is something a little subversive about taking a very expensive camera and getting a piece of old aluminium can on the front with a pin hole through it to use as a lens...

I am not pretending there is anything artistic in the result...  just a fun little experiment...

Truth

Here is a photo that was obviously taken before we had all the flooding rain here in Queensland.  The crops are dead and the ground is cracked.

Alternatively it was taken a few days ago, post rain, after floods and is just a harvested field.
Would you believe that I am nerdy enough that I am writing a "lecture" on photography as philosophy, based on the fact that if the past exists nowhere but in the memories of people and in records that we have... and that the records influence our memories.... then a photo can create a truth that may or may not ever have existed....  I doubt if I will ever present it to anyone, but my internal geekometer will be off the dial.

Izak the Author

The new photo to go with the publishing blurb for Izak's new book.
There will be an initial production run of one unit, so it is expected to be sold out quickly...
So get your order in!

The famiy on a trip to Movie World.
The Wild West River Ride!

Ain't it purdy?!?

One of the machines we use to make product at work....
Colour scheme chosen by engineers!

Zak waiting to be rescued?

Playing with fire...

So why is it always so fun?

Flood aftermath....

Just one of the flood affected houses in Murphy's Creek..

Toowoomba floods

One of the little results of the flood. The supermarkets are empty right now...