Random Animal posts...

Dimmy (the cat),
and Shena (the dog)....

Wow...I really need to deliberately set out to make some photos....

Swimming Presentation

Xan received an award for being age champion in the swimming at Downlands this year.
Here is before (and then after) the presentation, looking, to my eyes, extremely adult.

First photo taken with my OMD with the Lumix 20mm 1.7 in the light of the outside passage.

Second one taken using the LED torch from Ruth's Iphone as lighting....

New Camera!! - Nikon D750

So, used it to take a photo of the nearest available subject....
One of our cats, doing something she should not have been doing!

It is the full frame Nikon D750.  (the camera - not the cat).
So far feels great.  Some little things that I will need to get used to... and I am back down to just 3, prime lenses after the change to full frame, a 20, 50 and 85mm.
Looking forward to understanding it, and getting some shots with it!

Carnival of flowers

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers this weekend.
Toowoomba really is a beautiful place to live and the Carnival is a bit of a celebration of that.

Not that the photos here have too many flowers in them... mostly just stuff....

The Compere

Izak was the main role in his school musical last night.
He played a compere in a singing game show....
I might be a little biased, but I think he did an awesome job!

Hiding from myself

One I have been meaning to do for a while...
The topic for the photography competition this month at TPS is "Selfie"... so I thought, why not?!


Photogeeking:  This photo took several years of planning... 4 or 5 years ago, I started developing a clone of myself (he is the one in the red shirt)...  he is not much good for most things, but was useful for this.  He sees things fairly simply and spends a lot of time cranky, so convincing him to do this was not hard.  A flash through an umbrella was used for the blue me... a direct flash for the red me, with another one filling in some of the detail.

Found: Invisible Man photograph.

Going through a box of old photos that I found... and happened to come across this interesting one, the back has a signature something like "H.G.Wells"... I think that what other people considered to be a work of fiction, was more of a biography!

It was book week last week, so given that Zak has been doing a lot of classic science fiction lately, he decided on the invisible man.  This was the result.


Photogeeking:  4 exposures.  2 flashes.  One giving light to the room, the other lighting from the stove.  One exposure for the background, one for Zak, one for the saucepan (with the handle) and a last, unlit one for the flame of the gas burner... put together in photoshop with a Nik plugin to make it look like a wetplate camera.

Unsuspecting

Impact at a distance.

Took this one on Friday the 11th on my way home from work.

It is impressive what the sun does.

Millions of miles away, completely oblivious to us,

Yet still impacts on everything we do.

New development

There is an area of the middle of our town that is being redeveloped.  A Shopping center is gaining weight.... a lot of weight.... so it is spreading over the street, engulfing the library and enveloping another shopping center.

So here are the photos of one of the parts that will be ripped down to fit it in.  There is nothing particularly nostalgic about it, but the Photo club had a little field day there to record what it is at the moment, before it all changes and we forget.

Weekend of Chess

Zak was invited to compete in the Toowoomba Invitational Chess Tournament over the weekend.
Games got increasingly tougher as he went through, but he finished in a very respectable position.
Very proud of him!

Milford Sound.

Well, more a photo of me on a boat on Milford Sound.
It was only a few weeks ago, but feels like a very long time indeed.

Sparklers!

Playing last night on the front lawn.....
Huge fun.
These ones are straight from the camera.

There is a flash off to the side to light up the boys, and then the sparklers did the rest.

Whangarei

Pronounced with an F at the beginning

Looking out....