FFS dad, hurry up… its more fun sticking my thumb in my ear than sitting here waiting for you to take a photo …

Sometimes I read the books..
Sometimes I gum them…
Sometimes I just like to see how they fall on the floor.
but by gees.. its sooo cool that I can reach them myself now

one day this child will appreciate having a Dad who like to take photos :) instead of trying to get away

Imagine standing on Centrepoint tower.. or the eye or whatever they choose to call it today and having the whole city around you obliterated by a supersized transformer with a concrete chainsaw cutting down the buildings aka grass. Well thats probably how this little dude felt as I tore thru the garden and probably removed half his mates and the local water hole …
Nonetheless, after all the grass cuttings settled.. here he was chilled and hanging about in a little tree like it was no body's business….
probably too shell shocked to move ..

view this large.. its worth it.

also commonly known as a beanie : )

This tree seems to be a bit of an exception, it along with its mate around the corner are quite vibrant, strong and rather large trees. Looking back over the years and seeing images of the Nudgee Beach, Beachmere, Salmanda bay etc trees and how they are slowy losing limbs (not necessarily thru any human intervention i think) i can't think of a lonely tree in the water who striving like this guy.

This was just a quick visit with chaos (who agreed to do a mighty battle with the mozzies) at low tide, at mid or high tide its all covered which makes for a very nice sight.

Its been awhile since I have put in exif data and spiel about how a image was created, so why not :)

This image is created from 3 bracketed shots, the sun had just gone down behind the tree, but the scene was still very bright with plenty of dynamic range, a singe shot resulted in the foreground be very dark and losing that nice detail in the rocks, hence the choice on bracketing…I really like the way the sun created the glow behind the tree, at first I tried to maintain all the highlights and keep the colours in the middle but it ended up being flat and uninspiring, I found the scene felt truer (thats a real word btw ;) ) to how i saw it when i let the highligts go which also brought back that ethereal glow.

D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 f2.8 @ 16mm Aperture: f11
Shutter Speed: 2.5s 30s &10s
ISO: 100
Out front: no filters (ran out of time :) )

New Cot :)

I'm tree-mendous… :)

well glacier is kinda optimistic…but one can always dream, you can be a glacier little snow drift if you like :)

Mid January and this was melting furiously in the 30 degree heat, I wonder if its still there now ?

How awesome would this be for NYE fireworks… !

Roasting up a batch of Myanmar Maymyo and Colombian Volcan Galeras Especial.

This will be my first run of a Myanmar coffee so I am keen to see what it ends like, the Colombian is a old favourite and go-to bean, so easy to roast that I can pretty well leave it to roast by itself !

In Album 19/02/2018

that's a whole lot of corn in there

sadly a result of dieback, a complex and not fully understood reason for a large portion of land losing the eucalypt species

ya gotta master the balance side of things first Little E or else it'll all go pear shaped.

I've got this..
too easy..
swap hand to finish off.. don't let it go.. it all gets slippery here with all the drool
boooom!! look to the crowd for some applause :)🏋️‍♀️
oh sh$t what was that ?
Little E =1
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