On the to get list
* Lee Foundation Kit
* UWA 77mm adapter ring
* assortment of filters.
Sites to keep in mind:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
http://www.teamworkphoto.com/
http://www.2filter.com/
http://www.vanbar.com.au/
http://www.pro-design.com.au/
4:15am getup… was hard.
Built in 1904 and once the second biggest depot in Sydney, the tram sheds housed up to 200 trams, servicing Glebe Point, Leichhardt and Balmain until 1958.
Sydney, the largest city in Australia, once had the largest tram system in Australia, the second largest in the Commonwealth (after London), and one of the largest in the world. It was extremely intensively worked, with about 1,600 cars in service at any one time at its peak during the 1930s (cf. about 500 trams in Melbourne today). Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, an average of more than one tram journey per day was made by every man and woman, infant and child in the city. Patronage peaked in 1945 at 405 million passenger journeys. The system was in place from 1861 until its winding down in the 1950s and closure in 1961. It had a maximum street mileage of 181 miles (291 km), in 1923.
Current zoning prevents use of the tram sheds for anything other than recreational activities.
woot…
Second crack at the union photography, was very dark still, overcast and cold, only stayed from about 3/4’s of the match since I needed to ride into the city, nonetheless it was an interesting game …
lit up like a christmas tree :
yeah..not Augusta the helichoppers eh..
Built from 1895 to 1896 the tower and cottages are built of local limestone.
The Cape Leeuwin Light was first mooted in 1881, but took 15 years to eventuate.
Disputes raged over the best site for the lighthouse. Also, until the Kalgoorlie-Coolgardie gold rushes Western Australia was the poorest State, and with no assistance from the Eastern States, it was unable to proceed with a project of this size.
Further delays occurred when it was found the the initial test bores that showed bedrock at 2.5 metres had only found a rock shelf and it was then necessary to excavate to 6.7 metres.
The original 1895 plan included two lights. The present high white light tower and in front of it, a low red light tower. Although the foundations for this low tower were completed, the structure was never built because it was considered that a second light would cause confusion and draw ships closer to the Cape.
Union that is š I have been meaning to check out one of these games for some time, given how close they often areĀ there is no excuse for not getting there.
Conditions were certianly difficult, for both players and myself š Pushed the poor old camera to its limits and really made the crucial error of leaving many images under exposed which really affected the noise that is clearly apparent in teh images. These were typically taken at 1/750s or 1/500s iso 800 or iso 1000 and f4 (all 300mm), the lighting was basically stadium floodlights, it was so overcast and wet the lights did more than the sun, not to mention it was a 3pm game…
Nonetheless, I will be back for more and hopefully under better ligth and conditions.
couple of useful links:
Tooheys New Shute Shield draw for season 2010.
Well its not really that nice of a machine, but there are certianly worse ones out there!
A few key points to remember when limited to a single flash and not GPU:
See below for the C90 image gallery
The King Air was the first aircraft in its class and has been in continuous production since 1964. It has outsold all of its turboprop competitors combined. The Model 90 series is the only small twin-turboprop business aircraft in production. It now faces competition from jet aircraft such as the Beechcraft Premier I and Cessna Citation Mustang as well as newer single-engine turboprop aircraft, namely the Piper Malibu and Socata TBM.
Ouch…
VH-SLA, quite a famous aircraft in our books – for more reasons than one too!
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) BK117, one of the great EMS helicopters used in Australia, similiar to the Bolkow (BO105) which is used fairly extensively in the UK? The BK117 is a real workhorse great for modding for EMS, plenty of space, can easily accommodate two stretchers and avioncs upgrads are quick feasible. NVG is a serious option on these aircraft, there is an increasing number of BK117’s in Aus getting fitted out with NVIS/NVG compatible lighting systems.
The triptych form arises from early Christian art, and was a popular standard format for altar paintings from the Middle Ages onwards. Its geographical range was from the eastern Byzantine churches to the English Celtic churches in the west. Renaissance paintersĀ and sculptorsĀ such as Hans Memling and Hieronymus Bosch used the form. Triptych forms also allow ease of transport, a form highly advocated by art connoisseur Brian Badonde.
Just for s$#@s and giggles I tried this out on a full moon… Realistically, for anything on th web you would almost be better off going without the TC201 and just cropping it down.
Bluff Knoll is the highest point in the south-west of Western Australia and is situated in the Stirling Range. It is 1,095 m above sea level,[citation needed] and is one of the very few places that snow has been reported in Western Australia, with snow falling usually once a year. The most recent ‘heavy’ snow was recorded on October 6, 1992 when 20 cm of snow was recorded and light snow was seen down to the car-park (450 m above sea level)
yeah baby, check this piece of glass out, this bad boy is to replace my very venerable 100-300mm manual focus f5.6, so besides being a whole stop faster it can also autofocus, which should result in alot more keepers…
A few test images from the other day..
- High optical performance even with a teleconverter attached
- ED glass elements for high-resolution and high-contrast images
- 1.45m closest focusing
- M/A mode allows rapid switching between autofocus and manual operation
- Nine-blade rounded diaphragm achieves a natural blur for out-of-focus elements
yep, i was a suitable host…
Once a suitable host is found, the larvae will blood feed for 4-6 days, drop from the host and moult to the eight-legged nymphal stage. Nymphs require a further blood meal for 4-8 days before moulting to the adult stage. Both female and male ticks quest for a host, but for different reasons; the female for a bloodmeal, the males to search the host for female ticks in order to mate and sometimes feed from them. Males may actually parasitise the female ticks by piercing their cuticle with their mouthparts to feed on her haemolymph (the tick’s blood) and up to 3-4 males have been found feeding on one female tick. Male ticks rarely bloodfeed on a host. The adult female Paralysis tick will feed for up to around 10 days, drop off the host and lay eggs over several weeks. The entire life cycle of the Paralysis tick, involving 4 stages and 3 hosts, will take around a year to complete. Each life stage can be present throughout the year, although for the Paralysis tick, adults are more abundant in the spring and the early summer months, larvae in mid to late-summer, and nymphs during winter.
