Sunset.

View.
Pretty cool spot with a really nice view – when it was not cloudy 🙂
North Rams Head.

Rear View.
Gotta love a good rear end shot. Check them slats out..

Judgement.

We have all probably experienced it as some time and its not very nice
I was at the skate park the other day with Little E who loves to rip it up with the all the older skater dudes on her bike, basically just riding the track over the humps and up the ramps. Its a cool spot and community of people who are all pretty accepting of all people in the skate park, kids and roller bladers, scooters, bikes you name it…
Anyway, Little E was flogging up the ramp at one end of the park when her bike chain pops off (yeah good one dad, you probably should fix that), anyway she is free wheeling and struggling up onto the landing where there are 3 guys waiting, one guy with out missing a beat just gets up and grabbed the bike to help her up and straight away gets his hands on the chain to put it back on ignoring the fact its filthy and covered in grease (yeah good one dad again) – by the time I had gotten over to her the guy pretty well had the chain back on and was wiping his hands on the nearby grass. This guy is probably someone you would probably cross to the other side of the street if you saw him coming your way 🙁 but clearly has a heart of gold. Hats off you smelly skater dude 😉

The majority of the people in the world are genuine, beautiful people.. even if they do not look like it.

It’s always nice to have someone have your back…

Trickle Down Economics..

here’s a thought for gerry’s monday night economics session…
why do we not target inflation measures in the same way ? 😉

probably a reason why I’m an engineer and not a economist 🙂

Anyway, here’s a bunch of ‘trickling’ images from awhile back with the Rodninator (aka Rodney Campbell). A cool spot I found in the blue mountains which was perfect for some light painting shenanigans..

Bird.
Not really a bird fan, but it is fun to try and take pictures of them, especially these little devils, they are so damn fast and small and literally disappear when they hear the shutter click. I only took about 15 thousand shots to get one decent one 😉
600mm f6.3 ISO 400 shutter 1/250.

Star Navigation.

It all seems like a great idea from the comfort of the car, but then you get out there and its dark, cold and in this case.. just down right sandy and I think, seriously?

To top it all off navigating sand dunes in the dark is pretty hard, whilst I could just use my GPS or phone, I elected to use stars, so I picked one particular bright one that was close to the dune exit point and followed it.. needless to say.. i did find my way out eventually 🙂 albeit with shoes full of sand and almost going head first off a rather large dune drop off in the dark 🙂

14 shot panorama (two rows in vertical orientation) at f1.6 ISO 1600 and shutter 13s

Rock Tor.

Snow season not quite over yet.

House on a Hill.
I think I like this one better than the last – without even realising it i caught a bunch of birds flying past (no AI generated birdies here 😉 )
Somewhere out near Tarana which is kinda close to Cooma.
Its probably a nice Airbnb, but i reckon a tree or two would not go astray 🙂

Inflation..
“What our central bankers never acknowledge: that the real pain they’re causing falls only on working people…”

Ninja Sheep.
yep, they are there alright.

Super Wide.

North Rams head in the background and some crazy balancing rocks.

I only took 2 lens on this trip, mainly to reduce some weight – which was offset by the fact that someone left a 1/2kg rock in my bag from the last camping trip :-/ now some dude 1000 years from now is gonna find a river stone up in the snowy mountains and it’s gonna spin them right out 🙂

This lens is the 14mm and I did a fair few super wide pano shots, this one was 5 shots (180 degree FOV) which turned out alright.

The crazy Galah’s
Somewhere on a back road in the Snowy Monaro region, cool trees and nothing but fields of what some might call grass, pretty sad looking grass really.