Remember.
In recent times when we have visited Little Bay, Chaos has taken to spending time on a rock talking to the little boy who died here a couple of years ago. Its positive to know they can feel such empathy 🙂 and they do have quite the conversations apparently…

Pick the single.

One of the neat things about lightpainting is that the processing is pretty easy, most shots are just a single image with an exposure varying from 5 to 15 minutes. However its can be fun to smash a few shots from the session together and see what happens.

Here’s a couple from a series with Rodney Campbell trying to split his balls.

Pick the shot which is a single exposure 🙂

Keep Calm..
and be more like the Queen…

Big square boat booty.
still looks very small on a very large ocean.

Tailings Dam.
Lake Munmorah.

Tracked.
Could be lake Eyre if you squinted enough.

Inflated.

So let me get this right, the prices of stuff goes up ’cause of bad stuff that happens, like floods, wars, increased fuel prices and power costs … and then we thump average plebs with mortgages with higher interest rates which causes them to pay more money to banks so that they have less money to spend on stuff…less demand reduces prices ?

surely we have some more sophisticated ‘levers’ to pull then this right – i’m sure there is a shitload of smart economists out there which could figure out a more 21st century method…

The more i read about economics, the more i realise that we sure as hell do not live in a free-market nor a true capitalist market, there are so many skews, ‘levers’, policies and too many people making money from producing nothing or exploiting ‘loopholes’ note, just because ‘you can’ does not make it right.

on a positive note, i do note that my hummus at woolies has reduced in price from 9.50 bucks down to 8 bucks which is only 0.50 bucks higher than where it was 12 months ago… still trying to figure out why, prolly more due to Aldi selling it at 8 bucks then woolies using their kindness of their hearts to reduce prices when cost to shelf has reduced 🙂 🙂

Bendy and the Ink Machine
New set location, Jervis Bay, St George Lighthouse 🙂
(if ya don’t know Bendy and the Ink Machine – google that and have a look 🙂 could be the best.. or worst 5 minutes)

Rain.

GreenPatch – Jervis Bay.
As soon as space travel is possible, I’m moving from the Milky Way to the Oatmilky Way galaxy.. cause I’m galactose intolerant

Dad Joke day.
This is the one day where any terrible corny joke goes and you are not crucified for it 🙂

Spring is here…
time to con the kids into some family photos 🙂
sadly they are wise to my ways 🙁

Bio FOMO

So i’m trawling the FB feed for something interesting when I come across this mad bioluminescence at Jervis Bay, apparently its somewhat common around this time of year, i thought, that looks awesome i gotta get me some of that action.

Its a bit of a road trip so I really needed a reality check at this point , so i message the rodinator (Rodney Campbell) expecting some common sense along the lines of ‘gerry thats a dumb idea to drive hours to try and see some blue crap in ocean’. However rather than that sensible approach I pretty much get a ‘ bags packed lets go’ ..

Needless to say, by the time we got there, there was nothing but the faintest hint of blue bio barely visible to eye.

However, luckily there was a contingency plan, perfect clear skies, and moon less night meant it was astro and light painting time.

This little broken lighthouse is located on the cliff at the southern end of Jervis Bay, guarded by killer wallabies and spiders with glow in the dark eyes… perfect for some light painting shenanigans. The only real problem is that its really fing dark when there is no moon couple this with navigating over building rubble and I’m not really sure how we got out of here without a trip to the ER for a busted something.

We got a little carried away with the EL wire on the second shot….but you need to use it to light the way some you do not fall over and crack ya head 🙂

Cape St George Light House.

Here’s some fun facts..

– The Lighthouse was built in the wrong spot ’cause the contractors wanted it closer to the quarry.
– The location was determined (after it was built) that it could not actually be seen from the northern or southern approaches to the bay !
– They destroyed the light house by using it as live target by the Navy.. that would have been fun 🙂

Its gonna be a series, planetoids of sh$t plants, yesterday Greenhills (what a name btw, so appropriate, things are gonna be very green there!).
Today, Bombastic Bombo sewerage treatment plant…