..yeah lets see you pronounce that skool kids i have been getting bagged at home skooling for my shitty ability to sound out words, last time I checked, engineers did not need to communicate in anything more than grunts…
Diamond
Oodnadatta Track
and the little one said.. ‘roll over.. roll over’
Kase Filter System (K9) Review
Kase Filter System Review
(K9 Filter Holder – 100mm and 150mm filters @ 1.1mm thk)
Kit Contents
– K9 geared Filter Holder, fitted with 1.1mm filter slots (3 integral slots) **
– Adapter Ring, geared magnetic, 77mm
– 90mm Circular Polariser (CPL)
– Filter Holder Bag
– 1.2 Gradual Grey Soft 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter
– 0.9 Gradual Grey Soft 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter
– 1.2 Reverse Gradual Grey 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter
– ND1000 / ND3.0 (10 stops) Neutral Density (ND) 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter
– ND64 / ND1.8 (6 stops) Neutral Density (ND) 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter
** Note: The Master Kit comes with both the 1.1mm and 2mm filter slots so if you own a set of 2 mm filters already you can use those as an interim or ongoing basis
Preface: I have used graduated and ND filters for several years, albeit pretty well limited to the Lee Filter system hence this review is primarily compared to the Lee offerings.
Peak Experience
Well, this was a peak experience
(Pun-hit wonders)
The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.
Midge Tree
Midge Tree
(C) 2019 Gerard Blacklock, all rights reserved
Midge Tree. I reckon there are a few surplus species on this planet, including humans, they also can be pretty annoying, however i’m starting to think that midges fall into this category – maybe surplus species is the wrong way of looking at this, maybe a failing in our evolution to become less attractive to these almost invisible little biting insects. We have evolved with this incredible mind to develop and use tools yet the ability to avoid being terrorised by a bug the size of a pin head has escaped the evolution roadmap.. To escape these little biting pinheads there are two options as i see it, 1) encase your entire body in some form of protective clothing, which is not much fun in summer, thankfully, unlike mozzies these little f,ers do not bit thru a shirt. 2) go through a sheep dip of DEET insect repellent, simply spraying this stuff on is not adequate. There is a third option, immerse oneself in water, that works pretty well also. A side note, i now also have it on good authority that copious amounts of smoke do not discourage midges either. Does make for some interesting sunset sets tho.
Midge Tree.
I reckon there are a few surplus species on this planet, including humans, they also can be pretty annoying, however i’m starting to think that midges fall into this category – maybe surplus species is the wrong way of looking at this, maybe a failing in our evolution to become less attractive to these almost invisible little biting insects. We have evolved with this incredible mind to develop and use tools yet the ability to avoid being terrorised by a bug the size of a pin head has escaped the evolution roadmap..
To escape these little biting pinheads there are two options as i see it, 1) encase your entire body in some form of protective clothing, which is not much fun in summer, thankfully, unlike mozzies these little f,ers do not bit thru a shirt. 2) go through a sheep dip of DEET insect repellent, simply spraying this stuff on is not adequate. There is a third option, immerse oneself in water, that works pretty well also.
A side note, i now also have it on good authority that copious amounts of smoke do not discourage midges either. Does make for some interesting sunset sets tho.
The older I get…
Burning Botany – (C) 2019 Gerard Blacklock, all rights reserved
The older I get the less I know and the more questions I have. There is a airport over there on the other side of the bay. Pretty bizarre to watch aircraft appearing and disappearing in the smoke haze..
The older I get the less I know and the more questions I have.
There is a airport over there on the other side of the bay. Pretty bizarre to watch aircraft appearing and disappearing in the smoke haze..
Slide. I was always dubious about these slides, we get berated for making stuff in aircraft with sharp edges (2mm) – i would have thought the edges of a kids slide (and these are pretty long too) should be nice and rounded… That said, Little E skips the baby slide and goes straight for the real ones, looks like fun 🙂
Slide.
I was always dubious about these slides, we get berated for making stuff in aircraft with sharp edges (2mm) – i would have thought the edges of a kids slide (and these are pretty long too) should be nice and rounded…
That said, Little E skips the baby slide and goes straight for the real ones, looks like fun 🙂
Thursday Burn – Sydney Park Skyline
Thursday Burn-(C) 2019 Gerard Blacklock, all rights reserved
There is alot of pain in the world, but this week seems a bit worse, in the space of a couple days in Oz we have a had:
A crazy crash on the M5 motorway killing one child in a car with another one not far off – drove past that in the opposite direction and i wondered how anyone would walk away from that (3 cars and a truck).
One of two twins dying in their parents bed, the second fithing for their life still..
2 young children, toddler and baby perishing in a locked car (QLD) and another in a separate car…
One Tree Hill
It should be added that the sublime beauty of the facture notates the exploration of montage elements. – just brushing up on my art critique phrases 😉
– just brushing up on my art critique phrases 😉
Little Helper
Testing the 20mm lens. Little E took 2 mins out of her time of demanding Maisy to help me with a few test shots.. i have found one fundamental flaw with this lens, at 20 mm you gotta be so close that you are well within the striking range of some very grubby sticky fingers.. Not a bad lens tho, pretty sharp it seems
Testing the 20mm lens.
Little E took 2 mins out of her time of demanding Maisy to help me with a few test shots.. i have found one fundamental flaw with this lens, at 20 mm you gotta be so close that you are well within the striking range of some very grubby sticky fingers..
Not a bad lens tho, pretty sharp it seems
Chaos vs Great Victorian Bike Ride.
Chaos vs Great Victorian Bike Ride.
Not a bad effort for a 10 year old, day 3 had 100+km, there has been fields of wind turbines, cows, koalas and seals.
Hats off to Sarah Joy for keeping up with her 🙂
Let this sink in. In my life time the number of fish in the ocean has halved and there is more plastic then fish. My life span is like a grain of sand on vast beach, what will the oceans look like when my kids are my age ? No fish out here, but there are top predator eagles, like this one hovering over some typical knoll in the finders ranges.
Let this sink in.
In my life time the number of fish in the ocean has halved and there is more plastic then fish. My life span is like a grain of sand on vast beach, what will the oceans look like when my kids are my age ?
No fish out here, but there are top predator eagles, like this one hovering over some typical knoll in the finders ranges.