look into my eyes…. and stop taking freaking pictures and keep walking… 😉

yeah yeah.. we were just here a few years back…
nah dad, like you had less children then…
sheesh, like 7 years ago.

Stairway to Heaven

Selfie World

Gotta laugh, what else is there 🙂

I had a crazy dream last night! I was swimming in an ocean of orange soda. Turns out it was just a Fanta sea.

So here I am standing next to a ‘clothing optional beach’ in the dark not nude so lets clear that up straight out 😉 and I got thinking – nope, not about orange soda or fantasies.. but more along the lines that we need proper signage to call shit for what it is .. this beach is not a clothing optional beach, that implies completely inclusivity (yep i made that word up) . Yet this beach was sure as hell frequented by one gender only and sure as sh$t optional clothing was not the only activity on the agenda :-0

anyways, could rant all night, just gotta laugh i suppose – heres a cool milkyway shot from the nudie beach with the green eyed monster… aka some boaty out in the ocean.

7 landscape shots stitched together – I would try the cool new lightroom denoise feature, but it tells me a need a new computer… 🙁

Longnose Point – basically looks alot like Eagle Rock from down in the royal National Park.
No points to the person who names the point (Longnose) serious lack of creativity.. 🙂 something like the “turtle of death” would have been much more catching and with an air of intrigue 😉

Cape Bailey Light House
There is a certain satisfaction to gettign the exposure just right, first time on these kind of shots (ND1000 filter), basically 3 minutes with the Kase circular ND1000 and 1.2 medium graduated filter and CPL.

Kamay Botany Bay National Park
A few B-side vertical images from the morning, I did rather like this cool little plant perched up on the edge of the cliff protected by a alcove of weathered sandstone rock.
Two different compositions taken just as the sun came over the clouds and then when the nice pink colours came across.

Feral Budget.

Everyone loves a rosy outlook, but sheesh there is gonna be some serious debt pain after this year if the bean counters are even half way close to being right. Why is that we can plan out nuke subs for delivery in 20 years but can’t seem to fix systemic issues that should be sorted in the next 10 years…where are our kids gonna live in 20 years time ? maybe in the nuclear subs 😉

Cattai Wetlands
Landing between lilly’s

Cape Bailey Lighthouse.
I turned up a bit early, forgot that really its not that far to walk and basically sat around waiting for some first light to turn up – in the meantime took a shot of the moonlit landscape with a bit of torch side lighting…

Industrial town.
Perspective is everything.
Kurnell oil refinery/storage, port botany, matraville industrial and Sydney city…

Nankeen Kestrel

I learnt something new today… raptor 1, mouse 0.

” Australian kestrel, is a raptor native to Australia and New Guinea. It is one of the smallest falcons, and unlike many, does not rely on speed to catch its prey. Instead, it simply perches in an exposed position, but it also has a distinctive technique of hovering over crop and grasslands”

Long Nose Point
Geez, somebody opened the door to winter.. 9 freaking degrees in Sydney….
windchill factor sitting on the cliffs of kurnell.. very fing cold. Nice sunrise tho, a few moments of nice colour as the rain clouds moved on in…

Flame Resonance Extractor.

See.. even two plebs like me and the rodinator (Rodney Campbell) get that ya gotta channel that flame sh$t out somewhere… even NASA on their Saturn rockets worked it out, yet SpaceX Heavy just goes, meh, lets just put a bit of concrete with some tin wire in it to erode away as 16 millons pounds of thrust push that tin can into space 🙂

If they are that happy when it fails and self destructs then I can only imagine the party thats gonna happen when they get the thing into orbit 🙂

For those who do not follow whats happening in the space world all that will make no sense 😉

here’s a cool space dad joke anyways 🙂

Why did the astronaut break up with his girlfriend?
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He just needed space.

This shot took awhile, single shot, no blends, no AI – although I am interested to know what happens when I put a query into a popular photo-AI program that goes alittle like “2 nut jobs under a bridge simulating flame extraction with steel wool, EL wire and a bit-whip”

Single shot 671 seconds, thats like 11 minutes 🙂 @ f8 14mm.