100% fog.

yeah right – its been dead still in Sydney the last day or so and the Clear Outside app had fog at sunrise at 100% at 11pm so figured, that sounds like fun I’ll see if I can drag myself out and see some of that funky fog.

Check the app again at 545am before driving in and low and behold, like my eldest daughter, changed its mind … 60% fog and falling. Well i was going in anyway but to make matters worst, some clown planned a half marathon or something in the city on the same day… by the time i got there, the fog was at about 20% and the local fuzz at about 150% and high vis traffic controllers at 14K%

Here is a cool shot i like, no fake clouds, just a 200second exposure with the Kase Filters ND1000 magnetic.
At Barangaroo and the new Casino building.

Help.

Taken on the night of the ETA Aquarids, that night where its like meant to be like raining shooting stars but it is however a very dark night which makes for good milkway – even in Sydney.

9 shot panorama at f1.6 ISO 1000 and 10sec.

Sifa – 0ne shot, let it rain.

so buried deep down in some dusty old shopping bag I found a lonely piece of steel wool, one very abused whisk, (heat treated of course) and a dog lead. Just enough for one crazy wool spin, no performance pressure.

Nailed that sh$t.

Did a few star trails as well and Rodney Campbell was falling over in the grass trying not to end up in the lava tunnel.

I really feel there is some additional marketing potential for Sifa Steel wool (https://www.sifa.com.au), i mean its great for cleaning, buffing steel etc.. but with a lighter and some oxygen it can be transformed into something next level Happy to help out

(c)Gerard Blacklock 0415702740

Aurora Borealis

can’t see it yourself, easy fix, make one

and if it (northern lights that is) is not very interesting?
we can change the name to Aurora Boringalis

Image made with a digital egg, cricket stump, some EL wire and a pixel stick background, i’ll leave the rest for ya’all to work out.

(c)Gerard Blacklock 0415702740

Green Glowing Funky Fungi

Whilst out at Boora Point at some stupid hour doing crazy light painting, I noticed this clump of fungi next to the boardwalk btw thankyou NPWS for putting these in, so much better than bush bashing and fending off the face eating spiders.

These were not glowing that much, however enough that you could see it with the naked eye, moreso since it was in a dark spot and it was a moonless night…the quality of the image is a bit questionable, its got alot of noise since it was 4mins long at ISO 3200, i think my sensor has had enough, its gettign worse

Play Nice.

with Rodney Campbell‘s bat balls.

There are two key points to be made here…

1) No endangered micro-bats (Eastern Bent-wing Bats if your wondering) were harmed in the making of this image.

2) Rodneys been shopping on Amazon for weird umbrella sticks that light up – worthwhile purchase i might say

and here is a fun fact for today that I learnt, the roosting sites of bats is highly dependent on the humidity of the site, too moist means unhappy bats… on that note feel free to crawl thru the dark tunnels of malabar during this wet spell with less chance of being mauled in the face by a savage micro bat – seriously, have you seen the fangs on them?

anotehr fun fact, this particular bunker was used to house the 6 inch calibre gun which could reach 20kms… sadly it was british made, which means it was probably 3 times as complex as it needed to be but still thing of engineering beauty

Booti Booti.

Offically the best named national park in Oz.

Apparently derived from β€œbutibuti,” the local Worimi Aboriginal word meaning β€œplenty of honey.”

In any case, its got a nice beach