Wide Brown Land

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Deserves a wide pano i reckons.

So after asking where in Canberra Chaos would like to go, she says,
'that place with the gumnut houses'
me: 'oh right, i can't remember what I had for breakfast, can you give me some more clues? 🙂 '
chaos: 'That place were we took a picture with the rocket ship 🙂 '
ahh now I understand, I did have her convinced that the Black Mountain Telstra Tower was indeed a space rocket 🙂

She also said she wanted another picture there (https://flic.kr/p/CEkDax) with her sister in the same spot, so after a cool session at the Arboretum with the two best Aunties we stopped by to grab a quick shot. Tickles was mighty unimpressed due to the fact she was almost asleep, but with some promises of everything under the sun by Chaos she diligently sat up on the sculpture and scowled for the photo 🙂

Wicked Curves

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Sometimes at work I have been known to be a bit of a PITA to my manufacturing brethren, I often get calls from sheeties cursing me and asking why the f%$# did I put a lightening hole in there.. to which I usually giggle, ' cause i can' 😉 ..
but.. this architect takes this to another level, if I was the builder for this.. I would be like, why the f$%# did you not make at least a couple of levels the same.. actually why the hell did you make everything different ? 😉
Well I suppose on the bright side the builders are not gonna get bored, different shape every day..

Barangaroo Skyline

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If you reckon these three 'International Towers' look big on the sydney skyline, wait until the final stages of the precinct development is complete, there is another 3 towers, albeit smaller footprint but taller to be placed to the north of these 3 fat towers 🙂

The development as it stands seems pretty good, the area at the 3 towers has a nice mix of good food places and apartments, if living in the CBD is your thing 🙂 and the proximity to the nice reserve on the northern part completes the mix.

Whilst one should never trust a property developer 😉 sometimes they and the governing bodies get it right and this one, from my lay person perspective seems pretty good.

Also, if you do live here, maybe close your curtains 😉 Full resolution imagery is bad for you 🙂 note this image is 50% of the size of the original panorama image, at nearly a gig in file size these large panos just become to hard to work with 🙂

Vivid

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So chaos says to me, 'gee i am lucky to have you as a dad' to which i say 'yeah whys that?'
'cause your so tall and you give me piggy backs'
'uh-huh'…

anyone know a good chiro ? 😉

I have seen Vivid a few times now and the crowds are probably the worse part of it for me, however the joy a seven year old gets for seeing it for the first time (yes I know she saw it last year but thats like a million years ago in a kids mind) makes the crowds bearable 🙂

I did not even make any smart-ass comments about the $9 hotdog (faarkk!!!… ) and yes we did bring our own food as well

In Album 29/05/2017

Distorted Bangers

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I learnt a new trick in PS today, perspective warp. Rather than relying on the automatic tools of lightroom, which by the way does quite a good job anyway, I thought I would have a crack at doing it manually, mainly since lightroom just could not quite get it right for me 🙂 . I reckon the perspective warp in PS could pretty well correct any image, in this image the focal length is quite wide hence you get quite a bit of distortion which makes the buildings look as if they are falling backwards, I wanted to correct the image and give it more of a flat view which you see when using a longer focal length.

The perspective warp tool in PS uses a series of boxes with grids to then push and pull the image, using a series of these grids you can effectively 'tilt' the image forward, much like you can in lightroom however with alot control.

So here we have it, corrected Barangaroo, the now dominant player in the skyline.

Laughter

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I have learnt so much since having my children come into my life.
There is a whole bunch of stuff I could write about here…
but really, sometimes things should just be kept simple.
If I could give any advice to do with children (for people with or without children), especially when with cranky, obnoxious, pita, tired.. or whatever children.. which they ALL are at some stage 🙂 is that laughter will pretty well make anything better. When all else fails getting that smile and giggle just turns the world around…

I love it when Chaos smiles back at me

In Album 26/05/2017