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Friday, 7 January 2011
Monday, 3 January 2011
New Year trip
We went down to visit family over the new year (and check out some camping areas). We had intended to go camping, but the flooding and rains put us off a little
We dropped in to Ebor Falls on the way through as its a personal favourite of mine. Its always hard to get good shots of the area due to the contrasty nature of Australian scenery. I didn't have 35mm neg on hand so I had a go at HDRI's hand held and tested out the new changes in Photomatix 4 for processing.
I also liked this image looking back up the valley more or less into the sun.
While we were back in the carpark my wife noticed a "funny Kookaburra" up in the tree. It seemed to me to be a young one recently out of the nest. The G1 with the FD300 does quite a good job of birds.
Tail feathers weren't well formed and he had a stumpy beak still. Again I used Photomatix 4 to process and convert this RAW image into a nicely tonemapped rendering. Does quite a good job
We had a great time and there was some wonderful scenery in the New England area (while Queensland suffers under the floods)
We dropped in to Ebor Falls on the way through as its a personal favourite of mine. Its always hard to get good shots of the area due to the contrasty nature of Australian scenery. I didn't have 35mm neg on hand so I had a go at HDRI's hand held and tested out the new changes in Photomatix 4 for processing.
I also liked this image looking back up the valley more or less into the sun.
While we were back in the carpark my wife noticed a "funny Kookaburra" up in the tree. It seemed to me to be a young one recently out of the nest. The G1 with the FD300 does quite a good job of birds.
Tail feathers weren't well formed and he had a stumpy beak still. Again I used Photomatix 4 to process and convert this RAW image into a nicely tonemapped rendering. Does quite a good job
We had a great time and there was some wonderful scenery in the New England area (while Queensland suffers under the floods)
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
flooded creeks
The authorities are putting out the message about not crossing flooded creeks a lot on the radio. Perhaps its getting through, I'm not sure. The statistics don't seem to be supporting this.
However yesterday driving back from visiting a mate in the mountain areas west of here we came across a flooded creek which I assume noone would be daft enough to try to cross (although the road closed signs at the top of the road seems to suggest that somone may try.
In an interview on the radio with local advisers the question was asked "what about people driving 4WD vehicles, are they safer"
The answer was a clear no with the added information that most of the vehicles swept away being 4WD vehicles.
People (I suspect) are lulled into some false sence of security by the butch and macho images of their 4WD's bashing about splashing in puddles of mud or even crawling out of creeks.
Often enough these are really shallow or still waters and not moving very fast at all. When creeks flood its not like it seems on the TV Ads, in fact its more like this image of the waters streaming across the road. Note the depth maker ...
that's right, its about 1 meter deep. Here is a video of that water, I pan along with what seems to be the flow of the waters.
Would you attempt to walk that? If you did it would like be about the last thing you do.
Remember, if you can't walk it you can't drive it. Even still you need to be aware of the possibility of the road collapsing under the weight of the vehicle, especially when there is strong flows like this.
I just heard on the radio that a fellow who was rescued from a creek such as this was charged by the Police with "driving without due care and attention" ... he should consider himself lucky to be alive.
Like the radio is saying "don't cross flooded roads"
However yesterday driving back from visiting a mate in the mountain areas west of here we came across a flooded creek which I assume noone would be daft enough to try to cross (although the road closed signs at the top of the road seems to suggest that somone may try.In an interview on the radio with local advisers the question was asked "what about people driving 4WD vehicles, are they safer"
The answer was a clear no with the added information that most of the vehicles swept away being 4WD vehicles.
People (I suspect) are lulled into some false sence of security by the butch and macho images of their 4WD's bashing about splashing in puddles of mud or even crawling out of creeks.
Often enough these are really shallow or still waters and not moving very fast at all. When creeks flood its not like it seems on the TV Ads, in fact its more like this image of the waters streaming across the road. Note the depth maker ...
that's right, its about 1 meter deep. Here is a video of that water, I pan along with what seems to be the flow of the waters.
Would you attempt to walk that? If you did it would like be about the last thing you do.
Remember, if you can't walk it you can't drive it. Even still you need to be aware of the possibility of the road collapsing under the weight of the vehicle, especially when there is strong flows like this.
I just heard on the radio that a fellow who was rescued from a creek such as this was charged by the Police with "driving without due care and attention" ... he should consider himself lucky to be alive.
Like the radio is saying "don't cross flooded roads"
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
sunset pano
its been a nice day with all the rain of the last week ... the sunset made a nice image
I think I'll use this as my new blog title
I think I'll use this as my new blog title
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