Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, 35mm f2, 1/50 sec
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Monday, 17 May 2010
Painting with Light
Light painting, light drawing or light graffiti is a technique in which exposure is made in a darkened setting and moving the camera while its pointed at a light source. The first photographer recognised to use this technique was Man Ray in his series "Space Writing"
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Grass Anyone?
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f8, 1/64000 sec
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Saturday, 15 May 2010
Going Cold Turkey on Facebook
So guess what's trending high on Google searches? "how do I delete my Facebook account?" Facebook is experiencing a backlash amongst its users at the moment as concerns mount over its privacy policies or lack of fair ones. So today after recent hacks and leaks of Facebook users data, like accidentally making users' profiles completely public, I have decided to delete my Facebook account. Some other reasons that lead me to this decision are; Facebook's Terms Of Service state that they own your data, your posts, photos everything. Facebook gets you to share information that you might not otherwise share, and then unknown to you they make it publicly available. Your private data and all the accessible data of all your friends is shared with applications that you install, Dogbook, Farmville, Mafia Wars etc etc most consumers will have no idea that this data is basically public. Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to truly delete your account. The account deletion process is incredibly (and I think intentionally) confusing. And if you do delete your account for the next 14 days if you or any linked application or website tries to log back in to that account, you're back like nothing ever happened, undeleted and you will have no idea! Go here for instructions if you need to http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
One interesting open source alternative gaining some popularity is Diaspora at http://www.joindiaspora.com/ and it does not even really exist yet.
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Victoria Hill, Bendigo
Bendigo had rich gold bearing quartz reefs and more gold was found between 1850 and 1900 than anywhere else in the world combined at that time. Deep shafts were sunk with at least 140 shafts exceeding 300 metres in depth, 67 exceeded 600 metres, and 11 were over 1,000 metres deep and represents the largest concentration of deep shafts anywhere in the world. Quartz mining on Victoria Hill was the world's richest and deepest reef field and by 1861, Victoria Hill had yielded at least 35,000 Kg in gold. A lot of mining was also conducted on the surface as well.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f8, 1/2000 sec
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The end of a mined seam of quartz. Maybe it opens out and is full of gold just beyond the surface? who knows?
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f8, 1/800 sec
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These above ground diggings were all hewn by hand and the most basic of digging equipment like hand picks.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f8, 1/80 sec
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The remains of part of an automated quartz crushing battery
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Witches Falls
The Witches Falls section of the Mount Tamborine National Park became Queensland's first national park in 1908. Although this walk is just 3 Km from my house I had never been down this track. Witches Falls only runs after rain and after the deluge yesterday I figured it would be worth looking at.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/160 sec
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Being a national park Hermione had to stay at home, this sign at the entrance to the tunnel like track . . .
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f8, 1/10 sec
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In the early morning of a sunny day, birds chirping all around as I look at the the mist from low clouds wafting across the path winding down the mountain side . . .
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/30 sec
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A dark and silent wet track punctuated now an again by piccabeen palm groves . . .
Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 11mm f16, 1/10 sec
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The eerie mist creeps through the palms as the lower down I went it fell completely silent as any birds were very high up in the canopy now . . .
Nikon D300, Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 @ ISO 200, 200mm f2.8, 1/40 sec
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A sudden flutter close by in the shadows scares the living crap out of me as a Bush Turkey is disturbed by my foot fall . . .
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/40 sec
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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 11mm f2.8, 1/30 sec
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This photo does nothing to convey the enormous size, probably a once common sight . . .
Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 11mm f2.8, 1/50 sec
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Winding ever down with moss growing on anything that is not moving . . .
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/160 sec
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The sun shines rays down onto the rainforest floor and within seconds thick steam rises from the cool wet forest floor to join the cloudy mist . . . 
Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f16, 1/5 sec
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Fenwick Creek was running, here shown cascading under the foot bridge and several metres later falling some 40 metres over a sheer cliff. Unfortunately even from the viewing platform the thick undergrowth mostly hid the view of this narrow cascade. It would look more interesting from below but there was no obvious way to get down.
Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f16, 1/2 sec
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Looking upstream was more interesting with the mist falling down the mountainside behind . . .
Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f8, 1/10 sec
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