Winter Mornings in the Goldfields Region

A Sunday drive in the early hours to check out a country market at Carisbrooke in the Goldfields Region of Victoria. It was a foggy cold start and ended up that the Carisbrooke market was not starting till 10 am, what!!!! Anyway this was a pleasant drive back through Castelmaine Victoria, the Street Rod Centre of Australia apparently.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-f5.6 @ ISO 200, 34mm, f8, 1/250

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-f5.6 @ ISO 200, 65mm, f8, 1/5000

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-f5.6 @ ISO 200, 18mm, f8, 1/640

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-f5.6 @ ISO 400, 18mm, f5.6, 1/100

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-f5.6 @ ISO 280, 55mm, f8, 1/100

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Winter -3.1c Enough Said

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2D @ ISO 400, 35mm f8, 1/100 sec

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As Time Goes By

Almost 20 years on . . .

Bells Beach Victoria, the renowned big wave surf beach, located 100 km south west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near Torquay.

2011

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2D @ ISO 200, 35mm f5.6, 1/250 sec

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1993

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GT-350 Wedding

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As I, and many others, have said before "The Best camera is the one you have with you when you make pictures". I talked about the iPhone camera HERE and HERE. With its 5 megapixel camera, 3.85 mm focal length, f2.8 lens aperture, tap to focus, a LED flash and geotagging the iPhone 4 is very handy to have in your pocket to capture images on the fly. So when I had the privilege to drive the wedding car at my nieces wedding, dragging a DSLR around was not a practical option, so the iPhone came in very handy. So during the day I snapped some moments, the one below is a pensive and maybe a little nervous moment before the drive to the chapel.

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More relaxed and busy time, fortunately we can be late, I think its compulsory :-)

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Proud dad get some help from daughter number 3

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The grooms party enters with their 'silly walk'

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"Wheres my FRICKEN iPhone!" screams the official wedding photog

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Proud Dad and beaming Bride

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Torrumbarry Weir II

Returning to fish Torrumbarry, see previous post HERE. I decided to try fishing above Torrumbarry Weir for the elusive Murray Cod. These are supposed to be reasonably plentiful here and winter is prime time for cod. There is a really good article on cod fishing HERE by Roger Dark from 2009. Not that I followed its recommendations very well. As it turns out not a strike, but it was great to be on the river.

Arriving before dawn on a heavily foggy winters morning, with no knowledge of this stretch of the river and not much visibility, but with depths of 8 to 12 metres in a healthy high flowing river is worth trolling for a couple of hours. You can view my track HERE.

Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f12.8, 1/5 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2D @ ISO 400, 35mm f2, 1/1000 sec

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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 1600, 11mm f2.8, 1/2500 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2D @ ISO 400, 35mm f8, 1/30 sec

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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 1600, 11mm f2.8, 1/6400 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2D @ ISO 400, 35mm f8, 1/50 sec

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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f8, 1/800 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2D @ ISO 400, 35mm f2, 1/500 sec

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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f8, 1/500 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2D @ ISO 400, 35mm f2, 1/320 sec

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Greens Lake

A late Sunday afternoon drive to a spot 45 minutes from Bendigo we ended up at Greens Lake. It is a natural basin and forms an off stream storage for the water channels in the area and is filled by rainfall and floodwater runoff. A shallow lake in open country and open to any wind it is situated approximately 7.5 kilometres North East of the small township of Corop. Pretty well for 8 of the last ten years there was not much going on here but it is said to have carp, redfin and goldfish populations and the lake has a decent cement boat ramp at the camping ground.

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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f16, 1/80 sec

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