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Those that follow this site regularly will know I'am usually uploading sunrise and predawn shots of late , but here's a SOOC sunset from a few days back . No iconic native bird silhouettes sadly included .
The reverse of the day at the start .
Sunset Drive
Kenmore
We've been away for a week in Wisconsin. Flying home to pick up our buddy, Jasper, now. Can't wait to have this offer of play again
.... or Salt Water Crocodile as they are better known. This one near Cooinda, in Kakadu National Park, in Australia's Northern Territory, best shot with a long lens!
A photo I took a few years ago in Victoria that I have just processed.
I have seen lots of storm clouds like this during our recent coastal holiday!
Explored #82
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Aussie Shores is a gorgeous beach with excellent waves. There are lovely rentals on the beach and directly on the water. Aussie Shores is made up of two islands, and there are many scenic spots to hang out with friends or to enjoy a special date. There’s a massage table on the water, a small club with dance balls, and Austailian wildlife all over.
Features: Surf board rezzers (C-3 & Umi), rentals, lighthouse, beachside bar with pool table, hot tub, sailboats, tree house
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Owner: Pris
Photos by: Breanna Sura
Not much outdoor play this time of year. Our daytime highs are typically around 110º F (43ºC). That's normal for summer in the Phoenix area, so I'm not complaining. But it does mean we spend more time indoors in the air conditioning. But I wanted to try some action shots with my new camera so we ventured out for a few minutes.
When I was young, maybe around 7 or 8, riding in a slightly older 1948 FX Holden, I always got excited any time I saw the good old Peters Ice cream cone high up in front of a milk bar or corner store. At night, they were even lit up from within and looked wonderful. On seeing one of these, it was closely followed by intense pestering of my Dad to pull over and buy a treat, like an icy pole or a bag of cheese Twisties. Sometimes it worked!
This sight would be familiar to many older Aussies, with the 1960 FC Holden pulled up at the petrol bowser of a general store and Milk Bar. These old places often sold almost everything, and sometimes incorporated the Post Office too.
In this case, this is an old store front belonging to an antique dealer in Killarney, Victoria, not far from Warrnambool. The current owner also told me that the original milk bar here had been used by the Ford Motor Company in an advertising campaign in 1973.
Always happy to see any sign declaring ice cream to be a health food!
It is of course, a forced perspective shot of my 1/18th scale model 1960 Holden FC parked in front of the old store.
Jasper knows how to pour on the guilt with his sighs and mournful looks. But he gets plenty of play. Last night I went up to bed a little earlier than Jean and Jasper. As I'm reading in bed, I hear this on-going monologue / dialogue between the Roger Rabbit (voiced-over by Jean) and Jasper. In his typical cartoon voice, I hear Roger say, "Come on, man! Do a brother a solid and get off my chest so I can jump". Haha, 'do a brother a solid'. I had to laugh. The play continued at least until I drifted off to sleep. Lucky boy.
Minty having a good old time at the beach today. Just out the frame, her buddy Leo, is chasing her for the prize feather she has in her mouth.
And so it goes. We take a ball with us on the evening "walk" these days. It lets us concentrate some fun & exercise into a few minutes so we can get out of the 105F+ (40C+) heat and back into our air conditioned comfort. Shot blind with camera in the grass with Jasper's priority clearly on chasing that ball again, not posing for photos.
With the heat of summer draped over the Phoenix area, we're doing a lot of indoor play. Good thing Jasper is agile and very rarely knocks into anything.
Aussie 324 Arriving from Stansted to uplift Prime Minister Scott Morrision and delegation following their attendance at the COP26 Climate Conference,
Royal Australian Air Force
Airbus KC-30A (A330-203MRTT)
A39-007
Glasgow Airport, Scotland
2nd November 2021
Jasper has been enjoying the cooler weather and the outdoor play the temperatures allow. 5-10 frisbees or a few OddBall tosses usually satisfies him. Here, he's anticipating the toss of a toy by my wife, Jean. Such a happy chappy
The early sunrise for the day was not much so I was all packed up and ready to go. Then, I saw this happening and got my camera back out. I'm glad that I waited!
We found a different neighborhood to explore over the weekend. Some pleasant tree and shrub-lined paths let me take a few experimental shots getting used to my new camera. It's interesting now to look at the photo metadata and realize my mistakes. Like, it seems I left the aperture at f1.4 - wide open in sunlight. That explains the blown-out highlights and 1/8000 shutter speed. And this new camera has a highlights light metering mode. That's pretty handy for a dog like Jasper with quite a bit of white that can get blown out. To shoot again, I'd shoot this in highlight metering mode rather than spot metering which exposed for his dark(er) eyes and left the highlights over-exposed. Learning, learning, learning...
We've switched to a new food (see next post) for Jasper which we can't seem to find locally. So we ordered it from Chewy.com (if you're not familiar, Chewy.com is sort of like the Amazon.com for all things pet related). Jasper was quite excited to smell this delivery. He could have chewed his way into the package, but luckily he asked for a box cutter (cuts down on the mess)
We play every evening, but eventually the humans have to just "hang up the ball" and stop or we'd never get to relax. That's when Jasper gets all pouty and curls up on the other end of the couch. The facade drops quickly though if we show and signs of playfulness
Cabin fever is setting in for Jasper. Our typical afternoon highs right now are about 110ºF (43ºC) so that means the afternoon walk has been reduced to doing his business then getting the heck back inside. On Sunday we were about to engage in our after-lunch play session when Jasper headed down the hall towards the garage. Our first reaction was, "is he just confused or something? Gone around the bend?" When I went to see what was up, I found him staring at the cupboard from whence new toys emerge on occasion. He desperately wanted something new to break the monotony that is living in a desert in the summer. We managed to find something. But his birthday is on July 21st so we'll have a few new things for him soon.
Cairns, Queensland, Australia These are fruit bats. Unlike most other bats they do not use echolocation to find food. They are nocturnal and have large eyes to spot food in low light. www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/nati...
Many older Australians will be familiar with this car. It was a very popular model made between 1958 and the year of my birth, 1960. This is the General Motors Holden FC. Price brand new back then was around 1,100 pounds depending on the model variant. Powered by a good old straight six of about 2.2 litres capacity.
This is a 1/18th scale model made by a company called Classic Carlectibles who specialise in Australian models, and is one of just 800 or so that have been released of this particular model. They make many older model Holdens and Fords, and as model cars go, they are very high quality with all doors opening and working steering and suspension. I love this one for the wonderful detail, right down to the hubcaps in glorious chrome, and even the tyre valves.
This is the "showroom" shot taken inside under LED lighting and is a ten image focus stack taken on the Canon RP using the 35mm macro lens. Processed in Canon DPP4.
My wife tried to make a stealthy approach to Jasper to get his Oddball, but it was kind of a pathetic attempt (Sorry, Jean)
This is a male Helpis minitabunda, known for their bold and fearless behaviour as can be seen here. Looking directly upwards.
Also commonly known as threatening jumping spider and bronze jumping spider.
Around 10 mm body length.
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Normally an invitation to play includes a toy of some sort. And what you don't see from this vantage is Roger Rabbit, Oddball and ChuckIt on the floor at his feet. Play it is!
One of the things I just love about this new Sony camera is the animal eye auto focus. For this shot, I just laid the camera on the couch, tipped it a little for the Dutch Angle and fired away. The camera automatically focused on his eye. It almost feels like I'm cheating.
My wife and I have finally moved to the country town of Wauchope. Not a long trip from our old location but a different feel altogether. The railroad bridge is over a hundred years old but still being used every day.
Jasper reads the Arizona Economy page. Kind of takes after his old man who got his degree in economics. Economics is known as the "dismal science", but Jasper is anything but dismal. I guess you just have to keep the right attitude and play plenty of frisbee to balance life
At age 13 (in a month), Jasper still has quite a bit of energy. But he also knows when he's had enough sun and walking. And Jasper seems to really like gazebos. Maybe because it gets him up a little higher and they're shady - ideal conditions for people-watching and complement-collecting. This particular gazebo is at Boyce Thompson Arboretum, about 45 minutes from our house in Superior, Arizona.
The stub end of Burnett Lane (south of Albert Street) in Brisbane is a riot of murals which sadly can be difficult to shoot well because they are in a very cramped space and reaching for the roofs attract offsetting sections of bright light and shade. I have uploaded other sections previously, more to come. A number of artists have contributed the overlapping works.