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Queenstown, Tasmania

 

I'm off to Tasmania and Queenstown for a month on a phototrip.

Devil's Fingers Fungus (Clathrus archeri) also known as Octopus Stinkhorn at Chailey Common Local Nature Reserve and SSSI, East Sussex England

Coming soon.

 

Updates:

6 July: changed a bit some icons - Added others.

Wrinkled Fieldcap (Agrocybe rivulosa) at RSPB Pulborough Brooks, near Pulborough West Sussex England

Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) at Elmley National Nature Reserve, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent England

Smoky Spindles (Clavaria fumosa), Penboyr Carmarthenshire, Wales

 

Day 2 of our short holiday in Wales

Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla) in the bush-lands surrounding Sutherlands Park, Huntingdale WA Australia

 

More from the Archives, these are from the 15th day of our Holiday in Western Australia, April 2015

Barn Owl (Tyto alba) at Beeding Brooks, near Bramber West Sussex England

Smeaton, Victoria, Australia

Collared Earthstar (Geastrum triplex) at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve, Kent Wildlife Trust, near Sevenoaks, Kent England

Collared Earthstar Fungus (Geastrum triplex), on the South Downs, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England

Fluted Bird's Nest Fungus (Cyathus striatus), at Wepham Wood, Angmering, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England

Port River, Port Adelaide, South Australia

Nadat Helmert al maanden 2 beeldschermen op z'n werk had, heb ik een manier gevonden om weer op gelijke hoogte te komen! Nu jij weer Helmert!

Horsefly (Hybomitra sp.) at Oaken Wood Butterfly Reserve, Chiddingfold Forest, an SSSI,

near Chiddingfold, Surrey England

Common Buckeye Butterfly (Junonia coenia) at Buena Vista Lagoon, near Oceanside California USA

 

Our second stop during the 12th morning on our family holiday to Southern California

Sorry Wrong Numbers™: The Way Apple Pricing & Trade-In Offers Work.... - IMRAN™

In full disclosure, I am a MacUser since 1984, and (mostly) love (most of) my Apple products. My day job is with Microsoft. But this tongue in cheek comment in the meme is based on reality. Apple did a good thing when it started offering trade-in offers to switch to newer model iPhones or even Apple Watch devices.

Then some beancounter just couldn't help it. They decided to find a way to screw loyal customers who had paid massive full prices for top of the line models with basically peanuts values on trade-in.

That is what made me comment that when Apple's next super-duper-I-don't-even-try-price-it maxed out Mac Pro comes out it may add up to $60,000 but a week later the beancounters there would maybe offer $60 in trade-in value for those. One hopes they learnt some embarrassing lessons from that whole recent episode and it does not happen this way.

 

© 2023 IMRAN™

Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus) at Herdsman Lake Regional Park, near Crawley WA Australia

 

Returning to our archives from our April 2015 holiday in Western Australia

Anemone Stinkhorn (Aseroe rubra), Surrey, England

Yellowing Cup (Peziza succosa) at RSPB Pulborough Brooks, near Wiggonholt West Sussex England

Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) at South Coast Botanic Garden, on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Palos Verdes, California, USA

29 November 2015

 

Returning to our family holiday to Southern California USA, our 9th morning out exploring our favourite locations in the area

Leopard Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. junialis) at Ferring Rife, near Worthing West Sussex England

Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) and Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach California USA

26 November 2015

 

Returned for a second go at Bolsa Chica, it's our 6th early morning out during the family holiday in SoCal

Inky Mushroom (Agaricus moelleri), on our 4th and final stop of the second day of our Fungi Tour of Ancient Sussex Churches and their Churchyards

Little Owl (Athene noctua) at West Dean Wood, Sussex Wildlife Trust, West Sussex England

Scarlet Caterpillarclub (Cordyceps militaris) and it's host caterpillar.

 

This specimen (one of the many found at this specific location) was originally found partially buried on top of one of the ancient moss covered graves in a Sussex churchyard during our Fungi Tour of Ancient Sussex Churches, on one of our stops, 22 October 2015.

 

The image was produced with artificial light and processed from 40 individual image files using a process called Focus Stacking.

Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus)

Highlights from a morning in Surrey England

Thanks to Vicki for her kind help in locating this species (great directions)

Star Pinkgill (Entoloma conferendum) at Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve and SSSI, Sussex Wildlife Trust, West Sussex England

After recent events, the Mac Pro is is stuck at Mac OS 10.10.5 Yosemite. I may be able to get Windows 7 on there, and probably update it to Windows 10. I do not believe the future Windows 11 will work, but who knows. I currently have Windows 10 running on a 2018 Mac Mini. It runs better on the Mac mini than it does on that HP thing at work. No surprise there.

 

Of course I cannot find my Windows 7 Pro serial number.

Arcyria cinerea at Ebernoe Common National Nature Reserve NNR, near Ebernoe West Sussex England

More highlights from our 2014 summer holiday in Scotland

RSPB Troup Head near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire Scotland

Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) at Chichester Cathedral, RSPB Chichester Peregrines 2016, West Sussex England

Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus), at Teazle Wood, Surrey England

Leopard Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa var. junialis) photographed in West Sussex England 19 May 2015

This is my home office, where I work. At this place I write, both software and garden variety attempts to communicate with my own kind; I edit images, surf the net, go back and forth with the folks who work for me, maintain our local servers and some remote ones we are responsible for, and more.

 

There's often a cat up on top the Marantz gear, though not right when I took this image. Fickle little beasts. :-)

 

Deb's workstation is just to the right of all this, two more monitors for a Mac Mini and a big XP machine, plus an XP laptop make their home over there. I use a Macbook Pro, with Parallels running both linux and XP.

 

Deb and I spend a lot of time sitting next to each other, leaving our nasty little footprints all over the Internet.

 

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Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS zoom @ f/8, ISO 1000, 1/15th exposure, 35mm, AF on, IS on, available light, handheld (You have to love IS!)

Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum), one of the more surprising visitors to our garden today, 21 August 2015, in Worthing, West Sussex England

Little Owl (Athene noctua)

South Downs National Park

Sussex England

 

revisited this pair and got lucky to have a brief bit of sunshine

A general view of the space in front of my bed. Great for movie-watching sessions, working with the hackintosh when needed, and offering lots of storage in these boxes. You can't imagine what fits in there. Believe me!

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