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Manly beach, Sydney summer 2019. Leica CL, M-Rokkor 40mm f/2, Ilford HP5+ in XTOL developer 1+1 12min 20C. V700 scan.
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Palm Islands, Queensland.
Description: Young unidentified woman is wearing a large sunhat at the beach. Behind her is a wooden jetty and a sailing boat moored in the shallows.Palm Island is a tropical island situated 70 km north of Townsville, off the coast near Ingham. Palm Island is an Aboriginal Community with population of approximately 3000. Palm Island is surrounded by thirteen smaller islands, and is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Collection reference: 6268 J Kenneth Brown Photograph Albums.
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A pair of Red Belly Black snakes basking on a log in the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve near Canberra. Aren't they beautiful!
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris
Unused.
Sailors from Matrosen-Regiment 1 enjoying some warm coastal weather in Flanders, circa 1916.
The 1st and 2nd Matrosen (Sailors) Regiments along with naval artillery batteries and naval air squadrons were stationed in Flanders along the Belgian coast from 1914-18. The regiments were quickly expanded to divisional strength and along with the Naval Infantry Division (formed from the Seebatallione) became the Marinekorps Flandern.
In the far north west of Australia’s, Western Australia, is a rocky oasis that you can climb down into known as The Grotto, which is where on a previous trip, I saw this Merten’s Water Monitor, Varanus mertensi, sunbaking on the edge of a rock pool.
From the top this area looks very rocky with a few greener trees in the valley at the bottom of the surrounding rocks. Walking down into the grotto area though brings you to a great cool little waterhole which is a welcome relief from the constant heat in this region.
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Manly beach, Sydney, summer 2019. Olympus OM4-Ti, OM Zuiko 35mm f/2, New Kodak Ektachrome 100 exposed at +2/3 to +1EV. Noritsu photo lab scan 2400dpi. No colour adjustment. Minor tone adjustment in LR6.
White out at Catherine Hill Bay during a storm. Swell around 5 meters. Not a day for surfing or sunbaking
Displayed at Smith and Caughey in Auckland NZ for their Christmas 2008 window. Previously used in David Jones 2006 Christmas windows in Sydney. StudioM was contracted by an animations and Promotions company in Jan 2006, to firstly design the six scenes and provide presentation material for the tender. Once our design had been chosen, the promotions company contracted StudioM to create the scenes for the six David Jones windows, supervising and coordinating components within the scenes. We did this at StudioM's small home studio. The Promotions company delivered the blank scenes made of steel frames with the sides covered with undercoated plywood, plus the extra plywood, some paint, latex and styrene needed to our studio and picked up each of the six scenes as we finished them, siting them in their factory where they put in some motion, lighting and external finishes. It was here that the VM managers from David Jones viewed them each time a full window scene was finished. The motion of simplistic up and down movements was created by the insertion of an overhead rotating shaft and cam system. These cams connected with fishing lines attached to the objects below which created some movement as the cams rotated. It is a simple basic system widely used. The scene was recycled and used again at Smith and Caugheys two years later.
This middle part of the scene shows the six laying geese are struggling hard to lay. One has a happy clucky look whilst another is knitting web shaped bootees and one should be looking up to the partridge which has dropped a calling card on her head. Juanita made dancing ladies,geese, partridge and mouse to my drawings and specifications. StudioM added all the little bits to them. StudioM drew the templates for each individual piece of the maids, the drummers, the pipers, the lords from which Greg at the promotions company cut them out. StudioM painted the drummers and the pipers, made the snail for the french scene, and the turtle doves. StudioM designed the arms of the drummers/pipers so they would lift and drop in unison when pulled and dropped off at the same point from above and my husband added some weight to each arm to assist in this. The 5 is on the gatepost, the 6 a row of ants in front of goose with twins, the 1 is on pear which the partridge has pecked at, the 4 is yet to go on as 'Area 4' on an information chart that a calling bird from a call centre will hold under its wing, and the 12 is a mob of sheep on the far hill. The sunbaking mouse was a later request of mine to Juanita for her to make to fill in a bare spot and add some more humour. StudioM positioned all puppets bar the 4 calling birds at our studio before the scene's delivery to the factory of the promotions company. The original drawings, sketches, templates, and presentation brief are held by StudioM.
To view many more closeup and interesting shots of this and the other five scenes look at www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/sets/72157627374956322/
near Manly beach, Sydney, summer 2017. Rollei 35S (Zeiss Sonnar f2.8) Agfa APX100 in Rodinal.
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7DOS That's boring Colourful Thursday - lying on the beach all afternoon would bore me to tears these days and not to mention the sunburn - when I was younger it was the in thing to do - today I much prefer to walk along the beach or go for a quick dip, sit for a short time while I dry off
Manly beach, Sydney, summer 2018. Leica IIIc Cosina-Voigtlander 21mm f/4 LTM Ilford HP5+ rated at iso100 in XTOL 1+1.
The rising tide has washed up this shiny glistening bundle of what I suppose to be the seaweed Phyllospora comosa, crayweed.
Lying in the sunshine is de rigueur for lizards. The Sun is where plants get their energy to pull CO₂ out of the atmosphere to save us from ourselves; and those girls further up the beach in their coveralls and hijabs need to uncover enough to get their vitamin D fix. Too much of it is bad for human skin — making wrinkles, spots and cancers. Sunbaking on the sand is not good at all for seaweeds which need to be covered; or desiccate and perish on the land.
Don't fret. This is the cycle of life. That weed in dying and decaying later on the beach will create habitat and deliver nutrients up the food chain. It will feed arthropods that the oyster catchers eat and their droppings will distribute much needed nitrogen and phosphorus.
The beach at Sandy Point, a technically terrible Holga 135 photo converted into something better with a little layer manipulation in Photoshop.
Break out the SPF 3000000 if you plan to sunbake here.
Seen in a roadside gutter sunning itself after digesting a large meal, this Carpet Python was seen near Wondecla, far north Queensland.
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COVID-19 lockdown could be an excuse to hide away inside and binge watch whatever wastes your brain. Don't let it get you down!
Instead, get into the light as best you can. Staying in the dark is a real health risk in itself. Apart from simply lifting your spirit, sunlight on skin is the most natural and best source of vitamin D. Without it, your world is going to get even worse than you imagine it is now.
Your body is like a big solar array. You know too much sun, or at least the UV light in solar radiation, is not great for your skin. The best advice about getting your dose of vitamin D is to expose as much skin as your can to the sun for a short while rather than a little for a long time. Simple! So, get naked and lie in the sun.*
Reptiles have been following this advice since the Mesozoic so there must be something to this basking caper. Sure, you can get you vitamins in a pill or injection. If you are under a burqa or a niqab, a vegetarian or a vegan you really need to be extra careful. Self-imposed vitamin deficiences or dependency on the health sector to give you a chemical factory hit turns your back on a natural lifestyle and puts a self-induced strain on a system already struggling. Besides, right now you want to do the best you can for your metabolism so it can support your cellular processes and immune system. Natural is best.
Apart from some pretty unusual metabolic processes in sulphur-reducing bacteria all life gets its energy from the Sun. These tomatoes, fellows of these beauties and all off that one bush are basking as a risk management response to the changing season. On the eve of the first light frosts these babies were too good to lose; pretty mature, getting a certain translucence to them. Brought in from the cold they can still ripen. They are alive and just need the energy to move them along to ripeness. This the thing with risk. Done well it leads to reward.
*Before you do nude up in your park, yard, beach or balcony check your sight lines and local regulations!
1. His dad was a smooth-coat Fox Terrier (black and white), and his mum was a smooth-coat Jack Russell Terrier (brown and white). I think he got a lovely mix of the two :)
2. He will be 4 years old this coming October (time flys!)
3. He LOVES sunbaking and going on walkies!
4. He thoroughly enjoys doing laps of the backyard with an empty milk container in his mouth.
5. He is an amazing gaurd dog, but unfortunately he loves killing bobtail lizards that wander into the backyard, he tears them clean in half! Poor lizards :(
6. He HATES wearing jackets in winter, as soon as we put one on him his ears go back and he walks sideways like a crab.
7. When he was a pup he would sleep on top of Toby :) The golden lounge.
8. He hates stormy weather, it's the only time he acts like a baby.
9. He was almost named "Bundy" when I got him at 7 weeks old. Hyde is much better.
10. He is extremely stubborn and can be grumpy for no reason (not a big cuddler) but he is the smartest dog that I have owned so far.. it will take a lot to top him in cleverness...and sneakiness!!