Various image resources and thoughts
OTOH this famous tourist attraction looks like this in the afternoon light... have to be careful with the shadows that inevitably fall... but I do like the glow of the sandstone....
posted by gtveloce @ 5:15 PM
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A shot that has been taken by a million people before me, but in any case my 9-year old daughter Emma took this one ;-)
posted by gtveloce @ 5:11 PM
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It helps to have a coal mine next door... not so good for global warming but in small doses, why not?
posted by gtveloce @ 5:09 PM
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The Zig Zag Railway is a section of preserved track that was the main line west over the Blue Mountains until 1910. It zigs and zags up the slope on viaducts, through tunnels and in cuttings, involving the enging 'running around' to alternately go one way then the other. It was replaced by a 'normal' arrangement of consistently descending track that ran through 10 tunnels but posed no such delay. It is now a narrow-guage tourist venture using Queensland locos and rolling stock.
Not a bad place to capture shots of steaming locos... especially in an Aussie winter!
posted by gtveloce @ 5:07 PM
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Unintended consequences. I was standing at Sydney Airport back in 1978, analog Pentax in hand, loaded with Ektachrome, and took a shot of this Pan Am 747SP. Big deal? Well, maybe...
Because time marches on and things change, even the innocuous can take on new meaning. For example it's an SP, not your regular Jumbo. And Pan Am itself went bust. And in the background I have captured Sydney's skyline, as it was. In fact Sydney's tallest structure, Sydney Tower is caught here under construction. Now I didn't mean to get it into shot - OK, I probably did think about the background to some degree - but it was nice to get that slice of history in there. Otherwise it would be just another boring old 'plane shot.
posted by gtveloce @ 11:46 AM
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Another low-quality scan but a worthy subject: Electra VH-ABH at Air World, Wangaratta, Victoria circa 1997.
posted by gtveloce @ 9:13 AM
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Behind my woodpile I found this secret grove of mushrooms. They came and went in a week or so, but before they vanished I got up close and took some pics..
posted by gtveloce @ 9:06 AM
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Various image resources and thoughts
Began the journey in Enmore, Sydney, Oz; drifted tectonically north after a bit to see trees and breathe air. Learnt about global warming in 1975, believed it by 1989. Warned my parents that Woy Woy would go under the waves, hasn't happened yet - but by gosh it will happen some day! Really old now, was young once. Read a few books, got too many ideas, a camera and a bike (or 10). Serial owner of Italian cars; made sense at the time. Intense. Distracted. Collected wife and kids along the way. Work in IT, because I can. Still ride and race bikes. Not overly optimistic. Live on a hill, waiting for tsunami.
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