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Full-flap landing

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:41:00 +0000

Some pics of local central coast cockatoos including full-flap landings at my seed bowl (OK, their seed bowl)
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Wet day, a camera, some fruit and flowers. You are warned.

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:14:00 +0000

Wet day, a camera, some fruit and flowers. You are warned.
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Another garden flower, dripping with light rain on a cloudy day.

Wet day, a camera, some fruit and flowers. You are warned.

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:11:00 +0000

Wet day, a camera, some fruit and flowers. You are warned.
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Some light rain and even light under a cloudy sky - perfect!

The service is usually quite good here.

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:54:00 +0000

The service is quite good here_0269
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Coogee Crit 1987 - Arden Street

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:16:00 +0000

Coogee Crit 1987_042
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

This is a wet Coogee crit during the Bank Race. Judging by the mix of toe clips and Look pedals plus the 'leather hairnets' it's probably 1987 or so.

Dean Woods was in the crowd but stranely enough he didn't recognise me (not that he should've!)

The Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic was Australia's biggest road tour, running for 19 years until (I think) 2000.

King Parrot vs dove

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:03:00 +0000

Parrot vs dove_0673
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

King parrots are a timid bird, especially for a parrot. Usually they wait their turn at the feeder, but these large pigeons, what I call 'bronze doves' but are probably something else, offered an opportunity to display their harder edge. It was close, but the parrots won.

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #1 Golf Mk1 rally car (again)

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:51:00 +0000

Golf Mk1 rally car CT 1979_582
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Drum roll, please. My all-time most popular image on the Flickr servers (as rated by viewer numbers) is... oh dear. The same time, same place, same deal as number 2. Yep, it's that rally car - a VW Golf - again. It's on the roof of a shopping centre in Sydney's suburbs, in 1979. It's not exactly my favourite pic, but it draws a lot of visitors. Go figure.

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #2 Golf Mk1 rally car 1979

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:49:00 +0000

Golf Mk1 rally car CT 1979_583
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

This is getting embarrasing and a bit bizarre. Here's a shot I took of a rally car in 1979 - on top of a shopping centre, no less, and it's my all-time number 2 at Flickr. Funny what people are interested in. (Yeah, OK, I was interested enough to be there and take the pic at the time, but I don't search for similar photos now!)

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #3 Giulietta rear transmission

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:48:00 +0000

Giulietta rear transmission_536
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

OK, so number 3 is really the same as number 5, but with a different body. It's the rear transaxle of an '80s model Alfa Romeo. Technically interesting - but it's just a scan of the Alfa Romeo brochure... why is it number 3?

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #4 Under an Alfa GTV

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:45:00 +0000

GTV_a006
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Of course looking under a 1982 model Alfa Romeo GTV would rate 4th on my list of hottest Flickr pics. Of course it would. Hmmm. Well it's a bit unusual in that there's a deDion tube, a rear-mounted transaxle and inboard disc brakes... you don't see that sort of stuff these days. But 4th overall?

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #5 Alfa Giulietta Oran Pk '82

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:16:00 +0000

Alfa Giulietta 2 Oran Pk 82
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Well it's an action shot, and a bit fuzzy. It's a road car - again that darned Alfa - pretending to be a racer... and it's at a track that's destined to close RSN (in 2009). Is that what has driven this shot to Number 5?

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #6 3TTT seatpost failure

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:37:00 +0000

3TTT seatpost failure_0432
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

This one I understand - imagine if you were sitting on that saddle when it broke! Well I don't have to imagine it... I was on it!

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #7 Viscount Sebring-1978

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:34:00 +0000

Viscount-Sebring-RR-CT-1978
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

I have no idea why this figures so highly. Is it the bike? The location (Sydney Airport)? The year (1978)?

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #8 - Alfa Giulietta

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:33:00 +0000

Alfa Giulietta 2 81
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

It's that Alfa again. Another pic, with a nice lens flare. Does that make it better? Or would it attract attention anyway?

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #9 Golf Mk1 rally car - 1979

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:31:00 +0000

Golf Mk1 rally car CT 1979_579
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Another car, German this time and slightly older. It's a rally car, too. Is it popular because of that? Is there more to it? The age? It's 1979 after all.

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #10 Giulietta styling

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:30:00 +0000

Giulietta styling_530
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

It's a scan, from a brochure - so why would it rate so highly? Because it's a car? An Italian car? Is that it?

That tree again

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:42:00 +0000

Mt Penang_0615
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

I had a range of focus options and I chose to focus closer rather than further up the branch. I wonder if I chose wisely?

A knarly old tree at Mt Penang

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:41:00 +0000

Mt Penang_0603
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Flaking bark

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:58:00 +0000

Flaking bark_0024
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Artis-tree, my barking obsession...

When all else fails, I take photographs

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:08:00 +0000

When all else fails, I take photographs
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Yet more bark

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:07:00 +0000

Yet more bark_0023
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Parrots mashed and edited in Photoshop... with feeling

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000

BG1_0938a
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

These were local rainbow lorikeets once, happily feeding. Now they are a heavily Photoshopped, saturated, textured and contrasty shadow of their former selves...

Up the Tamar, again: more pics of the RAAF Roulettes

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:58:00 +0000

Free airshow up the Tamar valley_0245b
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Once more, with feeling. We were at Legana, outside of Launceston when 6 RAAF Pilatus PC9/As in a tight aerobatic formation just "showed up" after lunch and buzzed us for 15 mins or so. They did one complete loop in the valley and then entered a holding pattern before disappearing for a while. They came back (still in formation) and headed north, back to Victoria.

Up the Tamar: RAAF puts on a free airshow, I take pics

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Free airshow up the Tamar valley_0246a
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

These are RAAF Pilatus PC9/As in a tight aerobatic formation (called the Roulettes). It was an unexpected show, 6 of these aircraft suddenly arrived in the Tamar valley (Launceston) and went into what was either a warmup, practice or a holding pattern. I think they were waiting for their slot for a display over the local Symmonds Plains race track but that's just a guess.