Moonrise on Melrose ©

what did you think of the other one? (kidding!!!!) thanks dave! i remember this as clear as a bell too! vicki :)

you got it nick! thanks for the comments! and it is very quiet out there, in the middle of nowhere – bar the roos and snakes!! (it isn’t always a pleasant experience, is it, being the non-photographer in a car with photographer-all ready with camera! if you know what i mean!!) :))) vicki

thanks sylvia! so lucky i had my camera with me at the time! vicki :))

thank you lauren!!

Thank you Bubbleblue and thanks for the fave!

Thank you shanghaiwu! I am glad that you like it! :))

Thank you Gerry! (it is never fun to travel in a car with a photographer, at any time, is it? unless you are a photographer!)
:)) Vicki

The car roof was the tripod!

Thank you Ralph! You do have to be patient to travel in a car with a photographer who has camera at the ready, at all times! I appreciate your comments! :))) Thanks for the fave! :) Vicki

Ahhh… so you have also used your car as a tripod?!! With the engine off, of course!!

Thank you Malcolm! Sorry I missed your comment before! Thank you for your favourite and kind words! Vicki :)))

Thank you Kathy! I am glad that you like it! :))

Thank you Dogbreath!!!

Hello Evita and Ruth,
Thank you for the feature! I am chuffed! I might not fit through my front door now (if my head swells up with pride too much!).
Thanks again, and love your group!
Vicki :))))

Thank you SmokeyDogSocks! Yes, much better to stop for a p…photograph! It costs too much to stop for a p…policeman! And, depending on who you are and what their sense of humour is like, it is much less embarassing than stopping for a p….peeee! (I have had someone reverse and shine their headlights on me…... nice friends that I have, aye?!) I love your comments and thanks for the fave!

Have you heard of tin-kettling?

Thank you Rick! One of my originals and isn’t it great that RB provides us with the opportunity to exhibit our work, old and new! Thanks for dropping by!! Vicki :))

Spot on Rick! The only problem is the addiction to RB!!!!

It is an Aussie tradition, Bob. After you have been married for a couple of months,20 people squeeze into 1 car (I exaggerate but not by much!) and sneak onto your property in the wee hours of the morning (generally after the Rabbit Trap has closed!), sneak into your house, assemble, in the dark, around your bed and then proceed to ring cowbells and any other LOUD bells that they have managed to get their hands on! ....after you peel yourself off the ceililng, you then go and join them for drinks (very thirsty work!) while someone else then ransacks your house, pulls off the labels off the tinned food (and later is is like…. what do you think this one is dear? ...shaking tin… peaches or baked beans?), fill your wardrobes with baby powder and other unmentionables! If you are UNLUCKY enough to own a waterbed, they might also turn it off at the wall without telling you too….. Then, if you are lucky enough, and someone else is unlucky enough to have also got recently married, you join them and go and do it to someone else! Does that sound at all familiar? Normally you wake up the next morning with very sore heads… Good thing that once we were young and patient because if someone did that to me know, well…. I wouldn’t be entertaining them for starters!

I don’t anymore either, silly enough as it is without adding anything artificial! Must be just an Aussie tradition then. It was around when my mum and dad got married too. It still amazes me how we didn’t hear them drive up… they use to leave their lights off, I know that! I don’t know if they do that anymore! With new DUI laws, probably not! Vicki :)))

Could they see you seeing them? I know that my brother and I normally didn’t HEAR them! We lived on acres and would turn the music up full boar…. no neighbours to annoy… annoyed Mum and Dad though, to no end! My ears can still ring and not from the music!

Thanks Michelle! One of my favourites! I am so glad that you like it!Vicki :)

Thank you Steven! Glad that you like it! Vicki :)))

Thank you Theresa, for your kind comments! Glad that you like it! Vicki :)))))

Hi Sarah, can’t remember the exposure time as it was film, and taken about 20 years ago! It was a more than a few seconds (ie more than 1). I used the car (switched off) as a tripod. When it was printed, it was delliberately over exposed as the it was not as bright as what it could be. Yes, it was car headlights and moon! And the gravel road just absorbed the lighting! I was really impressed when I got the pics back (back in the ‘old’ days Digital makes the process so much easier except that you have to W A I T for the image to process before you can take another shot! Nice to meet you Sarah! Vicki

Make sure your battery is WELL charged for that length of time! Let me know if it handles it…. :))) I don’t think the exposure on this was that long, I would say max 2 or 3 minutes or less. If you shoot on RAW (what camera do you use again?), it allows you a bit of leeway too, with digital… Good luck!! Vicki :))))

I think the driver was more annoyed with me than I was spooked – having to stop and wait while I took a photo!!! One has to have patience if they are going to travel with a photographer, yes???!!
:)))))You must live in a nice part of the country if it looks the same!! How are things down there? Vicki

Might test your patience to be in a car with me then!!!! :)))) Murder on the old bush road… woman slain and found with a big lens shaped dent in the middle of her forehead!!! :)))

Thank you Trudi, for your comments and am glad that you like it! Vicki :)

Thank you Paul, glad you think so! :))) Vicki

Thank Azzurra and so glad that you like it! ANd thanks for the fave!
Vicki :)))

Thank you Rhenastarr, glad you like it! Vicki :))

Ta for the kind comments Colleen and thanks for accepting Moonrise On Melrose into your group! I wasn’t sure whether to submit it or not – glad I did! Cheers, Vicki :))

Thanks Paul! Cheers, Vicki :))

Thanks Coolibah, and a great group it is too! Thanks for the comment! (Love those country roads, no traffic, no people, yes, lovely!)
Cheers! Vicki :))

Thanks Phil! Much appreciated! :))

Thanks dreamNwish! Vicki :))

Thanks Birgitta! Much appreciated! Vicki :))

Thanks Anthony! :)

Thank you Svetlana! Much appreciated!

Thanks Christian! Glad you like it! Vicki :)))

Thanks Trish! :))

Ta Moorey! Yes, I was lucky, aye?! Back in the old days of SLR too!

Thank you Ingz!!! :))

Ta Lau! Glad you like it!! :))

Digital SLR!! This was old fashioned film slr!!!! (Did I confuse you Moorey? You know, I do try hard to do that!!! How are those simtums coming along?!!) :))

ummm, yes!!! Have been shooting with SLR’s since 1980 basically! And even earlier on those old 110films!!! (I am feeling so OLD now, thank you Moorey…..you’ll keep!!!!) LOL (and how old am I?!!)

About to get older soon too….. oh no, paint another wrinkle on the crinkle! getting new glasses!! Losing more patience? Yep, it’s ok to get another year older!! LOL

Thanks greeneyedlady!! :)) This was my flatlands home, in the middle of New South Wales, Australia!! V.Flat also! :))

Thank you Margaret!! It was actually a lovely night!! :)) Not spooky at all! (love those moonlit nights when you can even drive without headlights!!)(shhh, don’t tell anyone that!!) lol! :)

Thanks Karen, you are too kind!! I don’t know what to say, and that is very unusual!! (normally you can’t shut me up!) :)) Ta again! :) And lovely to meet you! Love your drover photo!!

Thank you very much Leon!! Much appreciated!! And thanks for the feedback on my site! Good to know! :))

Thank you Lars! :)

Thanks so much Donna!! Very kind! :))

Spot on, WP!! Yes, it was the car’s headlights! It was a wonderful night! Love your terminolgy – urban tripod! or should that be rural tripod?!! :))

Thank you Licbar!! :))

Thank you very much Cammie! :))

Thank you aglaia! Much appreciated! :))

It isn’t really Lori! Well, spooky, I mean – it is in the middle of nowhere though!! :)) Thanks Lori! :)

Thanks Adrian – I have actually been thinking about scanning some more of old prints (I have thousands of them, could have bought ten houses or more if I hadn’t taken and printed them!!) :)))

Dank you vewy muchly Dart!! And, yes, I hope so…. one day I might even find it!!! Signature is easy to do (photoshop) and I put it up a bit because cards crop out more than normal prints! eg

(and i learned that the hard way!!!)

Thanks PJ, very kind of you!! This would have to be one of my original favourites (??) :))) Glad you like it! :))

Thanks Matt!! Film had its own virtues, aye?!! :))

Thank you Neil!! :)))

Wow, Rosie, what a mouthful!! Can you say that three times really fast?! Thanks, thanks and thanks again! :)))

Thank you Mark!! The wonders of film and print, aye?!!! :))

Ta Tibby!!! :)))

Thank you Luca!!! :)))

Thank you for that glorious saying Steve!! I really like that! And it is so true!!! Perfect description for those photographs that take your breath away! Cheers!! :))) (May I use this in my profile?!! :))

Thanks so much Maggie!!! :)))

Hi Durham!! Always many stories! The fabric of life!! :)))

Thanks Antanas! Much appreciated!! :))

Ta Edyta!!! :))

Lovely to meet you too, Durham! :)

Thanks Lois!!! I was pretty chuffed at the time too!! It was a while ago now though! But still a bit chuffed!!! :))) Cheers, matey!!! :))

Thank you very much David Wyatt!! :)))

Ta so much for that wonderful comment TBH! I am chuffed with your comment and good to know you remember the old film days! I couldn’t imagine how difficult that would be now! I would be forever checking the back of the camera! (and I have used film and done this! _{slaps forehead, gently}!!) :)

LOL jazzdevil!! You have me in stitches!! I love the oh yeah…. its…. amazing! What a crack up!! :)) I am so glad you enjoyed the stories! The things we used to do!! lol And, on a serious note, as difficult as that can be, hehehehe, thank you very much!! Great to make your acquaintance (leaning over and shaking hands now!) ... :))) Cheers, Vicki :)

Thank you Ursula!! I thought so too!!! Heheheh! Cheers, Vicki :))