Good morning all, Can hardly contain my excitement..(cartwheels all round ) My image Untitled has been selected as image of the w…
Good morning all, Can hardly contain my excitement..(cartwheels all round ) My image Untitled has been selected as image of the week for the primate group. Please go and visit Primate group. A wonderful group containing very talented and passionate people. I am honoured and proud as punch~! image of the week Check this out Regards, Sal
Hi : ), I’ll be online on and off over the next 24 hours or so… So anyone who wants to get online…and have a Christmas drink with me…
Hi : ), I’ll be online on and off over the next 24 hours or so… So anyone who wants to get online…and have a Christmas drink with me.. please come and visit : ). / Being a Cyber party the cyber drinks are all free…and we’re fully stocked..with all your favourite drinks! And….....there’s a free curtesy bus home!! : ) / OK I’m taking requests for the music now….. what shall we start with?? / Am I talking to myself again?? Oh well Wen…don’t worry darling…at least you’re assured of some stimulating conversation! LOL
Thought I’d get a bit wet and go into the heart of the city for a walk. Shots taken with a D mk3 and 70-200 f/2.8IS – blessed are those w…
Thought I’d get a bit wet and go into the heart of the city for a walk. Shots taken with a D mk3 and 70-200 f/2.8IS – blessed are those with rain proof gear. ( images are linked to larger versions for those with bandwidth issues ) 1. / 2. / 3. / 4. / 5. / 6. / 7. / 8. / 9. / / . / Tips for shooting in the rain: I’ve found that with an extra large large rain jacket i can sling my camera underneath and keep it dry as i walk around in the rain put your camera over your shoulder and then put your rain jacket over the top be careful of non weather proof camera gear – use it under shelter when you can and don’t risk trying to take it out in the rain when shooting wet tarmac or dark paving make sure you use a bit of exposure compensation (i suggest -2/3 of a stop ) don’t try to use an umbrella when shooting – you’ll need an extra hand and you can see what can happen from the above images if your camera bag isn’t waterproof then cut a plastic bag up to help to keep out most of the water dry out your bag and gear thoroughly when you get home – the foam protection in the bag will take a lot of drying
Bathing Birds / Bath Time...
Bathing Birds / Bath Time / / Thanks to everyone that voted for the little fellow…appreciated
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American Southwest / / mahalo hosts ….......you gotta love the beach…......
Wind The wind is a pervert, / Playfully tugging at girls skirts, / Reaching down peoples tops, / And in a frenzy whipping up the leaves / ...
Wind The wind is a pervert, / Playfully tugging at girls skirts, / Reaching down peoples tops, / And in a frenzy whipping up the leaves / Into a revolt, then sending them to mischief. / Then he stops, as if tired from playing, / Sulking like a disobedient dog when confronted. / The trees stop swaying and the leaves stop swirling, / And the world sighs with relief, / Then with an insolent smile he starts again. / He picks up exactly where he left off. / Hurling dirt, twigs and leaves at passers by. / Blowing raspberries from the heavens. / He invites his friends to join him, / To wreak havoc on the world, Thunder and Lightning. / Oh yes the wind is a pervert, / Toying with the skirts of passers by. / Then the worlds had enough. / He reaches out and hits the winds rear end, / Sending the wind running in terror followed by his friends. by Kirsten Brown
:) we are still surrounded by miles of red sand here..but this morning , it is wet red sand! last night there were showers, adding u…
:) we are still surrounded by miles of red sand here..but this morning , it is wet red sand! last night there were showers, adding up to just over 7 mm rain. Much needed, and ,hopefully it means there will be SOME green appearing soon :) ‘tis only a drop in the bucket, but it’s OUR drop, and valuable for all that. Rainwater tanks for drinking are now full again, and any small green things which sprang into life after the last little rain some weeks back, will now have something to keep them alive :)
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Thank you so much, rainy and mobii!!
Fire and Water was…
Fire and Water was featured in California Sound today. I am so thrilled. Many thanks to Suze, Nancy and Kenny for this esteemed honor. Reflection under the Boardwalk was also featured today in The Beginners’ Corner. Many thanks to the hosts and moderators Angie, Atreju and Bill for this honor. Honolulu Yacht Club Marina was featured today in the Hawaii~Aloha Na’au Group. Many thanks to hosts and moderators Sharon and Karon for this esteemed honor.
I would be grateful for help or advice re my camera and my lens: EF Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L series They got wet on a shoot, due…
I would be grateful for help or advice re my camera and my lens: EF Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L series They got wet on a shoot, due to heavy rain (according to Canon`s description they are both suited for the toughest weather conditions on a daily basis) the camera stopped working, the lens glass covered in condensation so I could not use them for the shoot The following day the camera still wouldn`t work and the error code 01 continued to display, even when I applied other L series lenses, and the lens was saturated on the inside I managed to remove some excess water but most of the glass elements are stained and the aperture blades make a loud friction-type sound whenever I use pretty much any camera function including On Off and also when mounted on my Canon D40 The camera and lens are still in this state (approx 36 hours later) I have tried to let them dry out at room temperature If anyone has any advice or suggestions or has experienced a similar problem I would love to hear from you and am grateful for any help BTW Happy Easter! Thanks / Franco
Well after that downpour today, some of our local house became waterfront properties! / I have submitted these images to the local paper …
Well after that downpour today, some of our local house became waterfront properties! / I have submitted these images to the local paper and am currently awaiting their reply…. All fingers crossed!
Parrots Only / is Featuring Bath Time...
Parrots Only / is Featuring Bath Time / Thanks Very much to the Group for this feature /
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“I Hope Someone Left A Towel Out For Me” Placed in the top ten in the “Bathing Birds Challenge” in the group “I Love Birds” Thanks to all who voted in this challenge!
I wonder what photo opportunities are available right at this moment? Perhaps a close up of a puddle being pummelled by rain drops – the…
I wonder what photo opportunities are available right at this moment? Perhaps a close up of a puddle being pummelled by rain drops – the cliché black and white photo of a woman with a red umbrella (I ask you – how often do you see a woman with a red umbrella??)....a close-up of bright coloured gumboots......people dashing for shelter (black and white)......kids in rain coats ...with arms outstretched…..rain drops dripping off a branch on a tree.....with a blurred background of a church…...woollen gloved hands wrapped around a hot cup of coffee.........then I come back to reality after this little day dream and realise that I’m sitting at my desk at work – unable to capture any of these photos….so for now I’ll just keep on imagining….............
31-05-09 Wet! Wet! Wet! / !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/m…
31-05-09 Wet! Wet! Wet! / / has been featured in the Former DPF Members Group. Many thanks indeed to the Hosts and to all who have supported this damp effort. GB / Dennis
After many months of the land baking in extreme heat, the land being parched of all it’s moisture – every plant and animal is pushed to i…
After many months of the land baking in extreme heat, the land being parched of all it’s moisture – every plant and animal is pushed to it’s limits of existance in this volatile climatic region.But like all seasons, they slowly change and the first showers and storms begin to form – isolated and somewhat benign in nature at first. Though this soon changes as the build up season gets into full swing and the heat and humidity is at it’s peak. The thunderstorms become more frequent and sometimes more violent and often dumping very heavy rainfall in short periods with cooler refreshing outflow winds temporarily providing relief from the stiffling heat and humidity…though once the storm clears and the sun returns the added moisture at ground levels sends the humidity skyrocketing again. / Wetlands begin to become rejuvinated remarkebly quickly again as all plants and animals look to make the most of this high speed growing and breeding season before the dry returns. Before it does though is the all mighty wet season with daily downpours, winds and little sunshine… This leaves the vast wetlands of the top end once again in full splendour of the annual floods. Access becomes very limited but what a majestic sight it is. This dramatic climate dries as quickly as it explodes and once again the top end will experience many months of cloudless skies as the cycle continues. take a glance at my relevant photograph that inspired me writing this piece… / http://www.redbubble.com/mybubble/works/edit_image/22722
11-03-09 Thysanotus tuberosus (Common Fringed Lily)...
11-03-09 Thysanotus tuberosus (Common Fringed Lily) / / was placed in the Top Ten in the Native Australian Plants Group ‘Wet Native Plants Challenge’. My hottest thanks to the Hosts and to all who have supported this fringed beauty. GB / Dennis
So cool to wake up and find my Collage ‘What water gives’ in the SPA with / Michael J Armijo :))) If you know the original painting: W…
So cool to wake up and find my Collage ‘What water gives’ in the SPA with / Michael J Armijo :))) If you know the original painting: What the water gave me by Frida Kahlo then / you will get his perspective, really clever such a thrill to know my art is having a relaxing time in New York, with such / fine company as well, thanks MJA!!!! are don’t know how to link it, but here it is / http://www.redbubble.com/people/michaelarm xxx
CATALOGUE OF THE OLDEST PAGE OF MY BUBBLE WRITING LIST Hi to all my watchers and a big hello to anyone new to my bubble! :O) I …
CATALOGUE OF THE OLDEST PAGE OF MY BUBBLE WRITING LIST Hi to all my watchers and a big hello to anyone new to my bubble! :O) I just realised I have HEAPS of writing on here lol and my really good stuff is waaaaaaaay up the back and being ignored and neglected <( – So I decided to send you all looking at it again :O) These are my Page Six works { Quick read them before they become page 7 works lol :O)} The first piece I posted was / Oralist / This is the first poem I ever read out in public :O) SCARY stuff! Considering I’d never considered myself a poet in any way :O) but then what is an oralist but someone who communicates by mouth – and words do come forth from my mouth at an alarming pace :O) What’s worse is they are faster in my brain! <$ My Beast / Is proudly about my writing addiction and the glorious tool that is my PC :O) Mountain Mists / Is about my love of the Victorian High Country Fragile / Autobiographical poem about how I found myself Growth Gap / The first unconscious poem I wrote when dealing with seeing my children after not On the Wings of Our Love / The first RB art inspired poem, it was just the focus I needed to write of my love Paying Dues / A comical piece about the price I pay, have paid to be the writer I am Frank / My first serious poem ever written and read out Plastic Pearl / Another poem depicting the cheekiness I think about before I answer honestly Addicted / Like My Beast this describes my love affair with words and writing! What to Do / I wrote this prose piece at school for an essay on “What did I want to be when I grew up!” I still say “Old” Going Home / I wrote this for my man “Skik”:http://www.redbubble.com/people/skik the blurb will tell you how Confirmation / A day dream at the letterbox – ah if only! These last four are from my first novel “The Daintree Daughters” a massive thing over 120,000 words long! There are two journal entries explaining it better Author’s Note & Synopsis. This First paragraphs was the first thing of my writing I ever showed / read out to anyone since the only play I wrote back my first Secondary School year. 36 years ago! [Man! I’m old! <( lol] / First Paragraphs They are unconsciously written abstract prose passages. I was compelled to write one for the beginning of each section or book and after it is as if each unconsciously dictates the flavour of the corresponding book that followed. These next three are my three heroines views on the last scene of their individual parts. You choose which sister you wish to read first. [659w] Mandy has found out her man has done stuff behind her back and Calamity Jane style gone riding in to sort it out! [1381w] Molly has been touring the Victorian Gold fields in the company of the man she had slowly come to realise was responsible for their father’s death and the demise of her mother and sisters and herself. ever the affectionate one she has eyes for a few of the men crossing her path. Poor sensible Mary [1098w] has had to suffer the most. Married out of duty to a man who turns into a crazed madman she has been locked up and slowly forced to loose her mind. Although now safely hidden from her husband by the doctor for her own health her view on the world has become a little detatched. The action takes place in and around the doctor’s house where Mary is upstairs, Molly is down stairs with her sister’s in-laws the Hamilton’s and the town’s doctor, Grant, and the doctor’s assistant, Jack, and Mandy’s estranged intended Matt, and his assistant, George. Well these are my old pieces. The first pagers of my Bubble Writing list. Check them out on a rainy afternoon when the bubble is slow and there’s not much else to do! – like today in Melbourne! lol :O) Enjoy ! :O)
A fellow photographer sent me this in my e-mail and I thought it was important enough to post for those of you who have experienced a wet…
A fellow photographer sent me this in my e-mail and I thought it was important enough to post for those of you who have experienced a wet camera. SAVE WET ELECTRONICS WITH RICE If your camera, cell phone, or other device accidentally gets wet when you’re traveling (or at home), try the following tricks to save wet electronics: 1. Do NOT turn it on if it’s wet. Remove the battery and memory card and leave all the doors and covers on the device open so it can dry. 2. Vacuum it out. If you try drying the device with a fan or a blow dryer, you risk pushing moisture deeper onto the circuitry. This could cause a short. Instead, pull moisture away from the device with a vacuum. 3. Bury it in rice. Rice absorbs moisture from nearby objects. If your camera gets wet, drop it into a container of rice and let it sit for a day. The rice will help pull the moisture out. 4. Power it back up. After your camera or phone spends a full day submerged in rice, reinsert the battery and cards, and turn it on. If it doesn’t work, call the manufacturer. Don’t try to hide the fact that it got wet. There are internal indicators in most devices that show water damage.
last night was the worst .. see my journal entry Wet Snow and Downed Trees … part 1...
last night was the worst .. see my journal entry Wet Snow and Downed Trees … part 1 for what was happening last night … I promised photos … this time I didn’t go out into the snow .. don’t have any winter boots and the snow’s too deep for my waterproof comfy very warm slippers .. so I took the shots out the back door and off the front porch .. there are more downed trees that I couldn’t photograph .. one we need to move as soon as we can .. it’s sitting on top of the propane tank! Otherwise, so far, no damage we can tell to the roof of the trailer .. thankfully .. this is going to be a mess to clean up … going to need help .. some of the limbs are quite large and alas I don’t own a chain saw … this photo was taken out of my back door .. the bush you see are actually three young suckers off a stump that are almost seven feet tall .. the building you see in the back is our neighbors workshop … this second shot is off the front porch .. one huge limb and a few smaller ones have fallen… this third photo is again taken out the back door .. this time looking toward the woodshed .. you can see the big fallen limb of the tree on the ground .. and to the right behind the orange fencing is another limb which is out of sight in this shot this last shot is again out the door ..here you can see the icicles in the foreground .. also a better shot of the snow in the background trees Was quite an exciting night .. so thankful none of the limbs fell on the trailer .. here’s hoping they won’t fall today …
Over the year I have taken many images and one thing that learnt early on was not to take a picture from where everyone else would take i…
Over the year I have taken many images and one thing that learnt early on was not to take a picture from where everyone else would take it from, finding a different angle has become an obsession, I love to find a line of site that no one else will see unless they are as reckless as me. Climbing over rocks, getting into the river or sea, being on the last rock that you can get or just being there at a time when no one else will see that light is just magical. When others see the image, they may know where it is, but they don’t know how you got the image, “you must use a long lens to get that?” well, no, I’m using wide to standard lenses, I just to prefer to get close to the action, not close enough so the camera gets wet, but some times close enough so that i get wet just below the giggle band!, I just discovered some great walking shoe/aqua sandal, they are brilliant the brand is “Keen” just the ticket for wading through river, streams and across rocks in the ocean. I think the results speak for them selves, all the images shown a shoots were I got a little wet (and a lot wet!), love the new camera (Nikon D700) the eight frames a second come in handy with crashing wave thats gonna break were you are. Sorry, I missed the important bit, two years ago they told me that the found just a smidge of cancer in the bowel, had a big op, took an age to recover, things are great now and I have new lease of life and love every minuet of it, behind a long lens is not where its at, the viewer needs to be able to taste that wave, feel the spray on face and hear the crash of the waves on the rocks, thats being alive. Kia Ora from ken.
“Saint Peregrine at San Juan Capistrano, California” was featured in the group PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY / !http://images-0.redbubble….
“Saint Peregrine at San Juan Capistrano, California” was featured in the group PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY / “I’m listening….” was featured in the group The Patchwork / “Afterlife and beyond” was featured in the group The Voyage Of The Surrealists / “soaking wet…” was featured in the group Light In The Darkness / “Last flames of the valley” was featured in the group American Southwest /
Some of you had to work this long weekend, like I usually do (but didn’t!!!!!), but for the rest of you that had Saturday’s Drawing Day t…
Some of you had to work this long weekend, like I usually do (but didn’t!!!!!), but for the rest of you that had Saturday’s Drawing Day to draw, Sunday to relax and Monday to hang out anywhere you like, I hope it you all had fun! I know we did! My son and I went to the beach yesterday. It was cold, slightly windy and wet…. but only wet from the knees down (for me… my son sat in the water fully clothed!!). The water wasn’t cold surprisingly. I thought it’d be freezing. I know people say that the water is warmer in Winter than it is in Summer, but I’ve never really believed them until now. Maybe it’s cos we’re cold already!! Next time I’ll be rolling my jeans up!!! I only took a few hundred photos… you know the usual… sandcastle, sky, birds, clouds, sea, waves, sand, then all again including my child!!! This afternoon or tonight I’ll upload one or two. After I’ve done my homework for tafe. Question Why is it that on weekends, especially long weekends, kids wake up early every day. Then on the day they have to go back to school, they sleep late? Practicing being a teenager do you think? And mine’s only 9 years old (10 next month). ;D
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