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Love the top shit Craig with the sun peaking over. I imagine a bubbling brook down in those gullies.
You use proper gear… what settings do you use for shots into the sun so it doesn’t just wash out the scene?

Thanks Seeds, I'm shooting wide angle at 18mm with my lens at F9. For the exposure I metered it more off the land than the mountains/sky, and that was at 1/800 of a second with ISO of 500.

PS any hints to where that bluff is.

Beautiful scenes above AW, we live in an amazing world if you notice both the detail and the bigger picture

That first one Craig is the money shot. Some serious grass porn there, I was just showing it to some dairy cows and you shoulda heard the moos

Craig wrote:

PS any hints to where that bluff is.

Okay thanks for that. f9 to 11 I was once told was good for landscape. I suppose you can muck around with shutter settings as you get a preview through the lens as opposed to the old film days. Must pull out my proper camera.

The bluff. I used to own a 5 acre patch nearby that had permanent rainforest creek and swimming hole. Biggest regret of my life selling that especially as I now live so close to it.
It’s no secret, it’s the Kenilworth Bluff.

shoredump wrote:

Beautiful scenes above AW, we live in an amazing world if you notice both the detail and the bigger picture

That first one Craig is the money shot. Some serious grass porn there, I was just showing it to some dairy cows and you shoulda heard the moos

Hahaha

I wouldn't recommend restaging the shoot, @craig!
reckon @seeds snuck onto a dodgy little shoulder,
with overgrown bush on a hella blind corner,
on Moy Pocket Road for a leak and a ponder!!!

I was on Lowe Rd

Ah thanks Seeds, haven't been around that region, beautiful.

They have award winning dairy cows up that way, outstanding in their field.

Hehe
I’ll pay that

breed of beakless cockatoos up that way that always succeed too, @old-dog : )

(anyone who likes casually looking up the etymology of words and the origin of phrases, look up:
"that old chestnut"
It is the most satisfying and pinpointable looking-up of a thing you'll do in recent memory.. nothing to do with any hypotheses you might have assumed.. simply a line in 20thC play, from memory.. a bloke telling a story for the umpteenth time.. something like that.. about the tree, not the nut.. I won't spell it all out or look it up again.. just might be an idle moment's fun for some..)

Delicious roosters too.
As he aged the poor gangly chap’s voice started to croak in the back yard.
I said no, you will be henceforth known as kebabs.

Haha. Jokesters.

Suspiciously clean looking bbq there seeds. At least Kebabs was serving until the end.

Haha that was its first run. A keen eye I see.
Oh boy do I not look after barbecues.

nice example of pareidolia @Guy:
"The phenomenon of seeing faces in inanimate objects is called pareidolia. It's the tendency to perceive a meaningful image, often a face, in random or ambiguous patterns." I always have to google that word, never said it out loud. ..such a biggy for us all, hey..? faces in pieces of toast, rock formations, clouds and random Mars pics.. such a basic, baby-time-instinct thing we all do : )

I see a recalcitrant wood-entity reminiscent of Totoro..

Flipping the bird, out of respect for Kebabs.

haha, you so punk, you..

Cheers baseboi. I was going to go with Sean Lock's "I wood" book from Cats do Countdown but couldn't find a clip. Hunt it down.

shoredump wrote:

Beautiful scenes above AW, we live in an amazing world if you notice both the detail and the bigger picture

That first one Craig is the money shot. Some serious grass porn there, I was just showing it to some dairy cows and you shoulda heard the moos

Shoredump. Hi mate, hope you’re kicking goals.

I totally agree we live in an amazing place, in particular Australia, oldest continent and place on earth, billions and millions of years isolated for an incredibly long time, thus allowing the genesis and speciation of such a wide range of biota, many of them oddities to other nations.
We need to always appreciate what we have.

Craig, Seeds and Co., great photos all round, it says a lot about us folks, observant, whether it’s organic or inorganic , complex or simple, material or immaterial it’s obvious to me we have our eyes open.

Many folk don’t.

I recall an incident 15 years ago, in Melbourne for a day, my ex and I were visiting another Swedish friend who had moved to Australia a long time ago.
We walked through a park in Hawthorn, meandering granitic sand path adorned on both sides by about 25 Lemon Scented Gum trees (Corymbia citriodora) , very mature trees, tall with trunks about 400mm in diameter.
It was Summer and the citrus smell emanating from the trees was powerful.
At the end of the walk my then wife said to her friend, ‘did you smell the lemon scent from the trees’ , friends reply, what smell.

We were totally flabbergasted, how could she not smell what we’d smelt.

It really was a situation of ‘couldn’t see the forest for the trees’.

Some people, like all of us are wired to nature, that’s why we’re surfers, it get us as close to nature as possible. Just my thoughts. AW

Flip the bird, get the stink eye.

I concur AW.

that's a TBB-tier venture @blackers.. I don't know nuttin! the amount of witty posts that go unposted cos we can find the supporting video clip that would make it sing.. tragic. Good point by @AW above. I would go so far as to say that you, @blackers, have a very good eye for form and composition, and though being a nature boi at heart, find joy on the urban.. nice stuff when you find the coming together of the two, melded into visual geometry..

;)

better than bad it's good, nice @JF..

basesix wrote:

nice example of pareidolia @Guy:
"The phenomenon of seeing faces in inanimate objects is called pareidolia. It's the tendency to perceive a meaningful image, often a face, in random or ambiguous patterns." I always have to google that word, never said it out loud. ..such a biggy for us all, hey..? faces in pieces of toast, rock formations, clouds and random Mars pics.. such a basic, baby-time-instinct thing we all do : )

I see a recalcitrant wood-entity reminiscent of Totoro..

Basesix. Hi mate.

As kids, especially in Summer we’d lie on the lawn staring at clouds and pretending we could see or make out different faces.

Is that the same thing you’ve mentioned? . AW

certainly is, @AW.. though you have mentioned before that you had your first doobie at 8 years of age, so you may have had an unfair advantage ; )

basesix wrote:

certainly is, @AW.. though you have mentioned before that you had your first doobie at 8 years of age, so you may have had an unfair advantage ; )

Basesix. Hi pal.
You’re very clever and funny.

I know exactly when I had my first doobie, I was 19 years old, had settled in Albany in the month of February, 1984, it was all down hill from there.

Us ten guys shared two houses , five in each. Wow, what a time we had in that place.
New bloods in town, two houses with no parents, our places magnetised all comers, a party every weekend, beginning on a Friday night, got smashed Saturday night, played football on Sunday, wow.

A lot of fun had in between then and now . AW

GuySmiley wrote:

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Sorry Guy, got distracted on a theme of self amusement whilst avoiding paper work.
It is nice to be out in the bush, form and meaning everywhere. Wasn't dissing your photos.

gotta tell you, looking for it, this 'wood' book, (I failed), and trying to work out why 6 years ago Sean Lock looks in some clips like a laconic wispy-haired 55 year old, but like a dyed-haired man-sculpted 45 year old in others.. ahh.. Sean Lock.. all I know is this clip got me laughing and got Jimmy Carr to shut the fuck up : D

Best show on the box

Trans Viking Racheal is alright.
#transrightsifrootable#whatarethoseladybumpsigor#addsomefurryuggbootsanditsalloverrover