Road trip (Lots of pics)

Travelling for a while, these are all edited in Snapseed - so no calibrated monitor and no way to judge the final output accurately.

No particular order, and totally random subjects. Great to be able to travel with such a large selection of lenses in a single bag.
















Pelican - the low hanging fruit of the BIF world.




Gold Coast night lights. Relieved to leave the place.












Nike. Not how I thought she'd look.




Quintessential evening at Noosa.








Graveyard at Mt Morgan





Thanks for looking

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Nice pix, nice record of what must be a great bit of ravel, Hinde. Where were the surfing shots from?

Noosa -- someone tried to sell me some land there in the 1970s, but when I heard who the neighbors were going to be (a bunch of bods from the little outstation where I was working in PNG) I thought not! LOL. I visited there a few weeks ago and was pleased to see the lagoon was still clear -- it was pellucid when I first encountered it as a young teenager in 1955! We camped on the lagoon side of the point. Lovely spot.

The pic I really loved was the pelican preening itself. Terrific catch. Pelicans might be the low hanging/flying fruit of BIFs, but they can move at some pace once they get going!!! You did well to get a nice catch.

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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
http://rabaulpng.com/we-are-all-traveling-throug/i-waited-51-years-for-tavur.html

Nice images! Always good to see images taken with the G6 too! The G6 was my first venture into the world of m4/3rds.

Thanks for sharing...

GR

A lovely series! Thanks for posting them.

Pete

Lol. Snap.

grcolts said:

Nice images! Always good to see images taken with the G6 too! The G6 was my first venture into the world of m4/3rds.

Thanks for sharing...

GR

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Thanks, I started years ago with the E-P1 and have never enjoyed photography so much. Having experienced several different m4/3 cameras the G6 is my preferred body, by far - it is an awesome camera to use, and the IQ is generally more than good enough. Certainly isn't what is holding me back.

If looks or soul are important, there are other options, but I find the usability of the G6 to be very hard to beat.

Hen3ry said:

Nice pix, nice record of what must be a great bit of ravel, Hinde. Where were the surfing shots from?

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Tweed Heads, right beside the sand bypass pipeline. Some real engineering there.

Hen3ry said:

Noosa -- someone tried to sell me some land there in the 1970s, but when I heard who the neighbors were going to be (a bunch of bods from the little outstation where I was working in PNG) I thought not! LOL. I visited there a few weeks ago and was pleased to see the lagoon was still clear -- it was pellucid when I first encountered it as a young teenager in 1955! We camped on the lagoon side of the point. Lovely spot.

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Yeah, still nice but very touristy, I prefer the outback or somewhere more remote - was nearly up your way for a few weeks at Cape York a few years ago.

Hen3ry said:

The pic I really loved was the pelican preening itself. Terrific catch. Pelicans might be the low hanging/flying fruit of BIFs, but they can move at some pace once they get going!!! You did well to get a nice catch.

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Thanks, in sugar cane country now and hoping to get some kites as they fly along with the harvest.

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Martin.au said:

Lol. Snap.

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And s damaging to the land.

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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific

There must be an endless array of single objects on the horizon waiting to be photographed, but getting the right light and skies is the hard part. As is being there.

Also I'm sure I take just as many landscape shots with a telephoto as a wide or UWA lens; for landscape I think UWA is overrated (the exception being for stunning skies generally).

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Martin.au said:

Lol. Snap.

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And s damaging to the land.

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Fair point, I'm usually shocked at how badly OZ treats it's own land. Not that any country is much better, including NZ (where mass conversion to dairy is wrecking many of our water ways).

I got a few negative comments when I posted images of Dubai here, but at least that didn't require the mass and ongoing destruction of hundreds of km of coastal mangrove and estuaries, with the resulting impact on offshore fisheries, which is what is happening south of Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

And all to build something that is likely to be flooded with sea level rise. And to make matters worse, Abbott wants to pay an Indian energy company to come over here to dig up coal to ship to India to burn. Such visionary thinking damns us all. Every country will pay the price.

A couple of years ago I saw first hand the damage that is occurring on a vast scale in WA, where ripping out the native vegetation has utterly destroyed the land to where even wheat will not be able to be grown in large areas.



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Cane harvest time here now. And so....









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