Day 646, Sacred Abode

I can easily imagine this place in a rural town with adjacent cemetery. In reality it is on a very busy main road in Port Adelaide. I am not really a big fan of this style but once I saw the grungy drama I got a little carried away. After that it became an exercise […]

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Day 645, Cruising in Colour

Is it possible to make blur look interesting? For various technical reasons a panning shot of passing cars with an FE lens was never going to produce the classic ‘speed’ look. For starters the radically changing geometry of the subjects through the panning sweep as absurd. Still it was worth some experimentation to see what […]

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Day 644, Brown Spotted Wrasse

This guy was sitting perched atop a structure of sponge and ascidian encrusted twisted jetty wreckage. Like many of our wrasses the brownspotted wrasse (Notolabrus parilus) behaves around divers with a mix of curiosity and timidity. Not one to anthropomorphise our local critters I still can not help see the resemblance to human traits. Anther […]

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Day 643, BadAss Camera

What’s the most intimidating badass camera you have ever seen? The bane of every suburban motorist is the speed camera lurking in out of the way 50km/h limit backstreets. Oddly enough most mobile phones these days have higher resolution cameras than these brutes. It’s only 11 megapixels but seems to do the job well. I […]

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