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in the garden of eden...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:28:15 -0700

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this is the waterhole at kings canyon...just before somebody jumped in...it was terrific!

if you are doing the trip to the centre, i can thoroughly recommend a dip...

sometimes when this place gets kind of empty...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:46:12 -0700

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managed to get the twig about a meter in front of me in perfect focus...the rest, however...is, as they say, a blur...

the church accompanied me on this full moon expedition from my hotel room into the night...the church and a couple of ciders...spent an infinite amount of time considering my insignificance in the scheme of it all...and not nearly enough time focusing...

thought i would share the thought though...cheers all!

(five shot portrait vertorama thingy)

kings canyon planet...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:59:19 -0700

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carried my pole around kings canyon...it was a pretty impressive place...people try to say it is australia's grand canyon...they have obviously not travelled...but it was very very spectacular none-the-less...

took a few of these, liked this one as some people obliged me by mounting the mound ( at 8 o'clock on the shot), gives it a little perspective...

the best bit of the walk was scaring the tourists at the waterhole...a rare sighting of the greater australian albino land whale may have been made...i didn't see him, so i don't quite know what all the fuss was about...

uluru by moonlight...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Sat, 04 May 2013 01:19:03 -0700

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photographing uluru is an interesting experience; after many years of a laissez-faire attitude to the place by visitors and management alike, the park is now very strictly controlled - there are a lot of places you just can't take a photo from...

so i stood for this shot with about a million other people, in a huge car-park facing the rock, all of us with our tripods...reminded me of the crowd scenes at cape canaveral from the sixties...all of us so intent on getting the same shot, but better, than the person next to us that we really forget to stand back, suck in a fly and gawp at the beauty of it...like someone is playing a huge joke on us all...

i scoped out my position the day before (they were all pretty crap), and arrived way early to stand smugly with my tripod and wide angle lens as the alsorans straggled in...

anyhoo, i stuck it out, watched everyone leave, and was rewarded with a splendid full moon rise over the rock...which i shot...and here it is...

might post a couple of earlier shots if you are interested...it was a beautiful site...flys and tourists notwithstanding...

chasing the moon...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:06:57 -0700

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on the first day we were at uluru we spotted two climbers literally running down its side in the late afternoon, piss-bolting to try to make it down before sundown...running almost in a panic.

the traditional custodians of the area ask that people do not climb the rock as it is disrespectful...which gave me a good out as it is bloody steep, bloody slippery and bloody scary...

this fella is climbing in socks and thongs (to the yanks that is socks and flipflops, not socks and a g-string...), which is in itself disrespectful to just about everything aussie...and pretty unforgivable really...

anyway, got a few shots before really thinking about the fact i was using a 300mm lens, too slow shutter so all have camera shake, except for the last which did not look as cool as this with the moon...so this is the one you get!

in the pound again...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:35:45 -0700

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...well, in the gorge really...

this is part of ormiston gorge, the area i walked into after the previous shot...

earlier on the walls were far higher, and far shearer...and my photographic skills far too tested, so this one has water...one of the advantages of the pools of water is it makes it all look far more remote than the sandier parts, where miraid of footprints bely the tourist hordes...

still, like hanauma bay in hawaii, all the people who may have been there could not take away from the sheer beauty of the place...and i had it all to myself when i was there anyway...

thank god for small wonders...

happy days all!!

(three shot hand held HDR thingy...if you were interested...)

welcome to the pound....

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:58:26 -0700

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just back from a week and a bit in the northern territory...visited alice, kings canyon and uluru...

this is shot within ormiston pound, the valley that leads into the massive ormiston gorge...i did not visit here on my last trip, so was excited to get here...however...

we left the visit till late in the day, and had a couple of beers at a roadhouse...leaving me only a couple of hours daylight to do the 8km trip...there was not time to stop and smell the cycads...

ormiston pound is formed at the point that the heavytree and macdonell ranges meet...and it lived up to my expectations...allbeit viewed through the sweat and the flies...

needless to say, i was a little puffed, and anxious to make it through before sundown...so the shots may not be quite where i wanted them...

here is a five shot ~~vertara~~...~~vertire~~...~~virtrora~~....pano-thingy.

luna park planet...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:36:15 -0700

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finally getting around to processing some more shots...should be doing something else...

this is luna park in sydney, on a very windy spring day...am about to start selling shots at the rocks markets in sydney...this was going to be one of them...

hope all is well out there in the world peeps...

does my bum look big in this..?

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:04:41 -0700

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"this outfit demeans us both..."

took this a while ago...a long while a while ago...dog day at the park, they had a competition for "best dressed dog" or "owner who looks most like their pet...", or something like that...

just thought i would share...came across it whilst looking for something far far more important...

just the two of us...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:02:26 -0800

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got one night without rain when I was on my last road-trip...

lucky to snap this from one of Brisbane's iconic spots...

the last of the blue...coughs...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:51:00 -0800

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just back from a little road trip up the coast...remembered everything but my snorkel...

& hello peeps, been keeping my head down of late, trust you are all well out there..?

glenelg...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:23:38 -0700

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spent a weekend in adelaide, snowy, sunny, windy, rainy, blowy, beautiful...managed to shoot this beauty when the clouds disappeared and the natives ran out to enjoy the sunshine...

hope you are all well peeps, been bloody busy here...

in the shadow of greatness...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:24:58 -0700

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just playing with some images...should be doing something else...hello world!

balmoral...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:52:22 -0700

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freakishly good weather here in sydney at the moment...that is if you like the sun, sand and surf...albeit with a little too much of a nor-wester blowing.

this is taken on a bridge over to an island called "rocky point", and is around the corner from where my mum grew up...i have regaled you all with the story of her swimming off these beaches during the war and getting covered in oil from the sinking of miniature japanese submarines in the harbour...so will bore you with my own memories of this place...

on a similar sunny day in the middle of summer holidays when i was in my early teens, i met up with a group of lasses - including the sensationally long legged maria milkshake, beautiful gerry and amelia...i struggle to name any others...we spent the day on this little rocky island overlooking balmoral, and whilst it was all very innocent (in a sunday school picnic kind of way), this place always reminds me of a time when the only thing you had to worry about was getting sunburnt...or in the case of my mother, sump oil on your new swimmers...

i have an estranged uncle, my mother's brother, who has recently been in contact with the family...when i visited him he had a naive sketch of this same bridge on his wall, given to him by a US serviceman during that same period that my mother was getting oily...and his memories of the place were in a similar vein to my own...he does not have many possessions, but that little humble sketch holds pride of place in his heart...

and here that place is, represented as a little wee world, a microcosm of memories...

waiting for the ferry...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:47:41 -0700

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in the recent sunny weather i have plonked the old planetoid doohey-whacky down at a few places, this has been the most adventurous yet...one slip and goodbye 7D...

i have found it is a great conversation starter too, spend an idle 20 minutes chatting to a woman from denmark waiting to catch the ferry, discussing topics like teenage binge drinking, the arts scene in sydney, and other assorted ramblings...

think i might take it to my next party...

Friday Flash...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:07:37 -0700

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yesterday my wonderful choir "soulfood" met at the QVB building in sydney's central business district and performed another flash mob wedding proposal...

the groom-to-be had arranged this all from overseas, and was in australia on holidays with his beautiful fiance-to-be with the aim of proposing...we were given a location (a cafe in the atrium of the QVB) and a signal (an horrendously fake yawn from the bloke), upon which a strategically placed group at the table next to them started singing stevie wonder's "you are the sunshine of my life"...by halfway through the second verse around 35 of us had congregated around, and the couple (she was still oblivious to his ruse) got up and danced, you can see the surprise and glee on her face...i was sure she was thinking "these australians are crazy!"

when we finished, he got down on bended knee and proposed...and after a few heart-stopping seconds she said yes!

the assembled crowd erupted into applause, and we (the choir) disappeared into the ether...

at the other end of building a young woman came up to me and said " you have the most beautiful voice, i could not hear anyone else..."

so i was able to leave tickled pink, only just squeezing my enormous head through the 3m wide arches of the beautiful QVB...

Friday Flash...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:07:18 -0700

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yesterday my wonderful choir "soulfood" met at the QVB building in sydney's central business district and performed another flash mob wedding proposal...

the groom to be had arranged this all from overseas, and was in australia on holidays with his beautiful fiance to be with the aim of proposing...we were given a location (a cafe in the atrium of the QVB) and a signal (an horrendously fake yawn from the bloke), upon which a strategically placed group at the table next to them started singing stevie wonder's "you are the sunshine of my life"...by halfway through the second verse around 35 of us had congregated around, and the couple (she was still oblivious to his ruse) got up and danced, you can see the surprise and glee on her face...i was sure she was thinking "these australians are crazy!"

when we finished, he got down on bended knee and proposed...and after a few heart-stopping seconds she said yes!

the assembled crowd erupted into applause, and we (the choir) disappeared into the ether...

at the other end of building a young woman came up to me and said " you have the most beautiful voice, i could not hear anyone else..."

so i was able to leave tickled pink, only just squeezing my enormous head through the 3m wide arches of the beautiful QVB...

Friday Flash...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:06:58 -0700

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Friday Flash...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:06:37 -0700

djgr posted a photo:

in this shot the group on the left has just started singing - the groom is doing a fantastic job of acting surprised...i can't see her face, but she looks almost embarrassed for them...little did she know just how beautifully it would all end...

yesterday my wonderful choir "soulfood" met at the QVB building in sydney's central business district and performed another flash mob wedding proposal...

the groom to be had arranged this all from overseas, and was in australia on holidays with his beautiful fiance-to-be with the aim of proposing...we were given a location (a cafe in the atrium of the QVB) and a signal (an horrendously fake yawn from the bloke), upon which a strategically placed group at the table next to them started singing stevie wonder's "you are the sunshine of my life"...by halfway through the second verse around 35 of us had congregated around, and the couple (she was still oblivious to his ruse) got up and danced, you can see the surprise and glee on her face...i was sure she was thinking "these australians are crazy!"

when we finished, he got down on bended knee and proposed...and after a few heart-stopping seconds she said yes!

the assembled crowd erupted into applause, and we (the choir) disappeared into the ether...

at the other end of building a young woman came up to me and said " you have the most beautiful voice, i could not hear anyone else..."

so i was able to leave tickled pink, only just squeezing my enormous head through the 3m wide arches of the beautiful QVB...

fisho's...

nobody@flickr.com (djgr) — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:03:11 -0700

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been taking a few of these at the moment, slowly getting the system down pat...now have a 2m collapsible pole in the back of steve (the six million dollar scooter), along with various other bibs and bobs...managed to still take a gazillion shots yesterday with the camera on manual focus...this was the last set before scooting off to grab griffin from school...and yes, this is the only thing i got in focus...

heaps of annoying things getting the way of life at the moment, will be happier when the noise subsides...

Uploads from djgr

in the garden of eden...

sometimes when this place gets kind of empty...

kings canyon planet...

uluru by moonlight...

chasing the moon...

in the pound again...

welcome to the pound....

luna park planet...

does my bum look big in this..?

just the two of us...

the last of the blue...*coughs*...

glenelg...

in the shadow of greatness...

balmoral...

waiting for the ferry...

Friday Flash...

Friday Flash...

Friday Flash...

Friday Flash...

fisho's...

the last of the blue...coughs...