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October 9, 2007

Cainbable Falls

On Sunday, Mum, myself and 14 other NPAQ members went for a wee stroll in the bush up round O’Rilleys to do the Cainbable track. All in all it was a quite pleasant day walking through a variety of vegetation and as usual the people were pleasant too. The saddest thing though was walking through the rainforest and seeing the level of stress it is in. The ground was littered with King Orchids which have fallen off trees due to lack of water. The ground was also littered with green leaves which the trees are shedding as they try to survive. In general the place just doesn’t look healthy.
There was also a fair amount of smoke on the horizon which made the views rather hazy.

There was some beauty in all of that though.

This is a sign on the Duck Creek Road made me laugh.

Mum and various NPAQ members

There was quite a few ticks about and Mum ended up with a nice one, I was lucky and managed to escape them.

October 1, 2007

Birthday Breakfast

We went to Walkabout Creek yesterday morning for a Big Breakfast Buffet to celebrate my Birthday. Pabbi picked Grandad up from The Farm for the occasion and then we headed over to Brisbane Forest Park for some serious Breakfast Buffeting as in I am not having lunch today and won’t eat much for dinner sort of Breakfast. It t’was very good indeed. Lots of very yummy foods. The waffles were huge and very nice with Greek yoghurt and berry compote and there was Danishes and bacon, lots of bacon and very nice breakfast.

I had hoped to get a photo of Matthew as he was told that he had to let me take his photo as it was my Birthday event, somehow it didn’t transpire. I did two very nice photos of Pabbi and Grandad though.

Grandad brought a Hippeastrum stalk down with him for me to put my desk at work this week. He must have known that the Crucifix Orchids that I had picked at The Farm a fortnight ago had reached the end of their life on Friday. I have quite liked looking at the Hippeastrum flowers at work today, so big and red 😀

September 29, 2007December 24, 2007

In the backyard

Two photos from last weekend when I was playing in the backyard with the camera and my 85mm 1.8 that came the other week. Dragged the extension tubes out for one of the flower, which is a Clivia. Then the wind picked up and made it hard to keep the macro shots in focus long enough to take a photo so I turned the camera on to me 😀

September 25, 2007September 26, 2007

Kangaroo Point

Two weeks ago today I turned 22, two weeks ago today I also spent a very very fun evening out with the POTN crew taking photos of the city, of our resident fire twirler, partaking in “Flash Wars”, generally been silly and pimping the gear. We have no shame. There is always that moment when you can slip in a comment about well if you had that lens or if you upgraded your camera or if you had a flash, especially when it comes to me and my beloved Sigma 12-24mm. This thing isn’t just ultra wide angle it is ultra ultra wide angle. I loved it on the 350d, on the 5D it is a perfect partner. Though as much as I promote the beauty of the 12-24mm, there was a few moments on that night when the city was just a little bit too far away from the cliffs and I think some people just about fainted when I commented that the 12-24mm was just too wide 😀

Anyway photos.

Ohh I wonder if the flash will show the bones in my hand? (not my hand, but my partner in “flash wars” hand)

September 24, 2007

American Doll Posse

Tori, Tori, Tori.

I can’t tell you much about the support act because I slept through most of it. You get me sitting in a dark room for and for the first 30 mins I will sleep. I do it quite often. I don’t think I missed much.

Tori was damm! I am so glad I got a ticket. I especially loved it when it was just her and the pianos and yes she occasionally played two at the same time whilst singing. I love the band but when it is pared back to just her and the piano(s) I just grin.

Whilst I absolutely loved hearing the old classics which just put a grin on my face like Cornflake Girl or Cooling or Hey Jupiter and it was great to hear the new stuff live, I was blown to shreds along with I would say everyone else in the audience with an improv song she did called Homo Spirituality. That song was just so touching.

For the set list as well as some pretty dedicated Tori fans feelings on the show, head over to undented.

I am by no means a huge Tori fan, I don’t know all those obscure songs, I don’t know the words/meanings of the songs but there is something about the way she plays piano and sings that just haunts you in a good way right to the bones.

It was all topped off by ABC2 playing a Tori Amos concert from 1997 in New York the following morning. I taped that 😀