C-19 lockdown makes it hard- but here are some images from the great land Downun
An isolated railway in outback north-western Queensland, established in the 1880s gold rush days - but the gold faded and the line was never completed. It is now a 150km long tourist line with a weekly run delivering to cattle stations along the way
a) the rail motor with passenger cars attached
b) back seat drivers in the front passenger seats
c) tea break - billy tea and damper / scones, with a tour bus doing a photo stop in the background
Panny G2; 14-140mm zoom lens
a) Part of the 'great inland sea' of millenia ago, now eroded to mesas fading into the mist
b) typical gravel-surfaced road well into the outback of Western Aust.
Quite okay for 80km/h driving x the 200+km length of road, in this case to a tiny place called Marble Bar, a town that recorded "the greatest heat wave of all time" ~ daily temperatures exceeding 100F / 38C for 160 consecutive days, way back in 1923-24
Outback New South Wales has many isolated -now ghost- towns and Silverton is one of them. Over 1000km west of Sydney, the state's capital, Silverton was a thriving gold mining area back in the 1800s
a) the heart of any town!
Panny FZ-30, 1/500s 3x zoom
b) old town hall
Panny FZ-30, 1/100s 1x zoom
c) an old miner's cottage
Panny FZ-30, 1/640s x 2x zoom
Even when the Sun is lower, the blue shy is blue.
Maybe you forgot the WB in 1 & 3?
Light is free… capturing it is not!
A sequence of an osprey diving upon a school of fish in the shallows. Taken before breakfast and a series of 'lucky shots' at medium burst of 7fps
a) diving onto the target fish
b) gotcha!
c) the takeoff away to a local tree for breaky
PannyFZ-200; 1/2500s, 6x zoom then cropped considerably
Back in 2011 while in western Queensland we were invited to visit a local sheep station where shearing was in progress. It was a 300km round trip from the town of Longreach to the property of about 16,000 hectares / 40,000 acres holding around 12,000 sheep. The shearing team of 15 people were mostly New Zealanders who run a contract shearing business, travelling across the country during the season.
a) 2- shearers in action
b) throwing the fleece onto the sorting table + squirting anti-fungal stuff to protect sheep from parasites, blow-fly, ticks and lice.
c) the semi-trailer loaded with around 280 wool bales weighing approx 42,000kg
Sheeps are not looking so proud after the operation, do they?
Light is free… capturing it is not!
Once the sheep is placed onto its bum it sits there quietly while the shearer runs the cutting comb across it - and it is pretty rare that any big skin cuts occur ~ bit like you and me at the hairdresser
The male shearers take the rams as they are so heavy - often up to 80kg whereas the female shearers and the juniors take the ewes as they are in the 40kg to 60kg range
Phil
a) stamen from a hybiscus flower
3x zoom plus a Canon-250D close-up lens on the front of the main camera zoom lens
b) wasp 'baby' leaving the nest ... it is about 12mm / 1/2-inch long
4x zoom plus a Canon-250D close-up lens on the front of the main camera zoom lens
When we travel around Australia for months at a time, and with TV being so full of crap from Hollywood these days, I often setup the camera for a star trail. Typically these images have from 75 to 400 exposures, usually 20 or 30secs each and the JPGs are stacked using ' www.Startrails.de ' software, a really beaut and easy to use bit of kit. Camera WB is always 'sun', ISO-800/1600, lens set to 1x zoom (24mm FF equiv) and the Panny superzoom / bridge camera does the rest while I'm inside the motorhome reading a book and sipping something 'nice'.
a) taken under a full moon
10 images of 30 seconds before stacking
b) lights of a town some 30km away from my campsite
300 images of 30 secs before stacking
c) with some clouds floating overhead during the night - camera pointing to south celestial pole
100 images of 30 seconds before stacking
a) a fuel stop in outback New South Wales, at dawn - bowsers on the right, travellers in caravans etc to the left
b) hills from eroded volcanic plugs from millenia ago, central Queensland
c) sand dunes, coastal New South Wales at sunrise
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