Time to stop being a hermit...
Jan. 11th, 2007 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morsla...and get back to writing something in here.
I got back to Melbourne on Sunday night, but I've been a bit of a hermit since then - slowly readjusting to a world where there are actually lots of people, and far fewer marchflies :) The trip to Three Mile Dam went well, and I'm slowly sifting through the mass of photos that I took while away. I bought a shiny new memory card before I left, and came home with about 370 images.
Many of them are now stitched together into panoramas. I woke up before dawn on Thurday morning, and went on a wander through the mists at the shores of the dam. It seems to have become a camping tradition now... go walking with camera, take lots of sunrise shots, get very cold, and walk back to camp in time for a hot breakfast. I'm always amazed at just how still everything is, in that hour before dawn. Sensible folk (and sensible waterfowl, magpies and insects) are still in bed, and the misty moors are devoid of all but the most insomniac wanderers. As a result, I have lots of pictures of the sky slowly changing colour... I've borrowed one of them for the icon used in this post.
I've started to put photos up in my Summer 2007 photo gallery - only a few at the moment, but more will be added when I have time. I haven't yet found a way to link directly to Gallery2 images, unfortunately, but please take a look and let me know if the page is working... it's been a bit temporamental lately.
For the curious, there are also a few photos under the cut - including a curious (but HUUUGE) insect that I'd love some help in identifying. What's 6cm long, looks like a leaf, and was spotted crossing a gravel road in the Snowy Mountains?
Read on...
A little before dawn, on the shore:
Mount Kosciuszko:
The Mystery Bug:
More photos here, if you're interested.
I got back to Melbourne on Sunday night, but I've been a bit of a hermit since then - slowly readjusting to a world where there are actually lots of people, and far fewer marchflies :) The trip to Three Mile Dam went well, and I'm slowly sifting through the mass of photos that I took while away. I bought a shiny new memory card before I left, and came home with about 370 images.
Many of them are now stitched together into panoramas. I woke up before dawn on Thurday morning, and went on a wander through the mists at the shores of the dam. It seems to have become a camping tradition now... go walking with camera, take lots of sunrise shots, get very cold, and walk back to camp in time for a hot breakfast. I'm always amazed at just how still everything is, in that hour before dawn. Sensible folk (and sensible waterfowl, magpies and insects) are still in bed, and the misty moors are devoid of all but the most insomniac wanderers. As a result, I have lots of pictures of the sky slowly changing colour... I've borrowed one of them for the icon used in this post.
I've started to put photos up in my Summer 2007 photo gallery - only a few at the moment, but more will be added when I have time. I haven't yet found a way to link directly to Gallery2 images, unfortunately, but please take a look and let me know if the page is working... it's been a bit temporamental lately.
For the curious, there are also a few photos under the cut - including a curious (but HUUUGE) insect that I'd love some help in identifying. What's 6cm long, looks like a leaf, and was spotted crossing a gravel road in the Snowy Mountains?
Read on...
A little before dawn, on the shore:
Mount Kosciuszko:
The Mystery Bug:
More photos here, if you're interested.
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Date: 2007-01-11 07:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 11:42 am (UTC)I've just added the panoramas to page two of the gallery - they don't work very well as square thumbnails, but they show the changing colours well enough.
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-11 04:10 pm (UTC)I love the composition of your shots. You always manage to find a great angle to use.
What an awesome bug! If you find out what it is, let me know?
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Date: 2007-01-12 05:10 am (UTC)http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn//name_s/b_53.htm
There are some very cool insects in the snowy mountains... apparently the one we saw was an average size specimen, as they generally grow from 2-3 inches in length.