My computer has been going flat chat this week churning through gigs of photos for my latest pet project. The Time Lapse. I've messed around with it in the past but the last couple of weeks I've got really stuck into it putting together a series of time lapse sequences on and around home. Probably explains why I've been a little more quiet than usual on the forum too. The time lapses that I've been taking usually consist of finding something 'photo worthy' with some movement involved and set
Friday morning at 7.30am the big trip west begins. Work is slack during September so I figure I have the time to do this trip now, so I should do it while I can. Not looking forward to the first day drive from Ballarat to either Crystal Brook or Pt Pirie, somewhere around the 900km mark. I figure I'll go via Mildura and skip the drive through Adelaide. From there I'll head to Fowlers Bay which is another 700km, and I'm hoping to arrive there late afternoon on the Saturday. Huge dunes and wh
Last time I went to the optometrists and had a change to my prescription, I forked out $150 each for a couple of pair of glasses. And that was about as cheap as I could go. No fancy anti reflective or hydrophobic coatings just plain Jane lenses. I think the frames were $40 or $50 and the lenses were the rest. It's real easy to double and quadruple those prices on glasses bought in-store.
Now I'm all for supporting local business and I feel bad when I don't, but there is a point where too mu
After a couple hours of buggying, it's good to have a break...stand up and stretch the legs. Take in the awesome scenery. Grab a drink and a bite to eat. And speaking of a bite to eat, have I got a recipe for you. Exclusively on Extreme Kites is my Honey Oat slice recipe!! Ok, it's not really my own invention - I've been mucking around with it for a couple of weeks, changing a few things here and there and adding a few bits to see how it would go. Anywhoo, this is yumo.
Melt: (I chuck
Was about to get out for a KAP session this arvo when this Border-Leicester Ram appears in my front yard. Coffee will have to wait, so I puts on the gumboots and try and herd him back up the driveway where I assume he came from. He started trotting back up the road - with me encouraging him - no problems, but then he decided, no, he wants to be with my ewes. Turns out this bloody ram must have been a hurdles champion. Over the fence and into the ewes. Poo. I have three main paddocks and on
Now there's a job I'd like to have. El Presidente of Selleys. If you're not from Aus, you may or may not have heard of Selleys. They make glues, fillers etc...stuff like this:
But they could be so much more!! I am continually inventing products that Selleys should be selling. Ever been to a party or gathering where a particular person just won't SHUT UP?? Easy, a quick spray with Selley's No More Blab, and peace and quiet will return. And when you know the shit is about to hit the fan,
Hello. My name is John and I have a problem. Well addiction really. Sort of. When I was a young boy, I loved torches. They were shiny, they conquered the dark and kept the evil ones at bay. You could shine the torch up to the sky and scale the beam of light. Ooops, no, that was from a poem I wrote called Alberto the Dinosaur, but I won't go into that just now. I've seen other children - usually boys - fascinated by torches in the supermarket. 'Daaad, PLEASE!!! I WANIT!!!' I was like
No, they're not connected. Every few weeks I get a request from someone on Skype that wants to add me to their contact list. But why? Firstly, how on earth did they get my skype address and second, why would I want to talk to a total stranger? I wouldn't know what to say without sounding like the Spanish Inquisition. Although that does remind me of a girlfriend I once had. Conversations routinely went something like this:
Me: Hiss miss, how ya doin?
Meagan (name changed to protect the i
Hobbies, God love 'em. We've all got them. Mine tend to be very cyclic. I have a Juno D keyboard which I played every night for months...haven't switched it on for probably 8 months. I'll take heaps of photos over a few weeks......then the camera sits unused for months. Astrophotograpy - go nuts on it for a month or two then may do nothing for a couple years. Same with Astronomy, Bushwalking, Cycling, Motorbikes, Archery, Kap, single line kites, Golf, Rock climbing, Fly fishing, kayaking.
