Tuesday 27 November 2012

Almost Summer


Late spring in the garden.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm Macro f2.8 @ ISO 200, 105mm f5.6, 1/20 sec
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Nikon D300, Nikkor 70-200  2.8 @ ISO 200, 200mm f5.6, 1/20 sec
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Nikon D300, Nikkor 70-200  2.8 @ ISO 200, 95mm f5.6, 1/125 sec
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Monday 12 November 2012

The Otway's

Last weekend I did a drive across the Otway Ranges to Apollo Bay, along the Great Ocean Road to Cape Otway and Johanna Beach. Many of the tracks in the Otway Ranges were closed due to flood damage or not due to open till the end of November. A spectacular drive and very busy with campers, grey nomads, day trippers and tourists from all over.


Looking to Johanna Beach from Johanna Red Road
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Smyth's Creek Great Ocean Road
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Aire Valley
 Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 11mm f16, 1/100 sec
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Great Ocean Road
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Reflections Creswick
Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 11mm f16, 1/5 sec
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Sunday 11 November 2012

Today is Remembrance Day

Today is Remembrance Day and it marks the anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War (1914–18). At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years continuous warfare. Each year we observe one minute silence at 11 am on 11 November, in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts. The red remembrance poppy has become an emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields". These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 50mm f1.4D @ ISO 200, 50mm f1.4, 1/500 sec
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Saturday 3 November 2012

Big Hill and the Coliban Channel

When you enter Bendigo from Melbourne the last and largest hill at the edge of Bendigo is the hill and cutting over Big Hill. Ever wondered where exactly Big Hill' is? Its actually a couple of kilometres to the North East of the highway see map below. So exploring in my 4x4 looking for a track to its summit I found the tacks sealed off with locked gates because the tracks are used as service roads for the Coliban channel. The Coliban Channel is 102 kilometres long and was constructed during the gold rush to bring water to Bendigo all the way from Malmsbury, some 70km away by road and from an altitude of 1,430 feet above sea level, where Bendigo is almost 300 feet lower. The gravity fed channels and aqueducts are registered under the Victorian Heritage Act. Today mostly concrete channel runs through paddocks, punctuated at regular intervals by tunnels, raised aqueduct and artificial bluestone block waterfalls.

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