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Topping up the nationalism

Well I now feel thoroughly Australian again. A 40 degree day (104 degrees if you’re American/use Fahrenheit) and a trip to the beach saw the national spirit cemented. Or perhaps fermented. Or melted. Whatever.

Having said that, I did go to Coogee beach. So I guess that means I could well be a kiwi, or a pom, or… from a fair few other places in Europe. Meh!

p.s. 40 degrees was recorded at Sydney Airport, which is the closest observation station here. So it actually did reach that temperature even in the East! Olympic Park topped it at 40.1 degrees, but that’s not particularly surprising given the location… in fact, it’s surprising they’re that close! I’ve decided it’s way too hot in Australia (or at least Sydney in Summer) and have decided it’d be great to move South… or to Europe or somewhere lots colder. Scandinavia, perhaps!

A photo or 576 (according to cat-scan) from NZ

I can’t be bothered categorising them further. There’s about 60MB there for those who can be bothered looking at them all (it’s not advisable to try!).

More to come whenever I get the SLR photos developed. Probably in the distant future given my track record there (I’ve got six canisters here full of unprocessed film, some from months back!)

Home from NZ

So I guess this means I should hurry up and post something. Too late/tired tho. I’m currently rotating photographs (the digital ones, haven’t put any of the four rolls of 35mm in for processing yet), and might possibly post a selection tomorrow. Maybe.

I’m now convinced my digital camera isn’t quite as magical in terms of quality as I’d once supposed. I was a bit trigger-happy and not particularly prudent in planning a lot of shots with the digital camera, and it shows. Mostly with colour balance/peaking. I can attribute that in part to being outdoors and having a tiny LCD viewfinder, but I can also attribute some photos to not bothering to stop walking whilst taking a shot, not waiting for exposure/focus to set on half-depress before taking a photo, etc. I was just lazy.

Anyway, I took enough photos there is good stuff there regardless. It’s actually mostly pretty good, but I was a bit disappointed with the peaking colours. Meh! The 1GB read fine on my Ubuntu box, for the record, so Windows just sucks. ‘Nuff said.

Canyon Swing photo