Australia Day Photo Thread 2007

[Grunt]

Last year we had a Australia Day Photo Thread (http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=25316) where forum members were encouraged to take a photo of the great country and post it on Australia Day.

Take a picture of anything that shows Australia or something Australian between now and Australia Day and post it here.

[Cliff Rogers]

http://www.trailmaster.com.au/images/i-map-australia.gif

[Grunt]

Wow! Cliff that is just amazing. You must of stood on a chair to get that photo. How did you get the names on? Piles of painted rocks?

[ozwinner]

Heres one.

I think this devise has something to do with erhh?, that stuff called erhh?,.....whats it called again?.......thats it!!.

Rain..

Al :B

[Flowboy]

Cliff, Ya can't submit pics from 5 years hence, when the drought takes over completely. Where's the green on the east coast and the Continental shelf and the dolphins frollicking in the Bight???? I think you got this pic from a book or something!!:yeahright: :yeahright:


Regards

Rob

[Cliff Rogers]

...You must of stood on a chair to get that photo. How did you get the names on? Piles of painted rocks?
Nope, see here.... :rolleyes: http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/attachment.php?attachmentid=29948&d=1157507277

My new camera inserts the names for me. :2tsup:


...I think you got this pic from a book or something!!:yeahright: :yeahright:....
What is a book? :?
You had better go with a 'something'. :D

[dadpad]

Heres a couple.

[ozwinner]

I drove past the "lady" tree last weekend..
Your handy work is it? :roll:

Al :U

[ozwinner]

One more.

Al :2tsup:

[SawDustSniffer]

a red tail on iron bark fence

[dadpad]

I drove past the "lady" tree last weekend..
Your handy work is it? :roll:

Al :U

Not my doing Oz although i very nearly put a large pink bow on it forr breast cancer awareness week.

By the way its a eucalyptyus feminalis

[bitingmidge]

OK, it's been a bit quiet here, so I'm going to cheat, and post a couple of shots I took on New Year's Eve at Mt Hay in the Blue Mountains.

After the recent bushfires, there were heaps of tiny shoots and flowers appearing in all sorts of wierd places. At first the mountains looked quite desolate, but we spent a wonderful few hours poking round in the "snow" ....

Cheers,

P
:D

[Flowboy]

OK, this wasn't taken on Australia Day either, but it was taken by a Scot I worked with in Auckland, during a conference held in Melbourne, just for homesick me.
Not much else to say, but this should stir some feeling.

I Remember (Paul Kelly)

High on a hill looking over the bridge to the MCG,
I remember.

[watson]

This young feller comes for a drink every day, and twice we've seen him have a bath, and once a swim (when he fell in the pond).....we must have the only accessable water for miles.

[bitingmidge]

Another cheat, but I've been scanning my late (very late I suppose) Father's slides and sorting them while I've still got a Mother who can confirm my hazy memory :oo: .

So for those worried about running out of water, global warming, and all that sort of stuff, here's a picture of the Town Water Reservoir on Thursday Island in 1957.

Yep, 50 years ago. Down near the patch of water I'd pick off the crust and play with the smoothest clay I'd ever seen! (Scanned from a 35mm slide)

Cheers,

P

[colbaby]

enuff said

CHEERS!!!

[Grunt]

It's from Tassie. Is that part of Australia?

[Jack E]

here's a picture of the Town Water Reservoir on Thursday Island in 1957.
I hope it is a bit better now.

We are moving to Thursday Island in July for 18 months.

Looks like it's time to put the tools into storage and buy a boat:)
I can't see the timber availability being too good up there:(

Cheers, Jack

[journeyman Mick]

Jack,
you know what they say about TI: "You can get wrecked on Great Keppel, but I got stuffed on TI":oo: Didn't know there was any mining or industrial work going on up there, did the SWMBO get a posting to the hospital there? Not much timber there, better take up fishing (and drinking) as a hobby for the next 18 months.

Mick

[Jack E]

Yes mate, SWMBO has a posting to the TI hospital.
We are both quite happy about it, which surprises most people.
No there isn't any mining or industrial work up there.
There is one company which does electrical maintenance and one which does A/C and refrigeration maintenance, so I suppose I could pick up a bit of work there.
I have spent a bit of time up there before and it is not a place I would call inducive to work.
I will be pretty happy to work a couple of days a week and spend the rest of the time pulling fish and crays from the ocean, as well as doing my part to remove feral pigs from the cape:D
I am actually looking at going to work for Lihir Gold in PNG on a
15 days on / 13 days off roster. Apparently they will fly me to TI for my break so that would be nice, don't pay any tax either:D

Cheers, Jack

[Harry72]

He he he got some macro tube thingo's for me snapper tool... Breakfast photo's
with macro thingo's
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/breakfest1.jpg
without macro thingo's
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/breakfest2.jpg

And just to be sane some wood!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/oregonCU.jpg

[Iain]

We have a heap of these about 20km from us (this is one of them), close relative of the drop bear:rolleyes:

[Grunt]

A few from the block today.

Our new horse Cash the Man in Black

http://www.users.on.net/%7Egril/dslrusers5/CASH.jpg


I've got a barrow to push, the Ranges between Lancefield and Killmore. Sometimes called Lancemore and other times Killfield.

http://www.users.on.net/%7Egril/dslrusers5/PushABarrow.jpg

A fence that needs some work.

http://www.users.on.net/%7Egril/dslrusers5/Fence.jpg

And a self portrait.

http://www.users.on.net/%7Egril/dslrusers5/Kane.jpg

[Wongo]

An Aussie and a gum tree.

[Cliff Rogers]

Geeze Grunt... nice legs, shame about the face. :p

[martrix]

yeesh Grunt, your tongue looks mighty parched, you need to wet that whistle!

Mans not a camel you know:p :q :U

[Grunt]

Actually, that's horse poo on my tongue.

[Iain]

A canine delicacy:hungry: Hoof trimmings are a favourite too when the farrier comes around.

[dadpad]

An Aussie and a gum tree.

Thats a winning whoto wongo!

[Doughboy]

If this aint Australian as you get then I am a monkeys uncle.

Pete

[dadpad]

The kids (my son, his current squeeze and my daughter) went for a swim out at the river today.
I was impressed with the photos my daughter took.

These photos are not for republication without contacting me first.

[ozwinner]

These photos are not for republication without contacting me first.

Owwhh pleeease!!
If you dont want people to reuse them, then dont put them on the internet.

Al :?

[Lignum]

Nice pics, but why would anyone want to reproduce them:?

[dadpad]

I have established copywrite by posting "not for republication" If someone chooses to use them, (although, as lig said, god knows why they would) I can then sue and get heaps of money.

[ozwinner]

Actually your daughter owns copyright to the photos as she took them, maybe she will sue you for posting them?

Al :doh:

[Dr Jan Itor]

The kids (my son, his current squeeze and my daughter) went for a swim out at the river today.
I was impressed with the photos my daughter took.

Ok, I have to ask. Are you impressed because they're good shots (which they are), or because your daughter caught your son and his girlfriend doing something naughty :B in the second photo?

[Bob38S]

Have a good one :U:U:U

[bitingmidge]

Gum Leaf
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/364215235_5de6618e9d.jpg

Cheers,

P
:D

[Cliff Rogers]

Hey Midge... where's the spider?????
:?

[Cliff Rogers]

This bloke moved in when I wasn't working fast enough.
The web is covered in fine mist.

[dadpad]

Ok, I have to ask. Are you impressed because they're good shots (which they are), or because your daughter caught your son and his girlfriend doing something naughty :B in the second photo?

I was impressed because they are good photos. Nothing naughty about what my son and his GF are doing at all. <shrug>


Actually your daughter owns copyright to the photos as she took them, maybe she will sue you for posting them?
Al

Shes the one who wanted copywrite established.

[dadpad]

Nothing more Australian then a Bushfire.
Photos are from the Great Alpine and Tatong fires 2006/07

[bitingmidge]

Hey Midge... where's the spider?????
:?
I'm guessing it starved to death, since it could only catch leaves in the web!:wink:

P:o

[Wongo]

:2tsup:

:D

[Cliff Rogers]

That pic of Craig's Hut is a beauty dp.

Wongo, are they long neck, racing cats? :?

[Bleedin Thumb]

Here's a picture I took after taking some goldies. I went for a "trip" to the river and there were some kids swimming there.:roll:

PS As I have substantially changed this photo can I claim copyright? If so your welcome to use it, if not you better speak to DP's daughter.:D



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[Cliff Rogers]

You bored BT? :? :D

[Lignum]

I went for a "trip" to the river and there were some kids swimming there.:roll:



38770

BT that looks almost identical to the last time i took a trip at the river:roll:

[Grunt]

Dadpad,

That second shot is a ripper. Just love the colour.

[bitingmidge]

I was walking with my beloved this evening, and as we travailed the sights of Alex Headland, we came across a day-nighter in progress.

Not much of a photo as these things go, but pretty Australian I thought.

After sunset, the crowd on the hill starting a wave, a wave on the other side of the ground already happening... and a quick clip off her toes for four.

Life doesn't get much better than this!

P
:2tsup: :2tsup: :2tsup:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/116/365816530_0b53f80cc4.jpg

[Cliff Rogers]

Dadpad,

That second shot is a ripper. Just love the colour.
Struth Grunt.... did you just agree with me????? :oo:
Yuk. I think I'll change my mind.... :D

[Cliff Rogers]

I...came across a day-nighter in progress....

Top shot BM. :2tsup:
The Statue at Silly Square leg.... is he the umpire? :? :p

[bitingmidge]

Not that I intend to flood this thread, but here's another one , this time from half an hour or so earlier in the day.

Now this bloke is a REAL Aussie I reckon (eh Cliff?:; ), except of course for the bit where he's carrying the groceries not his missus, that is a bit poofy I'll admit....

Cheers,

P
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/365816290_9337539f20.jpg

[Cliff Rogers]

OK.OK, I'll go & get my camera... I know I took a photo of something today & it wasn't the bloody comet 'cos there's too much bloody cloud.

Good shot Midge, he is allowed to carry it 'cos it is the dog food for the mongrels. :D

You didn't happen to get a closer shot of the puppies on his wife's shoulders did you? :rolleyes:

[Grunt]

Struth Grunt.... did you just agree with me????? :oo:
Yuk. I think I'll change my mind.... :D


No, you agreed with me. You just got in first. Yes, you should change your mind. That one sucks.


Chris
:D

[Cliff Rogers]

No, you agreed with me.
No, I said it first. :((

Yes, you should change your mind. That one sucks.
....
You, I, I, I, you, you southerners come up here & well, you, you, you, think you can kick a dead horse when he's down, well, I, I, I, just you, you, you mark my word, I, I, I'll..... what was the question? :?
No, I said it first. :((

[Cliff Rogers]

OK, Queensland is still part of Australia (lucky for you Mexicans :D )....

Here (taken form my front gate) are the highest & the 2nd highest mountains in Queensland just on sunset.

Who knows their names?

The 2nd pic is a closer shot of the highest one.

Mick & Womble aren't allowed to answer. :p

[journeyman Mick]

Cliff,
any prizes for correctly guessing the names of the two highest peaks in Qld?:D (Odd that they're both double barrelled names starting with "B" isn't it?)

Mick

[Cliff Rogers]

Is your name Mick? :rolleyes:

1st prize. You get to make a vanity unit for me. :D
2nd prize. You come over & finish removing the next 374 tiles in the living area...... I am soooo sore. :(

[journeyman Mick]

Okay,
peak 1 is called Bubba-gump and 2 is called Balley-hooley. Bugger, did I guess wrong? I guess the prizes will have to go to some other, more deserving soul.:D

Mick

[Cliff Rogers]

Damn, you got both first guess.... how'd you do that & when do you start? :D

[Bleedin Thumb]

Has this turned into the woodies quiz thread?

Is one of them called Ben Lomand or somethink like that?
And Cliff if I am right you havent seen my cabinet making skills so beware!

[Cliff Rogers]

...Is one of them called Ben Lomand ....
Nuh.

[DJ’s Timber]

MT Bartle Frere and Mt Barney

[Cliff Rogers]

One right, one wrong.

[DJ’s Timber]

Broken Nose

[namtrak]

Cliff your a real cad, for starting this quiz - I Could really ring your bell, then you cur.

[DJ’s Timber]

Mt Bartle Frere and Mt Bellenden Ker

[bitingmidge]

Hang on, they're triple barrel names starting with "M"!!! :oo: :doh: :doh:

What are you on about Mick?? :D :D :D

P

[Cliff Rogers]

DJ wins, Namtrak dropped the hints.

OK More photos required.

[journeyman Mick]

DJ,
looks like you won the right to make a new cabinet for Cliff. Just give me a call before you get here and we'll arrange to get you the template

Mick

[DJ’s Timber]

No worries but I am waiting on Cliff to send me a Return Airfare ticket, when it arrives I will let you know the arrival date :roll:

[Mirboo]

Took these this morning at Newport Beach in NSW. Picture quality is not great because I just used my phone.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g190/mirboo/Australia%20Day%202007/th_DSC00021.jpg (http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g190/mirboo/Australia%20Day%202007/DSC00021.jpg) http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g190/mirboo/Australia%20Day%202007/th_DSC00022.jpg (http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g190/mirboo/Australia%20Day%202007/DSC00022.jpg) http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g190/mirboo/Australia%20Day%202007/th_DSC00027.jpg (http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g190/mirboo/Australia%20Day%202007/DSC00027.jpg)

[Cliff Rogers]

And then there is our tiny little corner. :D

[Cliff Rogers]

Australia Day in Malanda.
1. The Theatre & the flag flying at the ANZAC Memorial.
2. The presentation day at the show ground, the entertainers doing 'The Road to Gundagai' & the original version of 'Waltzing Matilda.' (Check out the dog with the flag vest)
3. The Malanda Falls on the North Johnston River.

The Malanda Theatre Company got the Eacham Shire Australia Day 2007 Cultural Event Award for one of our productions. I did the lighting for it. :2tsup:

I hope to get some more photos later today & tonight. :)

[ozwinner]

I did the lighting for it. :2tsup:



Its a bit dark..:doh:

Al :q:U

[Cliff Rogers]

Its a bit dark..:doh:

Al :q:U
Not the presentation....:rolleyes: the bloody play that won ya goose. :p

[Bleedin Thumb]

Took these this morning at Newport Beach in NSW. Picture quality is not great because I just used my phone.


Mirboo I took the family to Berry Reserve at Narrabeen Lake.


Oh the humanity............
Oh the horror................

I am so over those supposed BBQ breakfasts that have become a "tradition"
Bloody politicians manipulating feelings of patriotism through corny community displays.
If I see another teenager wrapped in the flag I'm going to go over to them and disgrace myself.

[namtrak]

Aussie Day here has been me working on the deck, and listening to the JJJ Top 100 countdown. And as the photo of the radio indicates, I opened my first Coopers at 4:30 rather than 5:00 given that it is Australia Day and SWMBO and the kids are away for a couple of days.

Am about to head to the pub, may take some more photos after I return :puke: or maybe not

I was going to switch to listening to the cricket but the Poms pathetic performance is just giving me the tom tits. My grandmother was a Pom, maybe she'll get a call up - and she's been dead for 18 years!!!

[bitingmidge]

I figured since it is Australia Day then there ought to be some pics eh?

So here's Boatmik working feverishly on the PDR's while I slept inside, then off he goes for a sail on Gruff, my 12 year old Goat Island Skiff.

Trouble is it's really hard to get pictures of the Goat Island Skiff that make it look as though it's moving because it displaces so little water there's no splash!

Cheers,

P:D :D

[namtrak]

Australia Day in Malanda.
1. The Theatre.............


That was always one of our favourite nights out up there.

$8 for two movies sitting in the old deck chairs, rugged up, Milo at interval. Couldn't have a better night out!!!

[journeyman Mick]

Pic 1 is across the road and down a few hundred metres, revegetation work by local landcare group and conservation volunteers. All the guinea grass had been slashed and poisoned and rainforest species planted in the last few weeks.
Pic 2 is the same area, looking downstream. You can see the trees that were planted about 2 years ago.

I didn't do any planting, but I have done hazard reduction burns either side of the plantings to protect them and have used our brigade's truck to water them.

Pic 3 is down at the river, looking upstream. Had some good rain last night so there's been a nice flush out.

Pic 4, same spot, looking downstream

Pic 5, creek that feeds into the river, looking upstream to the road and bridge.

Pic 6. More tree plantings by landcare and conservation volunteers (some of the conservation volunteers are young backpackers who've come halfway across the world and are pitching in). In the background is our brigade's shed, built with funds raised by volunteers, built by volunteers, lawn is mowed by the young son of one of the volunteer officers (voluntarily, of course:D )

Volunteering certainly isn't unique to Australia but it's nice to live in a community and country where people care enough to contribute and where one can make a worthwhile contribution and make a difference.

Happy Australia day all! :2tsup:

[journeyman Mick]

continued from above.

Mick

[Harry72]

Here's some from my way... at my home town beach.(just knocked off night shift)

Wake up OZ its a new day
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/Wakeupoz.jpg

A couple early arrivals
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/earlyarrival.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/earlyarrival2.jpg

Beach before the days festivity's start, backed
by the Flinders rangers
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/jetty2.jpg

Jetty a side view
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/jetty.jpg

What can be more Oz than a cow grate on the Morgan to Whyalla pipeline
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ST170ish/cowgrate.jpg

[Clinton1]

I had to work, and ended up mowing bloody grass between 11am - 3 pm.
Had to mow out about 10 meters around the place I'm staying at.
30 something degrees and humid as hell. :rolleyes:
Stupid, bloody-minded Aussies. :D

Time for a cold water and put a "steak" on for dinner.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Bummer Clinton, Hope the "water" went down well.
Harry Good photos mate, Like how the pelican was using the shag as a surfboard.

[46150]

Great shots Harry...............got any more...........AL

[Harry72]

Yeah got more but dont want to clog up this thread too much... its not dial up friendly already!

[dadpad]

Thank you cliff (and someone else) for the honourable mention on the craigs hut photo. Interestingly that was the original light no photoshopping or colour enhancement. just a trick of the hot yellow sun and smoke haze.


sadly ythis patch of bush doesn't look like this any more. (got burnt)

[oges]

Spent the weekend with relo's n friends at Bendethera camping and 4wd'ing.

Pic 1. The river/waterhole where we camped
Pic 2. One of the many Goanna's that visited us over the weekend

[Harry72]

Looks like a nice spot Oges

[Cliff Rogers]

These were taken by my Uncle at my parent's property on Australia Day.
Glendon is about 70Kms (ATCF) west of Longreach.
The old white shed in some of the photos are the, now closed, Katherine Creek State School. It opened in 1968, I when there for 3 years.
The photos have stunning colour contrasts due to the odd light cased by having one part of the sky blacked out by the storm & the other part still relatively bright.

Photos 4 & 5 overlap but I have never tried any photo stitching.

[Bob38S]

Great pix Cliff, water doesn't appear to be a problem there - which makes a pleasant change from all of the news reports re who has none and who has too much.

BTW how are you and Mick getting on up where you are - webbed feet :U and hopefully no damage.

Regards,
Bob

[Cliff Rogers]

The waterholes were all man made... I mean, Mum made. :D
My Mum has been digging waterholes around the house for years. (with a bit of help from a few others along the way)
They get filled when it rains & she tops them up with bore water in the dry season.
They help keep the place a bit cooler in summer & they also help to keep some of her collection of gum trees alive.

We, Mick & I, haven't been near any wind lately, a fair bit of rain but no wind.
There has been heaps more rain a bit south of us in the last week, mostly coastal.
On the rain fall map attached, Mick is a bit to the north west of Cairns & I am west of Innisfail just out of the purple area into the blue area.
We have had about 7" 175mm since Australia Day.
Have a look at how much they have had west of Longreach in the last week. :rolleyes:
They only got about 6mm out of that storm where the photo was taken. :(
The place 10Kms away that was under that storm at the time got 67mm. :cool:

[journeyman Mick]

According to the meteorologist on the radio yesterday morning Kuranda got 120mm in about 2 hours on Thursday night. Not sure how much we got last night but there were some pretty heavy falls. Thursday night the drains across my drive way silted up and overflowed flooding my garage and the store room behind it. Probably only to about 5 - 10mm depth, but enough to fill it all with silt. :~ Beats being short of water though :cool:

Mick

[AlexS]

So I take it the falls are pretty spectacular at present Mick?

[journeyman Mick]

Alex,
SWMBO is very ill at the moment and I can't really leave the house. I did duck across the road to look at the river and it's reasonably high so I'd guess the falls are, well, falling.:roll:

Mick

[craigb]

I missed Oz day, but here's an Aussie photo.

Taken at Lennox Head 04/06

[craigb]

Here's another one

[TTIT]

1. The Theatre & the flag flying at the ANZAC Memorial.

Ahhh the memories you've stirred up Cliff! Have they still got the canvas deckchairs in there? Most comfortable time I've ever had at the movies! :2tsup:


And then there is our tiny little corner. :D I'm pretty sure I've worked at your place too! 1984 - pole testing contract for FunnyQEB - did the whole Malanda area. Ahh the memories!:U