Thread: Photos your proud of -not just hunting

A winters day on the way to the Ramsay Glacier

View near the Ramsay Glacier

incoming storm Waiheke.

Some wildlife photos from 2015, over at the neighbour's place, one from each State and Territory apart from ACT.

Blue tongues, WA



Dingo, NT



Perentie, SA



Saltwater croc, QLD



Carpet python, NSW



Echidna, TAS



Brumbie stallion, VIC

And from the best part of Australia (New Zealand of course), a Rakaia hare, mid-August.

Some recent ones...

DSC_8805 by Ben, on Flickr

DSC_8436 by Ben, on Flickr

Trusty Steed by Ben, on Flickr

Livingstone Mountains at dusk by Ben, on Flickr

Acheron Lakes by Ben, on Flickr

Waikaia Panorama by Ben, on Flickr

@GravelBen did the Escort miss the tree.Looks like it was a heart in the mouth moment.

Originally Posted by ghosts

@GravelBen did the Escort miss the tree.Looks like it was a heart in the mouth moment.

@ghosts yip was all good, tight slowish corner going around the tree so probably looks a bit more risky than it was. Good committed driving though, here it is a moment later:

DSC_8442 by Ben, on Flickr

This butterfly came around today so took a couple of photos

I was reminded of this photo today when we took our rubbish to the tip. Waste not, want not my old Grandma used to say, and at the tip one of the workers was rescuing another old Briggs & Stratton and some roofing steel.

This is the remains of a bus, crashed badly into a tree, on a road in the far north of Mozambique, 2000. This was still pretty much out there in those days, very few Europeans around. There was a deep fear of them in the minds of the locals, after the Frelimo vs Renamo war, when the only white people the locals saw were mercenaries and Cold War special forces nasty bastards. You couldn't stray off the tar seal (thank you, Chinese) due to the real risk of losing your legs to a land mine.

As you can see, nothing was wasted from the remains of this bus. The steel was used as roofing on shacks, and the engine and drive train mechanicals recycled into whatever would take them. You do what you need to do up there, to survive. No Bunnings or ITM.



So nothing special photographically, just a reminder to me of how much we take for granted.

i think you will know him ...

two month ago in your beautiful land

last week on the way to italy ...

One of 8 Keas that annoyed me this last week.

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Approaching storm in suburban Perth (8x10 contact print from 8x10 FP4+)