moonrise over Lake Burley Griffin – taken a couple of weeks back.
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moon rise
May 25, 2009sands of Gordon’s Bay
May 4, 2009
pic of the day
March 31, 2009
the true essence of camping
March 28, 2009.
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pic of the day
February 6, 2009
If only it would rain here ! Yes, that’s the moon in there.
pic of the day
January 25, 2009It does occasionally rain in Canberra
rendezvous creek
January 15, 2009
This is the track up the valley at Rendezvous Creek in Namadgi National Park. Readers of this blog will be hearing a fair bit about this place over the next year as it will be the focus of this years projects. I plan to set up camp deep in the valley, taking a range of art materials with me – exactly what work I’ll be aiming to do I’m not sure yet – I’ll need to spend a bit of time up there first. This photo was taken recently on a brief day trip – didn’t do any art work, just wanted to check things out. What I saw certainly seemed positive. The track is basic and sometimes a bit hard to follow, but quite ridable (I rode my bike through this open cleared area that makes up the first part of the track – but it could be cycled all the way). Creek still had plenty of water – a lot of the creeks in this area are very unreliable in the summer but it seems like this one will be fine. The creeks up there are too small for propper swimming holes – but I did manage to find some rocky cascades with a knee deep, bathtub sized pool ideal for a cooling dip – an essential amenity for camping in the summer. Potential campsites a plenty and I think there will be plenty to inspire the creativity.
pic of the day
January 6, 2009
pic of the day – sea fog
January 4, 2009
This image was taken recently at Depot Beach on the NSW south coast. I’d spent Christmas camping there amongst the spotted gums. The last morning started warm and sunny – and then suddenly this rolled in. I don’t think I’d ever seen such thick fog when it wasn’t either cold weather or up in the mountains – certainly not my usual mental image of summer at the beach. I overheard someone say it was a sea fog.
A quick bit of searching shows this is indeed the case. Sea Fog is in fact the most common form of Advection Fog, which is caused by walm, moist air being slowly blown accross a cool surface (the sea). While this is not all that common in eastern Australia, in some locations it is – think of all those images you’ve seen of the Golden Gate Bridge surrounded by fog – that’s sea fog.
My search also turned up this well known painting by Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840). I’ve seen images of this painting before – but I hadn’t remembered the title – “Wanderer above the sea of fog”
Of course that’s more likely to be radiation fog than advection fog but I figure that a) you don’t really care about the technicalities of fog and b) It was a good enough excuse to slip Casper in. I figure if you like fog, you may well enjoy the work of CDF too. Here’s one that most likely is sea fog. This is one of my favourites – though there’s no fog.
pic of the day
January 3, 2009
