NetDynam 2.0

[well, i will not try inserting a photo into this post this time - a link will have to do.   but then...]

the thing is, we made the trip over here to adelaide (again) from sydney last week. if you go the shortest route, the drive itself, i.e. actual drive-time, takes 18 hours. usually we drive about 6 hours every day, stopping for lunch and a wander in the middle. and, since we do not like driving at night (nothing to see), we usually take about 3 days and two nights to get here. but, also it is now winter and the days are shorter, and as well we decided to go via broken hill and check out various backwaters along the way, and seeing as this entailed using some unsealed roads and also stopping regularly to take photographs, this time the trip took us about 5 days… lessee, we left on the saturday, and arrived in adelaide on the following friday… OK, 6 days.

so far i have uploaded some of the recent shots to my flickr ‘photostream’, but i have not really had enough time to edit properly, hence it is a little untidy. i tend to take a few shots of the same objects at different angles and distances… oh yeah, now, this has been occasioned as well, by my trialing of the lastest acquisition, a fixed focal length 50mm lens. it takes me back to college days and the 35mm pentax, sigh. now i have a digital SLR camera though, and use a canon EOS body. yes, but normally these days, with the lens that comes with the camera, i can stay in virtually the same place and merely adjust the focal length to get diffferent framing options. now, i have to walk about the place. the benefit is apparently cleaner crisper shots, so i had to test this out. also, there are some shots i’ve uploaded to flickr that are pretty similar in content but i’ve wanted to test-change the aperture. so later on i will delete some of the repetitious ones.

earlier i wrote a very nice succinct blather about what i have done in the interstices of ‘not posting here’, and this post was meant to be a pointer to the fact that i have not been entirely idle. at the same time, into this post, i also wanted to insert a advertorial shot, a teaser, but this ole theme did not like that at all, and not knowing that i would be treated to a blank screen upon attempting to insert, i blithely tried to do the inserting after an easy upload as usual… after which, the blank screen and no recourse assailed me. my photo? or wordpress 3 and this theme combined? nobody knows.

meanwhile, perhaps a link to the photo in the medai gallery will sufiice… also i’d better “save draft” first….

here is the URL from our media library anyway….

K.I. gate, originally uploaded by eldon2042.

after all this time, i’ve just signed up to flickr. so far i am having a lot of fun. hmmm. it is simple and easy to use, and has a lot of features i want to use for organising photos.

this shot was taken as we were speeding back to catch the ferry to return to the mainland on our last day on kangaroo island. i had to hop out of the car and quickly take the shot, so i used the IXUS. it performs OK in most circumstances i think.

it’s one of my favourite shots – mainly because the composition works, and the grass looks good. also, i did not notice those two stones when i took the shot originally, but now i think they make the picture.

i used picasa to gather a few related shots into an ‘album’, and exported the album contents to the desktop so i could easily upload them. the export facility, by default, makes the images smaller, so a lot of the information is lost, but i’ll try out a non-reduced image shortly just to see whether any difference in quality is noticeable.