Horseshoe Falls in Tasmania's Mount Field National Park - taken last month. I only got a couple of images of this waterfall because the mist was so thick it made the front of the lens all wet in just a few moments.
This is the first upload on my new computer. We'll call it a supercomputer because that's how it feels right now ... I have been using the same workhorse for years now and for the last year or so it has been struggling and crashing often enough for me to get worried. So I ordered a computer that will see me out for a few years. Processing this image in Photoshop and Nik Software was so easy with absolutely no lag. Even the process of turning on my old computer could take around 30 minutes and would cancel out my early morning energy. This one just springs into life in a matter of seconds thanks to its i9 processor. Everything is ... well faster. A lot faster.
I remember this feeling well - i'll leave the image first uploaded with my last computer in the comments. So here's to increased productivity and a new era.
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This week has been challenging for me personally. One year ago today my mother passed away. It's hard to believe it's been a whole year - it's been such a blur.
She passed away a day after her 80th birthday, so I get this double whammy of remembering her on her birthday, the first birthday when she is no longer here, then the following day I get to remember the events that lead to her passing.
So rather than post an image from the difficult times that happened last year, I prefer to remember her today when she was younger and in good health. This was taken in 1989 in her and I in her front yard.
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This image was taken by my late mother in 2011. I found this (along with many other photos) on her camera's memory card. I thought it was fitting that it would have been her birthday today to upload it as a celebration. I don't know where it was taken, but at a guess I would say it's on the banks of the Avoca River in Charlton, Victoria.
She was a very good artist - oil painting was her strength. So here's an image taken most likely for her own inspiration as a celebration of her first birthday after her passing last year.
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The Aurora Australis, taken from Taroona Beach, Tasmania. I took so many photos this night - I should try and get some new ones as there has been a lot of Aurora activity recently.
Well it turns out this is my 6,000th upload to Flickr since I joined in 2011! That's 6,000 images in 4,923 days, which is an average of 1.2 photos every day. Actually a higher average than I thought, but maybe it's just because i've been only uploading 1 photo a day for a few years now (very occasionally I upload more than one, and every now and then I don't upload at all ...).
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Another image taken at the historic Mechanics Institute in a remote and rural place called Kurting, Victoria. Apart from a few homesteads and some grain silos and this place, there's really nothing here. So this strangely abandoned and isolated place is kind of creepy. You can feel it.
I visited here three times while passing through last year and uploaded many photos from these trips. This will be the last one from this location that I upload. The feeling of decay and abandonment are too strong for me to keep revisiting these images. It's probably appropriate that this image is taken from the outside looking in - as a parting shot of sorts.
I have to say though that some of the most powerful imagery I created last year came from this location. But for now i'm going to head in another direction.
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