The title comes from a piece of graffiti I walked past daily back when pointless vandalism i.e. tags weren't a thing. Actual thought went into correctly spelled missives with weight and meaning.
The Hobart Town Rivulet was the reason Hobart Town was established in the first place. Clear clean water flowed down the Rivulet off the mountain - kunanyi - behind the town and supplied the first european settlement in Van Diemen's Land with potable water.
As the town expanded, business and industries like tanning and brewing moved up the creek. Unsurprisingly it became a polluted, stinky source of 'miasmas' and dysentery. Over time the town developed a new and improved water supply but the poor old Rivulet remained an open sewer prone to flood.
In the last decade or so the Rivulet has been cleaned up and gentrified with lovely walks, gardens and open spaces maintained by the city council. The process has been slow and one of the losses for me personally was that original text which appeared to have inspired the cleanup.
This pic is of the Rivulet's surface on a lovely day back in Autumn. Let this picture stand as an example of no matter how crappy we have made things in our petty mindless scrabbling on this earth, those things can be undone.
Fuji X-T1, Contax Carl Zeiss 28/2.8 G 'Frankenzeiss', 1/160th sec at f/8, ISO 200
The lens is a Contax Zeiss G 28/2 modified to Leica M mount by housing it in a Minolta PF 55/1.7 donor body with sundry fixings. I then use a close-focus M to X adapter. All very complicated but with Zeiss colour and contrast on the Gen 1 'pixie dust' X-T1 sensor I don't care much :-)
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Looking north from Waubs Bay, Bicheno, Tasmania with the MV 'Waubs Bay' at mooring.
A wonderful day back in May 2018. Calm seas, blue skies and the water still warm for swimming.
A faint smoke haze off to the north over Paddys Head and the boat trapped some useful light and colour. It was mainly that coloured cirrus that caught my eye from memory and that's why I deliberately left this edit a little underexposed.
Shot with a Leica M240-MP that I had for a while but moved on for various reasons - the main one being it just wasn't the camera for me.
EXIF says it was taken with a 50mm 'cron but it was actually my Contax G, Zeiss 45/2 modded to M-mount - AKA Frankenzeiss :-)
Leica M240-MP, Contax G, Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2.0, 1/4000th sec at f/8, ISO 100.
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Fresh NNW day breeze tearing down the shore across Macleans Bay, Bicheno, Tasmania.
Almost certain that the lens used was the Contax G28/2.8 Frankenzeiss modded to M mount on the Sony.
Archive pic.
Sony A7Rii, Contax G 28/2.8, 1/1250th sec at (probably) f/11, ISO 100
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A fairly large specimen of Eucalypts viminalis. Tree is one of of a pair isolated in the corner of an irrigation paddock on the Macquarie Road south of Cressy in the north of the state and appears to be water stressed.
The mountains in the background form the Great Western Tiers or should they be 'tears' as the landscape saw numerous atrocities committed by white settlers upon the First Nations Peoples of the island.
Fuji XT-1, Contax G Carl Zeiss Biogon 28mm f/2.8 "Frankenzeiss". 1/140th sec at f/8, ISO 200.
The Frankenzeiss comprises the optical block of the Contax Zeiss G lens transplanted into the body of a Minolta PF55 that has been modded to Leica M-mount. It works very well with the gen-1 X-Trans sensor.
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