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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This is Goðafoss (Waterfall of the Gods) in North Iceland. The waterfall is on the River Skjálfandafljót which carries meltwater north from the immense Vatnajökull Glacier.
This frame was taken in 2015 on my first visit to Iceland. I took a lot of photos but five years ago I knew very little about editing and had much difficulty with this one for various reasons - mostly to do with over-processing and losing the misty, moodiness of the setting.
I was reminded by the date to have another go at editing it :-)
Fuji X-T1, XF14/2.8, 8.5 secs at f/8.0, ISO 200
Lee Seven5 Big Stopper 10 Stop ND Filter.
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Looking southeast into Storm Bay from inside Port Arthur, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania.
Arthurs Peak (280m) and Budget Head form the land parts caught in bright sunlight as a nice bit of weather was moving across the bay. All this while the tour boat jockey was blathering on about a golf course behind the camera. Appeared to be only a couple of other sailors on the boat and we were all spellbound by the drama to seaward.
Storm Bay was named by Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman in 1642 when a storm forced his ships out to sea before they could anchor there.
Shortly after this pic the tour boat was enveloped by gale force winds and driving rain - no surprises there.
Fuji X-T1, XF 18-55/2.8-4. 1/850th sec at f/9, ISO 200. Two frame stitch in PS, edit in Nik.
Technically the water just outside the heads is Maingon Bay - and part of the Tasman Sea but... :-)
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Cape Raoul on the Tasman Peninsula, south eastern Tasmania.
A wild old day and this photo taken from the deck of Surveyors Hut on the Three Capes Track.
The Cape was named in 1792 by French explorer Chevalier
Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni d'Entrecasteaux - in honour of the expedition's pilot.
There are many long-standing stories among sailors and walkers of the columnar dolerite pillars on the cape being used for target practice by various passing warships. Earliest mentions in print (along with the terms 'vandalism' and 'dismay') date from the 1890s with other reports as late as the 1960s. No images/depictions exist of the original cape but apparently it once fair bristled with spines and spires. Big gun, little *****.
Fuji X-T1, XF18-55/2.8-4, 1/75th sec at f/9, ISO 200. FL 55mm Windspeed ~40 kts.
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From just north of Surveyors Cove on the Three Capes Track - looking seaward from Port Arthur into Storm Bay. Budget Head on the left - West Arthur Head/Mount Brown on the right and the cliffs of Point Puer far right. Between squalls...
Port Arthur is a wonderful natural harbour with nice deep water and plenty of shelter from the wild weather of Storm Bay. The place has a terrible history but should be cherished for its natural beauty.
Another two frame stitch in the splendid X-Pan format.
Fuji X-T1, XF 18-55/2.8-4. 1/350th sec at f/7.1, ISO 200. Two frame stitch in PS, edit in Nik. FL ~30mm
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