TEMPLE IN BRISBANE

Every year in Brisbane there is a festival. For part of this festival there is a lazer show on the river in the Southbank area of the city. This was were I found myself one evening with the intention of creating a river lazer spectacular photo. However, once I arrived I could see all the best places were taken, so I just watched. My next words may be controversial to the people of Brisbane. I was glad I didn’t photograph the show as I though it was about as entertaining as watching some Christmas tree lights that have one setting. To save some face with my Brisbane friends I will say the show from the year before was rather wonderful and this was just a bad year.

I left the area feeling a little disappointed at having not taken a picture of anything, and then I remembered this temple was in the area. So I visited it with a renewed vigor and was glad to see that is was beautifully lit in the evenings. I then got extra excited as I remembered I had just brought a fish eye lens for my camera. It was then a little cog turned in my brain and gave me the words, “fish eye HDR spectacular”. Im glad it did as I rather like this image.

I though I just add a note here for the people who hate HDR, but seem to have nothing better to do than seek out HDR on the internet to comment on how it isn’t for them. My note is, I hope you have dirty underpants on and get knocked down on the way home, (nothing life threatening, but enough for a quick visit to the hospital to enable you to die of the shame of your dirty underpants when the nurse hands them back to you).

A BIG CLOSE UP OF A FLOWER

By now you all know how idle I can be. This picture is the type of capture I make at my most idle, as an excuse to not do something more like hard work.

There can be piles of washing up to do, something that needs fixing or a bill to pay. This is a situation when you need to be a busy idle to avoid this kind of work. To be seen to be busy doing something else means you have an excuse to not be doing something.

Happy Australia Day

I spent 3 years living in Australia. Today is Australia day, a day when the country Idles the time away by eating lamb and listening to Triple J’s top 100 countdown. As I’m Idle I can appreciate a day when everyone does nothing. So here is a picture for my Aussi friends, The Sydney Opera House. I hope people can appreciate I nearly died taking this shot, as a bus load of Korean tourists walked over me as i laid belly down and face first into my camera.