Some very big hills… He’ll be in Nepal for eight weeks, the next five on placement at a hospital in Pokhara. He won’t be home for Christmas but they are both very good photographers – so that will help. More pictures on his Blog – here.

He’s doing a five week placement at the Alice Springs Hospital, so they decided that big sister should fly up for the long weekend, and they would meet at Uluru. It’s a five hour drive from Alice Springs, so he took a flight into Ayers Rock Airport, which is 15km from ‘the Rock’ – Uluru. Understand all that? Never mind, they’re sending photos from their iPhones, and the colours are awesome… They’re right in the redest bit of the ‘red centre.’ C’mon you two – send more pictures…

I’m starting to take my photography a little more seriously here… Let me know what you think.

Road testing a new lens… and discovering that large white Canon ones also gain access to far better vantage points!  Focusing, with an attempted shallow depth of field, is still an issue – but results (so far) are so so…  The race?  Oh yeah – he won it.

I’ve been cleaning out my photo archives lately – throwing out the crap, and putting the better ones into our old Flickr site.  Seems this one has ‘taken off’… 18,000 photos – and I get one good one!

This was the Orchard yesterday!  All gone today!

I’m always pretty rough on myself with rubbish photographs… delete them permanently immediately after download from the camera.  The top one nearly went the same way – except that there was a rather nice family story lurking behind the crappy exposure…

My thanks to David Swanwick for this image.  There’s more of David’s work here…

Lester Jolly has just sent me a parcel of old photographs.  All taken at the Overseas Visitors Club (London) in 1963 to 1965.  More here…

Getting to Mount Rushmore is easy – but how did he do that other bit?

Cleaning out my office yesterday.  A dangerous pass-time.  One finds stuff… like shoe boxes full of photos – and memories… more here…

These pictures just in from Kelly Dalling on board Reel Chase – currently fishing the Ribbons of the Great Barrier Reef.  And NO – I’m not with them - bugger!  Take a look at her blog…

Between 7:00pm and 9:00pm tonight – we had a lunar eclipse, on Australia’s East Coast.

Only happens every 7 years or so – and all day the skies were totally cloudless – then (right on cue at 6:45pm) thin wispy clouds rolled in.  Just enough to make photography almost impossible. And the camera has a mind of it’s own, far easier to focus on the tree, than any other stuff in the range finder.

I’ll try again in 2014.

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Amazing video – just in from Brian Duffin in JHB.