Pambula

Obviously Pambula is a pretty remote outlying area of Andrewsville, although, given childhood holidays, perhaps not as remote as might be thought at first glance. This time we stayed at Pambula Lake & I have a couple of nice photos. Otherwise, I doubt this entry would have happened.

A nice piece of rural humour (like the asking price for land around here!). It's one of the few elements of rural life that I have found myself in sympathy with down the years. Fake bishops as race marshals, Elvis Presley roads to nowhere.

Art, really. This is one of Liz' pictures; she has steady hands and a good eye. I see hundreds of ideas for what I think are good photographs, but not so many of them turn out. Even if I take 50 on the principle that one might be OK, it usually isn't. But this uses depth of field very nicely to take your eye across the page and create movement.

Well, this actually is the result of one of the take 50 pictures attempts. If you think it's easy getting butterflies to pose for you...

Having to manual focus didn't help the hand shake, either. But I am quite pleased with it, obviously, or it wouldn't be here. I tried taking pictures of butterflies in Malaysia, in a butterfly house, and the only decent pictures I could get there were of dead ones (there were plenty, I didn't have to kill them myself). This is a big improvement.

There's nothing wrong with cute animal pictures. 20% of all ducks have a different way of looking at things. Wonder if it works better for them than for me?