Bathurst 2016 New years eve party in the park fireworks

Bathurst 2016 New years eve party in the park fireworks

Since 2009 Bathurst city council have hosted a public new years eve party called party in the park, in Victoria park opposite Bathurst base hospital which culminates in a fireworks display at 9pm (AEDT).

Apart from the odd stranger getting in the way and the occasional badly framed photo, I did manage to get a few good photos of the fireworks from the night.

so the lesson from the 2016 was expect a few dodos to wander in and stand in front of the camera and stare blankly, but at the same time not get all strung up about it and keep on photographing or better still just move to a new spot and photograph from there.

Empty dam at black springs NSW

Dry dam outside of Black springs, NSW.

I was fossicking for sapphires in the Vulcan state forest out at a small village on the Abercrombie road in the Oberon region called Black springs on the seventh of January 2014.

when I arrived, I decided to visit some of the Holes near the public dam in the state forest to see what condition they were in to deduce if it was worth spending the day fossicking there, as i have in the past chosen spots that have yielded nothing and i do not want to waste time and money returning to sites that yield little to no gains. 

When I arrived i found the dam pretty low and i decided that it was not worth staying there but before i went to my favorite spot i took some photos of the cracked clay, sadly i had to take the photos handheld as i had not brought the tripod i had at the time. 

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Photographing the eta aquarid meteor shower 2016

Hello everyone
The eta aquarid meteor  shower will be reaching it's peak on may the 5th and 6th and i hope to be out of town to photograph the shower.

Thankfully this time i have better planned for the meteor shower than last time as i got the time zone wrong.

more information on the meteor shower can be found here, here and here

getting back to blogging

Hi everyone
have not posted much on my blog lately as i have been adding a bit at a time to my posts as i have trouble when focusing on multiple tasks as i have been a bit busy as of late juggling fossicking for gems, merchandising at Bathurst bunnings and photoshop projects for my parents.

Looking forward to the Art unlimited competition at Dunedoo

Hi everyone
Just getting ready for the 2016 Art unlimited competition at Dunedoo.

no fingers crossed for winning any of the prizes but you have to be in it to win it anyway and i would not win anything if i did not enter anyway so i might as well try.

more information on the competition can be found Here

Entries close on the 23rd of April and art work has to be delivered by the 14th of May though  Artwork can be personally delivered on Saturday, 16 May 2015 from 9am to 4pm & Sunday the 17 May 2015  from 9am to 3pm.