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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Happy Birthday Dave, 2019!


Happy Birthday Dave, 2019!!

The bad news is, the new bike won't be delivered for another three weeks. 😭

The good news is, it's a fantastic bike and it WILL be delivered in three weeks. 😁

So ... it was all about a drive down to Clayton, via Strathalbyn, dodging showers ...



... eating fish and chips, heading home to an ENORMOUS birthday cake --



... and Captain Marvell on dvd. Finish the day out with today's stage of the Vuelta a Espana, and that's a pretty good way to spend a birthday!

Happy Birthday to my One and Only, 2019! 💕💘😎

Happy New Camera! I mean, phone. I mean -- well, you know!




Is it a phone, is it a camera? (Come to that, is it an MP3 player, an ebook reader, a movie viewer, a calculator, a personal organizer, an FM radio ...) And you could be forgiven for being hopelessly confused, because --



With a 16MP camera, pkus a bokeh lens (three rear cameras and one front), the UmiDigi A5 Pro surely straddles the line between what's a camera and what's a phone. The pictures are very, very close to what you'd expect from a pocket camera. Well ...

Maybe the little red Nikon Fine Pix, at 20MP plus a small optical zoom capability, has a very slight edge in quality, but I think the phone makes better sense of different lighting conditions. The little Nikon pocket camera can give extremely murky results in difficult lighting. And as for sheer versatility --




-- there's no answer to that, is there? I'm actually astonished. This is really great ... good enough, in fact, that I just got myself an Instagram account and started posting pictures to it. Yes -- think about it. Me doing social media. Ye gods. So --

This is me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jendownesartandphoto/  ... not that there's very much on there just yet, but there soon will be. This could be fun.

Will be using the phone ... camera ... whatever it is! ... when Dave and I "do" Grampians NP again in a month's time. Neat!

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

So endeth winter, 2019!







I know, I know ... I'm neglecting this blog horrifically! I manage to post just in time to say "Hi there, bye there" to the seasons as they race by. Fact? I'm still not well, and often blogging is something I can't get my head around. I didn't mark the dates this year for the fifth anniversary of Bagheera's passing or the second anniversary of Mom's, because I wasn't up to the sadness of the task. So let's look at pretty things, instead.

Dave and I took an overnight break at Cape Jervis back at the beginning of July (almost two months ago! Time sure flies), which was the dead of winter. It was very cold ... very beautiful. These are my best shots from that expedition! Dave is "out there in the elements" much more than I am, of course -- on his bike.

So I'll hand over to Dave and his camera phone here:









Am always astounded by the quality of image returned by the camera on his phone. These are copied over from his facebook page, alas ... the phone's flash card died with a year's worth of photos on board. All the large-size images are utterly gone, so what we have left is the selection he uploaded on the fly to facebook! Ah well --

Another year is starting, and we'll just have to go places again, and take more pictures! Back to the Grampians in five weeks, for a start. We're booked. And for the moment ... I'm just blogging to say farewell to winter 2019. Spring officially comes in, in ten days. In fact, the truth is, it's been feeling like spring for weeks now. The birds certainly agree: the magpies have been dive-bombing for a month, the mimosa is in full bloom (two months early), and so forth. Ack. Don't want to start talking about climate change! I think I've beaten that subject to death in the last couple of years. Let's thing about pleasant things instead...

Dave is waiting for the delivery of his new bike, and that'll open the doors to new adventures.
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