trapped in a 20s timewarp

as in mands and i are both 20-something in this photo - and will be forever and ever. check those hair colours! we are not so brash now in our 'old age' :) i really like this photo, i think it's a nice one of both of us. we are on the tahune airwalk in southern tasmania - which is a walk literally up amongst the trees (and you know how i love trees!) with a series of walkways nearly 50m above the forest floor, stretching for half a kilometre. it is beautiful down (and up!) there.

cartoon browns

another modified photo, this cartoon effect was in photoshop if my memory serves me correctly. it was a nice photo i took (camera held by me with arm outstretched as you can even see in the reflection of my sunglasses!) in the first place, if i may say so myself - but i like this cartoon result as well. simplified but still honest.... with no wrinkles or blemishes to be seen. an airbrushing of sorts ;) this photo is from way back in late 2003 when we went for a daytrip out to port arthur, this moment on the cruise out to isle of the dead, where a thousand people, mostly convicts and paupers, were buried in the early to late 1800s.

short poppies

i am not a supporter of war generally speaking and i think especially recently as a nation we've been involved a lot of unnecessary conflict for political and economic ends. but i do like this photo with the bright red of the poppy against the dull brass panelling. it is the roll of honour at the australian war memorial.

my mountain

i am from tasmania, as my profile states. i go back there a lot because far and away all of my immediate and most of my extended family still lives there while i rebelliously reside on 'the mainland' (this is what tasmanians call the rest of australia, why bother with individual state and territory names when you can just use 2 words to describe the lot!). tasmania is a beautiful state, with tons of natural beauty. indeed about a fifth of the state is world heritage listed. mount wellington, which features in this photo and, i would dare say, in every photo of hobart known to man, is not world heritage listed but it is spectacular in its domination of tasmania's capital. it seems to have its own extremely volatile weather system as well, and whatever mood takes it effects the entirety of hobart town. it is not unusual to see snow on it in the middle of summer. i took this picture in 2003, i think it might have been mands' first visit to tasmania - whether it was or not, i recall my mum took us to show her the 'best place in hobart to take a photo of the mountain'. for your reference and future photo-taking, this location is at the end of newcastle street in battery point.