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Archive for December, 2009

Surfing Saturday

Posted by Dino December - 29 - 2009 0 Comment
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Spent the morning taking a few pics off the North Beach a few months ago. Nice overcast day helped with the glare as I haven’t been able to locate a 77mm polarising filter for my lens.  It was so calm,  I was sure I could hear the gulls squawking from the other piers…

Spider Web

Posted by Dino December - 28 - 2009 0 Comment
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According to a Wiki search, Spider silk is a remarkably strong material with a tensile strength superior to high grade steel.  Ductile, too,  being able to stretch up to 140% of any given length.  Spider silk is extremely lightweight: a strand of spider silk long enough to circle the Earth would weigh less than 500 grams . So it’s little wonder that this web survived the whole night, and  well  [ Read More ]

4×4 Nationals 2009 (Highstakes)

Posted by Dino December - 27 - 2009 0 Comment
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June this year saw a great field of talented, crazy drivers take up the challenge of trying to out do  each other on terrain reserved for the, well, unreserved. So with shaking hands, and thumping hearts,  they took the hills, all the while chanting mantras under their breath. If you listened closely, you’d hear  murmurs of, “Whooo saaahhh’, and , “I will not roll today…I will not roll today…”.  Alas,  [ Read More ]

Congratulations Mr & Mrs Bello!!!

Posted by Dino December - 16 - 2009 2 Comments
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Much love and happiness to Jonathan & Lee-Anne on their marriage. Awesome day, and I must say that I am quite pleased with the outcome of the pics (even though a fair amount were rescued by Photoshop…) Short URL: http://tinyit.cc/199e  Tweet: