my new teeth

26May09

Got myself new teeth the other day. Well, some new teeth, a couple of top molars on each side and one on the bottom to balance them.
I blame the Scots diet for this. Until I left Scotland when I was 21, I consumed a horrifyingly sweet and bad diet (with the 20/20 vision [...]

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Tags: dental work, diet, drawing, false teeth, teeth, teeth decay

two old churches

18May09

My wife and I have just taken a visit to an old township in rural New South Wales. Not that it is extremely rural – we went to Wollombi, just a little inland, in the foothills of the Watagan Mountains that form part of the Great Dividing Range running down eastern Australia.
Here’s a great [...]

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Tags: australian cedar, new south wales, old anglican church, old catholic church, old church, sandstone, sandstone buildings, Wollombi

trying to photograph dandelions

11May09

Having a bit of time to spare one day and, surprise, having my digicam with me, I took a walk around the little island at the south end of Lake Munmorah.
Almost immediately I spotted some dandelions that I thought would make an arty shot from ground level. So I flung myself to the ground and [...]

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Tags: cameras, close-up photographs, digicam, focussing camera, fujifilm finepix s5600, macro, manual focussing, photographing dandelions, photography, photometry, problems with camera