On the southern slopes of Mt Wellington, about 4km from The Springs, there is one of the mountain’s more famous features: the aptly named Disappearing Tarn. It lies — when it is there at all — in a curious depression in one of the bigger “potato fields”: a large area of tumbled dolerite rocks and boulders […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
Yesterday I started teaching one of the courses that is going to be responsible for quite a few trips northward in the second half of the year. Because it is winter, and the roads are often icy in the morning, I headed up the day before, leaving much later than I planned and so having to […] Most of my midlands trips this year have been coinciding with sunset time (and this is likely to continue), and so the sunset shots are likely to become a theme if I maintain this self-imposed photography challenge that helps to keep the drive interesting. This time the pink is on the opposite side of the sky […] Today’s collection was shaping up to be a miscellaneous hodge-podge, symptomatic of my miscellaneous hodge-podgy life, but, following a demanding but largely sedentary week, I decided I needed to go for a walk this afternoon. I was going to do Risdon Brook Dam but by the time I started heading there things were looking tight for […] Consider the lilies of the field*, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Matt. 6:28-29, KJV) * Actually, they’re now in a vase on the table, and they’re not growing … although they have […] A day of food, meetings, and photographic diversion. At breakfast in my hotel I was seated by a window which was taken up with a large textured vase. This is the view through the handle to the blue sky (and power lines) beyond. At uni my day was taken up with a nearly-all-day meeting with the rest of […] I’d reached Campbell Town on today’s trip to Launceston, having not seen anything that leaped out at me as a subject for my midlands trip photo. However, I had seen some evidence of the arrival of autumn, and then the sun came out, so I got a shot of some leaves on Campbell Town’s main street. And […] After running a day of professional learning in Hobart I headed up to Launceston in the evening to repeat the session the next day. On the way up I stopped at Campbell Town, and took a photo of one of the illuminated carved trees that adorn the park by the river. I think there’s a deer, and […] Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Campbell Town I go, again. I think I’m going to be seeing quite a bit of Campbell Town this year, what with all the professional learning that I am running. Today it was just me in the car, and I left early (despite having had a rather late night finishing […] And the sun comes out properly for the final stretch There was enough time between waking up and breakfast to pop down to the water’s edge and catch sight of a small flotilla of swans floating down Melaleuca Inlet. The light was quite gloomy and so this photo was shot at ISO1600 for 1/5 second, which explains […] |
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