Portal
Taken at the Powerhouse Museum in Brisbane.
FujiFilm S7000, processed in the Gimp with UFRaw, as always.
Submitted for the photofriday.com "Circle" challenge.
Reg
Reginald, my Sister's Pug. So much character in such a small package.
Submitted for PhotoFriday's "Portrait" challenge
Pirate Spotting
He lowers his binoculars - the pirates are much closer than they first appeared!
Taken at the 2005 Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney, NSW. The ladies on the bike are part of the "Dykes on Bikes" contingent, a clear crowd favourite at every Mardi Gras. There are groups all over the world so I don't know if these two ladies are from the Sydney club or elsewhere. The sound of over 200 loud and proud motorbikes has to be heard to be believed!
Morris 1500
An old Morris 1500 sits rusting in the back paddock. Taken at Withcott (just East of Toowoomba), Queensland.
Submitted for PhotoFriday "Automotive" challenge.
Alsa sound broken after update (FC4 x86_64)
I recently applied a whole bundle of updates including alsa-lib on my Fedora Core 4 x86_64 desktop. Since then I started getting the error message
ALSA lib control.c:817:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
Open error: No such file or directory
whenever I tried to open alsamixer, and similar errors and crashes running other apps that expected to be able to use the Alsa sound system (which worked quite well before the update).
Airbus A380 - As far into the hangar as it gets
This is the new A380 when it made it's first visit to Australian soil - touching down at Brisbane airport for a quick Quantas paintjob before heading down south. Note the size of the massive semi-trailer parked on the apron of the hangar, then look at the plane! Maximum takeoff weight: 590,000 kg (1,300,700 lbs) - yup, a MILLION POUNDS! If you love your specs, you can check out some good A380 stats at Thai Technics
All Terrain?
Beach at Pinkenba, Queensland.
FujiFilm S7000 f8.0 1/100 ISO200
Fenceline
Fenceline at Withcott, rural South-East Queensland. Fuji S7000, blended hand-held exposures.
Bravery
We have had a couple of largish bushfires around Keperra and the Gap over the last two days, this afternoon it really took off. Our Fire & Rescue guys were going hard at it in the choppers protect
The Visitor
This picture (before cloning out the watch) placed 10th in the FujiMugs "Fear of the Dark" challenge. It's a self-portrait back-lit with only a torch (flashlight).
Update 2005/09/30: Submitted t