Rhipsalis hadrosoma

Rhipsalis hadrosoma flowering on the balcony. The flowers are each about the size of a beer cap, which is big for a Rhipsalis...


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 D, 1s, f/22, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, shade WB


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G, 2s, f/22, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, shade WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 30 April 2006

Sunset at the docks


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G, 1/4s, f/8, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, shade WB

Construction pics - Verve 501/Milano 30 April 2006

Head in the clouds

Eureka this morning, just as the rain started coming down

Daily Melbourne Photo - 29 April 2006

Looking upwards from Ryrie Lane...


Nikon D70, Tokina 17mm f/3.5 AT-X, 1/100s, f/5, ISO 200, programmed auto, spot meter, shade WB

Random foliage

One of those shots you get when you wake up and realise the light is good but you've got no particular subject to shoot...


Nikon D70, Tokina 17mm f/3.5 AT-X, 1/250s, f/9, ISO 200, programmed auto, spot meter, shade WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 28 April 2006

Princes Bridge getting some mid-afternoon glare


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 D, 1/8000s, f/13, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, shade WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 27 April 2006

Sculpture out the back of Victoria Point


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G, 4s, f/8, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, cloudy WB

Construction pics - NAB Docklands 27 April 2006

New sculpture at NAB HQ. Wonder where the batteries go...


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G, 1/2s, f/8, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, tungsten WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 26 April 2006

Rainbow lorikeets at Parliament Gardens


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 D, 1/640s, f/5.6, ISO 200, programmed auto, spot meter, cloudy WB

Construction pics - Eureka Tower 26 April 2006

Daily Melbourne Photo - 25 April 2006

Shrine pic for Anzac Day


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G, 1/640s, f/8, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, shade WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 24 April 2006

Taken from a car park this afternoon...


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 D, 1/1250s, f/9, ISO 200, programmed auto, spot meter, shade WB

Construction pics - Eureka Tower 24 April 2006

Construction pics - Spencer St DFO 24 April 2006

You can just see the ripped roof cladding from this angle

Construction pics - Eifel 24 April 2006

Construction pics - Verve 501 / Milano 17 April 2006

Daily Melbourne Photo - 23 April 2006

Deborah Halpern's Angel, formerly from the moat at National Gallery Victoria, getting some post-move work done at Birrarung Marr yesterday


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 D, 1/320s, f/5.6, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, shade WB

Not really a construction pic - Eureka Tower 22 April 2006

From the postdrunkenist school of photography :)


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 D, 1/160s, f/5.6, ISO 200, programmed auto, spot meter, shade WB

Construction pics - One East Melbourne 22 April 2006

Elevated sales office (or "experience suite" as the developer's marketing machine spins it)...

It's a bit windy lately...

The weather hasn't been so good in the last week or so. The under-construction Spencer Street DFO roof is looking a bit crook this morning:

Daily Melbourne Photo - 22 April 2006

Pre-game Anzac ceremony...


Fuji s5500, 1/123s, f/3.1, ISO 400, programmed auto, spot meter, day white fluoro WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 21 April 2006

Looking up at the NAB building from Bourke St...


Nikon D70, Tokina 17mm f/3.5 AT-X, 1/250s, f/8.0, ISO 200, programmed auto, spot meter, shade WB

Construction pics - Eureka Tower 13 March 2006

Yeah, this one's a bit old now...

Matucana madisoniorum

Small Matucana madisoniorum getting its first flower since I've had it. The pic is from a month ago. Shot this up close to get as much detail as possible and had to stop down to f/40 to get enough depth of field for the cactus and flower to be in focus. Then spent ages cloning out all the nicely-resolved sensor spots afterwards!


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G, 3s, f/40, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, auto WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 20 April 2006

A wall in Lonsdale St. I forget which building.


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 D, 1/125s, f/5.6, ISO 200, programmed auto, spot meter, shade WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 19 April 2006

View from the William Barak Bridge


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6 D, 1/500s, f/13.0, ISO 200, programmed auto, spot meter, shade WB

Daily Melbourne Photo - 18 April 2006

Dead pigeon. Yum.


Nikon D70, Tokina 17mm f/3.5 AT-X, 1/200s, f/8.0, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, shade WB

Habanero powder

This weekend I finally got around to doing something I'd meant to for ages - making some hot chilli (or chile for you Americans) powder.

I didn't want to turn the blender into a make-everything-taste-like-chilli machine, so I picked up a cheapo coffee grinder and went to town on half a jar of red habaneros that I'd dried a while back.

Most instructions for grinding chilli recommend doing it outdoors and/or wearing a dust mask. Now I understand why. Inhaling airborne habanero powder is not much fun. It makes you cough and sneeze and sends your snot-generation system into overdrive. It's not even a fun chilli-burn sensation either - it's more like inhaling odourless smoke.

The end product is worth it though...



The jar on the left shows the amount of dried product needed to create the amount of powder in the jar on the right. It goes from a dark red to a bright orange during grinding. Heat-wise, it's about as strong as you can get without using extracts. Definitely hotter than the peppers were when fresh, but the heat tends to stay in one place rather than spreading all over your mouth as it does when eating a raw hab.

Flavour-wise, it tastes very similar to Blair's Death Rain (not surprisingly since red savinas are the main ingredient of Death Rain), but without the extra spices. You lose a lot of the fruity flavour of fresh habs, but the smell is bloody nice and you don't have the vinegar flavour that you'd get from using a sauce.

Daily Melbourne Photo - 17 April 2006

The Lyttelton II at Victoria Dock.


Nikon D70, AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G, 1/500s, f/8.0, ISO 200, manual, spot meter, shade WB

Construction pics - Eureka Tower 16 April 2006

Mmmmm..... gold

Construction pics - Docklands 16 April 2006

Port 1010



AquaVista



Dock 5







Victoria Point

Construction pics - neo200 16 April 2006

Daily Melbourne Photo - 16 April 2006

Since it's Easter Sunday, here's the spire of St Pat's

bentmywookie.com

Decided to point the domain here while I decide if I can be arsed putting the website back up.

Seems like a good excuse to post my Ralph Wiggum pic...

Extreme macro photos

Want to take some ultra close-up photos like the one below? Have a look at this thread on MelbournePhotos.net

Ruben

My mate Ruben from work. He doesn't mind pointing the odd camera or two at things...