On 29 January 2012 13:57, David Mann <d...@multisport.net.nz> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2012, at 5:59 AM, David Savage wrote: > >> On a day that saw the mercury hit 42°C, I still went out that night to >> shoot the fireworks here in Fremantle, and got an added bonus: >> >> <http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6770160377_d3b1090d7e_o.jpg> > > Very nicely done. That must be one super wide lens.
Thank you Dave. It was shot with the Nikon 14-24mm @ 14mm. Pretty wide on the D700 > > A pregnant friend of mine recently moved to Perth. She recently posted on > Facebook that she spent some time sheltering from the 40-degree heat in a > liquor store's cool room. Poor thing wouldn't have been able to touch a drop > of the product! > > She had the baby last week and all seems to be well. I really feel sorry for her, it's been horrendous here this week. Today was the coolest day we've had in about 5 days (@ 33˚ C). > BTW it's Australia Day here every two weeks. It's to do with the colours of > our three waste bins: on week 1 we put out the green and yellow bins (so I > call it Australia Day) and week 2 we put out the green and red ones (so I > call it Christmas). > > [Red = rubbish (landfill); Green = organic waste, Yellow = recycling.] Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi ,oi!!! :-) Some of the local councils here have similar colour coded bins here (Not mine thought) DS -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
