Steve Paxton's photos

The whole back patio are was under water do open out large.

It looks out of focus its just so much rain.

This storm we where told "may be bad" very few lightening strikes but plenty of hale and rain. Started 4:09pm finished 4:39and last cloud photo 5:20pm a total 40.4cm.

Cleaning the 50 lt green glass bottle after taking the grape juice out I saw the potential. there are a few very familiar faces some of these look like. was hard to focus on the face behind the glass rather than the glass as the camera wanted done manually. Wine season 200lt of juice into 185lt wine.

The Land of the long white Cloud.

A trial with Topaz DEnoise In my screen full size this wins hands down. PIP compare the pair , one of my all time Fav Bows 6 hours drive and some 30min set up in the outback of WA. This is black as it gets out under the night sky. certainly not some thing for every one but a major step forward PIP 1 original Bow PIP 2 the street sign you can see in the image PIP 3 My car out on the road.

www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Lichenostomus-virescens . I have been sitting out side most mornings this pot is used as a bath by the birds but as you can see water was a little low after a 39c. I will get a photo of the male and female both taking turns having a bath. The other visitor is the New Holland Honey eater to also drink and bath.

The first two that where born in our yard since we have been in this house. Second is between the pots.

a shot that was always in my mind but not some thing we see that often Here in Australia. So it was well worth the tip later in the day to capture it. For those technically minded shot at 350mm horizontal hand held panorama

This was a shot the came from December one I was not happy with for two reasons. when I was setting up to get the photos of Orion I felt the Head move (Horizontaly) as the lock handle came up underneath the level bubble on the head. what I thought was tight was not, so I moved head back the amount I thought it had moved. the time was short as it was moon rise in 2 hours so I wanted to get 1 hours with of shots in the dark if I could. then a second set of darker photos to blend and balance out the bright spot but when the camera stopped after the hour then I noticed the movement in the frame of the Nebula. I went no further with the shots. the noise was also not very good but I have recently purchased the new edition of Topaz DeNoise AI the shot is totally noise free. for people doing a lot of night shot highly recommend the program for its ability. on sale at the moment.

New life is starting the smell of burnt is still very much in the area even though we got some "rain" it would not wet the lawn it was that much.

The small scrub have been destroyed but larger trees and all the grass trees have a healthy crop of leaves. if you look at the larger view there is quite a bit of green in this view almost a month on.

The trees have started to sprout leaves from the trunk and the heavier wood. Black boys have a very healthy head of leave on the ground level.

Recovering very well as there is water about. looks a lot less grey

A view from our local beach into the night sky. A compromise setting so you can see both sides of the Moon. Note the stars in the photo @ 2.5 sec with a 120mm lens.

The local beach from home with Moon and Venus together.