tiabunna's photos with the keyword: mono

Petrol station, now closed and abandoned, on the road to South Australia. At least it has a wall! Happy Wednesday Wall, everyone

It's some time since I posted a mono image, so why not? :-) Happy Bench Monday, everyone, and let's hope for a good week to follow.

I took this bench image in Kangaroo Valley. It was a very enjoyable trip, but after recent dreadful events both here and in other places, mono best matches my feelings today. Enjoy your benches and let's hope for better times this week. Best viewed on black.

Looking southward into the Prince Charles Mountains, this is a stitched panorama of the view from our survey point on Mount Lacey (see earlier image with Tellurometer). The distant range is about 30km away (see map in Location). This is best viewed large. The large mountain at the far left is Mt Bechervaise, which some of the better climbers also ascended - note the massive wind scour in the snow alongside it (the scale is better illustrated in the PiP, showing the climbers en-route). Images from old negatives developed at Mawson on our return.

Waves on the beach and in the sky! A cold frontal change was moving up the coast, bringing a sudden change in wind direction and temperatures. This seemed a good b/w subject and is best viewed on black. Explored.

HFF everyone and best wishes for the weekend. Explored.

Quite a few other photographers were also at the "Jumpers and Jazz" event. Explored.

Isolated old timber church in south west Queensland. Best viewed large, second image in note. By way of musical background, try this. HFF. Explored

The March 2015 comp for the Prime Lenses (fixed focus) Group is "Ceilings" - of all kinds. Our little country town is somewhat lacking in gothic cathedrals, baroque mansions and such - this is the underside of our local bridge. :-) Best viewed on black. Half way through the month, get your entries in now! Explored.

My entry for the Prime Lenses (fixed focal length) group monthly competition for September 2013. See the discussion thread for details and enter! Lens was a Vivitar 135/2.8 (Komine).

From an old negative. On the first day of the Spring Trip inland from Mawson, the station's VW followed the tractor trains for several miles. Here it is crossing through reasonably small sastrugi.

From an old negative. I've at last found my negatives from Mawson (I used two camera bodies, one with slides one with B/W). So I'm going back to the start of the 1966 Spring Trip from Mawson, showing two tractors hauling caravans to the plateau. Once there, the caravans and sledges were organised into trains. The husky pups really aren't hauling anything. :) Minolta SR1 with Adox film, Auto Rokkor 55/1.8.

Reposted after reprocessing. From an old negative, taken exactly 50 years ago today (9 October 1966). View large. Here the 1966 Spring surveying trip from Mawson is just heading out across the blue ice at the edge of the Antarctic plateau. Taken from the roof of the main caravan. In the distance, several expeditioners can be seen on the ice farewelling us, also the VW following for the early stage. For the next four months, "the world" consisted of just the seven of us.

"Rachel" was the name given to the ancient (WW2 vintage) AA3 Mk VII anti-aircraft radar that had been used to track weather balloons at Macquarie Island since (I think) 1953. She lived in a small hut, to give some weather protection, with a radome above. One of our first tasks was to dismantle the hut and decommission her, to be replaced with a new WF2 radar.

Vintage 1930 Ford-based racer

Australian-built Renault 4CV (1958).