Hotham pics 2011

Looks & sounds like you're having a great time.
Must have been a great surprise to see your sister when she turned up unannounced :biggrin:

Regards
Mr Turbo
 
It's a shame to see the snow gone so early! :-(
 
Well it's been a while since an update...

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^ Halo around the sun, the camera didn't pic it up very well but it looked awesome!

I've still not been skiing in a long time ^ the above pic was the last time I was skiing, probably about two weeks now - with sorting Ruby Scoo taking ski time while I got her going again then going driving for a day 8) I've now been caught up with sleeping all day after the night shift, something I want to break.
Now it's job applications taking all of my time!!! If it's not one thing it's another!

No matter, got school camp next week at Falls so I'm guaranteed to get some ski time in over there, just hope their snow base is still good! We could be expecting some snow next week but I'm not holding my breath on this news.

At least it hasn't come good on the rain! My weather station didn't know what it was doing last week - showed rain, snow, cloud, humidity one day dropped to 17%!! It's currently at 49% and 6 degrees C, sunny again.

Which leads me to the pics I've got to show, first, here's two images to compare the ice melt on Higgi drive:

Saturday 27AUG11:

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Wedensday 31AUG11:

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^ Not representational of the slope, but depressing to see it going every day!

Now since the sun comes up earlier I've been hanging back from work to watch it rise on these beautifully still and clear mornings:

Friday 26AUG11:

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I didn't stick around for the rest of this sun rise, but I have for the last three days...

Tuesday 30AUG11 Dawn:

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^ Still got the snow from those aerial jumps to spread out once things start to get thin on the ground - at least on the summit anyway. Snow making will apparently end on the 11th of September while conditions are favourable and before their snow making budget runs out...

Wednesday's sunrise:

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Today's (Thurs 01SEP11) sunrise that I woke kez up to watch with me:

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This sunrise was definitely the highest I've seen the ball of fire rise above the horizon up here. Great morning to show kez what I watch when I'm home late.

To finish off for now - these were what I suspect to be the "left over" fireworks from the second Jimmy Blaze show that they quietly cancelled. I was pissed about this as I missed the first show, I only got there in time to see a couple of jumps then the back flip - and my camera didn't work when I wanted it to. They had Jimmy Blaze and Corie Davis (I think). It looked awesome from the little bit I saw. I was hoping to back to back on my video from last year... Anyway, the fireworks that they didn't tell anyone about!

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^ I love the way the white snow takes on and reflects the fireworks light. I really do have to pull my thumb out and get myself a good camera, the little Olympus stylus 8000 that I'm using is great for what it is but I want to play around with the ISO, aperture and the shutter speed... I'll get there.

Hope you've enjoyed the latest installment of my hotham times. Expect more green in the photos from now on I reckon!

Cheers

Bennie

PS - this post was epic to organise!!
 
Awesome pics Bennie!!! Those sun rises are spectacular.:cool: Guess all good things must come to an end, and looks like your season is winding down. Of course now your getting into 4wd season, so something to look forward to.:ebiggrin:
 
Thanks for the pics Bennie! I have definitely missed going to the snow this season :-(
 
there are some really good pics int here Bennie.

I know you're probably trying to toss up about how much to spend on a digital slr: second hand or state of the art?

If I were you, I'd not only be much younger and intelligent than I am now, but I would consider buying something in the vicinty of 8 megapixel digital slr on ebay, for next to nothing, and keeping it when you upgrade to something better. It is handy to have more than one camera.

I have a pentax ist ds which is only just over 6 megapixel, but does a fantastic job. Even when I get something better, I reckon I would keep it becuase I'd get FA to sell it. You could get one of these on ebay for about $200:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pentax-...765?pt=AU_Digital_Cameras&hash=item3f0d7275fd

Worth a thought if you're frustrated with your rig.
 
Thanks guys, I go a bit over the top with the sunrise shots as I can not get what I really want from the camera so I have to compromise unfortunately.

Dulagarl said:
I know you're probably trying to toss up about how much to spend on a digital slr: second hand or state of the art?

Worth a thought if you're frustrated with your rig.
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Yeah I know where you're coming from Greg. My little Olympus is great - 12 meg! I'm after a Nikon D700 SLR and want to buy from a shop so I have a physical place to go if there's a problem. The price of one of these is somewhere near $1600-$1800 depending on the lens deal you get with it. I would like two lenses to make it a little more versatile as I'm finding that I've started taking images from a distance so I'll probably be complaining next about my selection of lenses after the DSLR hurdle has been sorted...

Later today (saturday) I'm going fishing out at Hinnomunji Bridge - I believe this is Victoria's Oldest bridge. It's been hand cut by axe and is really a work of art. It's now supported over the Mitta Mitta by some huge steel "I" beams - looks like it was done a long time ago to increase the load carrying capacity!

Cheers

Bennie
 
El_Freddo said:
I would like two lenses to make it a little more versatile as I'm finding that I've started taking images from a distance so I'll probably be complaining next about my selection of lenses after the DSLR hurdle has been sorted...
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I know exactly what you mean El_Freddo :)
Just make sure, that you get good quality glass (lenses) as they can make or break that the pics that you take :iconwink:

Regards
Mr Turbo
 
My wife shoots with a D700, she loves it!!! Especially for low light situations, can you say 25,000 iso??? It will take a pic in almost complete darkness.:ebiggrin:
 
A long over due update:

Last week we had some snow - it was great to see it fall again! We even had it settle for a couple of hours on the cement.

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I had to get ruby scoo from the staff carpark, this is how I found her:

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And I had to bust out the snow groomer for a bit of fun:

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All of this has since melted and the runs are looking pretty dismal - the lift company has called it quits this sunday, just in time for school holidays!

Then it rained last night which pretty much spelled the end of the season over night.

But we got a pleasant surprise this morning:

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Snow down to 1200m :D It's looking even better than it was in that pic since I took it at about 9am this morning, it hasn't really stopped snowing all day. Maybe my order for 50cm of snow on the ground is about to be delivered! Yeah I'm dreaming!

And this is about five minutes ago from 1pm Australian EST:

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It will be interesting to see how much ends up falling and how long it lasts for!

Cheers

Bennie

PS - you may note a change in the image quality of the last two or so pics... :D
 
^ That's what happens when you get bored on night management with fleabay at your finger tips...

Cheers

Bennie
 
I've got the feeling someone has just bought themselves a new toy :iconwink:

Regards
Mr Turbo
 
Well Mr Turbo... That's one way to put it. The other way of saying it is that I'm now broke, but better off for it in my opinion!

If you want to know what it is, read page 4 or 5 I think it's mentioned ;)

Cheers

Bennie
 
Sorry guys, correction, I got the D7000! It's all about the extra "0" for some reason. So now I've got the Olympus stylus tough 8000 and the Nikon D7000 DSLR :twisted:

And a quick update. These pics were from Friday the 23rd of September, two days before the close of season:

I can now get a decent shot from a distance of Mt Feathertop, taken from Higgi Drive behind the Arlberg:

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The summit with it's white snake of snow to ski on - just to keep the skiing going. There were probably 5 people out when I went for the walk:

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Good advertising :/

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And it got cold overnight with a lot of low cloud coming from the east, the moisture of the cloud has frozen on the trees creating a really interesting visual effect, the pic didn't turn out so good due to the clouds whipping past but I hope you get the idea:

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That's it for now. Once again the season is done and dusted. Hotham is officially a ghost town again, which is kind of good and not at the same time...

Cheers

Bennie
 
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