Gary,

This effect looks like the one I asked about on another of your shots recently. The light was not as friendly as you'd have liked on the day.

George - so you'd have him 'Undeterred' then?

Fascinating places, especially for a relatively 'new' place like Australia (for European settlers anyway). These cemeteries where abandoned as soon as the gold ran out, and the prospectors moved on.

Sandy Creek Cemetery - some pointers to the origins of the miners there -[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Goldfields%20Cemeteries%20Victoria/_IGP6329R.jpg[/IMG]

Sandy Creek also - note the spread of dates...
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Pennyworth Children's Cemetery (mid 1800s), near Castlemaine - this was sobering. Most of the graves are nothing but bits of local rock arranged in a small oval (and believe me, they are small). Very few had headstones like these -
[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Goldfields%20Cemeteries%20Victoria/_IGP1132R.jpg[/IMG]

Pennyworth again - worth noting the ages of the bairns
[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Goldfields%20Cemeteries%20Victoria/_IGP1135R.jpg[/IMG]

Some of the few that did have headstones, were nonetheless makeshift arrangements like this - (and the stone was so soft the inscriptions were weathered off). This is an example of the small rocks that marked the outline of many of the graves. For most, that is all they had.
[IMG]http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy9/i_berg/Goldfields%20Cemeteries%20Victoria/_IGP1136-2R.jpg[/IMG]

Some 200 children are buried there, by the miners and prospectors who were too poor to do anything else for them. Bless 'em.

Steamin' stamens Mat! They're good to look at. No 1 is my pick also.

G'day and welcome Carlo.

Emma,

SanDisk have changed their labelling descriptions on SD cards, just to make things a bit more interesting.

They have dropped the 'numbering' system, so no longer will they be Extreme III etc.

They will now just be Sandisk Extreme SDHC Memory Cards (speeds up to 30 MB/sec) and SanDisk Extreme HD Video SDHC Cards (only 20 MB/sec).

I found this out yesterday at PMA 2010, held in Melbourne - I visited the SanDisk stand and got this from the SanDisk people direct.

The SanDisk Ultra cards are only 15 MB/sec.

Of course, if you find cards that were manufactured before these changes took place, then Extreme III cards are the way to go.

FWIW, the 'Extreme' series are supposedly more robust as well - it's not all about speed.

Lastly, speed might be valuable if you've set your camera to continuous shooting. I like to take one shot at a time, so speed is less of an issue anyway if you do the same.

Well done Mike, that's like suspended animation. How far away was he?

You should have no trouble taking shots of your local 'pigeon catcher' on the bell tower with this rig.

Mat,

ditto re the sensor - no grubs, just bugs.

The second image shows what I know as a 'Katydid'. All colourful and a bit out of the ordinary.

Holey soles Batman!!

Well done Mowog, that is a ripper story to go with them. Fancy all of that being recalled now. An abstracted shot of the worn soles might be a 'fitting' part of the series too...