Another beautiful day in Sydney + world's longest exposure photo

Kneelo gets a nice one

Some waves on the Point, if you are keen to deal with the crowd.

What an amazing photo--A 6-MONTH exposure!
Details here: http://householdname.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/01/photographys-longest-exposure.html

Even more reasons to use Google Chrome and ditch IE, plus some stuff on your internal biological clock that you may not know...

Internet Explorer (amongst its other deficiencies) has become bloatware. Here's the definitive evidence why Google Chrome should be your browser of choice.

http://sixrevisions.com/infographs/browser-performance/

Interesting page with some useful info on your internal biological clock(s): (most of it reasonably correct)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg

What an autumn we've had so far, eh? Amazing. Air temperature was nearly 25C today and the water is still 23. Some great waves at Narrabeen Point during lunchtime today. How lucky am I to be able to blow off a couple of hours and get a surf in while so many people are sitting in the city in a concrete and steel box (like I've done for so many years...)

Mad sunrise at Dee Why this morning:

The wind was trying to blow but just not doing it today.

My big 650mm lens has been giving me the sh*ts lately -- two loose internal screws inside allowed it to wobble on the tripod -- plus some sea spray on the lens making the photos less sharp than I'd normally like to accept. (above). Let's see if the changes made any difference when I shoot the next photos tomorrow.

Monday

Creating the first post on a new blog is always the most difficult. You sit and think forever trying to make sure you come up with something witty, interesting and perfect, when in fact you often don't. So it seems the best thing to do is what you do when you're writing anything and you get stuck --just get it over with, write ANYTHING and put something up to break the block.

I don't expect to attract a mass audience on this blog--in fact, I'm not going to actively promote or publicise it, just to see who manages to find it.

Sydney's autumn this year has been quite exceptional. Usually by about Easter time rain sets in and it's unusual that more than a day or two passes without rain, which is why I've tended to avoid camping at Easter. This year (allegedly one of the warmest in 105 years) it's been 25-30C regularly and the ocean temperature sits at close to 25C at a time of year when we're usually into the steamers by now) Had a surf on dark last night and the water was as warm as I've ever seen it in Sydney, even in Summer. If only it would stay this way...

http://www.mhl.nsw.gov.au/www/wave_temp.htmlx

Unfortunately, the wind patterns have delivered exactly to statistical expectations this year. By end of March the summer nor'easters give way to a period of doldrums. The odd southerly sneaks through but beyond that, it's only westerlies til about September. 

It's another beautiful autumn day in Dee Why today. Not much surf but the temperature is a perfect 23-24C, with a light SW wind and bright blue skies. Not much surf around but that should change over the next week or so.

Dee Why Point 0745hrs Monday