Getting all Ansel Adams

Washington Hills

…but without the equipment, technical nor local knowledge.

Yesterday Sudarat was kind enough to invite me along on a trip and picnic out to the waterfalls just north of here as a friend of hers is visiting. Incipient rain proved not to be a problem and instead gave me plenty of material for dramatic sky pictures, long exposure pix of falling water and it brought the sturgeons out to play. Sturgeons? Yep, we went to a fish farm where they had a pond full of the buggers. I skipped the museum before going to take pictures of them and saw the mother of all fishes gliding around the pond. Doing the museum first is too much like reading the manual before playing around with your latest toy for me… Anyroad, a stranger struck up conversation with me as one of them, about a metre plus long, glided into view- “Is that Herman?” she asked. I said I’d only just arrived and wasn’t on first name terms yet. The recording in the museum bit explained that Herman the Sturgeon is the biggest fish in the water, 25 years old or so… and an uglier customer you’d be hard pressed to meet. My fisheye lense seemed appropriate…

We’ve had a fair bit of rain lately too so the waterfalls were even more spectacular than usual… I can’t wait for how they’ll be in a month or two’s time…

We drove over “The Bridge of the Gods” into Washington too. So that’s another state to cross off. Lovely day it was, shame DrSita missed it because of her training schedule. We’ll be back though. We’ve also sourced a great ice cream shop for you, Dad, just round the corner from the trails.

Other news… translations and web design finally seem to be coming in and I’ve an interview next week for another web gig. Today I’m going to make a promotional poster for Sita’s course because since it was advertised late there aren’t many signups just yet. That’ll change once word gets around. Carmen Miranda is going to feature prominently