Gone early morning fishing

 Fishing at sunrise on Terrigal Beach on a beautiful morning. Another hot day ahead.

Not a surf carnival photo

Today  I really would have liked to have posted a colourful photo taken at the huge surf carnival being held on Terrigal beach today. There are hundreds of children taking part and there's the problem.

I do not want to be seen taking photos near children. There is so much sensitivity around the subject. It's easy to understand why but it's more difficult to understand why the literally dozens of people snapping away with their smartphones on the beach and Esplanade don't get a second glance.

Anyway it is what it is, so today's photo is not of the surf carnival, it's our big ball of fur, Holly.

Photo taken with my Leica Q2.

Taking a dip

 I have just been down to Kiama and I was reminded that on my last time there I took what is still one of my favourite photos.

Back then, in February 2022, it was a very hot day -as I drove there on the motorway west of Sydney earlier in the day the car was showing an external temperature of 35.6ºC. It was also very humid. Late in the afterrnoon I drove south to Gerringong and I spotted these swimmers walking carefully across the slippery rock shelf to an ocean swimming pool to take a cooling dip.

The Little Blowhole-Kiama

 

Earlier in the week I spent a few days down the south coast in Kiama and Berry. Photo above shows the Little Blowhole at Kiama early morning. The blowhole was in good form the three days I was there.

Racing in the heat

Went down to Sydney Motorsport Park yesterday to the Historic Race meeting to see friends, Craig ( Porsche 911) and Colin ( Alfa GTA), competing. Very hot and humid day. I was feeling the 35ºC heat and I was not driving.

It was good to catch up with friends from the Porsche Club who I had not seen for over 4 years. However to their apparent surprise I did not feel nostalgic for the days when I competed in my Porsches. Life moves on.

The conditions and the weight of my camera gear meant that I was not able to get into more than one vantage point for the action shots and I called it a day after I had some good shots of my mates.

Photos taken using my SL2 and the Lumix f2.8 70-200mm lens for the action shots and the Sigma f2.8 24-70mm lens for the static shots.

 

Runners in the mist

 Runners from the Terrigal Trotters setting out on the monthly time trial in warm, misty conditions on Terrigal Esplanade early this morning.

Paddle board class

Paddle board class on Terrigal Beach at 6.32am today, Thursday. A very high tide this morning  and it looks like a stormy, hot and humid day ahead

Through a tourist's eyes

 A friend from France is here at the start of a one year working holiday. I met him down in Sydney last Wednesday. It was a beautiful day-not too warm and crystal clear- and we walked the Harbour Bridge.

Whilst he was snapping away with his iPhone I took these tourist snaps with my camera

Waiting for the train

 Spotted on Gosford station whilst waiting for the Sydney train yesterday morning

Grey days

 Here in Terrigal we are experiencing unsettled, stormy weather this week.

  It is windy with showers and not as warm as it should be for the time of year. Definitely not beach weather today.

 

Photos taken at North Avoca beach this morning using Leica SL2 fitted with Lumix Pro 16-35mm f4.0 lens at 16mm.

Smudge -the other cat

 Portrait of Smudge-the other cat in the house. Smudge is not yet a fan of Holly, the new cat, but then Holly is not yet a fan of Smudge! It's work in progress.

Smudge is a very small cat. She could be mistaken as a kitten although she is 6 and fully grown. 

 Photo taken with  Leica SL2 and Summicron 50mm f2 lens.