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This is?

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 05:50:49 +0000

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Copied from an old Kodachrome slide and taken in 1965. A free * for their latest image for anyone who can correctly identify this object and its purpose. :-)

Old Queensland Museum

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:30:32 +0000

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Photo from 1964 of (what is now officially the "Old") Queensland Museum and Art Gallery. This was copied from one of my earliest slides, on Anscochrome film which has not aged well - see PiP for the unedited copy. Brisbane now has new museums and galleries, but at least this building has been preserved. The tram tracks and overhead cables have long since gone.

Happy Fence Friday and have a great weekend, everyone.

From an old slide

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:59:44 +0000

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I've been copying some of my old slides to digital. This one of the Sydney Opera House was from Dec 65, and taken from a Manly Ferry. Copied from a Perutz slide. See also Pip, taken a little later on the trip.

Your choice of walls for Happy Wednesday Wall, have a good week everyone.

Trendy skier and Porsche

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 03:39:39 +0000

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Copied from an old slide. One of my colleagues reclining on a Snowtrac vehicle on the edge of the Antarctic plateau, near Mt Henderson just outside Mawson station. The surface is hard snow-free blue ice. As would be expected, how else would a trendy skier travel except in a Porsche-powered vehicle? The Snowtracs had Porsche industrial engines. :-) This one was fitted with sounding equipment for glaciology measurements, Best viewed large.

The hat

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:32:10 +0000

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Maybe not the greatest image, but this is a copy of a very old Kodachrome slide chosen because of its high contrast, ranging from solid blacks to burnt out highlights. Best viewed on black. I've just written an article on my approach to copying old slides and negatives: www.ipernity.com/blog/tiabunna/4248640.

Explored.

The south of Lord Howe Island

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:27:25 +0000

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During my visit to Lord Howe Island I took a side trip to the saddle between the two mountains at the south, Mt Gower and Mt Lidgbird. Trips to the area were possible only with a guide, as it was necessary to traverse a precarious ledge around the cliffs known as the "Lower Road" (identified by note). I understand there are fixed ropes along this ledge now, in those days it was 'just hang on and be careful'.

Copied from a slide.

"Islander" arrives in "white tail" mode

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:36:20 +0000

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"Islander", a Short Sunderland converted for passenger-carrying, as it arrived to return us from Lord Howe Island in June 1974. It is in "white tail" paint scheme (ie, the airline livery has been removed) because it was being taken out of service by the airline. Note the old wartime "Blitz" truck on the jetty and the surf on the reef beyond. This aircraft now is in the "Museum of Flight" in Florida, USA.

Happy Fence Friday!

Rescue arrives!

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:35:44 +0000

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After a week, during which the RAAF flew low over the partly completed airstrip taking photographs to evaluate whether an aircraft could land to take us off, the second flying boat "Islander" (a converted Sunderland) was returned to service. Here it is arriving from the left of the photo, having had the interior refitted: that had been removed to allow the aircraft to be fitted with long range tanks as it had been sold and was scheduled to go overseas.

Days Gone By

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 04:02:13 +0000

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One of my old Minolta SR1 SLR cameras, with my equally old (and non-functioning) light meter and a few slide boxes. Ah, the pre-digital days, when each photo cost real money and there was a wait to see how successful they were! Prompted by Ian Grainger's blog article "Do you shoot film?" www.ipernity.com/blog/iangrainger/696115

Explored

DC3s at Essendon, 1965

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Tue, 27 May 2014 23:36:36 +0000

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I'm just home from travels and still catching up, so here's a favourite archival image, copied from a Kodachrome slide.

These two DC3s (then still in regular airline use) were at Melbourne's Essendon Airport in 1965. The nearest was owned by Bush Pilots Airways, the other by Ansett - both airlines now long since gone and the airport turned to general aviation following the opening of Tullamarine Airport a few years later..

Leaving

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:37:00 +0000

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The flying boat on which we had travelled to Lord Howe Island was blown aground by a gale, leaving us castaway (unfortunately in winter) for a week before another flying boat was able to retrieve us. We began our take-off run from alongside the stranded flying boat, with choppy seas. Airport runways are always smooth, but not so for flying boats. Our first takeoff run needed to be aborted because the boat was being badly affected by waves: we left without problem on the second attempt.

Islander, the flying boat on which we left, is now in a museum in the USA. The damaged flying boat Beachcomber was repaired and eventually went back to England, where it has pride of place in a special museum.

Second photo in note. View on black.

Castaway by Flying Boat!

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:31:39 +0000

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When I visited Lord Howe Island in 1974 an airstrip was being built to enable normal air services, but it was incomplete. The only way to fly to the island was by flying boat. This was the last regular airline service in the world still operated by flying boat, but they had been sold and were being retired. One had been taken out of service to prepare for the trip overseas, by replacing the seats and other fittings with long range tanks, but this one was doing limited service until the airport opened.

Our return trip was to be two days later, but a gale on the second night broke the flying boat’s moorings and washed it aground. These flying boats had been the island’s lifeline for many years, and it was a disconsolate crowd of locals and visitors who gathered around the damaged aircraft on the beach next morning. The good news is that the aircraft was repaired on the spot, flown out, and in September 1974 it became the last flying boat out of Lord Howe. The aircraft is now housed in a special aviation museum in Southampton, England.

As I mentioned though, the other flying boat was out of service being refitted, and the runway was unfinished. We had become castaways on a sub-tropical paradise! Unfortunately it was winter and the weather was poor: you can't win everything. :)

Insets
Another view of the beached aircraft;
The wingtip dug into the sand and damaged;
The damaged float removed from under the wing.

From Kodachrome slides.

Full moon over Mawson

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 10:34:59 +0000

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Copied from an old 1966 slide. A full moon setting in the early morning over the Casey Range to the west of Australia's Mawson station, in East Antarctica. Vehicles, including the VW, at the far right.

Taken with Minolta SR1, Auto Rokkor-PF 1.4/58mm, Kodachrome 2.

Why did we stop?

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:45:13 +0000

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Heading back to Mawson station, late at night on the 100th day of our trip and trying to make up lost time, when suddenly we stopped. Our tractor had hit a crevasse, generally referred to as a 'slot'. Many trips had been through this particular area and never before had one been encountered here.

Ghost of Christmas (long) past

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 22:31:47 +0000

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From an old slide and being reposted with a better copy. This is the "Spring Trippers" group photo on Christmas Eve, 50 years ago (1966). We were on a four month mapping trip, at this stage some 200km inland from Mawson station, Antarctica.

Merry Christmas, everyone. Here's a song to go with the season.

Around in East Bay

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:23:11 +0000

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From an old slide. Some icebergs had trapped broken sea ice in East Bay, adjacent to Mawson station. Here a Weddel seal has hauled up with an Adelie and Emperor penguin.

Digging out #1

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:48:25 +0000

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From an old slide. A few days of blizzards left huge amounts of drift piled against, through and around the tractors and caravan trains. Here is the start of the process of digging out the tractors from the huge amounts of snow that accumulated every time we had a blizzard - typically twice weekly on our return trip.

Digging out #2

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:48:26 +0000

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From an old slide. Blizzards, usually lasting several days, left huge amounts of drift piled against, over and around our tractors and caravan trains. Clearing it typically took at least a day, sometimes two. Here, late in a long day's digging, much of the sledges and linking cables have been cleared of snow.

Visiting Adelie and Emperor penguins

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:23:11 +0000

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From an old slide. After our return from the interior, while awaiting the arrival of the relief ship "Nella Dan" (caught for some time in sea ice) it was a pleasure to see various wildlife visiting the station area.

A year's supply

nobody@ipernity.com (tiabunna) — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:55:57 +0000

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From an old slide. The old meteorological office had been converted to the Met store room: here with the year's supply of stores yet to be packed away. The sign says "No standing any time, Taxis excepted".