Overall Oz has fared well in the difficult times that have raged around the world. But things haven’t exactly been rosy, and Victoria is the state that has fared the worst. Which means with unemployment increasing, homelessness has increased.
But enough doom and gloom for one night.
I want to thank everybody who has commented for their feedback on the two versions of my blurb. What you guys have provided is invaluable.
Thank you.
Well now for some fun with some piccies!
I want to share some piccies I took the weekend after my trip to Beechworth.
They were taken at a place called Snob’s Creek. The creek rolls down from the highlands near Eildon about two hours drive from home.
The piccies I am sharing were all taken on my camera, but the credits for these piccies have to be shared between me and Lu, my youngest.
To get to the falls you have to climb down a couple of sets of stairs. Lu paused to turn and take this piccie back up the path.
I took a similar one also aiming to capture the roots of this smallish Mountain Ash as they grow over the boulders of the slope. 
The path parallels the creek as it tumbles down a series of small cascades towards the falls.
At this one I set up the camera to take some long exposure shots in the dark under the forest canopy.
The blurred figure in the fore ground is me. Once I set the camera I went around the front to look up into the tree branches.Lu started clicking away to try and capture me. But of course the exposure was far too long for portraits so I was just a blur.
Another shot from the same position.
A third zooming in on the lower cascade.
A fourth looking at the upper cascade.
Lu took the camera as we continued down. She paused to take this shot looking down at a small rotting stump.
Then, budding photographer that she is, she took another after removing the bottle cap. 
Can you see she has inadvertently caught her toes at the bottom of both shots :-).After a bit of a struggle I prised the camera from her hands to shoot this rather attractive boulder in the middle of the stream.
Finally, I took a pile of piccies at the bottom of the falls.And me being me, stuffed nearly all of them. I didn’t notice I still had the ISO set for the dark of the forest so nearly all of the piccies in the relatively bright conditions at the bottom were hopelessly over exposed.
This is the only one that is worth sharing.
But in an effort to be an optimist I am going to take this as a good thing.Because I stuffed so many exposures, I have the perfect excuse to head back (in the not too distant future) to get some more.
Not that I really need an excuse.
