I wanted to post the next installment of shots from my Australian trip, but my computer’s in the middle of a 3D Bryce render, and I don’t want to slow it down by looking through my photo collection. Everyone’s eyeballs need a rest from looking at so many photos anyway, and speaking of which… The scene I’m rendering is for an illustration I’m doing for the fifth issue of Tales of the Talisman. I’d decided not to draw it all…
My last full day in Perth was kind of a free-for-all. I didn’t want to do anything too taxing because I had an early domestic flight the next day for the next city on my itinerary. So my godmother decided we’d visit the riverside, the aquarium, and the zoo while the sun was up, and at sundown I planned on treating my godmother and her husband to a very nice dinner out. The visit to the riverside was mostly so…
My fourth full day in Australia was a Sunday, and my godmother is a devout churchgoer. So I didn’t go on another full-day tour. Instead, I did my laundry and my postcard writing in the morning, and I got on an afternoon cruise down the river to the Fremantle Harbour and back. It seems pretty tame compared to the sandboarding of the day before, but it’s kind of hard to top a Desert Storm adventure when you’re touring unfamiliar country….
The Photo Friday topic is “smooth” so I thought I’d let this installment of my Australia posts do double duty. Dunes are generally pretty smooth looking mounds of sand, right? Well, this shot was taken at the dunes in Lancelin, where you can also see a white sand beach to the west if you’re standing high on a mound somewhere. Now, I know this particular dune doesn’t look perfectly smooth, but that’s because of what our group and others did…
On my third full day in Perth, I took a second full day tour. It stopped for a bit at Caversham Wildlife Park, so I have some photos of me feeding and petting a kangaroo, cradling a coarse-haired wombat in my lap, and petting a sleepy koala. Then it was a lot of driving, a lunch in Cervantes, and a lot more driving, until we came to Nambung National Park, home of the Pinnacles. It was hot there and bright,…