Originally posted by GUB Sorry Chris you copped that horrendous pause when everyone goes off and does other things.
You mean instead of talking about photography, actually going off and doing some?
Originally posted by GUB Just had a look at Mt Cookson on G earth. Not often so many Tomos show up in an aerial image! Looks like that scarp line is a collapse area and the whole mountain is sagging. Quite an interesting place.
Yes, it certainly is quite interesting geology. When I went up it with Dad and his brothers, the farmer said it was really dangerous in winter, as those tomos filled up with snow, so you wouldn't know when you were on top of one, and some are pretty deep.
I wonder if anyone's ever thought to look and see if there are any moa bones at the bottom of any?
I guess there's quite a bit of interesting NZ landscape that's either not publicly accessible or advertised.
Maybe it's a good thing Mount Cookson is neither, otherwise it would probably end up becoming a good source of Instagram influencer fossils down those tomos or at the bottom of that scarp in future.
Originally posted by GUB This is all we can manage - named after my Grandfather - something deeply philosophical about the "no exit"!
Not everyone gets to have a holey
mountain with stone tablets bearing the family name.
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Originally posted by zkarj There's quite a lot of character to that little hill. I've often thought how cool it would be to be able to see a time lapse of however million years it takes for such things to form.
Pentax needs to come up with some better battery life, and add a few more bytes to the storage for time-lapse parameters.
Seriously, I wonder what the longest time lapses are? Digital cameras have come so far in 20 years. I remember in 1999, VGA resolution 640x480 with a floppy disk was considered high technology.
Some fixed webcams may have been in place for a few years I guess?
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Originally posted by GUB This is what one of my ancestors (g grandfather) claim to fame is -- he enthusiastically hunted down the last remnants of the piopio population in the Waitotara Forests. Joseph Annabell was a pioneer surveyor and saw the need to record the species in the fitting manner of the day. I guess if he had had a K-1 things might have been a bit different!. He also kept a comprehensive diary and I can pinpoint many of the spots he shot the piopio. From memory Te Papa has 7 of his specimens.
Obviously 'non-destructive sampling', was not a thing back then!