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04-04-2021, 01:03 PM   #17416
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Yikes! My 14.5 year old car has done 111,000km. It's just had its first expensive thing go wrong.
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Indeed! My 97 Serena van just clicked over 150k...Up from the 134 it had done when I bought it 6 years ago :-)
yeah, distances. It's like driving in Oz where the hundreds tick over. We are looking to go east to the sea this summer (if we can!), it'll be just over 3000km return. Looking forward to it though. I consult fairly widely in my industries, and there are production plants and importers across Canada and the US.

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Would have loved to! Have to catch up with work, though.
Yeah thought you might have been tempted! Trouble was we were all day away from the hut bush bashing anyway.
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Hi Gub. Hope you are having fun with the lens(that I miss! Now selling my FA 24mm and then my 35mm Sigma art 1.4 lens. Have bought a Pentax 24-70 2.8. One lens for 2,makes life simple. I will put the 24mm on to Facebook
Ahaa there you are Stillwell. Good to hear from you! Hey everyone - this is the bloke to blame if I take crappy pictures with the FA400 !!
Seems to focus nice and snappy - just couldn't face taking it with me onto Ruapehu this weekend. Already had upwards of three Kg of gear. Mind you I saw a Falcon perched about 50metres away - it would have been handy!
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Nah, you won’t be taking crappy pictures, gub! Welcome, stillwell!

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Yeah thought you might have been tempted! Trouble was we were all day away from the hut bush bashing anyway.
Let me know if you go on a hike again. Would love to join sometime.

BTW, I fixed a potentially ambiguous reply to one of your earlier posts. The idea was to agree with you and I'm not sure that came through with the first version I wrote.
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Let me know if you go on a hike again. Would love to join sometime.

BTW, I fixed a potentially ambiguous reply to one of your earlier posts. The idea was to agree with you and I'm not sure that came through with the first version I wrote.
Yeah i read it several times before I worked it out. But hey you are nothing like Swaneflitte whose every sentence is a riddle!
The Mangaturuturu area of Ruapehu has got to have some of the most beautiful spots on the mountain. Here is Tom's Garden. Our club named the area such after Tom Luff showed us his secret spot about a month before he passed away. The crazy thing is the buttercups flower there all summer despite the fact they are finished elsewhere on the mountain by Christmas. Easter and they are still going. Probably something to do with the fountain of water in the background. A stream spraying out from what is presumably a lava tube. Also the area is a sheltered afternoon suntrap on smooth rock.
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The crazy thing is the buttercups flower there all summer despite the fact they are finished elsewhere on the mountain by Christmas. Easter and they are still going. Probably something to do with the fountain of water in the background. A stream spraying out from what is presumably a lava tube.
Amazing!

Thanks for sharing the image!

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The Mangaturuturu area of Ruapehu has got to have some of the most beautiful spots on the mountain. Here is Tom's Garden.
Very nice spot, Thanks for sharing. Looks like you had a very nice weekend. I, unfortunately, spent a fair bit of the weekend working, getting a couple of client projects finished.

I did find time to watch a few of the new videos on the K3-III which was very enjoyable
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Yeah i read it several times before I worked it out. But hey you are nothing like Swaneflitte whose every sentence is a riddle!
The Mangaturuturu area of Ruapehu has got to have some of the most beautiful spots on the mountain. Here is Tom's Garden. Our club named the area such after Tom Luff showed us his secret spot about a month before he passed away. The crazy thing is the buttercups flower there all summer despite the fact they are finished elsewhere on the mountain by Christmas. Easter and they are still going. Probably something to do with the fountain of water in the background. A stream spraying out from what is presumably a lava tube. Also the area is a sheltered afternoon suntrap on smooth rock.
That's stunning. I'm very much a Mainlander, but natural history is something of a magnet to me anywhere, (Blame it on David Attenborough when I was an impressionable teen), and that's amazing with so much variety in one small area. I've never been to much of the North Island, but that's the kind of place I'd want to visit.
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Yeah i read it several times before I worked it out. But hey you are nothing like Swaneflitte whose every sentence is a riddle!
The Mangaturuturu area of Ruapehu has got to have some of the most beautiful spots on the mountain. Here is Tom's Garden. Our club named the area such after Tom Luff showed us his secret spot about a month before he passed away. The crazy thing is the buttercups flower there all summer despite the fact they are finished elsewhere on the mountain by Christmas. Easter and they are still going. Probably something to do with the fountain of water in the background. A stream spraying out from what is presumably a lava tube. Also the area is a sheltered afternoon suntrap on smooth rock.
Great spot, that fountain is so cool!
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Here is Tom's Garden.
What an incredible spot! Good that it's water coming out of the lava tube.

I love flowing water, even just down a stream or river, and in native bush even better. When we were in Rotorua at Christmas probably my favourite time was checking out the Wairere falls, accessible via a short (but steep) detour when walking around the trails of Te Wairoa, The Buried Village. Only an iPhone snap below. Would love to go back with some more time and a suitable collection of lenses for the KP. I deliberately left it in the car on this side trip.
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My weekend was considerably drier, but I did manage to get out, and my big Tamron 70-200 got some exercise as well.
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Scored a magic lantern lens off TM. $15. A Spencer 10inch f4. After gluing up an adapter I quickly threw it together without even cleaning my finger prints off the glass. (Wanted to check I had my basic physics of focal length working.) Might be a shame to clean it - after all we used to put vaseline on lens filters!.
You can trust the real estate of the K-1 to bring out the best in this random piece of old glass.
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You can trust the real estate of the K-1 to bring out the best in this random piece of old glass.
Mate!! you are a legend
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Hi Gub. Hope you are having fun with the lens(that I miss! Now selling my FA 24mm and then my 35mm Sigma art 1.4 lens. Have bought a Pentax 24-70 2.8. One lens for 2,makes life simple. I will put the 24mm on to Facebook
Welcome Stillwell !
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... Here is Tom's Garden.....
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