Australia Day

[seaslug]

Chopping at Bells Parade.

[loose cannon]

Perfect shutter speed and timing on the shots.

Only seen wood chopping once in my life. Many years ago in Darwin some Tassie blokes came to town and gave an exhibition. Wow!

I thought it would be boring as mud but sheesh, it's exciting to watch, especially when they start racing to the top of a huge log by cutting in those planks.

Scary to watch and nothing but respect from me. Controlled madness and danger with a high skill level

[seaslug]

Perfect shutter speed and timing on the shots.

Only seen wood chopping once in my life. Many years ago in Darwin some Tassie blokes came to town and gave an exhibition. Wow!

I thought it would be boring as mud but sheesh, it's exciting to watch, especially when they start racing to the top of a huge log by cutting in those planks.

Scary to watch and nothing but respect from me. Controlled madness and danger with a high skill level

Thanks Mick, recon this fellow might have been amongst them. David Foster has over 100 world championships to his name, (none of them tree climbing I might add) and lives about 500 metres from me just around the corner.

[loose cannon]

Could be. He's certainly the right size!

[Alan]

Nice timing Greg. Love the intense look in #1

B&W suits. (is that Poster Edges Filter you've added? There is a sort of 'grittiness' to the shots - but I'm in two minds about it)

Cheers

[seaslug]

Nice timing Greg. Love the intense look in #1

B&W suits. (is that Poster Edges Filter you've added? There is a sort of 'grittiness' to the shots - but I'm in two minds about it)

Cheers

Yes Alan and thanks, I did use poster edges on this shot and if you see it as 'grittiness' then that's exactly what I was trying to portray. This event was for over 60s and the majority of them were 70+. Pretty amazing really as many of them were former world champions and to see them cutting within a few seconds of their younger counterparts was pretty inspiring.

I sometimes run poster edges at it's minimum settings over an image prior to resizing just to see the effect. Then run it backwards and forward to compare. Often it helps with contrast without affecting the overall look and sometimes it detracts, in which case it's best left out.

Whatever, it's all a learning process and it helps you develop an individual style. It think it would be sad if we all did things the same way.

[P Plates]

A different way to keep fit - although not sure the last guy would fit in the accepted BMI range. However, one of BILs would be classed as well overweight but used to cycle 10 k daily - then come home and demolish a packet of biscuits which is why his weight never went down. He was however, aerobically very fit. #1 would be my favourite of these.

[loose cannon]

The show in Darwin was kinda billed as a "young vs old" event.

The young guys were good, really good. So good in fact that they nearly beat the old guys.

[wacko-ocker]

good use of shut speed and as mention I do like your choice of PP

[Phoenix]

Love the sense of movement in these images.
BW helps declutter what I imagine was a colourful crowd.
Love the facial expressions.
Making mental note not to ever upset David Foster.