A friend of mine was in Melbourne recently and wandered into the public access areas at the Port of Melbourne and grabbed a few pictures of the docked ships being loaded. While there, security from one of the terminals came up and stated:
I can imagine that’s bit of a surprise to someone who’s fairly innocently standing alongside a public access road and taking photos.
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Some of the photos of the kids from June in a slideshow.
Recently I did a spot of night time photography including some time lapses with my 50D, on examining the photos a few days later I noticed a nasty little red spot on one of the images. Closer inspection found me three of the little blighters, so it looks like I’ve got myself some hot pixels on the sensor.
Above is a 100 percent crop of a 4 second exposure with no lens, this is the most prominent hot pixel, click on the picture for the full size image. If you look at the file at 100 percent, (ala a pixel peeper – LOL) you will see them. It’s pretty much Top Middle, Middle Left, Bottom Left.
I’ve tried the various methods around the place that suggest the sensor can be remapped by the camera, all to no avail. Seeing it’s only 8 months old, today I dropped it off for a warranty claim and it’s gone to Sydney.
Wish me luck, took me 6 weeks to get the last camera back that I sent to Canon for repairs.
Some pics of the kids during May 2009, put together using Animoto.
As is obvious to everyone living here in Adelaide, South Australia, we are the middle of a fairly decent heatwave.
I’m going to use this post to add links to stories and news items as they happen, aiming to update this post every few hours.
* Tuesday 27th January 2009
Adelaide suffers biggest scorcher in 5 years
Power restored to 10,000 homes
* Wednesday 28th January 2009
Power restored to most of SA
Enough power for SA heatwave: ETSA
Hotter heatwave than 2008 expected
Adelaide suffers through hottest day in 70 years
More power cuts in SA
Power outages hit Woodville Gardens, Banksia Park
* Thursday 29th January 2009
Power cut to 16 areas of SA
Adelaide swelters through hottest night
Buckled rail lines fixed
Employers urged to go easy in the heat
Trams only running in peak-hour
Thousands in SA without power
Adelaide likely to break heatwave record
Power, transport networks hit by heatwave
Adelaide temperature hits 43 degrees
* Friday 30th January 2009
Heatwave states brace for more power, transport outages
Fire threat adds to heatwave chaos
Buses replace trams in SA heatwave
No relief from heatwave chaos
Blackouts are inevitable: ETSA
Load-shedding begins in SA
Groaning electricity network ‘exposes need to invest’
Nemmco – Unplanned Electricity Interruption in South Australia
170,000 affected by power outage Thankfully home was ok this afternoon, we had our turn yesterday… 
SA aren’t alone, the VICs are suffering too, 350,000 without power tonight 
Nemmco – Unplanned Electricity Interruption in Victoria
Massive power blackout hits Victoria
* Saturday 31st January 2009
NEMMCO confident it can meet Adelaide power
demand
SA Premier calls for NEMMCO heatwave inquiry