I Won First Prize . . .

No it wasn't Monopoly and it wasn't in a beauty contest! And unlike passing 'Go', I only received $100.

For the past three years I have put pictures into the Kapunda Regional Gallery's Photography Exhibition and Competition. This year there was a theme, "Things I love, Things I Fear." I put in two pictures titled, "The Knowing Dark" and "The Obscuring Fog". I won the prize with "The Knowing Dark".

The pictures were both the same size (unlike below, these are other versions)and professionally printed on quality art paper using archival quality inks.

(Clicking on the pictures takes you to my Flickr Photosharing page where you can see these pictures at a larger size.)

2008 Tin Cat Exhibition Opens April 27

I will be having another exhibition at the tin Cat Cafe in Kent Town. It opens at 3pm on Sunday, April 27.

It will feature 23 new works including several works in series including a new series of Kate's Window. I hope to see you there.

Here I am resting between creations. It's a timed self portrait. (Clicking on the picture will take you to my Flickr photosharing page where you can see the pictures at a larger size.)

Middleton

We stayed in Middleton for the weekend of the triathlon. We had a house we shared with Kenneth, Graham, Terry and Kay. All except David and Kenneth participated on the day. While down there I had a great chance to take photos. I had great success with my new telephoto adapter lens . . .

And David cooked us all a couple of marvellous multiple course meals!

Clicking on the pictures will take you to my Flickr Photosharing page where you can see the picture at a larger size.

Victor Harbor Triathlon

I participated in an Olympic distance triathlon on Sunday (March 9). It consisted of a 1.5km swim, a 40km bike ride and a 10km run. Conditions were pretty horrid. At 9.30am it wasn't yet hot enough to forcibly cancel the event but a couple of hours later it certainly was. The swim was in a canal estate lake that was quite warm (almost too warm - no wet suits allowed). My swim was okay. Then we headed off on the bike ride which was directly into a 20kmph northerly - hot blasting wind. 20kmph into the wind and double that coming back but it was HARD. The run was eased (once my legs allowed me to do move in a runnerly like fashion) by a huge number of water stops and spectators hosing runners down as they went past. A pretty extreme event. I did it in a much slower time than last year. Some training might be a good thing . . .

David took the photos. clicking on the pictures takes you to my Flickr Photosharing page, where you can see these pictures larger.


Waiting to start. Talking to Bridget O'Neil Murphy. She missed her start by a minute or so because of the chat. She still won her age group!


Heading towards transition from the swim.


Off on the ride. 20km into the hot northerly blast furnace and 20km being assisted.


Hosed down on the run.


Finishing. I did it in 3 hours 12 or something. About 25 minutes slower than last year! Oh well, there's always next year.