On the 10th of February 2011 Toowoomba experienced an event that a lot of people would consider impossible in a city on the top of a mountain. The City’s two creeks were inundated with so much water that it sent flash flooding through the city and out to surrounding towns. Here are some images I was able to capture of the event. These aren’t all the images, to see the rest click here to view the full flickr gallery.
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Toowoomba Flash Flooding 10/01/2011
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
First Published Photo
Sunday, February 13th, 2011Recently I had one of my photos published in a story for the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. This was my first published photo so I am pretty stoked about that.
My picture in the SMH Newspaper
An online verion of the article can be viewed by clicking here.
Dust Storm Hits South Eastern Australia
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009I woke up thinking that someone was mowing my lawn due to the strong smell of dirt in the air. Then I looked out the window and saw the red sky. Like some alien Martian landscape, the dust had rolled in from the dry lands out west fuelled by strong winds to blanket much of South Eastern Australia in a red haze.
Click the image to view a larger version.
Gumpert Breaks Record For Production Car Around Nürburgring
Thursday, August 20th, 2009It appears there is a new king of the ‘ring’ in the production car stakes, and the car that now holds that record is the Gumpert Apollo Sport.
Gumpert Apollo Sport
The brainchild of crazy German Roland Gumpert, it clocked in at a phenomenal time of 7:11:57 (bear in mind the track is 20.81km long).
I don’t think you could call the Gumpert a pretty car, but it is certainly a little insane and well worthy of the title hyper car. Here’s the video of the record breaking run:
Link to GUMPERT Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH: http://www.gumpert.de/eng/index_html.html
‘Utegate’ Saga Continues
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Reading my headline you may be thinking “Ooh he’s going to discuss that OzCar scandal thing.” You would be dead wrong. In fact the saga I refer to is the bastardisation of the English language by some poor excuse for a tabloid journalist that for some reason continues to grab headlines. I can only imagine they had this thought process:
- This is a possible scandal.
- Watergate was a huge political scandal in the United States.
- Maybe I can add ‘gate’ to the end of ‘Ute’ to make this sound more significant than it really is. Maybe people will pay attention to my hyperbolic journalism now and ignore the fact I don’t really have any legitimate sources. This is the best idea I have ever had. Hand me my Pulitzer now.
Pretty sure I have nailed that one right on the head there. Not only was ‘Utegate’ not a scandal, but it turned out to be completely fake. Now, for some reason, overzealous Labor party supporters want the head of the opposition kicked out of his position for the rabble when really it was piss poor journalism that blew it all out of proportion. In my opinion you would do the country a greater service by slapping the journo who penned the term ‘Utegate’ over the back of the head and making them sit in the corner with a dunce’s cap for everyone to see.
Large Hadron Collider To Come Back Online in November
Friday, August 7th, 2009Pencil November down as the month in which the Earth collapses (I joke, I joke).
CERN, the organisation that runs the LHC, released a statement saying that they plan to restart the world’s largest particle accelerator. They will initially run the LHC at a lower energy threshold than previously (3.5 TeV), but it will allow them to learn how it behaves and allow them to safely increase it’s power.
Even if they don’t discover the elusive Higgs-Boson particle, a lot of science will come out of this machine that will let us better understand the universe in which we live. At the very least let’s get some black holes happening.
Section of the underground 27km long LHC
