The Vista RV has its new protective skin on the front and sides. Images courtesy of the House of Tint and Paint Protection Film.
Video of the EPEL film being applied to the van:
Vista RV Crossover XPEL PPF film
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Feliz Navidad
Blessings of the Christ child this Christmas
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Santa getting ready for Christmas
Weedscan App work
The Doc is working as a volunteer project for the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions. They need 100’s of thousands of images quality assessed.
Once the images are culled the remaining images will be used to train an AI used to identify weeds in version 2 of the Weedscan App. The Doc’s first lot of over 90,000 images has been done and the second installment of over 70,000 images is being processed. Several staff and volunteers are working on around 900,000 images in total.
All that culling of motorsport and wildlife images over many years has come in handy. The work is easy enough, than even the car accident injuries have not stopped it. A nice change. Plus making mistakes will not have a material impact on the AI.
Feast day of St Francis of Assisi today
St Francis is the Patron Saint of Ecologists, so it is appropriate The Doc posts this today, as wildlife is strong theme on this Blog. Happy feast day St Francis and we pray you help conserve our precious wildlife in Australia.
Viva Cristo Rey.
Piccaninny Plains revisited
AWC Supporter events are about to start at Piccaninny Plains on Cape York. The Doc visited back in 2014, and did a flyover in 2015 on Day 4 of the Cape York helicopter trip. It is a fantastic place and very different to others parts of Australia he has visited.
The Doc needed a break from the ongoing rehab and reprocessed some of his old images, using his new post processing techniques. They turned out great.
Most of the images were taken on the helicopter. Enjoy. Click on the first image to see a full size slideshow.
Lack of blog posts
The Doc has some complications arising from his injuries, making posts difficult. Getting better is the priority. It may be a few weeks before the next post.
Corroboree Billabong – the Sony A9III in the field
The Doc took the Sony A9III out into the field for its first use. A few test photos on the ground at Bullo River Station, but the first proper test was the helicopter trip around the property. Report coming, with images, in due course.
With any new camera there is learning curve concerning how to best set it up and use it. A few mistakes were made and a few images lost, but no disaster. The Doc was worried at setting the frames per second (fps) too low in the helicopter, but the culling of images showed that not to be the case.
The camera can go up to 120 fps in High Plus speed mode. 120 fps was not used on the helicopter, but it was on the Corroboree Billabong cruise, when The Doc had limited time to get images, including the old saltwater crocodile. The camera was amazing and this feature will come in useful for action shots. You must use it sparingly and cull images cull images, hard.
Having visited Corroboree Billabong before with Wetland Cruises, The Doc knew it would be a good day trip out of Darwin. Corroboree Billabong has the highest concentration of crocs in the world. It has both fresh water and salt water crocodiles. Corroboree Billabong is located on the Mary River floodplain.
The landscape images were being taken by the Sony P&S, not the A9III, as the A9III was fitted with a 135mm lens.
The harsh light in the middle of the day meant no brilliant images from the billabong.
The roadtrains and billabong images first, followed by the crocs close ups.
Now the croc images. The croc was getting close to 5 metres in length, so very dangerous to the stupid and unwary.
Bullo River Gorge – lots of bull
The Doc is back in Darwin, sorting and culling images from the trip. He will spend a week here exploring, after a rest day.
If Bullo River Station sounds familiar it was made famous by Sarah Henderson’s book From Strength to Strength.
A superb all round experience. Amazing accommodation, great facilities, great food and support from both AWC Guides and Bullo River staff. The trip included bird watching, a morning river cruise, a guided helicopter trip, road trips around the Station and a last minute change in our arrival because of rain washing out the airstrip. We landed in Kununurra and were driven into Bullo River Station, down the Bullo River Access Road.
One place The Doc visited, on a helicopter trip around Bullo River Station, was Bullo River Gorge. More precisely, the part of the gorge known as Bull River Sands.
Earlier that morning, we had flown around the Bullo River and along the Victoria River to visit an AWC science team in the field, then we flew onto to Bullo River Gorge for breakfast.
The Bullo River starts and finishes on Bullo River Station, hence the Station’s name.
AWC runs the best supporter events, made even better when the Bull River Tourism team was involved.
A taste of what is coming. Enjoy.
We were delivered in the bush taxi, a Robinson R44 helicopter landing in the gorge.
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