It is an algal bloom, drying out in a remote part of a coastal wetland on Flinders Island off Tasmania.
Flinders Island textures – revisited
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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.
DXO Photolab 9 images
The Doc has been trialing DXO Photolab 9. The results have been excellent and the program is easy to use (very much like Capture One). The Doc may need to change programs after Capture One went to a monthly/yearly subscription model. The Doc refuses to use subscription models.
Plus, it looks like Affinity Photo may also shift to a subscription model shortly. So The Doc needs to prepare for that as well.
Here are some test photos done in DXO Photolab 9. Click on any image to see the full size.
Viva Cristo Rey.
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.
A few birds
Just reprocessing a few images. Viva Cristo Rey.
Mount Zero Taravale
In 2019 The Doc went on an AWC Supporter’s Event to Mt Zero Taravale out of Townville. Supporters arrived in that fancy red helicopter, flown out of Townville Airport, known as Garbutt Airfield in WW2.
He had previously driven up the entrance of the Sanctuary.
The Doc forgot to write up a report, so he only has some pictures. Better late than never. One day he may find the notes from the visit.
The Doc does remember meeting and speaking to AWC legend Peter Stanton at the event and later sending him some AWC slides The Doc had scanned of Peter at MZT, in the very early days of AWC ownership.
Viva Cristo Rey.
The first visit was to the entrance of the MZT, in a car. The road up was a bit narrow driving the Nissan Patrol and it was a long way down. That road was narrow and had blind corners everywhere.
The road down was not as bad when The Doc left the Supporter’s Event and someone else was driving!
The Bungle Bungles revisited from the air
Next The Doc jumped into a helicopter and had a short flight over the Bungles. You take off and 30 seconds later you are over the bee hives and from this perspective you begin to understand how the “bee hive” formations were eroded from the surrounding plateau. In fact, the Bungles are still slowly being formed today. Viva Cristo Rey.
The Bungle Bungles from the ground
The Doc is reprocessing images from the Bungle Bungles in Purnululu (Per-na-lew-lew) National Park in Western Australia, the original images were posted here. First up it is the reprocessed ground images, with the aerial images to follow.
Images are from Gorge Road, Spring Creek Track and Piccaninnny Creek. Viva Cristo Rey.
Sunrise and sunset images below.
One night at camp The Doc thought he was being watched, he turned on the torch to see a Tawny Frogmouth 2.5 metres away. They are silent on the wing and The Doc never heard it fly in and land, nor do their prey.
Plus a bonus image from Panikin Lookout, Lake Argyle Road, Lake Argyle (the last image).
Amazing Pilbara images P&S – Part 2
Part 2 of the Point & Shoot images from places like Munjina Lookout Road, Albert Tognolini Lookout, Karajini NP Visitor Centre, Warlu Way, Kalamina Gorge Trail, Hamersley Gorge Road, the Roebourne – Wittenoom Road at Chichester, Deep Reach Picnic Area on the Barrimirndi Trail, Panorama Lookout at Roebourne, Python Pool Trail at Millstream, Miliyanha Campground at Kanjenjie, Snappy Gum Drive and the Tom Price-Karratha Road. Lots of panoramas this time around.
How does The Doc know these names years later? All his images have GPS co-ordinates put into them, plus he adds keywords. However another source is using those GPS co-ordinates to Reverse GeoCode the images, this process puts location data into the photo. The Doc just copied some of that information from the images into the blog post.
Viva Cristo Rey.
Amazing Pilbara images P&S – Part 1
The Doc also carries around a Point & Shoot camera and these images are from that camera. They are what The Doc calls “explorer images”, but they also have some memorising panorama images.
From places like Juna Downs, Great Northern Highway, Karijini Drive, Joffre Lookout, Kalamina Gorge Waterfall, Kalamina Gorge Lookout and Banjima Road Karijini.
Viva Cristo Rey. Click on image to see full size slideshow.
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