Lounge but Australian

[static ruin]

Also no luck with the camera, so off to repair tomorrow it is

[coral crescent]

What happened?

[static ruin]

Evf displays the image upside down

[foggy steppe]

australian viewfinder issue?

[static ruin]

Yep

[foggy steppe]

thats such an insane issue

[coral crescent]

Thats really weird

[static ruin]

Georges couldn't work it out, 2 months out of warranty

[coral crescent]

What cam?

[night hound]

oh what?? That's weird

[night hound]

what a bitch!

[foggy steppe]

theres a few reddit posts on z6 having that

but no solutions

[static ruin]

I get a feeling it's just a software issue, so hopefully they can do a full reset beyond generic options we get

lol yep

[coral crescent]

Ah z6

[sharp steppe]

Kookaburra. Got a few shots already. Seen a few rainbow lorries but in flight.

Not much else yet

[eternal moat]

Wait what they didn't bother to email the rep to ask if they could still go ahead with the repair?

[foggy steppe]

just the weirdest bug

[coral crescent]

Kookaburras are technically king fishers

found this out the other day

[sharp steppe]

Plenty of common stuff

I am aware

[foggy steppe]

oh nice

maybe with the cooler weather theres more

[eternal moat]

They are! And they're super cute!

[coral crescent]

I wasn't, fkin suprised me lmao

[foggy steppe]

im normally there in summer and its barren besides swallows

[static ruin]

Faster for me to take it in to Nikon repair than have them ship it

Looked at where it is on maps, not far off a train station, can just drop it off tomorrow

[coral crescent]

Almost done converting all of these to 300 DPI

then have to go renaming them all for contest

[eternal moat]

Yea, they're in Rhodes

[static ruin]

Yep

[night hound]

Buy me a couple of bags of Ikea meatballs while you're at it.

[static ruin]

Pfft, repair probably going to suck away any money for that

$88 just to get it looked at

[sharp steppe]

Beeeeeeg lightning

[static ruin]

😄

[coral crescent]

Submission time

Fuck the owl is missing a !

[night hound]

What if Raptor and I go to the zoo rght now and take photos of dripping wet animans and birds and submit to the competition?

[coral crescent]

Unless you got a time machine I don't think either of you are U15

[night hound]

I'll pass if I say uWu enough?

Sadge

[coral crescent]

Get Augie to submit

Assuming she has wildlife shots

[night hound]

with her fried teal and blue ducks?

[coral crescent]

yes

[night hound]

No lol. She did it only that one time as a joke.

[coral crescent]

Oh right, what happened with that 5d4?

[night hound]

No reply. Either sold or scam monkey

I aint' chasing.

[coral crescent]

yeah fair enough

Ah, time to submit to the next contest

headson you said?

[night hound]

headon festival

[coral crescent]

[night hound]

Good luck, almost ex son in law!

[static ruin]

Probably scam, but would have been nice to get a cheap 5d4

[night hound]

Even to resell for profit, yeah

[coral crescent]

Frauxgie the submissions are closed

[night hound]

Oh shit!

YOu missed it that's right! Yesterday I think

sheesh.

[coral crescent]

You said they both finished this month

Its fine

I don't like submitting to open division contests anyway

Usually just a waste of time

Oh this was made for me

[night hound]

Meh. Need good old cash prizes, damn it.

[woeful belfry]

my dad could enter that one

he can enter one of his bloody jpg files which he loves so much

[coral crescent]

[night hound]

If I throw someone off a balcony and take a photo, will that count?

[coral crescent]

@gentle wind

You heard her

Anything for the photo

[gentle wind]

Ehh

I throw her off

I want that money

[night hound]

You don't want mama's katsu anymore?

uwu?

[coral crescent]

Some rando is gonna get crushed by a flying asian with uwu syndrome

eh gg

[gentle wind]

You’ll live

[coral crescent]

For now

[gentle wind]

back to genshitting bye bye

[coral crescent]

OH wait

look at this

On set for mona

[gentle wind]

Oh nice that’s good for on set

what piece is it? goblet?

[coral crescent]

Time piece

[night hound]

She's genshitting lying down on the couch sideways and the ipad sideways and using the nintendo switch controllers

[gentle wind]

hey whatever works i’m tired

i don’t wanna hold up an ipad controllers r much nicer

[woeful belfry]

premier world problems

[coral crescent]

Just play PC

[gentle wind]

@night hound

[night hound]

Dont make me tell stories of the olden days when I used to have to SWIM to school during monsoon season

[gentle wind]

convince her to buy me a PC lol

i don’t play any other games other than genshin anyways

so ipad works it’s not that bad

[night hound]

You better marry my gaddamn daugher so I can smack you on the head legally and then get you two divorced immediately. PC my ass....

[coral crescent]

She was tryna buy a 5d4 today that's all I'm saying

[woeful belfry]

well at least you got to go to school ...

[coral crescent]

[gentle wind]

Yeah but she just wants to resell it lol

[coral crescent]

For the PC?

[night hound]

PC. Mehhhhh.

[coral crescent]

What do you edit on anyway frauxgie?

[night hound]

That's like the pepsi of softdrinks.

[gentle wind]

Yet you can keep 3 nintendo switches???

[night hound]

Macbook pro 16"

[coral crescent]

L

personally

[gentle wind]

That we don’t even use I just use the controllers to play genshin????

[coral crescent]

Samsung fridge

[static ruin]

While you're there, can you buy me one pc component?

[woeful belfry]

Can it also run Doom?

[static ruin]

God that message took a while to send, phone reception went to shit

[night hound]

Ayyyyyy. I'm an apple shitster. No pc

[night hound]

You need a daughter to marry her off to

[static ruin]

Last apple product I brought was a 120gb iPod when I was at school

So basically an olive lifespan ago

[coral crescent]

[night hound]

Ahh the ipods. Now they make good hair clips.

[gentle wind]

she tried to make me model them

no thanks

[woeful belfry]

classic ipod best ipod.

it was all downhill after that

[coral crescent]

Got any other contest I should submit to?

[sharp steppe]

Ok so the rain and darkness have won. Gonna head to Westfield instead

[coral crescent]

Street neon photog?

[static ruin]

It was great, I used it as a portable hard drive also, was a nice storage upgrade from my 512mb MP3 player/usb I had at the time

[gentle wind]

not dark enough yet lol

[coral crescent]

[static ruin]

Sadly the storm has mostly cleared at home

So I'm heading away from it, but some of the cloud to ground strikes around the city were really nice

[coral crescent]

Why can't I live in Sydney dammit

[night hound]

Fujihttps://fujifilm-x.com/global/special/gfx-challenge-program/

[static ruin]

This is unusual for August to be fair

[coral crescent]

You guys know how many good shots I would've gotten?

[gentle wind]

rains pretty much starting here now

[sharp steppe]

0?

[coral crescent]

[static ruin]

Also don't think that squall line is happening, would have been nice, one can hope

[coral crescent]

At least my birds face left #🌳・nature message

[static ruin]

But raptors is facing the right way

Pun intended

[foggy steppe]

genuinely left facing birds look weird to me in photos

[coral crescent]

Goddamn rightists

[feral herald]

Shortists.

[woeful belfry]

is it cos of the palpable ennui they evoke?

Or you're just a bit weird like that?

[foggy steppe]

no idea

just looks better facing right to me

[sharp steppe]

Well if you guys are free I can go for dinner and a drink @night hound @static ruin

[static ruin]

I'm home now, bit far out to go back in

[sharp steppe]

Np

[acoustic lark]

YALL WISH ME LUCK I HAVE HSC DRAMA SHOWCASE TONIGHT

[static ruin]

Good luck

[quaint comet]

YOU GOT THIS ANGIEEEE

[gentle wind]

she’s napping rn lol i’ll let her know when she wakes up (or when i forcibly wake her up)

she’ll probably be down for a drink tho

[sharp steppe]

Lol np.

I'm just trying some lightning shots from the deck

[foggy steppe]

good luck angie

[sharp steppe]

Fuckn A

[late parcel]

Some of my favourites are facing left 😭

[late parcel]

Much luck! My schools doing it tonight too but I couldn’t stay

[foggy steppe]

god damn

right just makes more sense to me lol

[sharp steppe]

Here's a selection of right facing birds then

[foggy steppe]

Much better

[late parcel]

The king fishers just looks so wrong though

I mean lovely photo but it looks wrong

[woeful belfry]

drastic improvment straight away

[sharp steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/skeptical-futurama-fry-hmmm-i-got-my-eyes-on-you-gif-17101711

[woeful belfry]

They're all asking "just how did I get here??!"

Or ... "who said that?!?!"

[coral crescent]

I'm concerned how organised you have your photos

Gotta love the green grading style though

[sharp steppe]

Very poorly

I just kinda know where they are

[coral crescent]

I revamped mine the other day

Have one folder for my best best work

Only like 20~ photos in there

[foggy steppe]

I have them sorted by category but about 30% are in the wrong folder

[coral crescent]

I have another folder of categories

[foggy steppe]

Sometimes I come across nice photos I forgot about somewhere random

[coral crescent]

WIP, Wildlife, Street, Nature

etc

My nature folder hasen't been updated in god knows how long

It's just a bunch of my begginer shots

Stuff like this

[acoustic lark]

ANGIE DID NOT IN FACT HAVE THIS. ANGIE FUCKED UP. BUT NO ONE NOTICED.

[coral crescent]

Good ol 18-55 begginer shooter olive

Been a bird photographer since I started

[sharp steppe]

I just have export dump folders.

[quaint comet]

shhhh if no one noticed it didnt happen and you had it

[coral crescent]

Oh my god

[late parcel]

^^

[coral crescent]

I found my first first teal and orange pic

[late parcel]

I hope you get scored well

[coral crescent]

holy shit

[late parcel]

Lmao

👀

[coral crescent]

Throwback to when I was a newbie

[sharp steppe]

So a few days ago before you got the 5d4?

[coral crescent]

[sharp steppe]

[coral crescent]

Can't lie that was good

Throwback to when I first tried selective colour

The masking job is atrocious

[sharp steppe]

Kill it with fire

[coral crescent]

I'm sparing you from the worst ones

[foggy steppe]

I remember when olive used to show these off

[sharp steppe]

Holy vignette batman

[foggy steppe]

As if they were good

[coral crescent]

Long before time had a name

First ever long exposure

Jfc what even is this

That bee is fkin rainbow

[sharp steppe]

Of the 9 images I posted before, 2 of them are from 2017 when I was just starting out properly

[coral crescent]

These 2?

[sharp steppe]

Rosella yes

Kingfisher was fairly early

[late parcel]

I love rosellas

[sharp steppe]

But not the other super old one (was the waxeye)

[coral crescent]

Fuck was I doing here

[late parcel]

I raised one from a chick a few years back. Released him back into the wild and he still visits every few months

[coral crescent]

[acoustic lark]

Today was just a performance for family, I get marked on Friday

[late parcel]

Ahhh ok

[acoustic lark]

Yeah

[coral crescent]

K wait I found images from my first ever shoot

[late parcel]

Hopefully it’s all good though still

[coral crescent]

JPEG's straight off the card

[acoustic lark]

Yeah- thank you AJ :))

[late parcel]

No problemo

I imagine you’re quite stressed

[coral crescent]

God I was fucking amazing

[foggy steppe]

Leaf

[late parcel]

My prelims are next week and I’m incredibly stressed, yours are even bigger

[coral crescent]

I mean look at this shit

Fkin masterpiece

Actually this ones not hafl bad

[sharp steppe]

Yeah it's all bad

[coral crescent]

I'd still downvote it, but better than the other ones

so uh

it's not completely straight

[sharp steppe]

You are now an honorary Dutch citizen

[coral crescent]

[woeful belfry]

I have these outside our kitchen window

I took a handful of snaps when they first blossomed

was orright

but then the bees came!!!

hallo beeeeez

for the bird lovers out there ... the bee is facing right

not left

[night hound]

I just woke up

[feral herald]

It’s late.

Also

Hi Frauxgie

[errant linden]

hey everyone

[timber spruce]

hell

o

[errant linden]

guess who just got drenched in the rain

[static ruin]

Reqy?

[left ridge]

Love the rain

[timber spruce]

it rained in my city as well

the smell is amazing

[woeful belfry]

Petrichor

If it's been warm beforehand anyway

[night hound]

@sharp steppe So sorry! I just had dinner now after a long nap. Didn't realise I fell asleep. Are you still around tomorrow? Or even coffee catch up in the morning after nine?

[sharp steppe]

Yeah still here tomorrow. Could get a quick lunch around 12?

Would need to be close to Circular quay

[night hound]

Oh that's perfect!

[coral crescent]

Old people things

[night hound]

When I'm dead and you're over 40's falling asleep on the couch, I will haunt you so you never get naps again.

[coral crescent]

[sharp steppe]

[eternal moat]

There's people making modded og ipods with SSD storage

[woeful belfry]

I could go for that ... but then I'd have to goback to deciding what albums/playlists to take with me when I leave the house

[coral crescent]

iPods were before my generation

I've only ever seen them, never used one

[eternal moat]

I still have my ipod Nano hooked up to my car lul

It's old enough that it doesn't support carplay

[coral crescent]

The hell is an ipod nano

I'm young ok

[eternal moat]

Ipod Nanos were basically mini ipods that used flash memory

[coral crescent]

Ohhh

Huh, looks cool

Looks like an iPhone with a super big button

[static ruin]

Yeah idk what happened to the screen on mine, does however still work afaik

Probably is around 15 years old, maybe just under

[coral crescent]

Jfc

1 olive old

[static ruin]

Yes, you're going enough to make for a convenient measurement of time

[coral crescent]

Thats the 2nd time today

[woeful belfry]

you know what's better though ...

https://www.minidisc.wiki/_media/equipment/sony/portable/mz_nh1_stand.jpg

https://tenor.com/view/miss-piggy-phineas-and-ferb-disney-channel-take-two-with-phineas-and-ferb-applause-gif-26531767

[static ruin]

Also had a walkman, though that was towards the end of the walkman era

[late parcel]

Floppy disk!

[woeful belfry]

I've had a walkman, a CD walkman, an MD walkman and an MP3 walkman

been there ... done that

[static ruin]

Also had a CD one yeah

[woeful belfry]

MP3 walkmans are still good IMO

[static ruin]

I'm just old enough to have seen and used the older tech

[woeful belfry]

if you can ignore the fact it's not also a phone

[late parcel]

Goodnight Australians

[sharp steppe]

Sooooo... all that lightning last night nuked Azure's "AU East" datacenter last night. Fun.

[static ruin]

Shocking

[sharp steppe]

Guess were all our servers are lol

It's back up now though, so that nice

[static ruin]

Wouldn't be surprised if there's a few more rumbles later this morning, but it'll be off the coast

[night hound]

What time do you want to do lunch, btw? So I make sure I don't fall asleep :D

[sharp steppe]

12

[night hound]

Also, do you like thai food? Thinking if we should go to Chin Chin in Circular Quay?

Otherwise, will put on thinking cap (more of, bug my friend where else we can go).

[sharp steppe]

was thinking maybe Four Frogs for Crepes

[night hound]

Great :)

[sharp steppe]

gotta have crepes at least once when I'm here lol

[night hound]

You couldn't miss me. You're not going to see a lot of almost platinum Asian blondes around.

[sharp steppe]

you'll miss me pretty easily. White guy in business attire in CBD....

[fleet edge]

And a 200-600

[sharp steppe]

I wont have that on me during lunch tho...

[night hound]

Ah, it's the food court behind Maccas. Haven't been there yet. Easy.

[sharp steppe]

thats the one

[night hound]

I'm short, Asian blonde, black cateye shaped glasses. Easy spotting. May even have the xt5 with me with the green peak design strap.

[sharp steppe]

I'm 6'2, white, dark hair + beard. White shirt, black pants. No camera on me atm 😛

Thats only describing like 1/4 the people in the city. Oh well

[fleet edge]

Should've taken the 200-600 :P

[sharp steppe]

its a bit awkward to bring to lunch seeing as it takes up so much space

[night hound]

On the train now. Look for an idiot Asian wearing too many black clothes for a spring day.

Should be there on time or two minutes late if I get distracted again.

[sharp steppe]

The IT tech I was waiting for has shown up late, so I may be a few mins late as well

[night hound]

No worries! Whenever you get there.

[static ruin]

180-600 is in, I can now join the big lens club

Trying to decide, put camera in today, or just use lens and put up with upside down evf this weekend and put camera in Monday

[sharp steppe]

Will be down momentarily

[night hound]

Burbs and just finished lunch with Raptor.😁

[sharp steppe]

Go to Macca's and try walking around with some fries

You'll get millions of the fuckers

[willow rivet]

Raptor did you hit on frauxgie for me

[sharp steppe]

No

But she hit me for Sal

[willow rivet]

Ok perfect

[night hound]

Resting, sitting too conveniently close to danger.

[static ruin]

I'll be around there shortly 👀

[night hound]

And why is my camera battery always dead when I come here with my cameras 😭

[night hound]

Oy! I’m on a bench almost across from “it”

[static ruin]

Ah nice, yeah on the way to pick up the lens, figure I'll deal with the upside down issue for a few days then put the cam in

[night hound]

I’ll meet you outside then to say hello :)

[static ruin]

You can try a true Aussie camera

[night hound]

And now, @static ruin at the camera shop with his new toy.

[fleet edge]

Big dildo

[late parcel]

George’s??????

Please

[foggy steppe]

Punther gonna go birding with everyone else?

[night hound]

He’s ran off to catch the train home to catch some burbing light 😁

[late parcel]

Which camera shop did you go to?

[night hound]

George’s, of course

[errant linden]

this has to be in pinned messages

[foggy steppe]

Ayy nice another birder in aus

Australia has an absurd number of nature photographers

[errant linden]

fr

[static ruin]

Well train is delayed, so may miss said light depending on how long it sits here lol

[coral crescent]

Oh you got the 180-600?

[static ruin]

Yes

[coral crescent]

Oh nice, when you gonna get the zoo pass?

[eternal moat]

Trip down memory lane

[static ruin]

Probably when I get the camera back from repair, so few weeks perhaps? Hopefully put it in Monday and have it back within a couple of weeks

[coral crescent]

Ah, terrible timing with the camera

[static ruin]

Playing around, I noticed the internal level is flipped 180 degrees ignoring the actual evf issue, so I think it just needs a recalibration

[coral crescent]

Shouldn't be too long then

I got asked to shoot for my school tonight

[eternal moat]

At least you're able to pick it up locally

[coral crescent]

Probably will, have to go to that event anyway

[static ruin]

Camera thinks it's upside down, it flips evf display, back screen doesn't flip with camera hence why it appears fine outside of the level meter

[fleet edge]

Kinky

[eternal moat]

I gotta send my Z8 to be patched up but got so much work

[coral crescent]

Brb gotta finish set

[fleet edge]

Just hit it a few times with a hammer

Maybe put it in the car door and slam it

[static ruin]

That for the recalls I assume?

[eternal moat]

Yup

Such are the foibles of being an early adopter

[late parcel]

Yayyy

The Elliot dude was so good to me

[static ruin]

Yep, though they're pretty good about it so far

[eternal moat]

Honestly I can't fault the camera, it's insaaaaane

[static ruin]

I'm fine if it's not perfect if a company is willing to correct it

[eternal moat]

Nikon has been really good with that tbh very quick to respond and being proactive

I think the change in management is now bearing fruit

[fleet edge]

Just only use straps which connect to the 1/4in tripod screw thing

[static ruin]

Yeah I've still gotta do my taxes, one part of me is like that could go towards a z8... Then the responsible me says no

[eternal moat]

Lol, same I need to scan all my bloody receipts

Gotta claim a bunch of money on my car

[fleet edge]

Silly me is going: mm yes, tax time, mm yes, money to the X2D fund

[static ruin]

lol

[eternal moat]

I'm not looking forward to the tax bill though

GST and income tax rip

[fleet edge]

GST fucking sucks

[coral crescent]

Event tonight is a damn electives open night

Gotta pick subject for y11 next week

Life's going too fast

[fleet edge]

Income tax is annoying but GST aswell is ouch

[eternal moat]

I guess the silver lining is I made substantially more than the GST minimum turnover which is better than scraping just over the line.

[fleet edge]

That's good

[eternal moat]

Yea, better to be well over the bracket than just over as with many things

[fleet edge]

In related news, my capstone business project is to do a super in depth business plan as a group

That's the entire semester

We agreed to do my business and potential spin off businesses

I get free grad consultation for 13 weeks

[eternal moat]

Free labour

[eternal moat]

Congrats! Is this your final unit?

[gentle wind]

How and why is my mum socialising more than I am this is against the rules

[coral crescent]

Imagine not coming to the meet

[fleet edge]

Almost

[gentle wind]

Sorry that I didn’t wanna make y’all sick lol

[fleet edge]

Spreading them out over year

[gentle wind]

I was kinda dying

[coral crescent]

As for electives I'm probably gonna pick visual art, physics and maybe psych

[coral crescent]

Fair enough

[eternal moat]

Tbh this is the way to not go insane with full uni workload

[fleet edge]

I have 3 capstones

[errant linden]

wsg all of my aussie homies

[coral crescent]

But anything for the photo right?

[fleet edge]

So gonna do 1 per sem

[errant linden]

[eternal moat]

I graduate in September! @fleet edge

[errant linden]

nice hs?

I assume hs right

[coral crescent]

Uni I think

[eternal moat]

Lol

[fleet edge]

Congrats!

[errant linden]

idk Ive never seen u b4

[coral crescent]

How old are you del?

[eternal moat]

[errant linden]

mb

[coral crescent]

Never seen that sticker used that way

Ah so highschool

[static ruin]

Just don't get sick then, it's that simple

[errant linden]

oh nvm 💀

[eternal moat]

It's highschool for adults

[fleet edge]

Being at uni after working full time is weird

[gentle wind]

Blame grotty high school kids

[fleet edge]

The gen z's scare me

[eternal moat]

Ikr? You feel way more sage when giving opinions on real world stuff.

[errant linden]

fr bro

half my year doesn't wear deo swear

[eternal moat]

I remember being in law class and there was so much idealism haha

[fleet edge]

And then you realise just how easy alot of classes are.

I took a 1st year IR class as a fun elective this Sem and lmao

[eternal moat]

I think it does depend on the unit too and how invested you are

[eternal moat]

Tbh one of my fav classes was Branding and Marketing classes

It's super interesting haha

Though my super power is I end up looking under 25 @coral crescent and get carded

[fleet edge]

I'm doing entrepreneurship and innovation for my capstone this sem

It's very fun

[coral crescent]

I'm guessing you're Asian as well?

This entire chat is Asians rn

[errant linden]

everyones asian in here swear

[eternal moat]

You wouldn't think I was if you heard me on VC

[coral crescent]

Welcome to Straya

[fleet edge]

The Asian power of young

[coral crescent]

Neither, I just have a kpop cut

[errant linden]

chatswood

[eternal moat]

I met up with someone who's in my gaming group and he thought I was a white dude (I also drive a car that isn't stereotyped as asian) lul

[fleet edge]

People regularly think I'm 17 or 18

[coral crescent]

[fleet edge]

I blend with the first years

[gentle wind]

or burwood, the less rich chatswood lol

[coral crescent]

Bad idea ben, I'll just say that

[coral crescent]

Yeah I can see it

[errant linden]

ffs

[eternal moat]

This really happens when you dress super young too lol

[coral crescent]

I can't remember what Robin was wearing at the meet

All I remember is the chicken run

[errant linden]

welp italian exchange students

[woeful belfry]

People regularly think I'm old and creepy

I don't argue

I look forward to getting older and creepier

[errant linden]

[eternal moat]

Gotta add in that heavy breathing like Matt Granger

[woeful belfry]

heavy mouth breathing

[coral crescent]

Gyms always there

[errant linden]

buongiorno bella ragazza

[errant linden]

Im going 3 days a week fr

got yearly exams coming up so im going a bit less

[woeful belfry]

I might put this on a out of view virtual desktop on someone's work computer to drive them batty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5RvvcaQEIs

[static ruin]

I'm not

[woeful belfry]

I'm so far from being Asian

[static ruin]

I'm the token white guy here

[errant linden]

woahhh

[eternal moat]

Do you wear an Akubra?

[static ruin]

No

[coral crescent]

Ppl?

[woeful belfry]

Do you drive a holden ute!

[static ruin]

I do drive a ford falcon

[woeful belfry]

Do you have one of those hats with corks on strings hanging from it?

[static ruin]

Close enough

[errant linden]

ye

[coral crescent]

Punthers the local white guy whose only job is comedic relief once in a while

[eternal moat]

Man of culture

[woeful belfry]

I drive a Ford G6E ... it's like a Falcon, but for adults

[errant linden]

hes a pun connoisseur

[static ruin]

I've got the xr6, did look at the g6e, but preferred the looks of the xr

[eternal moat]

Man, the lack of spoiler on the back of an FG looks wrong

[static ruin]

Yep

[eternal moat]

I too have an XR6

[woeful belfry]

I ended up with the G6E by pure chance. It was the old company car they were selling cheap and my car had literally come off the road a month or two beforehand

It was cheap(ish)

[eternal moat]

Falcons are sturdy the engine will probably outlast whatever is wrapped around it

[coral crescent]

I can't drive

[eternal moat]

Or the car wrapping itself around a telephone pole lul

[woeful belfry]

I didn't start driving until I was err ... 40

[coral crescent]

I'm not old enough for a liscense

Gotta wait till next year for L's

[static ruin]

It's one of the reasons I've been hesitant to grab a 4wd aside from price, Ive had this falcon since it was almost new, maintenance cost is very low currently

[eternal moat]

Damn, I've been driving right after year 10

[coral crescent]

Im in y10

[eternal moat]

4x4 prices are insane

[coral crescent]

Generation gap holy shit

[eternal moat]

@static ruin have you seen the prices of 2nd hand Hiluxes and Rangers? They're almost the same as new.

[static ruin]

Yep, and nature of buying a used car at the mileage I'm looking at means a non insignificant chance I'd be forming out a lot more on maintenance

Yeah I'd love one, but they're not an option due to price

[eternal moat]

Speaking of Falcon recently got the transmission serviced and hoooly cow it makes a difference.

[eternal moat]

Yea, all those Hiluxes and Rangers are super high milage due to being used by tradies

All sitting on 200-300k km+

Like hell I'm paying 30k for a car with 200-300k kms

[static ruin]

Yep

I've been looking at tritons as a potential option though and they're getting to the price range I'd consider it

Seen some showing up around the $30k mark with under 100k km

And still dropping

[eternal moat]

Apparently Tritons are quite good!

[static ruin]

Yep

They're less popular, but for a 4wd perform basically as well as the more common options

[eternal moat]

Surprisingly as Mitsubishi has been putting out very substandard cars of late

[static ruin]

And my dad wants the Falcon, so would potentially be an easy sell if I do change

So it'll also likely stay in the family

[fleet edge]

We're considering a Outback or Forester

Something a bit more practical than a bigmobile

[night hound]

I have a forester.

Wanna buy my forester? 😁

[errant linden]

https://tenor.com/view/2007-subaru-forester-subaru-forester-subaru-forester-gif-4303889527360024053

[fleet edge]

Lol

[fleet edge]

Hinges on me getting a aps job

[errant linden]

how much

[night hound]

We are going to sell it actually do half joking

[fleet edge]

And we might end up with a new one

[night hound]

$10k for the 2009.

[eternal moat]

Have you looked at that in between one that XY?

[eternal moat]

Tbh, I'd look at the new ones just for the creature comforts and stuff like Carplay

[errant linden]

damn

[fleet edge]

Yeah, want the boot space tho

[errant linden]

so you got one of these beasts

absolute speed demon

[night hound]

Good luck getting new one. It takes months to get one atm

[fleet edge]

2 months apparently

According to the dealership

Not bad

Atleast compared to last year

[night hound]

That’s what they say. Last year pee were told that, but took 8 months

Oop going home now

[fleet edge]

Ah I see

What did you get

[night hound]

A Suzuki ignis 😁

[fleet edge]

Zoopm

[coral crescent]

Hey that's a year after I was born

[fleet edge]

Baby

[feral herald]

Question is, have you grown since then?

[coral crescent]

[feral herald]

Lmao that was lame.

[coral crescent]

[feral herald]

No I meant the joke was lame lol

[coral crescent]

[feral herald]

Short

[coral crescent]

[feral herald]

[errant linden]

poor olive

how tall r u actually

I forgor

[coral crescent]

5"10

[errant linden]

damn u average height t

im 5"9 but if I wear extra thick socks 5"11

[feral herald]

Thick socks? How are your feet not warm?

[errant linden]

I have very breathable toes

[feral herald]

Dude. How can you take 2” of socks?

Do you have like small feet or something?

[errant linden]

Im jus built different

[static ruin]

Definitely taking the camera in tomorrow, evf is pain, lens however... Curious to see how much I hit focus with what feels like inverted controls, but is really nice

[night hound]

Did you happen to capture any of the golden hour light? I regret having another dead battery on the xt5. Sigh.

[static ruin]

I wasn't after golden hour, I just wanted light since the lens isn't exactly fast lol

It didn't take long before I was pushing towards 8k+ iso, f6.3 does that when you need a somewhat fast SS

[foggy steppe]

This is why I like birding in full sunlight

[fleet edge]

Your batteries seem to be dead alot

[night hound]

That's what I get for not checking them before I leave the house.

[gentle wind]

It also applies to her phone and every other thing she owns lol

[night hound]

Pssshhhhh child.

[static ruin]

was at 12.8k iso so wasn already starting to get darker, in the short time using it, already love the lens

[foggy steppe]

sharp

[static ruin]

Feel it's not tak sharp, but it's not an s lens, and I figure I'll actually test that more when I'm not shooting at stupid iso levels

And not aussie mode, tracking a bird with inverted screen is... not fun lol

[foggy steppe]

its definitely sharp enough

youve got the TLR experience

[timber spruce]

@night hound did the punching succeed?

[night hound]

It sure did :)

[timber spruce]

Nice

Thats to people getting punched

[late parcel]

My bro drives an outback and mum drives a forester. Both so nice and safe

[sharp steppe]

I'm back in cold lil kiwi land

Can see my breath just outside the airport

Sharp change from Sydney lol

[late parcel]

Wait

You can’t see your breath in Syd?

I’m just 1.5 hours north and I can

[errant linden]

I sort of can but tbf I just got out of the gym so I was rly hot

[late parcel]

Ah right

I felt so weak today

I usually do sets of 8 push-ups

Today I couldn’t even do one

[static ruin]

It's been somewhat warm here, cooled down a bit last night after the storms, didn't last long

[late parcel]

I’m sad it didn’t storm for me

[errant linden]

dw bro I was doing leg press (Im really skinny I weigh 60kg) and I was pressing like 75kg right and this girl comes up to me and jus does 120 right in front of my face like its nothing 😭

[late parcel]

Nawww

Hey she’s probs proud of you for working towards a goal tho

I think Inc. ok’ing down with something

I struggled on the steps today

My run only lasted 10 mins

County do one push up

Couldn’t play with the dogs

[errant linden]

my mate just went through a breakup and I just found out my friend who I like likes my mate instead

so we both did 10km on the treadmill

[late parcel]

Nooooo

That’s kinda sad:(

[errant linden]

and we were both talking to each other abt our experiences and how we are dealing with it

[late parcel]

Good friend mate

[errant linden]

holy shit I fkin love him to death its been so refereshing getting that stuff off my chest

[late parcel]

Yeah I understand you. I’ve got one friend I talk to about that stuff and I don’t think I could survive without her

[errant linden]

but yeah I asked her and she said she likes him, so I thought I might aswell make her happy because she is my friend, and I asked my mate abt ppl who live close to him and he brought her up

so I got her to talk to him and she invited him to ride to schoolk

[late parcel]

My girlies and I do movie heights which are romance or depressing just to get a good cry and get stuff off our shoulders. It’s the best thing even though I don’t like romance movies

[late parcel]

I admire that

[errant linden]

I'm happy for her I really am but In the back of my head I feel like that could have been us

[late parcel]

Some people only think about themselves in relationships

[late parcel]

Awww

[errant linden]

You get so emotionally and mentally invested in somebody but then reality hits and they dont feel the same way

[late parcel]

100%

[errant linden]

and you just have to accept that

[late parcel]

I just gave up on relationships

For now atleast

I feel like at this stage I’m too young to commit to something long term. Especially because I’ll probably move away for uni and gosh there’s so much in my future to think about

Uni, jobs, locations

[errant linden]

how old are you?

[late parcel]

17

[errant linden]

tell me about it, I have yearly exams in like a week, procrastinating getting my drivers license, Im still skinny and I need to find a job again

[errant linden]

same

[late parcel]

Me toooo

I start exams on Thursday

And my parents are pressuring me to get early acceptance with these exams and start uni next year

[errant linden]

apart from english and math

I have legal studies, business studies, economics and multimedia tests

[errant linden]

I have one guy in my year who has parents like that, I get they have his best intentions at heart, but he seriously is socially stunted

like his social skills (not that mine are good) are just not there

like hes a smart guy but I just feel like his parents should let him live a litte you know what I mean

[late parcel]

Sounds like he must be my brother

I’ve got business, chem, adv math, English, bio and sor

[errant linden]

I cannot do science to save my life

[late parcel]

Neither…

Not maths

[errant linden]

dropping economics

Oh shit

my english teacher is honestly super irresponsible

Im supposed to be doing a 2hr exam on a play right

I havent read a single page of it 💀

[late parcel]

Oh my goodness

Good luck

[errant linden]

imma need more than luck tbh

some divine intervention

[late parcel]

Me too

[errant linden]

the mate I was talking too this is his prelude

I love it so much its such a box

no airbags no horn, 4 wheel steering, burning oil 🤝

[coral crescent]

Oh cool she was doing my reps

[errant linden]

okkkk buddy

[coral crescent]

[errant linden]

ur def not 5"10

no fkin chance

[coral crescent]

I am lmao

[errant linden]

how tf u an armrest bruh

swear someone said u were 5"4 or smth

[coral crescent]

My max leg press is like 230?

[coral crescent]

Nah, I'm 5"10

Thing is everyone who calls me an arm rest is tall af

Reqys 6"4 and Jan's like 6"2

[errant linden]

Im more of an endurance athlete 🤓

[coral crescent]

Charlie doesn't call me an armrest but he's 6"7

[errant linden]

WHAT

[coral crescent]

Meh, we're all leg rests to him

[coral crescent]

Good thing both of you started going gym

[errant linden]

he was driving me back home and he started talking abt his girl and he was speeding up

had to start praying I do not trust his brakes 😭

[coral crescent]

lmao

Still, I'll warn you again don't try to stay close to the photog chick

It will not go well (experience talking)

[errant linden]

I still want to be friends with her

ok tbf Im friends with her little brother

I really dont want to break it off too suddenly

but If we do start drifitng apart Im not gonna try and salvage it

[coral crescent]

I'm not saying you should just randomly stop talking to them

[errant linden]

imma just let life happen see where it takes me

[coral crescent]

Just don't put an effort to talk to them

That's all

[errant linden]

hmmm

[coral crescent]

It happens

If they don't talk to you first don't talk to them, my golden rule for stuff like this

[errant linden]

have I told u abt that Italian exchange student

[coral crescent]

Yes

[errant linden]

well shes leaving in like 4 months lmao

[coral crescent]

4 times

[errant linden]

I got time to chat her up

we good

I got thisw

[coral crescent]

Easy

Just don't be too sad when she leaves

[errant linden]

ciao bella wanna get some pizza hut?

boom

that easy

[coral crescent]

Zivi would kill you if she read that sentence

[errant linden]

BRO she has my weakness

[coral crescent]

The Italian chick?

[errant linden]

ye

[coral crescent]

Ahh

Fair play

[errant linden]

if I see one of these on a girl Im wifeing her right there

[coral crescent]

Don't let it turn out like batman

[errant linden]

oh no 💀

[coral crescent]

[errant linden]

I conveniently have visited the states, south america, asia and Im in aus rn but havent visited europe yet

😏

[coral crescent]

cha cha real smooth

[errant linden]

"I've heard Italy is great, got great food, beautiful weather, beautiful women"

tell her my dads side is from ecuadorrr

roll those rrss

[coral crescent]

Just good to know you're hitting gym

Place is heaven

[errant linden]

I will give u lot updates

[coral crescent]

Take progress pics

[errant linden]

but If I don't message here in more than 7 days

[coral crescent]

I have regrets not doing that

[errant linden]

you know what happened.....

[coral crescent]

[errant linden]

ye I have taken a couple

[coral crescent]

Hold onto them

It's fun for yourself to see

[errant linden]

I MOVED TO ITALY WITH DA GYAL WE HITTIN IT OFF

wakes up from dream

[coral crescent]

I don't have any dedicated progress pics sadly

Just a bunch of old pics from before I started hitting the gym

[errant linden]

I have a coupe pics but one of them....

lets just say it will stay in the vault

[coral crescent]

Yep

That's how it is with progress pics

You don't show them until your physique is smth you're happy with

I don't like showing mine cause I was one ugly mf

[errant linden]

omg the combover

[coral crescent]

I used to have like a

K wait hold on

@errant linden

[errant linden]

😭

[foggy steppe]

this chat gets so horny every time its you two

[coral crescent]

How is this horny

Just gym shit

[errant linden]

idk what your on about

unless your wearing a pearl necklace or u have black curly hair u should be good

[foggy steppe]

lmfao i clicked on the chat and this msg popped up first

[errant linden]

its facts tho

[foggy steppe]

doesnt make it less horny tho

[errant linden]

im not horny I promis

[coral crescent]

Game is game

[errant linden]

amen

[coral crescent]

[errant linden]

Im gonna take a shower I will be back

If anyone has anymore horny questions please feel free to ask

[late parcel]

Ah what have I missed

Imma hit the hay. Not feeling too good and my school day starts at 8 tomorrow 🥲

Take care y’all

[errant linden]

alrighty

should have gone to sleep ages ago

but gotta wake up at 6:30 tmrw for double english laters

[late parcel]

Lmao I ended up not sleeping until 1:30 is 😅

[late parcel]

So pretty

[static ruin]

Birding and storms all in one day, living the dream

[sharp steppe]

and then lanscapes the next morning

gotta make the most of it

[coral crescent]

Did you use 2 gradient masks in the back to change the warmth on each side

[sharp steppe]

Yes, trying the Simon method

Also removed a tonne of background branches lol

[late parcel]

It’s really cool

[coral crescent]

Subtract the branch and turn down the exposure of the bottom of the branch just a notch

Cold tones on the right don't look good imo

[sharp steppe]

Yeah I'll probably tinker with it some more later

[coral crescent]

Opera house one looks good

Clouds also make it

[sharp steppe]

I gen filled it to square for IG

[errant linden]

dw I went to sleep like 30 mins after that

[sharp steppe]

Did a decent job actually

[errant linden]

ofc I have the most energy on 5 hrs of sleep

[timber spruce]

ooo

[errant linden]

damnnn

[errant linden]

your good you should start doing photography

[sharp steppe]

[late parcel]

Yeah for some reason I feel amazing despite feeling shit and half dead yesterday

[errant linden]

I should expand my horizions

Ive been doing car photography cuz I liked cars but I reckon It would be good if I did some more street photography like I used to

[static ruin]

Yes, expand your photography genres.. start astrophotography!

[sharp steppe]

Inb4 only moon photos

[errant linden]

hmmm

[static ruin]

Oh, perhaps I didn't think this through

[quaint comet]

mornin squirts

[timber spruce]

Morning birb

[quaint comet]

one more day until weekend pray 4 my brain

[late parcel]

Will do

[fleet edge]

We're sleeping in till 10 or 11 tomorrow

[quaint comet]

aye

[night hound]

Morning. Meh.

[quaint comet]

mood

[errant linden]

morning

[woeful belfry]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-26248309

[night hound]

Are you alright there, mate? Did you eat too much candy?

[woeful belfry]

"candy"?" "CANDY!?!?!"

[night hound]

Morning ran off. Cloudiness but windy afternoon now.

[night hound]

Or were you listening to too much 80’s pop music?

[woeful belfry]

https://tenor.com/view/good-afternoon-blue-sparkles-butterflies-gif-24516710

[woeful belfry]

I do have an 80s pop playlist

[night hound]

Shhhhh. Don’t come out of the closet yet.

[night hound]

I knew it. That’s not Cindy pauper pop.

[woeful belfry]

it gets better

80s hits galore

[acoustic lark]

“A Flock of seagulls” is all I saw

[woeful belfry]

and their smash hit about tensions in the middle east

and IRAN

[night hound]

Where’s Modern English’s I Melt With You?

[woeful belfry]

Not on that list. And there sure as fuck isn't any motherfucking Morrissey or the Smiths

Cure .. yes

actually .. I have a separate Cure playlist

[night hound]

If i could back in time, I would come back as a Cure fanatic instead of Depeche Mode this time.

[woeful belfry]

2 tone and Kraftwerk ... well how about that .. you are cool !!

I've booked myself into to see Kraftwerk live in December

[night hound]

Oooh, hope that would be a good one. I tried to read Florian's autobiography - fuck I couldn't last 5 pages.

[woeful belfry]

is that cos you don't understand German?

[night hound]

I actually took some German in high school :D. Forgot most of it.

I just thought I was reading someone wanking.

Look, I love two tone so much I even have a separate playlist for the first wave.

[woeful belfry]

being godfathers of electronic music they'd have some ego I'm sure.

they always were a bit "well fuck you anyway. We're doing us"

[woeful belfry]

ahhh jolly nice!!

[night hound]

I also have over 6 hours of this.

[woeful belfry]

There's ska further down that reggae list, but I'm big time into Studio One

[night hound]

Fuckign awesome.

[night hound]

We old.

But I'm loving this.

[woeful belfry]

i listened to way more guitar related music then ... so much more electronica now

we can annoy the youts with our dank tunes

[night hound]

My car music.

[woeful belfry]

you clearly like to sing in the car

[night hound]

Neah, I bop myhead instead ;)

[woeful belfry]

I pulled up at home a couple of days ago with an old jungle mix playing kinda loud. I step out of the car and there's a dude standing out the front door of the house across the road with a cup of tea in his hand. He looked at me and said "Drum n bass!" ... I didn't have the heart to correct him. It was ackowledment enough though

[night hound]

Oh that's sweet

[woeful belfry]

Neighbours bonding.

I separate my dub from my reggae a bit

[night hound]

Now I wanna drive in my car and listen to that playlist.

[woeful belfry]

I tend to listen to podcasts on long drives

[night hound]

This reminded me of the last time I rode 'the wave' in the moshpit was seeing Fishead at the House of Blues in LA. God. I feel old. This was years and years ago.

[woeful belfry]

Well I wasn't gonna guess that was last year 😅

[night hound]

Those were the days when you would be in moshpits and then you would lose 2 kilos that night.

Now I die climbing up the stairs.

[woeful belfry]

Or you'd come home from a night club and your clothes would smell like cigarette smoke and sweat

kids these days will never know that joy

[night hound]

Ah, and my blown out ears from standing on the massive speakers cause you just have to be there right by the stage being mangled in the moshpit. The amount of times I elbowed or 'accidentally' balled men cause they would just totally touch my boobs and ass.

Good times.

[lost perch]

[woeful belfry]

I just gawp at 'em ... like a gentleman should

[coral crescent]

[errant linden]

[willow rivet]

[night hound]

LOLL

[lost perch]

scroll down a few in lounge

[night hound]

Of course there's a subject with Ced being a whore. Of fucking course.

[static ruin]

Well good news today, apparently Nikon may repair the camera under warranty even with it expired

[night hound]

That's fantastic!

Cause that issue is super warranty manufacturing issue.

[static ruin]

Yeah they still need to assess it and determine if it can fall under warranty, but atleast there's promise.. didn't need to spend that $80 to get it looked at

[night hound]

I would totallly be writing to Nikon and say, dudes, this is a super manufacturing fail.

Regardless.

Cause that would be a big nope for me.

[static ruin]

I was going to try to push Australian consumer laws if they didn't, but there wasn't any pushback on me asking

Had my Karen pants on had the need arised

Anyway, back to only having a 700d for a little while

[coral crescent]

Wait youre not Aussie

[static ruin]

Reqy just wishes he was an Aussie

[errant linden]

[coral crescent]

Doesn't everyone

[willow rivet]

Fuck no everything trying to kill yall

[static ruin]

Well you're also trying to kill me, so you'd fit right in with everything else

[willow rivet]

ALLEGEDLY

[static ruin]

The attempt is on discord for all to see

A shocking attempt, but an attempt nonetheless

[errant linden]

not even only if you live in the middle of nowwhere like alice springs or smth

lucky none of us live there

[willow rivet]

is this roasting olive? I don't speak australian but it seems like it is

[static ruin]

Maybe

[errant linden]

no

[coral crescent]

[night hound]

Holy shit. YOu know that 5Dmark iV and the 24-70 lens? It may not be a scam.

I can pick up tomorrow and it's near me.

For $800

We shall see.

[sharp steppe]

Deal of the century if it works out

Or its the hottest stolen gear in existence

[errant linden]

BOTH for $800 only?

[night hound]

Right? Wtf. I've been given an address even. I dont' think it's stolen. They have other items listed, etc.

We will see. shit.

33k shutter count.

[static ruin]

Fingers crossed

Basically a freebie if legit

[foggy steppe]

What the fuck

[errant linden]

lets hope they dont steal frauxgie and sell her instead

[gentle wind]

i’ll make sure they don’t lol

[errant linden]

[coral crescent]

Wtf

Fkin steal

[coral crescent]

Complete freebie lmao, you can sell the 5d4 for double the listed price

Not even counting the lens

[gentle wind]

I might keep it for myself tbh then we’ll sell the 5dII

idk we haven’t decided yet lol

see how it is first and if it’s actually a scam

but i doubt it

[timber spruce]

sounds too good to be tru

but if that damn real

like holy shit

take me to australia right now

[fleet edge]

@night hound we're tentatively seeing about going to HK in Feb or March

[quaint comet]

come with us, bring the kidlet @night hound

[night hound]

Just got home. Still not sure. I still think it's too good to be true but we will see.

[night hound]

Shit. I wish! I think I may end up going to vietnam over easter with some friends, but I don't know. I'm kinda homesick and wanna see my family in Vegas.

[timber spruce]

get that and sell me the lens uwu

[night hound]

Let' see if it doesn' end upt being a scam first.

[timber spruce]

inshallah it won't be a scam