pimpy said:
Agora, what camera do you have? If I could get my $300 camera to do that I wouldn't bother with a big fancy one.
i have a pentax optio E70L. the pics are not bad but the batteries run out really quickly. i have a charger and rechargable batteries that i use but that's an issue too, because it takes hours for those batteries to charge. the upside is that it's very portable and fits easily into my handbag. the fancy ones witht the big lenses are painful to carry around.
@j*oono wrote:Agora, I love that little wooden duck. It's very cute.
it is cute.
the one i used in my pic was a vintage repro i sold some time ago.
below is a pic of the vintage originals.
do you know the story behind those teak ducks?
in copenhagen 1959, having seen a duck family crossing the road, a policeman to stopped the traffic to let them pass. it was this event which was captured in a famous photo that made international headlines that hans bolling was inspired to create the "duck family".
the city later used the event to promote tourism.
There's a road sign in Tamworth that says Caution Ducks Crossing, hmm Or maybe it's just a caution sign with pictures of ducks.
The wood onlays are beautiful. I have no idea where my squirrel one was made, it looks very similar to AM3's italian one. The photo doesn't do it justice.
@agoraagogo wrote:hargrlynet and flannie*annie*...
i was gonna do the axe/chopped wood thingy but i see you've beat me to it. 🙂
still post them agoraagogo ...no two wood thingys are the same 
What is blackwood? is it black wattle?
My dad hand carved fishing lures out of cedar. I wish I could take a photo of them but them but they are in Walgett.
oooo lightbulb moment. My sister has some and I'm visiting her this weekend.
EDIT: and the reason why I went from black wood to fishing lures is my Dad carved something out of black wattle and said it was the hardest wood he'd ever come across, which then made me think of other stuff he had made. He wasn't a craftsman, just did it for fun when he got old
@Anonymous wrote:
@agoraagogo wrote:hargrlynet and flannie*annie*...
i was gonna do the axe/chopped wood thingy but i see you've beat me to it. 🙂
still post them agoraagogo ...no two wood thingys are the same
yeah, true. however it would involve a trip to my parents' house and i don't want to upset their space, so on further consideration, i'm gonna let this one go.
