Fun Stuff: December 2020 Archives

This was one David got at an op shop (I think).  It was very green!  It's Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Pattaya, Thailand.

I can't remember where this came from, might have been from David, or maybe the Green Shed.

It was quite annoying to do though, as the piece cut was so similar you could put pieces in the place and they'd fit on all four sides, but then the next line wouldn't add up.  Had to redo some of the grass a few times.  The sky wasn't as bad because of the gradient.

There's a bunch of pieces in the wrong places here, can you spot them?

This one was in a break out area at work for the longest time, so in September I brought it over to our area to do.  It took ages, because it's 1000 pieces, which is too many to spread out, so I have to hunt for pieces in the box, and I wasn't in the office all that much.  Most of this I did by pulling out a piece, finding it on the box, and putting it where it should go.

This one @phonakins sent me in early December, but to my maiden name and no indication of who it was from.  It was a mystery!  Although I had an inclination of who it might be, and turned out I was right!  I decided to get it done before Christmas, in case the mother type person would be offended by it.. ;)  

It was titled "That's Insulting", for its content, as you can clearly see ;)

It sure was challenging!  Just look at all those black and white pieces!

I pulled out the pieces for a few of the biggest printed words, but very quickly laid out all the pieces in their correct orientations and piece shape.

Sadly, what was in fact most insulting was the quality.  They'd misaligned the vertical cut, so there were a tonne of broken pieces.  

If I'd actually paid for this myself I would have complained to Aunty Cate for the poor quality.

This piece of lichen was growing on a guard rail along the road crossing Talbingo Dam.  I needed to cull photos for the blog entry and thought this could go, but it's still cool.  It was pretty big for lichen - maybe 6-7cm across?

I get a lot of my news from @Cmdr_Hadfield.  The other week he alerted me to the "planet kiss" coming up.  I dug out my old copy of Starry Night and went and had a look.  Last Thursday was going to be the most interesting, because the moon would be in frame too.  Monday night they would have been closest, but it was raining here that night.  I popped outside briefly last night to have a look, but didn't bother with any photos because my little 135mm (200 equiv) lens would still just show them as a single dot.  Unless you have a great telescope the planet kiss wouldn't have been very interesting.  But having the moon next to them was pretty cool.  My best shot by far was on David's 400mm lens (even greater because of my sensor scale).  

(that's Jupiter at the bottom, Saturn slightly up to the right).

This is just the moon, from that same shot..

And this is the same shot again, at actual pixels..

Fun times :)