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Look out behind you!

Originally uploaded by RXAphotos

As is often the case, David and I went to the Zoo. He goes more often than I as he is a member of FOTZ (plus I think he has a bizarre MeerKat fetish) , but I go whenever I can.

After arriving we immediately hit the snack van to bolster our sugar reserves and load up with beverages before we trundled around the Zoo.

For the first time in I don’t know how long, I was not leading the shot count. Right from the get-go I was being more selective in what I shot. I have no idea why this was the case, but it was. David reached one hundred shots before I reached twenty. As a comparison, recently at Healesville I shot 7 Gb (800 photos).

This theme carried on for most of the day and I limited myself to using a single 1 Gb card (I shoot RAW – and no, that does not mean I was naked) for the entire day including self portrait.

Although not our best day at the zoo we both returned with images we are proud of. Nothing ‘gob-smackingly’ brilliant, but some worthy pictures to put my name to.

The featured image made it into Flickr’s ‘Explore‘ (top 500 photos for the day) section yesterday. It was one of my favourites, showing a bond and trust between keeper and giraffe.

In the evening I ventured to Camberwell to finish setting up a blog for a reader of mine. She mentioned on Sunday via online chat that she was thinking of starting one and by the time we had finished chatting I had the nucleus of a blog set up (including domain name registration).

If you get a chance, check out her blog here and give her an audience to write for. A great start has been made thus far and I can’t wait for her to let rip with a few rants as I know teachers can (having lived with one for eleven years). Those in the know can subscribe via RSS for automatic updates.

Welcome to the blogosphere Trina and thanks for the home made pizza.

I don’t believe I have done this yet so it is about time I did!

Some of my readers don’t know me, so I am always interested to hear how they found my blog amongst the millions available to them via the almighty tubes. I took a look at my stats this morning and discovered that some readers land here via search terms … I’m nearly 100% certain that they were NOT looking for my blog when they entered their search. A spattering of search terms that have lead people to my blog this last week include:

“royal mail”
“herbie flowers photos”
“rxa bags”
“wegtables”
“some day i’ll fly away song title”
“how many fps will take good photos of horses”
“funny quotes about dental assisting”
“what the duck rss”
“simpleviewer”
“depression definitions”
“song titles with ‘work’ in”
“half size business cards cheap”
“st kilda pier night photos”
“test sigma lens”
“disposable razors life”
“cannot get my bamboo tablet to work”

Personally I don’t care how you get here, just keep on coming.