Photography Class

These are the pictures I turned in for my first assignment in my photography class.  There were different techniques we were required to use such as controlling depth of field, light painting, freezing and blurring motion, and all that jazz.  We had to submit three sets of two photos to fit the theme "day/night" so this is what I turned in.  You'll have to trust me that they look way cooler at full size/quality.  I wasn't a huge fan of having to deal with themes and stuff but I think it went alright and my teacher seemed pleased.  We'll see I guess..  

I was kickboxing the other day with my friend and I saw a rhinoceros beetle.  It was huge.  And awesome.

Tomorrow I'm leaving for the weekend to go to the rainforest and Wallaman falls.  The thousand foot tall highest waterfall in Australia.  It's gonna be freaking awesome.   

Pics

The link for the rest of the photos from my diving trip is:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ozziejeremy

They are also all on facebook.

Ugh

I screwed up again and put everything in backwards order.  There are a bunch of new posts so just scroll down till you get to whatever you have read before.  A couple posts down will explain about the SCUBA pictures.  

Additional things

Some more

No way!

Octopus!

I wrote a huge long trip report about diving this past weekend.  I did it mostly for myself as a way of logging dives more than anything, but I figured maybe someone would find it interesting.  It goes in to way more detail than necessary and is really long, but I liked writing it and remembering everything about the dives.  Because I spent a ton of time writing it I am not going to post anything about the trip on here, but feel free to check out the trip report at:

http://media.clicktoboat.com/blogs/jeremybender

Loggerhead turtle

So I uploaded all of the pictures from my trip to Picasa Web Albums or whatever it is called.  I was really pleased with how they turned out, I got some really good ones.  However, for some reason when I uploaded them the quality went down the crapper.  So I am pretty pissed off. For now I am going to put a few videos and just a couple of my favorite pictures on here until I can upload the pictures somewhere else, probably facebook I guess.  If you don't have facebook and want to see the pictures just let me know (put it in the comments or something) and I'll send you the link to the crappier versions of them.

Loggerhead Turtle

Barracuda!

GIANT Trevally

Banded sea snake eating a fish! 

EDIT: The pics are on facebook now but I'm still not pleased with the quality that they upload.  Oh well.  I think it is because I did a lot of editing on the computer so maybe that screwed some things up.  I kept about 150 of the pictures I took that turned out pretty good, my favorites are in the next couple posts so you can get the gist of it.  At least the videos are pretty sweet.    

Rugby

Last week I went to a rugby game with a bunch of friends.  The stadium is only about a 30 minute walk or so from campus, but they also run a bus directly from campus to the stadium so we hopped on that (not knowing it would cost us 8 dollars round trip).  Townsville's rugby team is called the Cowboys and they are having a pretty decent season this year; right now they are in 6th place or something like that.  The Cowboys also have the best player in the world, Jonathon Thurston, so that was really exciting.  The team we were playing was in 2nd place at the night so it was a pretty big game.

We got seats in the lawn area for only 10 bucks which was nice because we got to sit on the grass wherever we wanted and move about as we wished, so I actually preferred it to sitting in the actual stands.  The lawn seating areas are also directly behind the end zones (probably not what they are actually called) so we got to be really close to the action as well.  Rugby is probably one of the simplest sports to learn because there are very few rules.  It is really an awesome game and a really good spectator sport because the action is non-stop and it is very violent.  There was a 20 minute stoppage at one point in the game because a player got knocked out and had to be carted off on a stretcher.  

The game itself was pretty close, the Cowboys dominated the first half but ended up sucking the second half so the Bulldogs came back to win.  Our group got lucky in that most of the tries were scored on our end of the field so we got to see all the action.  

It was too quick for me.

I got back from the weekend dive trip out to Wheeler Reef/Yongala last night, it was an amazing trip.  I finished up editing all my photos just now, so I'll have those up by tonight.  Pretty cool stuff.  

For good measure this is a picture of me failing a backflip attempt off of the rope swing.