Fagan Park revisited

My Nikon D80 has been behaving strangely over the past few weeks, I am hoping a new battery will fix the problem. The screen sometimes shows coloured lines or just a black screen but a battery recharge usually clears the problem. Last night it was the black screen and yet I could scroll back to photos taken a few days ago and they were visible. These types of problems are very frustrating, do you spend hundreds of dollars if it needs a repair or just buy a new camera.

After recharging the battery this morning I did a 4 km. walk through Fagan Park and took a variety of photos, all seem to be OK.

More Fagan Park photos here

p.s The D80 died, I removed the back and there was a water mark in the bottom of the circuit boards, These cameras are not waterproof and neither is the replacement I bought which is the Nikon D5200, I have bought a waterproof camera bag and now travel with a plastic bag in my backpack in case I get caught in the rain. The last two photos here were taken with the D5200.

Porsche Picnic

Summer in Sydney is getting very unpredictable.

After weeks of grey skies and showers our planned car club picnic was not looking promising but this morning the skies were clear. The forecast was for storms, rain with possible hail. They almost got it right but the weather held until around 1.00pm.

  

We had a good selection of cars, old and new with the 928's making up a large part of the group. There was also a very nice Audi R8 Spyder, one of only a few in Australia.

Our luck lasted until just after lunch.

Fagan Park Galston

A beautiful if underused facility, one of the many good things to come out of the Bicentennial projects. Located about 35 kms. north of Sydney. Click here for map.