Just back from a Central Australia trip, anyone interested in a few pics?

Let me know if you want a few uploaded?

 

Sure

I would love to see your back yard

 

yes, let's see 'em!

 

where did you go.. not much in central Aussie.. besides annual river boat race.. when they cut bottom out of boats and run carrying boats down dry river bed... I went and it was canceled that year due to water in river man was I confused! it's basically a reason to get together to drink not that I met many Aussie that needed a good reason

 

Only seen the southwest coast. Let's see 'em!

 

Here is just a couple off my phone, there will be much better ones later once we get them off the wife's camera.
We were repairing one of our pivots at Ti Tree which is the dead set centre of Australia. From us it is 2600 km of bitumen and 25 km of dirt.
You can see that it isn't that desolate fauna wise and as soon as you apply a bit of water the the grasses grow like crazy.

 

Thanks for the pics grasses like water and the camels like the grass

 

Dem's some funny lookin horses. Cool pics!

 

hey Chickenman about a few hundred k from ayers rock or uluru?

 

Way cool pix

 

Hit a snag with the camera pics; the file sizes are too big to upload. Dont know how to get around that. Bugger.

250 km North of Alice Springs. We drive past the Ayers Rock turnoff which is 200km South of Alice.

Went there 21 years ago on the honeymoon (anniversary yesterday) dont think it would have changed much.

 

load the files onto your computer, then open the pix in a photo handler and reduce the size of the pictures to about 700 x 900 pixels and resave.

They are large pictures as they come from the camera (2400x ????? pixels likely)

Probably 2 MB in size or more.

 

I use some freeware called "The Gimp" to reduce image size. It's a PhotoShop equivalent and did I mention it's free?

 

Us Mac users have it easy. Just connect camera to USB port & turn it on, "Photos" app on computer automatically opens. Upload pic to Photos, and then download to desktop. I use the "medium" size selection......just right for most any forum download. Total thing takes about a minute.

 

Wow it looks like this gimp thingy may actually work
Here is a test pic to see what happens.
I will try and do some more tomorrow if I can remember how I did this........

 

GIMP IS GOOD

I run a distro of LINUX (ZORIN OS9) on my computer in place of the WIN STUFF and GIMP is the included graphics editor.

About the same as Photo shop, just open source is all.
Great pix

 

GIMP PROCEDURE

OPEN GIMP

CLICK OPEN THEN SELECT PICCY
If the piccy was shot on a phone it may display sideways and a box will open asking if you want to turn it.

GO ACROSS TO IMAGE IN THE TOP MENU

CLICK IMAGE

GO DOWN THE DROP DOWN TO SCALE

CLICK SCALE
WINDOW OPENS WITH PICCY SIZE
WIDTH WILL BE SHOWN IN LIGHT BUE.
CHANGE WIDTH TO 700 (Seems to be a good size for forums)
HIT ENTER KEY ON KB

SIZE WILL CHANGE TO CORRECT RATIO
CLICK BLUE SCALE BUTTON AT BOTTOM RIGHT OF SCALE BOX

PICCY WILL SHRINK

GO BACK TO MAIN TOP BAR AND CLICK FILE

GO DOWN THE MENU TO OVERWRITE

CLICK OVERWRITE

**** Note****
If you click save, the piccy will be saved as a different file type than jpeg

Always export the finished piccy back to your folder as a .jpg so it will be readable on forums and such.
Clicking on save will save the piccy as an xcf file (Gimp native file type) "Experimental computing facility"

ORIGINAL FILE WILL BE RESIZED and saved as a smaller version of the original.

OR you can click EXPORT and save the piccy as a different name (Original might be Truck1.jpg "full size" and the smaller version could be Truck1s.jpg

The way you do it can suit your own preference.

Just be sure you save the file as a .jpg (best to use low case)

If you forget the .jpg its not gonna know what to do with the thing.

IF YOU GO ACROSS THE TOP BAR TO COLORS, YOU CAN GO DOWN TO BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST AND FIDDLE WITH THEM IF YOU NEED TO ADJUST THEM A BIT.

Gimp is a great software and the best part is it's free

 

Gunna try,
Here is me on the pivot making a futile attempt to get any phone signal.


Aliens at Whycliff, 100km South of Tennant Creek.



Ant hills near farm



Chewin the fat with the cockies at the pivot site.


Typical offroad scene in the NT.

Dammit got to slow down to 130 from unrestricted speed


Road from farm onto highway, left or right no other options
Not often you stay on the same road for 1,000km