Videos from around the region.

Over the past couple of months I have undertaken some work-related trips into the Snowy Mountains and decided to take some "on the road" video-clips.

I mounted my little Canon SD cam-corder on a special camera mount that sucks itself onto the windscreen, sitting just above the dashboard next to the A-pillar on the driver's side. It's quite unobtrusive, probably less so than a GPS unit stuck in the middle of the 'screen.

My journeys take me from Canberra to Cooma, Jindabyne, Guthega and return and also, on the other side, from Canberra out through Murrumbateman, down the Hume to Gundagai, to Tumut, Blowering, Talbingo, Cabramurra, Khancoban, Tumbarumba, Batlow and back to Canberra via Tumut and Gundagai once again.

So I've collected these recordings of trips since last December, editing them into smaller clips.

You can find them on YouTube by searching for hcrun (or Snowy Hydro) and, as a sample, here's a very quick clip from the trip I did on the 15th. & 16th. December.............



My photogenic grand-daughter

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I thought I'd kick off 2011 with a couple of shots of my grand-daughter, Matilda, who is blessed with not only a beautiful  face but also a four-year olds irrepressible energy.
But there were moments, on Christmas Day and again on Boxing Day, when she became almost adult in her demeanour and posture, as the following images will show:-

After finishing her Christmas pudding, Matilda contemplates what she will have next.
Will it be more pudding, or perhaps an after-dinner mint?  Hmmmmm.

The following shot was taken as she reclined on our lounge on Boxing Day, playing a game on her mothers iPhone.

Ahhhh, the wonders of childhood. Oh, to be four again!