Gradient Tree

Gradient Tree

A shot of a tree in Melbourne University. The lawn in front of the Raymond Priesley, and near to the Wilson Hall.

Stream Of Trees

Stream Of Trees

There used to be a water stream running through it. But it was replaced with lots of wood chips and some trees. I believe it must be from the pressure of water restriction and a little more maintanance to remove all the dead leaves that drop on it especially in autumn.

Flowers From Seeds

Flowers From Seeds

I can't particularly remember the name of the flower.

Pokey Little Things

Pokey Little Things

Plateau

Plateau

This is a macro of the previous shroom. The cracking patterns reminded me of the geography lesson about continents drifting apart but used to be one whole large island called the pangea.



Fossil evidence for Pangaea includes the presence of similar and identical species on continents that are now great distances apart. For example, fossils of the therapsid Lystrosaurus have been found in Gandu, South Africa, India and Australia, alongside members of the Glossopteris flora, whose distribution would have ranged from the polar circle to the equator if the continents would have been in their present position; similarly, the freshwater reptile Mesosaurus has only been found in localized regions of the coasts of Brazil and West-Africa.^[5]

Additional evidence for Pangaea is found in the geology of adjacent continents, including matching geological trends between the eastern coast of South America and the western coast of Africa.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Mario Shrooms

Mario Shrooms

This mushroom looks a little like Mario Bros's super mushroom. The one with a fat stalk and red head.

Stick On A Shroom

Stick On A Shroom

A closeup of the same previous mushroom but from a different angle and showing the dark black ground at the back.

Peeling Gills

Peeling Gills

A macro shot of the gills from a bottom angle. The blotches of lights that passes thorough the between the leaves of the tree on top gives some very exiting blur and colour to the image.



Mushroom Gills are the technical term for the thin flaps that resemble fish-gills under the cap of a mushroom. They aren't there to help the mushroom breathe: rather, they are there to produce the spore (seeds, if you will) for the mushroom.

Not all mushrooms have gills under the cap: some have pores instead.

The area on a mushroom where the spores are produced, whether it is gills or pores or otherwise, is called generically the "Hymenophore".

(courtesy of practicallyedible.com)

Junior Waking

Junior Waking

This mushroom seemed to have pushed the decaying material aside and popped out of the ground.

Depressed Shrooms

Depressed Shrooms

Many large shrooms sprout out of the ground when there is a long enough rain in melbourne. These few mushrooms are from the Melbourne University, opposite the mechanical building. I specially took my camera to the university the next day to take these shrooms.

Roof A Shroom

Roof A Shroom

Also taken at the South Lawn. This one a little bigger than the previous mushroom.

Beheaded

Beheaded

As we head over to the South Lawn to get more of mushroom photos. This photo was quite challenging in the sense that the mushroom itself is small and so low and the soil was also quite damp. So I had to do a rough focus and composition and peering through the viewfinder a few centimeters away.

Pores

Pores

The same mushroom as the previous one. This one from a slighly lower angle to essentiate a little more gills.



Some mushrooms are generically called "gill fungi." Beneath their caps are hundreds of flat, vertical partitions radiating like spokes of a wheel from the center of the cap (top and right). On either side of each gill lie microscopic sporangia that produce the even-tinier spores. In other mushrooms, the cap's underside resembles a fine sponge (below). These are "pore fungi," in which spores emanate from sporangia within tiny holes under the cap. The size of these holes varies from species to species, as may the color and overall texture.

In all types of mushrooms, spores may be either light and dry, or somewhat sticky. As dry spores ripen, gravity pulls them from the sporangia and they fall directly to the forest floor or are carried away from the parent mushroom by wind or water. Sticky spores tend to get moved to another locale when they adhere to insects. Since mature mushrooms often smell rotten, they can attract beetles and flies that lay their eggs in the cap. The resulting grubs or maggots may transport the spores, as may the more mobile adults they eventually become.

(courtesy of hiltonpond.org)

Jablay

Jablay

The Protective Glass

The Protective Glass

I'm sure those people dining in the Crown posh restaurant were glad that the glass were quite thick. A texture was applied to the image.

Nothing Here

Nothing Here

Jason Ferris with his two dark eyes as he set his gaze on me.

Spaghetti Girl

Spaghetti Girl

Any one hungry? This one is sure to gross anyone who is planning to have cornflakes or spaghetti. I was lucky that I captured her as she swings her head and had the spaghetti flying to one side.

Stethoscope Master

Stethoscope Master

Who says that doctor is not scary? This is surely frightening.

Used To Be A Vegan

Used To Be A Vegan

A very good sign. So unfortunate that you are not a vegan anymore.

Any Brains?

Any Brains?

Do you have one? Well, then can you spare him one?

Full of Props

Full of Props

Linda Cowan with her toilet pump, hair curl and a stucked knife on her head.

Ah Frozen

Ah Frozen

Frozen cold as he seemed. Andrew Watson.

Sublime

Sublime

Our sublime zombie surgeon, Andrew Watson, trying to terrorise with a strong expression.

Macd Trainee

Macd Trainee

Nikki Wilson in her Macdonald trainee shirt. Shot partially backlight again. Wonder what's on the new Macd's menu? Quarter pounder brains burger!

I'm loving it...

Texassassin

Texassassin

As someone had mentioned in my facebook photo album that this man can join the audition of the next Texas Massacre.

Get In Touch

Get In Touch

Shot backlighted. Her white hat actually helped to give a softer sife light to her face. But of course, there are at the very edge of almost blown off.

Bloody

Bloody

Our bloody friend, Nick May.

Camera Surgeon

Camera Surgeon

Our two surgeon zombie liking to take pictures too. Hey! That is the shockproof, waterproof, dustproof Olympus, I'm sure it will stand the bite of those teeth too.

Eat A Brain

Eat A Brain

Brigitte Brown, dressing up as a bride and eating a brain full of vitamin.

Stop Me Not

Stop Me Not

A zombified mr construction worker

From My Old Dead

From My Old Dead

I believe the sign wrote "From My Cold Dead" though. I was actually waiting for the old lady to walk past so that I can continue to take some more photos of the zombies. However, her slow walking pace and hillarious expression make a very interesting shot.

Don't Look At The Mirror

Don't Look At The Mirror

A great word of advice to Daniel Belfrage-Young. Zombies do get terrified of themselves too you know.

Crack A Skin

Crack A Skin

Richard Leigh Watts with his skin face cracking as he shuffles through the city.

High Class Zombs

High Class Zombs

Our high class braces zombs showing her trained teeth proudly.

In the mid-18th century the French physician Pierre Fauchard (credited as the father of modern dentistry) witnessed and treated several dental deformities very common among citizens in Paris during the pre-revolutionary France. Historians believe that two different men deserve the title of being called "the Father of Orthodontics." One man was Norman W. Kingsley, a dentist, writer, artist, and sculptor, who wrote his "Treatise on Oral Deformities" in 1880. Kingsley's writings influenced dental science greatly. Also deserving credit is dentist J. N. Farrar, who wrote two volumes entitled "A treatise on the Irregularities of the teeth and their corrections". Farrar was very good at designing brace appliances, and he was the first to suggest the use of mild force at timed intervals to move teeth.

The American dentist Edward Angle is also widely regarded as a father of modern orthodontics. Practising in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his eponymous classification of dental arch relationships is used worldwide. His textbook, "Treatment of Malocclusion of the Teeth" was first published in 1887. It went into seven much revised editions and laid the foundation of the modern specialty. After tenure as professor of orthodontics in two medical schools, he went on to found his School of Orthodontia in 1910. He designed several fixed orthodontic appliance systems including the ribbon arch and then the edgewise appliance. This has evolved into the sophisticated pre-adjusted and self-ligating systems used by the great majority of orthodontists today.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Holey Depression

Holey Depression

Holey pokey hole face Chris Rode waiting for the red man to turns green.

Institute of Zombs

Institute of Zombs

Wonder what it would look like if the trams had "Institute of Zombs" instead of "University of Melbourne" as their destination. Michelle Louder-Stine dressing as our modem schoolgirl.

Long Live Zombs

Long Live Zombs

Mitchell Hannaford, procuring the day that Zombie shall live for another day at the stand near South Gate.

Poop Devastator

Poop Devastator

Skye Gellmann, dressing in ever so creative sense, chilling through the cold Melbourne.

Suck A Blood

Suck A Blood

Bob the man got his blood sucked this time round.

The Leader From Supre

The Leader From Supre

One of the organiser of the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle 2008, Clementine Bastow carrying a Supre bag. The mass of Zombies makes a powerful image.

A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the dead being raised as workers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.

There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. One possible origin is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost".^[1] Another is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person."^[1] According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the etymology is from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, of Bantu origin.^[2] A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will.^[3] It is akin to the Kimbundu nzúmbe ghost. These words are approximately from 1871.^[2]

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Bob The Man

Bob The Man

Mr bob holding Ms tiny barbie down at the southbank.

Bob the Killer Goldfish

Bob the Killer Goldfish is a fictional villain in the Earthworm Jim video games and animated series. He is featured as a boss in all three of the console games. Bob, being just a goldfish, rides around in a small glass bowl and gets his feline minions, particularly Number Four, to do all the work for him. In the cartoon series, his home planet is La Planeta De Agua (Arriba!) and he wants Earthworm Jim's supersuit so that he can have legs, as well as 'a nice, big, juicy, worm soup to eat'.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Some Help Please

Some Help Please

Slit throat? Well, no matter what she must be in some terrible state. Any one willing to give some help to her?

The Lot

The Lot

The lot of Zombs going down the tiny stairs at the southgate. That lady zomb was quite prominent. The image has been edited to stamp out a flash on a tripod and seems that I did a pretty good job. Well, if you can spot it, then its otherwise then.

We Want Brains

We Want Brains

What do we want?
Brains....
When do we want?
Brains....

That's the chant that went on and on during the zombie shuffle.

Like most other internal organs, the brain can serve as nourishment. For example, in the Southern United States canned pork brain in gravy can be purchased for consumption as food. This form of brain is often fried with scrambled eggs to produce the famous "Eggs n' Brains".^[11] The brain of animals also features in French cuisine such as in the dish tête de veau, or head of calf. Although it sometimes consists only of the outer meat of the skull and jaw, the full meal includes the brain, tongue, and glands. Similar delicacies from around the world include Mexican tacos de sesos made with cattle brain as well as squirrel brain in the US South.^[12] The Anyang tribe of Cameroon practiced a tradition in which a new tribal chief would consume the brain of a hunted gorilla while another senior member of the tribe would eat the heart.^[13] Indonesian cuisine specialty in Minangkabau cuisine also served beef brain in a gravy coconut milk named gulai otak (beef brain curry). Roasted or fried goat brain is eaten in south India and some parts of north India. Norwegian cuisine includes smalahove where a singed lamb's head, including the brain, tongue and eye, serves two people.

Consuming the brain and other nerve tissue of animals is not without risks. The first problem is that the makeup of the brain is 60% fat due to large quantities of myelin (which itself is 70% fat) insulating the axons of neurons.^[14] As an example, a 140 g can of "pork brains in milk gravy", a single serving, contains 3500 milligrams of cholesterol, 1170% of our recommended daily intake.^[15]

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Redder

Redder

Unique haircut, striking colour.

Modern Panda

Modern Panda

His dark makeup around the shadow may well turn him into a zombie panda.

Bourke Lurker

Bourke Lurker

The next series of photos will be from the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle. An annual event organised by a group of facebookers. The number of turnouts was hundreds showing a different creativity of the definition zombie.

Tree In Moonset

Tree In Moonset

Due to the post processing of this shot, the dark blue sky on the higher part give me an impression of the dark high atmosphere that contradicts with the bright light on the tree.

The Bouquet

The Bouquet

Taken with a prime (fixed) lens at f/2.2 produces some nice bokeh to the image. I love the mood that the colour produces.

Creepy

Creepy

A giant insect crawling on the ground. I had to kneel down to get close to this fellow. There was not enough light when the insect was in the shade so when it wander into the sunny side, I then tried to get as many good picture as I can with a higher speed shutter.