Fancy yourself as a photographer? AusPharm regularly publishes photographs submitted by our members and would love to have a look at what you have to offer. Ideally, photos should have a pharmacy aspect to them but this is not mandatory. To submit a photo for consideration please email Mark Dunn.
Sunrise over Great Oyster Bay :: Graham Flett : 21/11/2008 :
This photograph of a sunrise at Great Oyster Bay near Swansea, Tasmania was taken about 6am on 5th October 2008. It was taken using a using a Nikon F80 with Fuji 400 ASA film.
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Smith Rock :: Wanda Amos : 07/11/2008 : This is Smith Rock on the central Oregon Plateau - fantastic (but scary if you are height challenged) walking trails, plus multiple rock climbing walls.
At the top you get 360 degree views of the desert, irrigated farmland,
Crooked river & distant mountains Jefferson, Washington & the Sisters. Click here for full sized image.
Guards at the City Palace Jaipur, India 2006 :: Wendy Baneth : 24/10/2008 :
When the Maharajah of Jaipur travelled to Engand the urns carried Ganges water for him to drink as he deemed the water in England too polluted .
Taken with a x 200 telephoto and a Canon EOS 350D. That way I didn't pay the guard 300 rupee for posing and it's a better photo anyway!!
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Buenos Aires :: Peter Ryan : 17/10/2008 :
When traveling I am always curious to check out local pharmacies. On the recent PSA Offshore Conference I spent time in the old Peruvian Inca capital of Cusco and the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. In the cobbled streets of Cusco, you can buy antibiotics such as Norfloxacin at every corner store, not just the pharmacy! Paracetamol is very expensive, costing the equivalent of about $5AUD per 10 tablets!
In Buenos Aires, many sidewalks resemble a war zone and the curious visitor is likely to have a fall or at least a twisted ankle if you don’t constantly monitor where you are walking. Perhaps that is why this “Orthopedic Pharmacy” is there. Despite the risks, both cities are fabulous places.
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Tiny greenhood orchids :: Kevin de Vries : 26/09/2008 :
These are very much the accidental orchids.
They pop up every year in an area between the house, shed and clothes line. Right next to a stormwater inspection point and through pebbly, screening stones that have been laid there. We propagate them by ignoring them for 11 months and enjoying their flowers in July every year. They tend to last for about 2-3 weeks.
We also have pink and blue caledenias, waxlip orchids, milkmaids, early nancies, leopard orchids, sun orchids (in good years), and scented sundews, climbing sundews, tall sundews and scarlet sundews (in good years). Plus cranberry heath which is out in flower at present too. All rare and all protected of course.
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Visit to Mt Yasur - an active volcano experience :: Michael Scavone : 12/09/2008 :
While in Vanuatu recently to study on-line pharmacies servicing mostly the USA, Canadian and French markets we did a trek to Mt Yasur.
Yasur is one of the world's most active yet (apparently) safest volcanoes. The crater was well over 100 metres wide and we were treated to an amazing, colorful display of glowing and erupting molten lava being ejected hundreds of metres into the air and falling down with a huge thud and continuing to glow until cooled. Some of the molten rocks were larger than a small car.
The explosions, the sound and the generated heat created waves that would at times almost knock you backwards. This volcano activity has been going on for hundreds of years, repeating every few minutes, day and night, and the mountain and island are gradually getting bigger.
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Dead Woman's Pass, Peru :: Meredith Waddell : 29/08/2008 :
Earlier this year, while attending the PSA conference in Buenes Aires and Rio, we trekked up from the valley you see behind us, on the Inca Trail.
Five of us in the photo are pharmacists from Victoria.
I am the one in orange!
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Lion v Meerkat :: Nancy Huynh-Vu : 15/08/2008 :
Last weekend I went on safari (at Werribee Zoo!) and took some pictures I wanted to share.
Yes, the meerkats actually do stand up and act as sentinels, just like this one is doing, perched up high to get a better vantage point. A pride of lions lies just behind the meerkat enclosure (see inset).
The lion area is up on a hill. Apparently, because it's the highest point at Werribee zoo, it helps them feel as if they're in charge of their "subjects"... even though they can't get to them!
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Pill2U :: Davin Field : 01/08/2008 :
David, we saw your Photo Of The Week last week.
We'll see your Medicine Dropper and raise you a PILL2U!
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The Medicine Dropper :: David Haworth : 25/07/2008 :
The Medicine Chest Port Macquarie uses a nice diesel VW Polo for a delivery vehicle.
Cleverly, it is named the Medicine Dropper!
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