April has been an interesting month so far with the completion of a few things. But first things first:
Storms.
I had not been able to capture any lightning since February 20 2013 and I was getting fairly impatient with finding the next load of lightning to capture.
On the 17th I got some very distant shots that only illuminated the clouds from my point of view. Perth Weather Live got some good shots from admins and viewers but I was too far north to get anything. I went for a walk along manning road and managed to obtain some panoramas when I got to Canning Bridge. The storms were very powerful producers of lightning (by Perth standards anyway...) and I got the lit clouds. The storms were off the coast of Mandurah and then just died around 9 pm. I was expecting it to fire up again but they never did. Welcome to Perth. The storms are lacklustre in the metro but really good in the wheatbelt.
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| The only photo worth sharing from my walk. |
With regards to (Non-Storm) photography, things have been okay too. I have gotten some nice (for me anyway) shots this month:
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| Lesmurdie Falls Rocks |
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| Large Pano of the falls. |
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| Another pano showing the lack of water. |
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| Taken outside the art gallery of Curtin University. |
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| Australia II at the WA Maritime Museum. |
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| Another View. |
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| The Megamouth Shark that is temporarily housed at the Maritime Museum. |
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| A Pano of Fremantle. |
As far as education and job hunting goes I am really hopeful that I can obtain some form of full time employment in the industry I have trained for. After 3 years of working to get qualified I only ended up with a Certificate III in IT and a CompTIA A+. Far less then I was aiming for. I attempted a MCITP exam but failed after only obtaining 570 points out of 700.
I have recently completed two (Unpaid) internships as well.
First one was at a computer store in the northern part of the city. It was highly stressful and I was run off my feet for the entire day. Add two hours onto each leg of transport meant that I had a 13 hour day for 4 weeks. I could barely cope with the demand but still managed to complete the internship.I then crashed for a week. Retail is not my strong point it seems.
I then did an internship at a data-center in the southern part of the city. This was awesome! I absolutely loved it there. There was the perk of being able to sit down and read up on processes. I learned to load and unload tapes into drives for different clients on time and also how to reset the chilling plants and operate the giant Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS) that allowed the power to the data-center to be seamlessly transferred from mains to generator power. My training institute promised that there would be a job for me there, but alas, as fate has it, it turned out to be an empty one. Which was a shame, as I would have loved to stay there. I really enjoyed working with that team.
I am continuing the job hunt, so hopefully by June I will be employed.
