Broadbeach Blues
This weekend we visited the Blues on Broadbeach Festival. Last time we were here was for the Jazz Festival. This is the Melbourne Ska Orchestra who put on a high energy rollercoaster performance....
View ArticlePelican Squadron
These are Australian Pelicans in South Australia. There must be plenty of fish in the ocean when birds like this get big enough to block your walk along the beach.
View ArticleOld Mine
Earlier this year we were exploring the gold towns of New South Wales. This “Old Mine” was part of a museum in the back of the tourist information centre in Cobar. Photoshop and Fractalius were used to...
View ArticleLightning Ridge
Lightning Ridge is a mining town in New South Wales. It has the planets richest deposit of black opal. This corrugated iron building was used in the film The Goddess of 1967, which is about a Japanese...
View ArticlePurple Bridge
This is the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the Vivid Sydney Festival. Every winter the city lights up when the nights are long. We are enjoying watching the goalfest which is Brazil 2014, even though it...
View ArticleUmbrella Rainbow
These colourful umbrellas were inside a building in Melbourne, Australia. My camera struggled to guess the white balance as there was very little neutral grey to calibrate with. One of the benefits of...
View ArticleRolf Harris
This is the closest I have come to Rolf Harris and given today’s UK verdict it is probably not a bad thing. This piece of Street Art is in Sydney, Australia near the Harbour Bridge or it was when this...
View Article4th July
Happy 4th July to any Americans out there. I have not photographed America so I dug out these fireworks which were taken last year at the Brisbane Festival in Queensland. To its credit, Australia...
View ArticlePurple Skyline
This evening skyline was taken in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. To process this image I wanted to bring out the orange lights and purple sky. I started by using HSL in Camera RAW to boost...
View ArticleSolar Controller
I have been building a Steam Punk Solar Controller for our van since we moved to our house in Queensland two months ago. It is built from three blue elm wood chopping boards held together with antique...
View ArticleVision Gallery
This is The Dillon James Band playing at The Vision Gallery in Brisbane yesterday. They play smooth bluesy reggae which is worth checking out. As well as live music this gallery also had a bar which is...
View ArticleMurray Princess
This is the Murray Princess in South Australia. It is the largest paddlewheeler in Australia. Unlike similar ships on the river with imitation paddles, The Princess is authentic paddle power.
View ArticleCrocodile Chews
This is crocodile feeding time at the David Fleay Wildlife Park on the Gold Coast. The animal park is local to us, but fortunately crocodiles in the wild do not come this far south in Queensland,...
View ArticleWadi Rum
This red desert landscape is Wadi Rum in Jordan. It was taken 7 years ago with my old Olympus E-330. Developed with Camera RAW, no Photoshop. Karen is in Sydney this week to see Don Giovanni at the...
View ArticleSuper Moon
This weekend I photographed the supermoon from Australia with a Canon 5D Mark II and a 300mm lens The last time I shot the moon was in the UK with my old Olympus E-510 and a 300mm equivalent lens. In...
View ArticleFort Denison
This wood ship is approaching Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. The island was originally home to a 15 metre sandstone rock. It was later quarried by prisoners to build...
View ArticleLocal Outback
Living on the Gold Coast in Australia makes this our local wilderness. This is the Springbrook National Park. It lies on the edge of an ancient volcanic ridge which marks some of the border between...
View ArticleBluetongued Lizard
This is a Blue-tongued Lizard. It ambled through our garden yesterday and took up temporary residence in the shed. Australia has an abundance of reptiles and Queensland is particularly full of wildlife.
View ArticleSingle Balloon
This photograph was taken before sunrise in Luxor, Egypt using my old Olympus E-330. To process this image I used Photoshop masks to independently adjust the exposure of the sky and balloon. Today I...
View ArticleCasino Monorail
On Friday night I visited the Jupiter casino next to the Nerang river on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. This monorail connects the casino, hotel and shopping centre. Another light rail...
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