New Valley
This shot was taken with my old Olympus E-330. It is Qesm Al Wahat Al Khargah in the New Valley Governorate Egypt. At least that is the address Google gave after I spent half the morning searching for...
View ArticleLeft Lion
This is the Left Lion in front of the Council House in Nottingham. Anyone who has lived in this city for more than a few years will have met someone at this historic rendezvous point. I have spent the...
View ArticleNottingham Contemporary
This is the avant-garde jazz band Polar Bear. We saw them play last night, in a subterranean venue called The Space, which is inside the Nottingham Contemporary Art Centre in the lace market area of...
View ArticleReprocessing Petra
This is the Treasury in Petra, Jordan. It was made famous by Indiana Jones when Harrison Ford and Sean Connery “discovered it” while looking for the Holy Grail. It has of course been known to everyone...
View ArticleDew Web
This dew covered spider web was shot on a foggy morning in Cambridge, UK. We are in the final stages of family farewells before we fly to Sydney, Australia in two days time.
View ArticleAirport Gold
I shot these gold bangles in the Dubai International Airport during our stopover between the UK and Australia. We have done this trip a few times now, but it is the first time we have stopped in the...
View ArticleGlen Innes
This is the town of Glen Innes in New South Wales, Australia. It is twinned with Pitlochry in Scotland, UK. I suspect there have been a number of Scottish settlers, since many of the places in the area...
View ArticleThe Bluesfest
This is Grace Potter on the Mojo stage, who along with her band The Nocturnals, put on an awesome performance tonight at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in New South Wales, Australia. The festival is small...
View ArticleAnzac Day
The 25th April is Anzac Day in Australia. Originally to honour the members of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps who fought at Gallipoli. Today it serves as a National day of remembrance similar...
View ArticleOptical Telescope
This is The Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales. It is Australia’s largest optical telescope. It was the first telescope designed specifically to be controlled by a computer. It was also the...
View ArticlePure Dingo
Dingos are the largest terrestrial predator in Australia. This appears to be a pure dingo due to its red brown coat and white paws. However like much of Australia’s wildlife you can never be quite...
View ArticleDave Matthews
This is Dave Matthews playing on the Mojo stage at the 2014 Byron Bay Bluesfest, New South Wales, Australia. 20 years ago I was sent a demo tape of Dave Matthews to review. In the early days I believe...
View ArticlePyramid Wall
This is the great Pyramid on the edge of Cairo in Egypt. I was trying to use the wall to lead the eye and give a sense of scale. It has been a busy week. We have both been working in the day and moving...
View ArticleBroadbeach 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
Given today’s verdict in the UK I wonder if Sydney will remove this piece of Street Art by Rolf Harris. It was still in Australia near the Harbour Bridge when this was photographed in 2012.
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