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Category: Landscapes

  • In zid

    Things I’m loving about New Zealand: – the amount of farmland, and the sheer number of sheep I have seen grazing in fields, in the snow, and on seemingly sheer mountainsides. I love sheep. I am going to move here and run a sheep farm. With other people doing all the hard work – I’ll…

  • Down by the sea

    We just spent a few days staying by the sea at Bargara, which is a small town near Bundaberg, about four or five hours drive away. We stayed in an apartment looking out onto the ocean, slept with the windows open to the sound of the waves, and spent a lot of time walking along…

  • Eclipse

    There was a partial lunar eclipse last night, so I thought I would take some photos of the moon, which I have never done before. It’s more complicated than I had thought – my cheap 70-300mm lens didn’t cope very well (and really, I don’t think 300mm is quite long enough) and my tiny tripod…

  • The last words

    I am reaching the last few discs of Possession, which is a sad realisation. I don’t want this story to end. I read in the same way that Randolph does – he writes in a letter to Christabel: “I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial…

  • Cooinda, NT

    Excerpt from my travel diary – 29 June 2009, Kakadu We boarded the boat in the morning dimness, surrounded by hoardes of mozzies, and headed out onto the water to watch the sun rising in a blaze of colour across the horizon, lighting the still water. Wild horses grazed near the water’s edge, covered in…

  • Trip to Stanthorpe

    We drove to Stanthorpe for the Queen’s Birthday long weekend recently, staying in a tiny cabin in a camping ground, with a river running along the back of the property. Why can I never get horizons straight? Apparently I stand on angles when taking landscape shots. We climbed up a big rock (the Pyramid walk…

  • Eagleby Wetlands

    After Mum discovered the Eagleby Wetlands while browsing through the Refedex, we headed out there for a spot of birdwatching. And while I got a bit frustrated with my zoom lens and its very noisy focussing gear (and gazed with envy at the truly enormous lenses that the more professional birdos were lugging around) I…

  • In sepia

    I knew when we decided to move from a suburban block to semi-rural acreage that there would be a lot more work involved in household maintenance, but when you move into a well maintained property it’s all a bit theoretical to begin with. As time passes, however, entropy asserts itself. We don’t have access to…

  • Bridge reflection

    I hadn’t known that there were Botanical Gardens on Mt Tamborine, before I went there on my Blue Dog Photography workshop. They were quite lovely little gardens, even in the middle of winter – I loved this bridge, and its reflection in the water in the afternoon sun.

  • Misty water

    Practicing with long exposures at the Blue Dog Photography workshop, in the Mt Tamborine Botanic Gardens.