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Circular Quay

This is Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia. I used the HSL / Grayscale panel in the Photoshop developer Camera RAW. This allows you so shift specific colours towards its neighbouring colours. In this...

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Bangkok Airport

Thailand is often the stopover between Australia and the UK. The first time I was here I found exploring Bangkok fascinating. I kept calling the airline to put back my next flight. I ended up staying a...

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Sydney Tower

This is the Sydney Tower in New South Wales, Australia. I used Google analytics recently and discovered a boost in Benz World Blog site traffic. On closer inspection the extra traffic was a result of a...

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Fake Beef

This is one of the many horses in the fields around Gonerby in the UK. Before I took the base image I had planned to give the whole horse a frisian cow texture in order to illustrate the current...

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Wild Wombat

This wild wombat is one of Australia‘s marsupials. We saw this animal on the side of the road in Victoria. I jumped out the van and started taking pictures as I approached. According to my cameras...

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Streaky Pier

This is a silhouette of the Pier at Streaky Bay in South Australia. I have spent most of last week going over all the old posts in this blog. I have been adding tags and links to make the site easier...

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Sky Palms

These silhouetted palm trees were in Negril, Jamaica. I took this almost 10 years ago when I first started experimenting with Photography. I was using an early digital compact camera Ex-Z3 with a LCD...

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Three Huts

These three buildings are in Negril, Jamaica. This is some of the earliest photography I had accepted for stock. I don’t know if it would be accepted for today as the agencies seem to be getting more...

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Cienfuegos Square

This is Cienfuegos Square in Cuba. It is one of the Caribbean images from the old website I took in 2004. Before I get back to Australia I have been transferring some of the old images to the new...

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Enhanced License

Shutterstock recently sold an enhanced license for this road image from Western Australia. All stock photography sites offer some form of extended or enhanced license. It is a hangover from the...

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Ringneck Parrot

This animal is an Australian Ringneck parrot. This subspecies is the Twenty Eight parrot which was named after the sound it makes. I discovered this bird in Western Australia. This image has been...

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Random Iron

This was taken in Gwalia in the Goldfields of  Western Australia. It demonstrates Australians fondness for decorating remote houses and mail boxes with random pieces of iron. In the UK metal that is...

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Perth Museum

This building is the Perth Museum in Western Australia. To process this image in increased the saturation of the purples slightly. I also increased the luminance of the reds to lighten the dark wood.

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Ballarat Jewellers

These buildings are in the centre of Ballarat in the Goldfields of Victoria in Australia.

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Super Pit

I took this shot of Karen at the Super Pit open cast mine in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Do you think we should include this image in the Machanography category?

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Sydney Cove

The building with the orange roof is an oyster bar with a view of Circular Quay in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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Australian Representatives

This is the House of Representatives in Parliament House, Canberra. The Representatives and the Senate are the two elected houses which make up the Parliament of Australia. In a reflection of the UK...

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Barbaras Festival

This is the St. Barbara’s Festival in Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields of Western Australia. This is what miners call the Baby Truck. I think it safely qualifies as Mechanography.

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Galah Cockatoo

This bird is one of Australia’s iconic animals. The Galah or Rose-breasted Cockatoo is one of the most common in mainland Australia. This one was in Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields of Western Australia....

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Queens Bridge

This night shot is of Queens Bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. This could be a contender for the  Australian Skylines Calendar.

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