Outback Crawl
Our Broken Hill Tour has started to resemble an outback pub crawl, mainly due to the offers of free camping and the type of thirst which can only be achieved from driving hundreds of miles on dirt...
View ArticleBroken Hill
This is one of the many frame heads which are scattered around Broken Hill in New South Wales. The wealth of minerals under this isolated city made Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP Billiton) the world’s...
View ArticleDesert Sculptures
This is one of the sandstone sculptures in the Living Desert Reserve north of Broken Hill. There is so much to see here we have decided to stay an extra day before heading to Cobar to get some mining...
View ArticleLittle Topar
These trucks were parked at the Little Topar Roadhouse which we stayed at on our way into and out of Broken Hill in New South Wales. We were told you could “get a good feed there” and the bacon, eggs...
View ArticleBaby Roo
Generally kangaroos are not as photogenic as their wallaby cousins, but this little grey joey was an exception. I would like to get a shot of a big adult red kangaroo as it is Australia’s largest...
View ArticleMount Panorama
This is the Mount Panorama circuit in Bathurst. This race track is also a public road, and Karen found herself driving on it by accident the first time we drove to New South Wales from Victoria. This...
View ArticleSouth Steyne
This is the South Steyne Floating Restaurant in Darling Harbour, New South Wales. We went to the Sydney Tower today, where the view of this ship and the city are fantastic. I used Tilt-Shift to create...
View ArticleScottish Longhorn
This is a Scottish Longhorn Highland Cow, although it looks like a creature from Star Wars. As it came towards me I had to tell remind myself this is only a herbivore despite looking more dangerous...
View ArticleMisty Morning
I saw these two swans on the river cam in front of Baits Bite Lock in the UK. You don’t often get fog in Australia (maybe in a Melbourne winter) so I was keen to go for a walk to capture the effect of...
View ArticleRadio Telescopes
This is the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. The telescopes move along rail track which used to take trains between Cambridge and Bedford. Tomorrow we hit the road to Grantham, to continue our tour...
View ArticleNew 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 computer. It was also the...
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