Lego City
Today we walked from Southport to Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia to see this Lego City. It is a 6mile/10km round trip which is mostly along the Gold Coast beach. We are both looking forward...
View ArticleBrisbane Skyline
We arrived in Brisbane yesterday. The stage on the left of the picture was for the Brisbane Festival City of Lights. We also saw a great band called Cheap Fakes at one of the festival stages on the...
View ArticleThe Joynt
Since we moved to Australia we have seen lots of great music by chance. Last night was the first time we made a trip to see a particular band. This is The Barons of Tang playing at the Joynt in...
View ArticleSurfers Paradise
This is the beach along Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia. I took this as we walked there last month to see the Lego. The lifeguards put up red and yellow flags to swim between every so often...
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Cairo Pyramids
I took this shot 5 years ago in Cairo, Egypt before the arab spring. It was shot at full stretch 150mm on a Olympus E-510 on a misty day so there was barely any contrast. This is a good example of the...
View ArticleJacaranda Tree
This Jacaranda Tree has been requested by Bob and Val who lived in Australia years ago. For other residents of the UK try to imagine an Oak tree covered in Bluebell flowers. This tree was outside the...
View ArticleTreasury Casino
This is the Treasury Casino in Brisbane. It is one of four casinos in the state. Queensland already has twice as many casinos as any other part of Australia and they have plans for three more. This...
View ArticleMusic Tour
This band is called Late For Woodstock. We saw them twice this weekend while shuttling between gigs on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. The reason the trip was to record content for a...
View ArticleSwamp Wallaby
This weekend we visited the David Fleay wildlife park. We saw our first platypus and this swamp wallaby. Both are Australian animals found along the east coast of Queensland, New South Wales and...
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Gold Night
Last night we went to Brisbane to film 3 bands for the YouTube channel MusicLive4U. Highlight of the evening for us was this 10 piece funk soul band called His Merry Men who were launching their new...
View ArticleSurf’s Up
This photograph of a surfer and wave was taken at Injidup Beach in Western Australia in 2011. The weather here on the Gold Coast, Queensland has become unsettled recently. We have had a few...
View ArticleReal Lightning
This lightning strike was taken four days ago from our front balcony in Southport, Queensland, Australia. I have done one or two posts with fake lightning added with photoshop. This is the first time I...
View ArticleSpringbrook Waterfalls
This weekend we visited the Springbrook National Park close to the state boundary. It is a fascinating place. It lies on the edge of an ancient volcanic ridge which causes all Queenslands creeks to...
View ArticleShark Night
On Friday night we went to see soul funk band His Merry Men at the local Southport Sharks Gold Coast Club. I think this is Andrew Ball on the Baritone Saxophone who is part of the bands impressive...
View ArticleBrisbane Fireworks
These fireworks were part of the Brisbane Festival in September. It must be said that in Australia they like them big. I have photographed many displays in the UK after having early success selling...
View ArticleThree Camels
It has been a couple of years since I posted anything from Jordan so I processed this old shot of three camels in Petra. Jordan is a gold mine for the photographer. It is no wonder films like Lawrence...
View ArticleYellow Robin
I dug around for a festive image and found this shot taken in Springbrook, Queensland. Like much of Australia’s flora and fauna this eastern yellow robin was named by someone with a British vocabulary...
View ArticleNew Year
For those of you still in 2013 Happy New Year 2014 from Australia. I took this shot of the New Year Sydney Fireworks from the tip of Cremorne Point. We had a clear 180 degree view of all 6 floating...
View ArticleMonitor Lizard
This is a Lace Monitor Lizard we saw prowling around our campsite on our way back from seeing the Sydney New Year Fireworks. We took four days each way to go to and from Queensland and New South Wales...
View ArticleStunt Planes
I have posted a lot of animals recently so it is time for some Mechanography. These stunt planes were the warm up display before the Sydney New Year Fireworks. The show included dive bombing Circular...
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