Month: March 2019
My Photo Workshop at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat
I’ve just spent five days with photographer Michael Snedic at the O’Reillys Rainforest Retreat doing a photography workshop. Michael leads photo tours all over the world. This is the fourth time that I have participated in one of his activities and we get on very well together. I now regard him as a friend. O’Reilly’s […]
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Friends of the 15th Brigade – Pompey Elliott Commemoration
On Saturday, I attended one of the annual memorial services conducted by the Friends of the 15th Brigade to commemorate the death of Harold ‘Pompey’ Elliott at the Burwood Cemetery in Melbourne. Just after WW1, Pompey was one of the three most famous names in Australia along with General John Monash and Albert Jacka. Brigadier […]
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Canberra Balloon Festival
While I have been out late at night visiting Canberra’s Enlighten attractions, I have also been getting up before dawn each morning to see the hot air balloons that are also operating here over this long weekend. On Saturday, out first morning here, I woke up late but quickly threw on some clothes and bolted […]
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More of the Enlighten Festival
I was quite happy with my photos from our first night out at Enlighten and we decided to go out on our second night and take some more distant images from some of the further Canberra viewpoints.The weather was quite mild so it was very comfortable being out at night. Our plans were delayed somewhat […]
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Enlighten Festival – Canberra
Last night, I braved the crowds to go and photograph some of the illuminated buildings in the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra that form part of the Enlighten Festival. We had an early dinner so that I could get to the area that I wanted to photograph at dusk on time for sunset. This wasn’t too […]
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Mr Squiggle
This weekend is a long weekend in Melbourne (and Canberra) and we have flown up to Canberra to do some photography. This weekend sees two large photo worthy events overlap. One is the Enlighten Festival in which a number of government buildings by the lake are illuminated with special effects lighting. The other is a […]
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