Bulbine lilies
I've been along to a couple of the regular working bees at the Southern Tablelands Ecosystems Park ('STEP') a.k.a. Forest 20 at the National Arboretum Canberra.
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Category Australia
Caves Beach
I got out on Sunday to play briefly with the new 5D Mk4. After seven years and over 90,000 images with my much-loved and ever-reliable Mk2 it felt a little bit like betrayal. But I do rather think I’m going to…
Turtle Nesting, Mallacoota
I find it useful to allow pictures to ‘cure’ for a time before deciding which ones I like. Sometimes the images that appeal most at first viewing don’t survive the passage of time and re-viewing. Too obvious, too garish, too…
Postcards From Canberra Exhibition
An exhibition of Postcards From Canberra opened tonight at PhotoAccess at the Manuka Arts Centre. It features more than 350 postcard-sized prints from 39 photographers, each offering a different perspective on the town we all live in. As PhotoAccess Director David…
Albany Humpback Whales
During our recent travels in Western Australia there was a heap of great and varied photographic opportunities. (I hope to write a post about some more of them soon …) But one of the real highlights for us was during…
Red Hill late afternoon
One of the pleasures of living in this ‘Garden City’ is that, even though I live in an ‘inner suburb’, I can walk a hundred meters to the end of my street and be deep in eucalypt bushland. Red Hill…
Tasmania HDR
I still keep making High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. I can’t help it. This popular technique involves making a series (usually three or five) images with identical composition, usually on a tripod to ensure an exact alignment of the images.…
Floriade NightFest 2011
The Floriade Festival has been running annually now since 1988, and is now something of a Canberra institution, with visitors coming from all over Australia (and beyond) to view the massed plantings of spring blooms. Echoes of old pagan celebrations…