Author: robert
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52/30/5 Week 11
The second catch up for this week. This time I went to Black Mountain in the middle of Canberra. View Larger Map Telstra tower, at the the top of Black Mountain: The view over the lake towards the Parliamentary Triangle: A path through the bush at the top of the mountain: A thistle: And to…
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52/30/5 Week 10
I’m a couple of weeks behind, so expect to see three lots of photos this week. Today I went out to Namadgi National Park, south of Canberra, specifically the Corin Dam region. View Larger Map The first photo was taken pointing south towards (I think) Gibraltar Peak: From here I moved on to Gibraltar Falls:…
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52/30/5 Week 9
Week 9 starts with a quick shot of a swimming Penguin from Sydney Aquarium: For the rest, I went to Pine Island near Tuggeranong: View Larger Map A shot of someone swinging at the playground: Helen by the river: Finally, a few [High Dynamic Range](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging) photographs, edited using [FDRTools](http://www.fdrtools.com/front_e.php). Basically this combines several photographs into…
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52/30/5 Week 8
This week I tried some experimental night photography. I still need to work on this a bit, but some of the results are promising. Here’s Helen wandering in front of the camera (deliberately!) during a low light 30 second exposure: A picture of the car, taken in pitch dark (with the key button pressed at…
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52/30/5 Week 7
Week 7 was taken outside the Old Bus Depot Markets in Kingston, Canberra: View Larger Map Firstly, a picture of the apartment buildings just North of the markets. I always think it looks a little like Wall-E from this angle, although it’s more like a Dalek from other angles: Next, the old power house building.…
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52/30/5 Week 6
Week 6 takes us to Black Mountain Peninsula. View Larger Map An interesting looking tree: Some benches: Australia’s Parliament House on the other side of the lake: After that we moved on to Mt Ainslie. View Larger Map Canberra Airport, which is quite close to the mountain: And a railing to the lookup at the…
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52/30/5 Week 5
Week 5 sees us travel to Cairns. No map this time, you’ll just have to Google for Cairns. Most of the photos come from a fantastic trip we did with [Wait-a-While](http://www.waitawhile.com.au/), well worth it if you want to see the rainforest in more detail than most tours. First, a mountain just South of Cairns. I…
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52/30/5 Week 4
For week 4 I went to Scrivener Dam, the dam that holds the water into the major lake in Canberra. View Larger Map A view of the dam from the nearby carpark: The road over the top of the dam: Looking downstream: And the bubbler at the carpark: And finally, a view of Government House,…
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Backlog
I’ve been a bit behind in posting photos to this blog. I’ve been taking them and putting them on Flickr, but not getting around to this bit. But here they are now!
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52/30/5 Week 3
This week we drove to Sydney. View Larger Map Here’s a view from the Pyrmont bridge: The Westpac building just North of Darling Harbour: Inside the Sydney Aquarium, the newest attraction, the Dugongs: And a classic favourite, the Platypus: Finally, we stopped on the way home at the Lake George lookout: View Larger Map As…