Felicity Lawless
This is Felicity Lawless entertaining the crowd at the Murwillumbah Makers and Finders Market. She had just seen Rodrigo and Gabriela in Brisbane last night and her flamenco influences were apparent at...
View ArticleTooloom Falls
Tooloom Falls is a site of special cultural significance to the local Githabul People who know this place as Dooloomi. They graciously invited me to stay here as long as I wanted which makes this the...
View ArticleFemale Fairywren
This tea bag sized female fairywren is a daily visitor to the Manna Gum camp in the Main Range National Park. The males are more colourful and in Western Australia, they look like this. There were...
View ArticleDonkey Boiler
The Crows Nest National park campsite is home to a chorus of Kookaburras and up to 13 groups of humans. Each site has its own BBQ fire pit arranged in a circle around a central amenities block. Outside...
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Emu Creek
Emu Creek marks the Southern boundary of the Benarkin State Forest in Queensland, Australia. I parked the van to overlook this bend in the river. The flow around these rocks has created a deep area...
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Stanage Sunset
Stanage is a tiny town at the tip of a peninsula and the end of a 100km dirt road. It sticks out into the Pacific ocean surrounded by islands where the continent fragments into the shallow turquoise...
View ArticleGalactic Emu
This shows the centre of the Milky Way as seen from Australia. The Southern hemisphere has a great view as it faces the bright heart of our galaxy. On a clear night, you can read your watch with...
View ArticleWalking Dragline
This Walking Dragline is one of the largest things I have photographed. I was focused at infinity and still used a wide angle lens to get it all in. The boom that supports the bucket is as long as a...
View ArticleWhitsunday Islands
This was taken from the Northern end of Whitehaven Beach on the Whitsunday islands in Queensland, Australia. Beaches seem to have a primaeval allure. Some scientists believe life could well have begun...
View ArticleMarine Institute
This was taken at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. It is a federally funded organisation which is revealing some of the mysteries of the ocean. The facility is full of fish tanks containing...
View ArticleWallaman Falls
This is Wallaman Falls in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. It is Australia’s highest permanent single drop waterfall. This photo was taken from a viewing platform a short walk from the national...
View ArticleWild Cassowary
This is a wild Southern Cassowary. I had seen one before in Australia Zoo but it was standing still in an enclosure about 5 meters away. This did not prepare me for the wild face to face encounter with...
View ArticleCape Tribulation
This area is known as Kurangee by the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people. Meaning place of many cassowaries. It was later named Cape Tribulation by the English explorer James Cook shortly after he...
View ArticleMorning Glory
This cloud formation above Burketown, Australia is known as The Morning Glory. You would think 30 years in the UK would be enough to see every type of cloud but this meteorological phenomenon is...
View ArticleWalkabout Creek
This is the Walkabout Creek Hotel in McKinlay, Queensland. It was made famous by the iconic Australian film Crocodile Dundee in 1986. The pub is decorated with props and photos of the cast and crew. If...
View ArticleOutback Road
Outback driving is a unique experience. Even the main roads have so little traffic, passing motorists wave to each other to acknowledge the existence of other humans in the vast hot dry expanse. If you...
View ArticleRe Stock
This is the Superpit in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. My brother once showed me google reverse image search. It is a useful tool for the stock photographer who wants to find out where their images get...
View ArticleNew Year
Happy New Year 2019. May your dreams come true. These are the Sydney new year fireworks. I left my van behind and took the train into the city from my temporary base in the Blue Mountains where I have...
View ArticleBlue Mountains
These remarkable plants somehow hold on to these sheer cliffs in the Blue Mountains, Australia. The weather here over summer has been great. The altitude cancels out the worst of the heat and you are...
View ArticleLeven Canyon
This is Leven Canyon on the edge of Tasmania’s wild west. Before leaving Melbourne on the ferry I caught up with some old friends including Lieven who I last saw on my first trip to Australia over 20...
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