Barn Swallow
This is a juvenile Barn Swallow. We saw it while waiting for our boat to Keppel Island in Queensland. These birds are a relative newcomers to Australia and have spread around the world on the back of...
View ArticleBluesfest Welcome
I arrived at the 2016 Bluesfest site today and was efficiently directed to a campsite by the friendly and colourful staff. The excitement is building before the music starts tomorrow for this premier...
View ArticleTedeschi Trucks
This is The Tedeschi Trucks Band putting on an awesome performance at the opening night of the Crossroads stage at the 2016 Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia. Husband and wife team of Susan Tedeschi and...
View ArticleMedicine Tribe
This is Nahko and Medicine For The People playing a moving and high energy set on the Mojo stage of the Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia. They are a world music collective which blend Reggae, Dub and...
View ArticleJoe Bonamassa
Bluesfest would not be a blues festival without a sharp suited guitar shredder to lay down some licks. In 2016 Joe Bonamassa stepped up to headline the Crossroads stage on the third day of the Byron...
View ArticleCat Empire
This is The Cat Empire electrifying the audience at the Mojo stage Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia. They are a Melbourne based band and their music is a fusion of Raggae, Jazz, Dance and Ska with a...
View ArticleVintage Trouble
This is Vintage Trouble playing the Crossroads stage on the final day of Bluesfest 2016. They were definitely a highlight of the festival. It is impossible to overstate the amount of energy lead singer...
View ArticleGrace Potter
This is Grace Potter on the Mojo stage at the 2016 Bluesfest in Australia. She returned to the festival with a new band after an awesome performance in 2014 with The Nocturnals. In 2015 she released...
View ArticleMick Fleetwood
This is The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band playing the Crossroads stage at 2016 Bluesfest. Karen took me to see Fleetwood Mac in Brisbane in 2015 but Photography was not allowed. Thanks to the festival I...
View ArticleLong Beach
This in Long Beach on Great Keppel which is an island 15km off the coast of Queensland in Australia. This image has been accepted by Shutterstock for Stock Photography and is be available for download...
View ArticleSilverton Hotel
This is the Silverton Hotel in outback New South Wales, Australia. There cannot be many pubs which have been in so many films they can build an awning out of its own alternate name signs. Mad Max II,...
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Crested Cockatoo
This is a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo. They live for 20-40 years in the wild but can live for 100 years in captivity. This bird had the best of both worlds as it was on a road trip with its human family...
View ArticleAustralian Citizenship
Today I became an Australian. The ceremony took place at the The Arts Centre on the Gold Coast. It was a sunny day so I cycled there this morning. I have been living, working and travelling through...
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The Bamboos
This is Kylie Auldist singing with Melbourne based Soul Funk band The Bamboos at the 2016 Blues on Broadbeach music festival. If you want to get your groove on, I highly recommend you check them out....
View ArticleBurleigh Heads
This is the view of the Gold Coast from Burleigh Heads in Queensland, Australia. Today was the first time I have seen the skyscrapers from this side at night so I decided to get a shot of the lights. I...
View ArticleSydney 2000
This is the MV Sydney 2000 in Circular Quay, Australia. It is the largest cruise ship operating in Sydney Harbour. It was built in 1998 in Western Australia. This shot is for Bob who requested a ship...
View ArticleIndependence Day
On this day England voted to leave the EU. 9 months later on the 29th March 2017 the UK Government initiated the 2 year exit process. I was in Australia watching the film ‘Independence Day’ with the...
View ArticleAustralia Votes
These are the Australian Parliament Houses in Canberra. Today there has been a double dissolution election where seats in the House of Representatives and The Senate are up for grabs. This image has...
View ArticleBoomerang Festival
This is the Malu Kiai Mura Buai Dance Troupe from Boigu Island in the Torres Strait performing at the Boomerang Festival in New South Wales, Australia. In 2016 this Indigenous art festival took place...
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