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Sydney New Years Eve Fireworks Photos

The Sydney Harbour YHA rooftop balcony provided me with the best vantage point I’ve had for Sydney’s New Years Eve Fireworks shows at 9pm and Midnight including a panoramic view of Circular Quay, the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge
A handful of my photos are displayed below, along with a bigger slideshow selection of some [...]

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2009 The Year In Photos: Butterflies, Icebergs, Sand Dunes and Lightshows

Since this is a travel and photography blog I thought I’d highlight a few of my favourite 2009 photos rather than write about the year.Visit my Flickr profile to see more photos

Butterfly – Wingecarribee Dam

New Zealand Flag Against NZ Southern Alps

Lake Tekapo Aerial View

Rainbow Over Sydney City

Panorama – “Luminous” light projected onto Sydney Opera House

Colour, [...]

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Use Skype to Call and Communicate with Friends/Family For Free

GUEST ARTICLE: Skype has gone from being a novelty when it launched 6 years ago to being really essential for me.
I’m now half-way round the planet from friends in the UK and want to catch up. I also need a visual connection with family and people who have questions about work.
And the things I [...]

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Tips To Take Best Fireworks Photos: Location, Camera Equipment and Settings

Taking really good fireworks photos is not actually that hard but most people take terrible blurry fireworks photos because they don’t research how to take good fireworks photos, don’t have the right camera equipment and fail to plan ahead to find the best vantage point location to take the photos from.

Location, Location, Location for Fireworks [...]

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Lest We Forget Sacrifice of WWI Soldiers – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free desktop wallpaper photo of a World War I cemetery in Flanders (Vlaanderen), Belgium taken by Featured Guest Photographer Fushmush.

A Soldier of the Great War & Stone of Rememberance credit: fushmush

The battlefields of Flanders (Vlaanderen), in Belgium, were part of the Western front during World War I. The front ran from the North [...]

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Spectacular Namib Desert Sand Dunes in Sossusvlei, Namibia

GUEST ARTICLE: Our drive from the little town of Swakopmund located on the Skeleton Coast to the Sossusvlei took us about 4 hours. The Sossusvlei is in the heart of the Namib Desert. We stayed at the Betesda Lodge located about half an hour the entrance of the park. It was hard to [...]

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How to Survive in the Australian Outback (ABC Landline)

Landline is ABC TV’s national rural issues program. This week’s Landline episode is all about how to survive in the Australian outback. I’ll be watching the show and adding the top tips to improve your safety when travelling in the outback to this review.

I love to travel, especially to remote places off the beaten track [...]

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Footprints and Journeys in Stockton Sand Dunes – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download free 1680×1050 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of Footprints and Journeys in Stockton Sand Dunes.
The wind-blown sand dunes of Stockton Beach comprise the largest continuous mobile sand mass in New South Wales, Australia. The grains of sand have been washed in from the sea and blown ashore to form dunes up to thirty metres [...]

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Floriade: Photographers Paradise – Australias Biggest Flower Festival

Although Canberra is only 3 hours drive from Sydney, until last weekend I hadn’t visited for 15 years which is a shame because I’d completely forgotten about “Floriade” – Canberra’s annual flower festival (the biggest in Australia) which offers lots of opportunities to take great photos of spring flowers

Held annually during September/October in Canberra’s Commonwealth [...]

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My Photos Selected for Panasonic LumixLife Exhibition

Since mid-2007 I’ve taken many photos around Australia and New Zealand with my Panasonic FZ30 digital ultrazoom camera. I recently entered 10 of my best photos into a competition run by Panasonic putting the worlds best undiscovered photographers on show.
My theme was “World Around Us – The Natural and Urban worlds as seen through a [...]

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Joby Gorillapod SLR Flexible Tripod Review

I recently had the opportunity to try out the Joby “Gorillapod SLR” flexible tripod while on holidays in Australia’s Snowy Mountains and found it to be very useful and surprisingly popular with other people in my ski lodge who were fascinated by it’s ultra flexible bendy leg joints.

I had chatted with a representative from [...]

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Crab Nebula – As Seen by Hubble Space Telescope – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a high resolution desktop wallpaper photo of “The Crab Nebula” as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains from the violent death of a star that may have been as much as 10 times more massive than our Sun.

In July/August of 1054, Chinese [...]

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Anna Creek Painted Desert Scenic Flight Near Lake Eyre (Review)

I took a scenic flight over the Anna Creek Painted Desert (aka Painted Hills) during my Adelaide to Darwin Trans-Australia Road Trip through the arid desert which dominates central Australia near Lake Eyre
These spectacular painted hills are located within the confines of the Woomera rocket range within an hours flight from William Creek (population 10) [...]

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Armenian WW1 Genocide by Ottoman Turks: Ghost from the Past

While Australian diggers were fighting in Gallipoli in 1915, and of course we honour them every year on Anzac Day (25 April) there was another war being waged in the Turkish heartland where hundreds of 1000’s of ethnic Armenians were driven out of their homes.
Many were slaughtered, others starved, historians say as many as 1,000,000 [...]

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Glacier Explorers Tasman Glacier by Boat – Best New Zealand Day Trip

The “Glacier Explorers” Tasman Glacier boat trip is the best value outdoor activity in New Zealand at $120/person or $95 for YHA members
Viewing the Tasman Glacier up close was one of the most anticipated parts of my 2nd journey to New Zealand’s South Island and it did not disappoint. Glacier Explorers is the only tour [...]

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