Casablanca Morocco – A Different World (With Fantastic Food)

GUEST ARTICLE: Casablanca, Morocco didn’t exactly have the romantic sentiments feel that was expressed in the famous movie. We arrived on a hot June afternoon and as we meandered through a maze of dirty streets and highly congested traffic we found our hotel located in the old area of the city (Maamoura Hotel – [...]

0 comments

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 [...]

2 comments

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 [...]

0 comments

Vingerklip Rock Formation, Damaraland, Namibia

GUEST ARTICLE: After our trip around Etosha National Park we headed south into Damaraland to a popular tourist attraction called Vingerklip (“Rock Finger” in Afrikaans) located amongst some other impressive rock formations called the Ugab Terraces.

Vingerklip is an incredible rock structure that has been formed over 15 million years and stands 35 meters high. [...]

3 comments

Do-it-Yourself Safari in Etosha National Park, Namibia

GUEST ARTICLE: We left Perth Airport on June 10th at 11pm and flew a long 12 hours before ending up in Joburg (Johannesburg, South Africa). I think we got about a whole 3 hours sleep on the plane and then had to wait 4 hours in the Joburg airport before getting on our final [...]

11 comments

Sydney Harbour Island Hopping By Ferry (Review)

For the first time NSW Parks & Wildlife opened up public access via one ferry ticket to 4 of Sydney’s iconic Harbour islands (Fort Denison, Shark Island, Clarke Island and Garden Island) during October 2009 on weekends as part of the month long Crave Sydney festival.
Events NSW kindly gave me a ticket to “Sydney [...]

3 comments

Frill Necked Lizard – Free Desktop Wallpaper

This photo of a frill necked lizard was taken beside the Murrumbidgee River Road on the afternoon of 30 September 2009 by my friend David Merrylees.

Download free 1680×1050 resolution desktop wallpaper of a Frill Necked Lizard.

About the photographer: David drives down Murrumbidgee River Road morning and afternoon and often spots all sorts of wildlife, wedgetail [...]

1 comment

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 [...]

1 comment

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 [...]

2 comments

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

[...]

6 comments

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 [...]

3 comments

Crocodile Eye Close Up – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download free 1440×900 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of a crocodile eye. It was taken in mid-2007 during my trip to the Northern Territory

Download this 1440×900 sized wallpaper photo of a crocodile eye.

Camera: Panasonic PZ30
Wallpaper format: JPG 1.45 MB in size
Original Photos: JPG 3.5MB in size

F stop: 4.5
Exposure time: 1/400th second
ISO: 100

Focal Length: 420 mm
Original Resolution: [...]

1 comment

The Alps – IMAX Film (Review)

While I’ll never be fit or rich enough to climb fearsome peaks like the Eiger I enjoy going for holidays to Australia’s Snowy Mountains and the New Zealand Alps to take photos and go for long walks.
Climbing a mountain vicariously by watching films like “The Alps” on IMAX is as close as most of us [...]

3 comments

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 [...]

1 comment

Top Tips for Foreigners (Gaijin) Travelling to Japan

EDITOR: After 4 trips to Japan, my friend Kat Clancy has come up with some great tips that foreigners (gaijin) should keep in mind before travelling to Japan.

welcome to japan photo credit: scottgunn

Japan Rail Pass
GUEST ARTICLE: If you are going to venture outside of Tokyo, you will very likely benefit from a Japan Rail Pass. [...]

7 comments

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →