Hanging off the end of a macro lens, I wish I have the power to cry out to the breeze “cease, be still”! I took these a while ago, at various times, and have been a long time coming!  The spiders (Coastal Golden Orb Weaver) were at Ballina  – a chance event – in which I […]

What gets me, a spoilt 21st century ‘Western’ man, is how you can live in a house such as that which is featured here – with a family? Times have indeed changed. Unfortunately, not necessarily for the better for those on the rubbish heaps of Calcutta.  Multinationals is not my thing. Anyway, I love the colour of […]

Nearly two weeks ago I had the privilege of spending a couple of days at a small property (3,000 acres!) called Currawa, just south of Bourke, NSW. An Aboriginal education centre is in the process of being established there by the church I am with. I had the opportunity of taking a few pics – these are […]

The weekend of May 22 gave me another opportunity to explore this delightful wilderness park – this time with a group of kids and adults. It was drizzling on the Friday evening, and again Sunday. But Saturday, the finale of the week, dawned beautiful for me. I was at The Pinnacle, overlooking Wollumbin, or Mt Warning, […]

Hmm. I haven’t posted a blog for a while! Anyway, the light is just magic at this time of morning, whether on the water or on the rocks and cliffs. I went there a couple of times. One morning I went a little further and came across one of those windswept trees which I happily […]

Catherine Hill Bay, according to the website of the same name, is the longest continuous settlement in the city of Lake Macquarie. It is situated on the coast between Newcastle and Sydney, east of Lake Macquarie, and was so named after the schoonar  “Catherine hill” ran aground there in June 1867. The coal loading jetty was completed […]

Associations. What associations to you have with sunrises on a beach? Late August 2009 found me with one of my sons at my eldest’s place on the central coast north of Sydney. Jethro was recuperating from a week long intensive with chemo. Me? I was just being a dad. I hadn’t had my camera for […]

As the name suggests, these magnificent ranges reach up to the sate boundary between NSW and Queensland. The story of surveying the border in these ranges is a great read. The timber people came in the mid 1800’s, chasing the ceder and hoop pine, and after them the farmers – at least in the valleys. […]

This park is located on the southern edge of the caldera of the Mount Warning shield volcano north of Lismore, with Mt Warning being behind Murwillumbah. The walking paths were apparently cut during the great depression!. I had the pleasure of taking my nephew to the base of Minyon Falls via Minyon Grass the end […]

These photos have great poignancy for me, in that this would be the last time that my 18 year old son Jethro would be with his camera, and the memory was of he being on one side of the jetty, and me being on the other side. Frankly, I reckon his photos speak better to […]