Weekly Photo - 20/06/2011 "London Summer"

I spent most of the last week in London in what was supposedly summer, in London's defence I had a few hours of sunshine! Anyway here is a brief teaser from London, a much longer blog post will come mid week with many more images from my week in London.

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Weekly Photo - 12/06/2011 "Goodbye Sydney"

I have just been informed that my flight to London has been delayed by an hour so rather then a late photo again I decided to update the blog now.

Vivid Sydney 2011 comes to a close tonight and as I am leaving Australia for a month I thought it was a fitting subject.

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And a quick Hipstamatic Print from my iPhone of where I will be sitting for the next 2 hours due to the delay, yes that is my blog on the screen!

Vale Sergeant Brett Wood

Today Sydney stopped for the funeral of Australian commando Sgt Brett Wood who was killed by a roadside bomb last month in Afghanistan. Due to operational requirements and at the request of the Australian Defense Force the faces of his fellow commandos are obscured. 

I know I missed a couple of weekly photo posts however as it was the last few weeks of the university semester I had very little time to shoot let alone update the blog. The weekly updates will start again on Sunday however I found the funeral of an Australian Soldier too important to wait for the weekend to post.

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard & Defense Minister Stephen Smith

A guard of honour as the body of slain commando Sgt Brett Wood
is carried in to St Andrews Cathedral

A NSW Police Officer holds a program bearing the face of Sgt Brett Wood
while standing guard at the hearse.

Australian Commandos outside St Andrews Cathedral

Weekly Photo - 15/05/2011 "Human Headline"

Today the 'Human Headline', Derryn Hinch, held his second annual "Name Them, Shame Them" rally on the steps of parliament house in the Melbourne CBD with hundreds of people turning up in his support to protest suppression orders placed on the names and details of sex offenders.

Being such an overcast day with low lying clouds it meant that the light was utterly fantastic, one couldn't buy nicer light if they tried! Heck, who am I kidding, it sucked! At least I came away with this diptych I rather like.

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Weekly Photo - 08/05/2011 "Tasmanian Weekend"

This weekend for mothers day, dad and myself went to Tasmania, without mum! It's not our fault she didn't want to come.


What an amazing week of news it has been. At around 11:35 PM Eastern Time on Monday the 1st of May (1:35 PM on Tuesday the 2nd of May in Melbourne, Australia) the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama announced to the world that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan. In fact his his 9 Minutes and 18 Second speech began with the words;

"Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world, the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden" 

In my hunt for more news I came upon the 3AW Melbourne News Talk website who I had submitted some images too not long before hearing the news of Osama bin Laden, obviously being such a big news day I didn't expect to see my photos run. Below is a screen grab of what I saw.

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Anyway as I said this weekend i spent some time in Hobart, Tasmania so this weeks images will come from that trip, The light in Tasmania is brilliant, being so close to the Antarctic the sun never really rises that high in the sky, resulting in very long golden hours at each end of the day, i can't wait to return to Tasmania sometime soon as it has been many years before i had last been. I know I promised some Solomon Island images but they will follow later this week. 

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Weekly Photo - 01/05/2011 "Motocross"

Today I went out to photograph some Porsche racing and just nearby there was some Motocross which seemed more interesting. It certainly was a challenge to shoot but I was fairly happy for my first time, certainly something I want to work on more. Also noticed my site reached 3,000 hits today, see the counter down the bottom of the page.

Images from the Solomon Islands will be posted mid week.

Weekly Photo - 25/04/2011 "Lest We Forget"

I know I said in the last post that I wouldn't be making a post this week however with today, ANZAC Day, being such an important date in the Australian calender how could I not find a way to post about it! I could go on telling you stories of how I climbed a coconut tree to get internet reception on my 3G Modem or how I swam the 246km from the small island of Uepi back to the capitol of the Solomon Islands, Honiara, to get on a computer at a net cafe.  But no I just typed this on the 19th and it was automatically posted... How easy :D


EDIT: Well that was the theory, in practise Blogspot is a terrible host so when I got on today with some limited internet here and it turns out it wasn't automatically posted... So instead of being posted at sunrise, you get it at sunset.


I leave you with the "Ode of Remembrance" taken from Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen", which was first published in The Times (UK) in September 1914.

"They went with songs to the battle, they were young.

Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them."

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The Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance photographed on Portia 160VC Film