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Why?

Well...why not?

My internet service provider has kindly allocated some free web space so it would be a pity to waste it. And what better way to use the space than to display a few galleries of images that I particularly like.

My main interest, photographically speaking, is the natural world so most images here involve the landscape and the Australian flora. It's not that people don't interest me - I'm just not very good at portraiture, so I'm happy to leave that field to those that are.

Where?

All of the images have been captured in the eastern states of Australia, mainly New South Wales. I am yet to experience the landscapes and flora of the centre and west of the continent, an omission that I hope to rectify in the next few years.

A lot of the photographs have been taken in and around Castlereagh in western Sydney, where I live, and on the south coast of New South Wales.

With What?

I use Pentax equipment (mainly) not because it's any better than other types but it's what I started with and I like it.

Over the years I've used a variety of Pentax cameras starting with an S1a in the 1960s and progressing to a KX, Super A, P50, SFXn, Z20 and MZ5. There was also a Ricoh XR2 for a few years - a fine camera as well.

These film cameras have now all but been retired because digital photography offers so many more possibilities. I now use a Pentax K200D and a Pentax *ist DS most of the time.

Lenses, I've had a few.... Most often I call on an SMC Pentax DA 16-45 mm, SMC Pentax FA 80-320 mm SMC Pentax K 50 mm f1.4, Tamron SP 90 mm macro and Tamron SP 300 mm to fulfill most of my current needs. There are several others that I use from time to time and a wide angle prime lens of around 14 mm is on my wish list.

What Else?

These are other projects that I've been dabbling in....

• Lake Eyre and the Painted Hills - Aerial photographs from outback South Australia. (August 2011)
• Banksias - Spectacular and colourful plants in the Protea family, native to Australia. (September 2010)
• Macquarie's Towns - The five 'Macquarie Towns' in western Sydney which were proclaimed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie on 6 December 1810. This is an expanded version of the 'Macquarie Towns' SoFoBoMo Project - see below. (July 2010; updated August 2010)
• A Day at the Cricket - Day 1 of the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia. (March 2010)
• East to West and Back Again - a 7 week trip from Sydney to Western Australia by train and back again by car across the Nullarbor. (January 2010)
• Sculpture by the Sea 2009 - the annual event held at Bondi along the coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama (November 2009)
• Cockatoo Island - Former prison, industrial school, reformatory and gaol, Cockatoo Island was included in the Natural Heritage list in 2007. (July 2009)
• A Few Days on the Coast - The coast and hinterland around Narooma on the south coast of New South Wales. These are the images from the SoFoBoMo Project - see below. (May 2009)
• Norah Head - Norah Head Lighthouse was commissioned in 1903 to protect coastal shipping along the central coast of New South Wales. The associated keepers' quarters are now used as tourist accommodation. (April 2009)
• The Great Zig Zag - Constructed between 1866 and 1869. the Great Zig Zag was regarded as one of the great engineering feats of the time. It is now a tourist railway. (March 2009; updated August 2009)
• Lapstone Hill - European heritage at Lapstone in western Sydney (January 2009; updated December 2009)
• Sculpture by the Sea 2008 - the annual event held at Bondi along the coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama (October 2008)

• East to West ...and Back Again - a trip to Western Australia and back by rail and road, including numerous photographs taken along the way. There is also an online album of photos from the trip (listed above) and an accompanying photo book (below).
• A Few Weeks on the Road - travelling from Sydney to Central Australia and then south to Kangaroo Island. The blog includes photographs taken during a flight over Lake Eyre and the Painted Hills in outback South Australia (see also the online album of photos from the flight, listed above). There is also an accompanying photo book covering the entire trip (below).

• East to West ...and Back Again is a travelogue of a trip from the east coast to the west coast of Australia by train and return across the continent by road in August/September 2009. Here is a preview (Click the icon to the left of the Blurb logo to view full screen).
  
  

• One Hundred Photos is a book of images that have been approved for inclusion in the Pentax Photo Gallery, sponsored by Pentax USA. Here is a preview (Click the icon to the left of the Blurb logo to view full screen).
  
  

• Uluru to Kangaroo is a travelogue of a trip from Sydney to Central Australia and return via Kangaroo Island in July/August 2011. The trip included a flight over Lake Eyre and the Painted Hills in outback South Australia. Here is a preview (Click the icon to the left of the Blurb logo to view full screen).
  
  

SoFoBoMo (Solo Photo Book Month)
SoFoBoMo is an idea that was initiated by Paul Butzi in 2008. It is a group event where photographers all make electronic photo books from start to finish, in 31 days. The final SoFoBoMo was in 2011 but all of the books completed since 2008 can be downloaded from the SoFoBoMo website until the end of 2011.

Outback Australia - SoFoBoMo 2011 SoFoBoMo 2011 coincided with a trip my wife and I took to central Australia. The book features images from that trip including aerial photographs of Lake Eyre and the Painted Hills in outback South Australia.

Macquarie's Towns - SoFoBoMo 2010 Macquarie's Towns is my SoFoBoMo project for 2010. It covers the five 'Macquarie Towns' in western Sydney which were proclaimed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie on 6 December 1810.

A Few Days on the Coast - SoFoBoMo 2009 This is my SoFoBoMo project for 2009. It covers a few days that my wife, Marg, and I spent around Narooma, on the south coast of New South Wales in May 2009.

PESO (Photograph Every So Often)
These are images posted to the Pentax Discuss Mailing List (PDML) for comment and suggestions by other list members.

Contact

Please feel free to send me an email - comments (brickbats and/or bouquets) all accepted graciously....

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