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British Airways Concorde Jet (Registration G-BOAD) and Sydney Bus Museum AEC Regal III 352 at Sydney Airport, New South Wales, Australia.
November 6th, 2010 | 
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British Airways Concorde Jet (Registration G-BOAD) and Sydney Bus Museum AEC Regal III 352 at Sydney Airport, New South Wales, Australia.
Image by express000
Photo taken on 12 October, 1996.
British Airways Concorde Jet (Registration G-BOAD) and Sydney Bus Museum AEC Regal III 352 at Sydney Airport, New South Wales, Australia.
It was just pure chance that a Concorde Airliner was visiting Australia and I happened to be there on a ground visit with friends from the nearby Bus Museum. From memory a Concorde would come to Australia about once a year on a charter basis, I guess for those that could afford the additional charges.
Now very historic since this type of Aircraft is now no longer operational.
The bus is from the Sydney Bus and Truck Museum which is located in Sydney about 6 kilometres south of the Central Business District. The bus body was built on a British made AEC chassis by the Commonwealth Engineering Company in Sydney.
It entered service with the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board in the Southern Capital in the year 1952. It lived a very long life and was finally withdrawn from service in 1980 after 28 years of continuous every day service.
The bus is fully restored and sees occasional use as a vintage bus. On this day it was used to ferry a group of transport enthusiasts around the non public areas of the airport for inspection of items of aviation interest.
National Museum Of Australia
Image by Sam Ilić
"Our hope for the National Museum of Australia was the making of a place in both visible and invisible space. At first we imagined as if a kind of Platonic tangle like an ideal knot, like a new cloud, like a material epistemology, like that theory of everything, like a shadow, like a promise made visible. We liked to think that the story of Australia was not one, but many tangled together. Not an authorized version but a puzzling confluence; not merely the resolution of difference but it’s wholehearted embrace.
We hoped to make a place vividly local, rooted in Walter Burley Griffin’s garden city, rooted in the local country, but also we hoped to make something projective, to make a sign to mark our longing. Instead of any singular entity we envisaged a series of intense adjacencies, like puzzle pieces, as if testing plausibility, as if each became an evocative typology, as if each belonged to another language, encouraging translation, encouraging hope in an exegesis of promise. "
By Ashton Raggatt McDougall. Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan. Architects.
www.architecture.com.au/awards_search?option=showaward&am…
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Lifeguard at Bondi Beach Australia
Image by PB-PSBear
Lifeguard at Bondi Beach Australia in wetsuit and orange cap
National Museum Of Australia
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National Museum Of Australia
Image by Sam Ilić
The architecture and design of the National Museum of Australia was a milestone for a building of its type. Avoiding traditional museum interpretations, the architects developed a post-modern structure reflecting the diversity of the Museum’s collection.
The most noticeable design feature of the Museum is the gigantic sculptural loop at the entrance – the most visible part of the Uluru line .
The building itself, which houses 6600 square metres of exhibition space, is composed of several individual spaces pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle, forming a semicircle around the Garden of Australian Dreams .
Colour is used extensively, outside and inside. The exterior is a vibrant palette of crimson, orange, bronze, gold, black and brushed silver. Textures range from the smooth finish of the anodised aluminium panels that clad much of the building to the deeply patterned moulded concrete surface of the western section. Some of the raised dimples and sunken holes are words written in braille.
Source: www.nma.gov.au/about_us/the_building/
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Sorry – On Australia Day
Image by Dave Keeshan
Taken from my balcony over Bondi. This is entirely in camera the helicopter flag just happened to cross over at the correct time.
Update
There is some detail at this link
The "sorry" is aimed at the aboriginal people of Australia, as Australians celebrate Australia Day
This picture has been used on these web pages :
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www.tamaleaver.net/2008/02/13/sorry/
shannon-head.livejournal
‘An Isolated Storm’ Australia, Darwin Harbor
Image by WanderingtheWorld (www.LostManProject.com)
The clouds in Northern Australia are absolutely amazing. They might be one of the most memorable impressions left in my mind after spending a week in the Outback. I love shooting landscapes and even more so when huge cumulus clouds populate the sky above. These tranquil white mountains in the sky always add to the dramatic personality of a landscape. These clouds add a perfect dramatic touch to the Outback highlighting its vast and unending landscape. It’s daunting to be standing on the edge of an escarpment and look out and see nothing but barren land as far as the eye can see. These large clouds that form over the glistening Indian Ocean serve as a temporary relief to the extreme heat and sunlight experienced in the Outback. This particular shot was taken from Darwin looking out on the ocean.
I met quite a few people in Darwin and I heard from more than one person about Bear Gylles recent excursion into the Outback. For those who aren’t familiar with him, he’s a former British Special Forces officer who now hosts a survival show series called ‘Man Vs. Wild’. He prides himself on being an elite survival specialist, able to handle any worst case scenario in the wild. In a recent interview with a local Darwin radio, he expressed no hesitation when stating the Outback was one of his top three hardest places to survive. After experiencing the extremities of the Outback, I agree with Bear.
TIP – Most people who use the HDR technique know about masking. I’ve always used masking and it’s essential to HDR. What I didn’t know is that when you mask layers together there are different types of blending modes. It’s as if your exposures are the product and the masking is the application method. I was formerly only using one type of masking method when it turns out there’s more than just normal. There’s darken, screen, multiply, overlay…. the list goes on. It’s opened a new door for me.
I’m currently traveling the world. I have an HDR Travel Blog where I post daily photos if you’re interested in following me. The site is www.LostManProject.com. I’m currently in Melbourne Australia after a few weeks in the outback (Darwin and Alice Springs). Cheers from the land down under.
‘Road to Nowhere’, Australia, Alice Springs to Uluru, Outback
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‘Road to Nowhere’, Australia, Alice Springs to Uluru, Outback
Image by WanderingtheWorld (www.LostManProject.com)
After spending a few days in Melbourne, I took a cheap flight up to Alice Springs and back into the Australian Outback. This part of the Outback is a bit different from the area around Darwin. To my surprise, Alice Springs experiences extreme changes in temperature from night to day and seasonally. However, this makes sense. Located in the middle of Australia (see map below), the area is far enough from the ocean or any large body of water to keep the temperature from changing dramatically. The nights in Alice Springs while I was there actually approached freezing and warm up to summer temps during the day. I forget how much less the temperature varies when you are located next to the ocean. Boston, for instance, is located around the same latitude as Minneapolis in the midwest. In Minnesota, the Vikings football team needs a dome to play in during the winter. It’s much colder there than in Boston, where their team, the Patriots, play outside at the Gillette Stadium (note that the Packer’s football team, in neighboring Wisconsin is a bit more tough and still manages to play outside in the frigid cold; sorry Vikings fans, obviously I’m a Packer fan).
To reach Uluru, most people fly into Alice Springs and rent a car. The drive takes 4-5 hours and you go through some desolate Outback. I don’t often say I shot nothing, but that’s the case in this photo. It only took me 4 hours of driving but I soon realized that as I looked off into the the distance, everything was flat. Not even an undulation in the landscape could be seen. No hills, trees, or buildings anywhere. Only shrubs dotted the sea of sand. It was almost as if I was in the twilight zone. This photo really captures that feeling.
I’m traveling the world, if you’re interested in following me I have an HDR blog at www.LostManProject.com. I’ll be posting a daily HDR photo from my experiences. Cheers from the land down under.
Australia’s first women Olympians, Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, 1912
Image by State Library of New South Wales collection
Format: Gelatin silver photographic print
Notes: Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie were Australia’s first women Olympians, winning gold and silver in the 100 metres freestyle, Stockholm, 1912
From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au
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Australia Day Fireworks
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Australia Day Fireworks
Image by Sam Ilić
They have done a good job of putting out a decent fireworks display this year for the Australia Day.
This is my first time I took shots of a fireworks display so a I hope you like it.
This was taken in Canberra on the foreshores of the Lake Burley Griffin.
NYE in Sydney, Australia
Image by *vlad*
@ Bradley’s Head – Sydney Australia – fireworks at midnight !
looks even better when viewed large.
be sure to check out some more of my photos
Still one of my favourites after 3.5 years…
May Bradford welding part of the all Australian monoplane for the England-Australia air race, 1934 / photographed by Sam Hood
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May Bradford welding part of the all Australian monoplane for the England-Australia air race, 1934 / photographed by Sam Hood
Image by State Library of New South Wales collection
Format: Gelatin silver photonegative
Notes: May Bradford was the first woman pilot to hold “A” & “B” ground engineer’s licences in Australia
From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au
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First “Miss Australia”, Beryl Mills of WA, 1927 / photographed by Sam Hood
Image by State Library of New South Wales collection
Format: Gelatin silver photonegative
Notes: Theatre commissionaire holds back crowd from the first "Miss Australia", Beryl Mills of Western Australia, outside Sydney’s Haymarket Theatre, 14 December 1927 / photographed by Sam Hood
From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au
Information about photographic collections of the State Library of New South Wales acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx
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Salif Keita – “Africa”
Salif Keita – “Africa”
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Autumn in South Africa II
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Toto- Africa (Lyrics)
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Acid drainage from thousands of abandoned mines in the South African city of Johannesburg have poisoned major lakes there. Experts say the toxic waters are rising at an alarming rate and are threatening to infiltrate the city’s fresh watter supply. Officials are now seeking solutions for the problem, which some have accused the government of neglecting for years despite warnings. Jonah Hull reports from Johannesburg, where the once popular Robert Lake has lost many frequent visitors due to the acid drainage. [November 5, 2010]