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Some cool Australia images:

State Transit Authority (Sydney Buses) Mercedes O305G MK III articulateds 2553 and 2579 in Druitt Street at George Street in Sydney, Australia.

Image by express000

Photo taken on August 1, 2008.

State Transit Authority (Sydney Buses) Mercedes O305G MK III articulateds 2553 and 2579 in Druitt Street at George Street in Sydney, Australia.

These buses are nearing the end of their reign as front line buses. The one on the right has already been withdrawn and sold to a small independent operator.

The vehicles are almost at the end of their long journeys and will terminate at Sydney’s main railway station after travelling a further distance of about 1 kilometre. The drivers will rest for about 15 to 20 minutes before commencing their northward trips. The route encompasses traversing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the very scenic route to Palm Beach passing many other coastal regions and beaches along the way.

The buses were new in 1983 and 1984 and are now amongst the oldest buses in full daily operation in the country. Round trips on the route L90 are in excess of 80 kilomteres (50 miles) and the buses have amassed huge mileages.

“Let’s face it for Australia”, c. 1940s / by Sam Hood

Image by State Library of New South Wales collection

Format: Photograph

Notes: View more fascinating photographs of theatres and theatre people in Sydney at Discover Collections – On stage: theatre in Sydney www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/society_art/photog…

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From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au

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Only shells… Shell Beach – Australia

Image by Rob Inh00d

Shell Beach – Australia
There is not sand, only shells…

Leyland National ZIB-257 Gilmore Cres at Kitchener St, Garran, Canberra, Australia.

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Leyland National ZIB-257 Gilmore Crescent at Kitchener Street, Garran, Canberra, Australia.

Operated by the Department of Capital Territory in Canberra. Imported as new buses from England. United Kingdom.

A few nice Australia images I found:

Australia – Rottnest Island

Image by vtveen

Western Australia – Rottnest Island, harbour and main jetty of Thomson Bay.

See for more info: members.virtualtourist.com/m/7c27b/1ca108/

G20 Protests, Melbourne, Australia

Image by Rusty Stewart

MELBOURNE, Nov 18 2006 – Protests against a summit of the world’s financial leaders in Melbourne turned violent on Saturday when activists clashed with police.

Police locked down several blocks of Australia’s second biggest city to stop protesters reaching the meeting of the Group of 20 economic powers, after violent anti-globalisation protests marred a World Economic Forum in Melbourne in 2000.

A hard core group of protesters dressed in white overalls and hoods, their faces covered, moved from one barricaded street to to another, violently confronting police.

High Court of Australia

Image by Sam Ilić

I’m slowly starting to run out of things to post, so I’m digging the archives today. I’ve been super-busy so my weekends are too preoccupied, leaving no time to myself. I need to get out there and get some fresh pictures.

To make things worse, I’ve been struck with a cold (or flu) and this whole week has been really $hit. Anyway, I’ll stop my winging now, go take some night-time medicine, and pass out.

Hope you guys are doing better than me.

The shot above has been taken inside the High Court of Australia.

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A few nice Australia images I found:

Lifeguards at Bondi Beach Australia

Image by PB-PSBear

Lifeguards at Bondi Beach Australia

Father and Daughter, Sunset at Centennial Park Sydney Australia

Image by Alex E. Proimos

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"A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart"

Aviatrix Jean Batten being interviewed after her flight from England to Australia

Image by State Library of Queensland, Australia

Location: Archerfield, Brisbane, Australia

Date: May 1934

Description: Miss Batten is pictured in the centre, holding her black kitten mascot. She is wearing her aviator helmet, goggles, overalls and jacket. Mrs W. E. Gardner standing on the left, is wearing an aviator helmet and goggles plus a full-length fur coat. Mrs H. B. Bonney, standing to the right, is wearing aviator helmet and goggles with a leather jacket and overalls. A gentleman from Radio 4BC stands behind Miss Batten holding a microphone. The QANTAS sign can be seen on the shed in the background.

About this photograph

Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/

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Melbourne, Australia by night

Image by Linh_rOm

Melbourne, Australia. This is only one part of the city. The other half I can only capture in another shot as I didnt have my tripod with me.

Beautiful city, on the other half you can see the old church buildings right next to the modern architecture. Simply, Amazing….

Explore: Aug 10, 2008 #486

Sydney, Australia

Image by 350.org

Lantern walkers in Sydney, Australia
Photo credit: Peter Solness

This was one of over 5,200 events happening around the world for the International Day of Climate Action. More at 350.org.

Some cool Australia images:

British Airways Concorde Jet (Registration G-BOAD) and Sydney Bus Museum AEC Regal III 352 at Sydney Airport, New South Wales, Australia.

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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

A few nice Australia images I found:

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 :
www.utne.com/2008-02-14/Science-Technology/The-Health-Ben…
scarletwords
thesydneytraveler
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.

Some cool Australia images:

‘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

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.

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NYE in Sydney, Australia

Image by *vlad*

@ Bradley’s Head – Sydney Australia – fireworks at midnight !

looks even better when viewed large.
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Still one of my favourites after 3.5 years…

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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

Information about photographic collections of the State Library of New South Wales acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx

Persistent url: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=6513

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

Persistent url: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=52341