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Christmas Eve

This house is on the corner of my street and won first prize for best Christmas light show in my area.

2 days to Christmas

3 days to Christmas

4 days to Christmas

This is yet another view of the outside of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. I had been tinkering with different effects for this image all of which were somewhat garish until LenFirewood borrowed it and made the colours more subtle and added some texture. This is the final outcome and I love it. Thanks Len for your help.

5 Days to Christmas

St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney - organ

6 days to Christmas

St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney

7 days to Christmas

Inside St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney

Ungoliant

This beasty huntsman was found in the back yard of my Dad’s place. A macro lens with a teleconverter can make it look like you’re really close, trust me I wasn’t.

Feral ferris wheel

Luna Park, Sydney. I remember Luna Park as a child, it was the place to go and the rides were just brilliant, now having revisited it, very very tame. I still have wonderful memories of my first visit though.

Into the cave

Yet another view of Natural Arch, this time the waterfall dropping into the cave mouth.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of dreamtime

I saw this interesting individual whilst at Circular Quay, I thought he had the most amazing face and such sad eyes.

St Mary’s Cathedral

I love churches / cathedrals, I spent a considerable amount of time in this cathedral, so peaceful and wonderful.

Bandit

This is one of Kelly’s daughters, Bandit, the hose you see her with she turned into a sprinkler. The way she is lying with her back legs out is exactly like her dad. She has gone to her new family now, I miss her terribly she is so sweet and full of fun.

Archly

St John’s Cathedral. Why is there so much hate in the world, why is there so much anger? One of the hardest things to endure is to watch someone you love die before your eyes, without complaint, but cherishing every moment they have left. Yet there are others who can find nothing but fault in everything, even the most trivial and are quite vocal in their criticism. I truly feel sorry for those people as I don’t think they will ever be happy. I just wish they didn’t have to bring everyone else down with their bitterness. Dad, I miss you xoxo

Frog

Found this guy in the dog’s drinking water. Poor little dude couldn’t escape from the bucket, so I scooped him into a smaller bucket, took the pic and let him go. When I was younger, there used to be an abundance of green frogs, sadly I haven’t seen one in ages and ages, mainly cane toads. Hopefully I can get a shot of one soon.

Peaceful Spirit

This is St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane, it was a gloriously sunny day when I visited and the light from all the stained glass windows created these wonderful colors.

Barbed sky

Here’s looking at you kid …

Fireworks

This little gem was such a surprise, all I did to get this effect was to put some yellow cellophane paper over the flash which was rotated at about a 50 degree angle and used my trusty Nikon 105mm F2.8G IF-ED AF-S VR Micro lens.

Kelly

This is one of my 3 dogs, his name is Kelly and used to belong to my Dad. He is an Australian Cattle Dog or Blue Heeler and has the most gorgeous temperament. My constant shadow